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  • Concert Review Paper

    Concert Review Paper

    Mama’s Daughters In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use,” tells us a story of two daughters’, Dee and Maggie Johnson, with different ideas about their identities and values. Dee a young woman who, in the course of a visit to the rural home she thinks she has outgrown, attempts unsuccessfully to divert some fine old quilts ,earmarked for the dowry of a sister, into her own hands. Dee is Mrs. Johnson’s oldest daughter, the one

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    Essay Length: 821 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • Descartes’ Meditations Review

    Descartes’ Meditations Review

    Descartes' Mediations On First Philosophy exemplifies an epistemological shift from the belief in spiritual phenomena to a more secularized approach of reason. Even though Descartes was a devout Catholic, his philosophy focused on the perception of the universe from a mechanical standpoint. Descartes advocated reason over faith in the pursuit of the truth. Much of his philosophy helped lay the foundation of what was to become scientific method. This is evident in what has become

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    Essay Length: 1,017 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparative Review of Depression

    Comparative Review of Depression

    Depression affects everyone, people with it and people without it. The group of people that you would not immediately associate depression with is children. But research shows that 2% to 17% of average elementary school students are affected by depression, and that 14% to 54% of elementary school students with disabilities are affected by depression. Treating depressive symptoms at an elementary school age level helps prevent depression in adulthood. That is the key in two

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    Essay Length: 985 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Article Review: Effects of Systematic Desensitization (sd) Therapy on the Reduction of Test Anxiety Among Adolescents in Nigerian Schools

    Article Review: Effects of Systematic Desensitization (sd) Therapy on the Reduction of Test Anxiety Among Adolescents in Nigerian Schools

    The article starts off by focusing on the Nigerian education system and the problems they are facing. The people in this area are split into three groups, the first group are concerned with the education system itself, the second group are worried about the teaching methods, and the third group still blame it on the inability for the students to comprehend what they have learned. Another problem is the issue of emotional maladjustment within the

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    Essay Length: 1,325 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • Literature in Society

    Literature in Society

    Anton Chekhov Misery, “To Whom Shall I Tell My Grief” is a short story that is written in a purposeful and direct style. The main character in the story is a sledge driver whose name is Iona. He is grief stricken because of his son’s recent death. Unfortunately, he still has to make a living, and consequently finds limited time to grieve or find any type of closure. Misery is a story for all society.

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    Essay Length: 984 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Book Review of “hear My Testimony”

    Book Review of “hear My Testimony”

    Book Review of “Hear My Testimony” By Maria Teresa Tula This is probably one of the most moving books I have ever read in my life. It is basically a narrative story of the life of an El Salvadorian women named: Maria Teresa Tula. Maria is a wonderful storyteller and the fact the she is describing her own real life experiences greatly add to the impact of the book. Most of the chapters in the

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    Essay Length: 1,250 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Max
  • Othello Movie Review

    Othello Movie Review

    Despite working with low-budget and a small crew, Orson Welles makes his Othello interesting and memorable through several techniques. He generates a sense of suspense by placing the final scene in the beginning of the movie. When translating play into film, he creatively rearranges the scenes while keeping the text intact and shoots from odd angles to produce interesting lighting and shadows. Even though some of the characters in the film do not quite live

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    Essay Length: 505 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • A Review of Plato’s Meno

    A Review of Plato’s Meno

    A Review of Plato’s Meno Plato presents in his dialogue, titled Meno, the distinction between genuine knowledge and true opinion. In the text, he refers to knowledge as the form and definition of something that is changeless, where as true opinion can be altered and is not restricted in the way knowledge is by having standards of a form. Plato includes the characters of Socrates and Meno, a pupil of Gorgias, to discuss the nature

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    Essay Length: 1,215 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics - a Critical Review

    The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics - a Critical Review

    For the past five decades the plight of the Tibetan people under Chinese occupation has been steadily garnering more and more media attention. To capitalize on this attention both the Tibetan Government in Exile and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have honed the arguments supporting their respective positions. However these arguments, while based on historical facts, are modern day constructs with each party putting forth their own interpretations of the past. To reconcile the

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    Essay Length: 1,491 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Artur
  • Noir - Movie Review

    Noir - Movie Review

    The term film noir was coined by French critics for 1940s-50s American films that shared a dark sensibility and a dark lighting style, such as Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Many theorists related the common noir attributes and aesthetic elements to a post war society characterised by insecurity about gender roles, the economy, changing definitions of race, and nuclear technology. One of the cultural problems

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    Essay Length: 312 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: regina
  • Good to Great Review

    Good to Great Review

    Jim Collins and his research team have done a wonderful job identifying what it takes for a company to go from good to great. I found this book to be extremely interesting and would like to share several of my thoughts. I agree with Jim Collins when he states that people can develop into level 5 leaders. The main focus of a level 5 leader is not on themselves, but on the company and

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    Essay Length: 1,472 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Victor
  • Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper (Revised) Shirley Smith University of Phoenix FIN 324 Walter P. Lambert December 1, 2006 A study done between Motorola and Ericsson on the implementation of Corporate Ethics and the transformation within the corporations following the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, looking at various ethic theories, such as stockholder theory, stakeholder theory, and legitimacy theory. Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted in response to the Enron and WorldCom collapses

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    Essay Length: 717 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Max
  • Thomas Jefferson: Contributions to Literature and Other Fields

    Thomas Jefferson: Contributions to Literature and Other Fields

    Thomas Jefferson is commonly most notable for his contributions to American political history. He was President of the United States, the first secretary of state to George Washington, minister to France with Benjamin Franklin, governor of Virginia, and congressman. (725) Jefferson’s literary works strongly reflect the focus, love, and ambition that he had for this country. Aside from the aspirations for the United States, he also very much appreciated it’s then un-tainted beauty, as he

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    Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Children’s Literature

    Children’s Literature

    Nancy Mellon once said, "Because there is a natural storytelling urge and ability in all human beings, even just a little nurturing of this impulse can bring about astonishing and delightful results." Although I am not an education major, I believe that we all have a responsibility to impact the lives of younger generations, whether it is our siblings, cousins, family friends, or our own kids one day. I have worked at a summer camp,

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Great Depression, America 1929-1941 by Robert McElvaine - a Review

    The Great Depression, America 1929-1941 by Robert McElvaine - a Review

    Most historians agree that the Second World War is the single most important event shaping and directing subsequent developments throughout the balance of the 20th century. Indeed, no single other event so shaped the world or influenced the events leading to that war than did the great worldwide depression. In this wonderful book by historian Robert McElvaine, we are treated to a terrific account of the human ordeal of the 1930s, which, as noted historian

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Jon
  • Review of "a Lion in Winter"

    Review of "a Lion in Winter"

    Henry, the King of England, married Eleanor for her land; their first son died, after him, John was Henry's favorite, Richard was Eleanors favorite, but turned out to be homosexual, Geoffrey plotted against all of them with the King of France who was Richard's "friend;" Henry had an affair with Rosalyn, and Eleanor, with Richard lead a couple of civil wars against him, so Henry locked Eleanor in a tower; Henry's lover died, he bought

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    Essay Length: 545 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Blanco Review

    Blanco Review

    The book, Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco, is an inspirational story about the abuse she endured during her years at school. She had to deal with physical, verbal, and emotional abuse throughout her school year. Once I started this book I couldn’t put it down. I can remember back in elementary school being the new kid. The kids made fun of me because I was new, but once they gave me a

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    Essay Length: 251 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Janna
  • Redwall Book Review

    Redwall Book Review

    REDWALL By: Brian Jacques This book was about a community and the animals inside of it. These include Matthias, Father Abbot, and many other mice and creatures who lived in Redwall Abbey. They had one mouse that lived a long time ago that was the hero of the Abbey because of his bravery. His name was Martin. Matthias was a very clumsy church mouse found motherless in Mosslfower woods, which was the local forest.

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Review of Eagles of Death Metal

    Review of Eagles of Death Metal

    Before I embark on my voyage into the all-too-mighty splendor that is Peace, Love, and Death Metal by Eagles of Death Metal (pron. Ee-gah-les Oh-f Deh-th Mea-tah-el), allow me to give you four completely made up words that shall sufficiently describe every emotion you shall feel when placed within an audible radius of its sweet musical joy: bluesimongified, funktasmic, euphoriatasmological, and, of course, bootygroovitible. Now, with that said and done, allow me to explain why

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Vika
  • Review of Stearns’ Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

    Review of Stearns’ Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West

    Review of Stearns' Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West Wow, I mean, your sister, she's so fat that when she wears a yellow raincoat, people shout out, "Taxi!" Your brother, gosh, he's so fat that his driver's license says, "Picture continued on the other side!" About your mother, well, she's so fat that when she walks in front of the television, you miss out on three commercials! I'm tellin' ya! Fat! Those

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Book Review

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Book Review

    Consisting of 43 chapters, the novel begins with Huck Finn introducing himself as someone readers might have heard of in the past. Readers learn that the practical Huck has become rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and that the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, have taken Huck into their home in order to try to teach him religion and proper manners. Instead of obeying his guardians,

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Edward
  • Type of Literature: Science Fiction

    Type of Literature: Science Fiction

    Author: Michael Crichton Title: Congo Publisher: Ballantine Books City of Publication: New York Year of Publication: 1993 Number of Pages: 313 Type of Literature: Science Fiction This story takes place on June of 1979 in the African Congo. The main characters of this book are Dr. Karen Ross, supervisor of Earth Resources Technology Services, Dr. Peter Elliot, a zoologist who trained a gorilla named Amy how to speak using sign language. Another main character is

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Review of P53 Research

    Review of P53 Research

    Ventura A et al. Restoration of p53 function leads to tumour regression in vivo. Nature. 2007 Feb 8;445:661-5. 1. “Loss of p53 function may not only play a role in the early stages of tumor development, but also be required for the continued proliferation or survival of an established tumor.” (Ventura 661) is an explicit hypothesis in this paper. 2. Increase in tumor volume can be predicted in tumors where p53 remains inactive. Tumor regression

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    Essay Length: 402 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Book Review: Kaffir Boy

    Book Review: Kaffir Boy

    Book Review: Kaffir Boy Kaffir Boy is an autobiographical work written by Mark Mathbane. It was the first South African autobiography to be written in English by a black native. Mathabne’s aspiration for writing this book was to inform the world that apartheid had to end because it could not be reformed. Eventually, the book would achieve its goal of opening the eyes of many people worldwide about this subject matter. Kaffir Boy contains several

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Truman Review

    Truman Review

    Philosophy 230 FILM REVIEW: TRUMAN SHOW The entire film, The Truman Show, is a very unique film is numerous forms. First of all, the whole story sequence gives you an unusual twist from the start. Jim Carey plays Truman Burbank who he thinks is a regular guy in a regular world, however it turns out that Truman is the star of a TV show. Truman knows unusual things happen to him but he doesn’t connect

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    Essay Length: 875 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Andrew