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  • Solldier’s Home Summary

    Solldier’s Home Summary

    Summary of “Soldier’s Home” Harold Krebs, a Methodist college student, went off to World War I as part of the US Marines in 1917. During the war, he fought in many fierce and bloody battles: Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne. There, a picture was taken of him, a fellow corporal, and two German girls on the Rhine. Krebs came back to his home, a small Oklahoma town, in the summer

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    Essay Length: 370 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi

    A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi

    A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi Pilots of the Ground Charles Banks, the subject of this appealing biography was a seemingly well-known Black leader, like such as Obama Baraka and Jessie Jackson. Banks status, demeanor, and power were unlimited, way beyond his hometown of Clarksdale and Mound Bayou, Mississippi all-black towns. Born in 1873, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Banks spent most of is life in this well known racially discriminating and

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    Essay Length: 667 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • Condom Machines on Campus

    Condom Machines on Campus

    Condom Machines on Campus August 23, 2005 Condom Machines on Campus Condom machines on campus, who would have thought that there would be a need to promote safe sex in today’s society. We live in a society now where sex is everywhere. It is on the radio, on the TV, and it is even on some cartoon shows. College life can be summed up into three words; Freedom, Freedom, and Freedom. With that freedom students

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    Essay Length: 581 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Anna
  • Motorcycle Diaries Movie Summary

    Motorcycle Diaries Movie Summary

    Motorcycle Diaries Directed by Walter Salles As most potential viewers know, this film is based on diaries and letters to home written by Ernesto "Che" Guevara during a motorcycle and foot tour of a significant portion of South America during the early 1950s, years before Guevara achieved international renown as a Communist and Latino revolutionary. Thus, the film functions as an attempt to get at the heart of the person who preceded the myth. The

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    Essay Length: 651 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Max
  • Summary of Zheng- He

    Summary of Zheng- He

    Zheng He was a Muslim eunuch who served as a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor of China during the Ming Dynasty. He went on voyages to Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Java, Ceylon, India, Persia, Persian Gulf, Arabia, the red sea Egypt, and the Mozambique Channel. The number of his voyages vary depending on method of division, but he travelled at least seven times to The Western Ocean with his fleet. The fleet comprised 30,000 men

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    Essay Length: 550 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Summary/response Essay

    Summary/response Essay

    Summary/Response Part-time Employment Undermines Students Commitment to School Summary: In the essay, “Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School” by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, while

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    Essay Length: 400 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Max
  • Simple Machines

    Simple Machines

    Many simple machines have been created even since the early times. According to Ron Kurtus from his website article, "Simple Machines", the ancient Egyptians used levers to lift stones to build their pyramids and ramps to raise them to the top. Also he states that in Roman times, stones were tossed at enemies using catapults. The catapults used levers to fling the stones, and pulleys to pull down the arm of the catapult. The purpose

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    Essay Length: 853 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Summary of Plato’s Euthyphro

    Summary of Plato’s Euthyphro

    Summary of Plato's Euthyphro Socrates encounters Euthyphro outside the court of King-Archon in Athens and is asked why he is there. Socrates proceeds to tell Euthyphro that he has been called to court on charges of impiety by Meletus. Euthyphro asks Socrates how Meletus came to his accusation. Socrates tell Euthyphro that Meletus accuses him of corrupting the youth of Athens by being a maker of gods and that he invents new gods while denying

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    Essay Length: 1,176 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Cold Sassy Tree Plot Overview

    The Cold Sassy Tree Plot Overview

    On July 5, 1906, Rucker Blakeslee announces that he intends to marry Miss Love Simpson, a hat-maker at his store who is years younger than he. This news shocks his family, since his wife Mattie Lou died only three weeks earlier. Rucker’s daughters, Mary Willis and Loma, worry about what the gossips of Cold Sassy, Georgia, will think of their father’s impropriety. Will Tweedy, Rucker’s fourteen-year-old grandson and the narrator of the novel, supports his

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    Essay Length: 898 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Victor
  • Tom Sawyers Summary

    Tom Sawyers Summary

    “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer“, by Mark Twain, is a great book. The story starts out in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. The story begins as Tom climbs in his window after a long night of scheming with his friends. A couple of days after this, he starts hanging out with his good friend, Huckleberry Finn, the local outcast of the town, he lives with no rules, and no parents. He wanders the town

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    Essay Length: 619 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Little Tramp and the Big Machine

    The Little Tramp and the Big Machine

    The Little Tramp and the Big Machine Modern Times is an emotional response, based always in comedy, to the circumstances of the times. In the early films, the Tramp was knocked around in a pre-war society of underprivileged among the other immigrants and vagabonds and petty miscreants. In Modern Times he is one of the millions coping with poverty, unemployment, strikes and strikebreakers, and the tyranny of the machine (Robinson 458-9). When we first see

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    Essay Length: 1,594 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Andrew
  • A Single Shard Summary

    A Single Shard Summary

    The setting of the book I read was Korea around the twelve century. The impact it has on the story is the detail in the work that the potters did during their time period. The detail work is what counted, no two things were the same because everything was hand-made. They didn’t have technology to make stuff or mass produce something. Everything was made by hand and it showed their skill. The main character

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    Essay Length: 2,108 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: July
  • Acuscan Executive Summary

    Acuscan Executive Summary

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TO: Cliff O’Connor, CEO AcuScan, Inc. FROM: TOM GRECO SUBJECT: ACUSCAN OPTIMIZATION PROJECT DATE: 5/5/2008 CC: GEN 480 STUDENTS Purpose and Scope of Document The purpose of this executive summary is to provide an overview of the status of the AcuScan Optimization Project, known as “Operation Optimize.” The objectives of the project are to increase revenues and grow market share by transitioning AcuScan into retail markets. Entry into this target market area is

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    Essay Length: 932 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Monika
  • Hampton Machine

    Hampton Machine

    TO: STEPHANIE ANDERSON FROM: JOHN KLEIN DATE: 18 DECEMBER 1994 RE: CREDIT WORTHINESS OF DAWSON STORES RECOMMENDATION Upon analyzing the financial statements provided by Mr. John Dawson, Jr. From my analysis of the statements and data, it is my recommendation that Springfield National Bank provide an unsecured $1,000,000 line of credit to the applicant. ANALYSIS Dawson Stores Inc. is worthy of the line of credit due to the successes that they have had in the

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    Essay Length: 926 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Academic Summary and Plan

    Academic Summary and Plan

    AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY Academic Plan Summary (APS) for BA Degrees, AA Degrees and Certificates Total Required Semester Hours for a BA Degree = 120. AA Degree = 60. Certificates = See Course Catalog. Name: Matthew Mathews Student Number: 3051463 Major/Concentration: Criminal Justice/ Intelligence Methods Instructions: The AMU Program is divided into lower and upper divisions. Freshman and Sophomore years (100-200 level courses) comprise the lower division and the AA Degree. Junior and Senior years (300-400

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    Essay Length: 1,104 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • Great Harvest Executive Summary

    Great Harvest Executive Summary

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Great Harvest: Keeping It Simple Building a Freedom-based Franchise Report Prepared by Steve Cannizzaro Table of Contents Executive Summary pg. 3 Objectives pg. 3 Mission pg. 4 Keys to Success pg. 4 Great Harvests’ History pg. 5 Key developments: Chronology pg. 5 Early History pg. 5 Company Summary pg. 8 Company Ownership pg. 8 Start-up Summary pg. 8 Location Map pg. 9 SWOT Analysis pg. 10 Strategy and Implementation Summary pg. 11

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    Essay Length: 592 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Walmart Executive Summary

    Walmart Executive Summary

    Wal-Mart Executive Summary Wal-Mart has shown continued success in their use of information technology with e-commerce, a system that allows managers to view point-of-sale information, and the possible use of RFID chips in the near future. After reviewing the 2005 Harvard Business School study of Wal-Mart, it is evident that this company has been successful in expanding its operations in several foreign markets. Wal-Mart had established itself as the largest retailer in both Canada in

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    Essay Length: 518 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: July
  • Executive Summary

    Executive Summary

    The main problem in this situation is the attempt to produce and launch a new product by a set deadline during a budget crunch. There appears to be no teamwork which is evidenced by the bickering emails back and forth between Kelly and Pat. They have their own thoughts and opinions on how things should operationalize. All communication has also occurred via email. There were no meetings set up so that issues could have discussed

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    Essay Length: 332 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Summary of Alien Abductee/memory Article

    Summary of Alien Abductee/memory Article

    Summary of Memory Distortion in Alien Abductee Study A summary of “Memory Distortion in People Reporting Abduction by Aliens” Introduction This is a summary of the article by Clancy et al., 2002. The prevalence of alien abduction stories has been increasing in recent history (Bartholomew& Howard, 1998; Newman & Baumeister, 1997). Psychologists have more recently interpreted the stories as evidence of memory distortion (Newman & Baumeister, 1997). Previously published accounts of abduction follow a certain

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    Essay Length: 1,593 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Quick Summary of Lord of the Flies

    Quick Summary of Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies The book begins in the middle of a war. A plane evacuating a group of schoolboys, from Britain, is shot down over a deserted island. After the boys arrive at the island the group assigns Ralph as their leader. Then the boys and Ralph appoint another boy, Jack, as the leader of the hunting group. Ralph then decides to start a fire to signal boats and planes that pass by. They

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    Essay Length: 587 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Turing Machine

    Turing Machine

    A turing machine can be defined as a "device with a finite number of internal configurations, each of which involves the machine's being in one of a finite number of states". This means that in a machine there are certain inputs that when implemented will produce a certain output. These combinations of inputs can be used in a machine table to show the outputs for each state. By looking at a machine table one will

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    Essay Length: 413 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Can Machines Think?

    Can Machines Think?

    Can machines think? Turing didn't describe the human vs. machine game right away, to make a point. He didn't just flip a coin to see what he was going to write about. His point is simple. If you can distinguish between a man and a machine, in the game, you could come to the conclusion that the machine doesn't think, right? WRONG! He introduced the idea of the man vs. woman game to prove that

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    Essay Length: 327 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Wendy
  • D.H. Lawrence: Critique of Social Practices (references Snake, the North Country, and the Triumph of the Machine)

    D.H. Lawrence: Critique of Social Practices (references Snake, the North Country, and the Triumph of the Machine)

    Poetry is often used to make critical comment about particular social attitudes and practices. Through a wide range of techniques, D.H. Lawrence uses his poetry as a tool to scrutinise certain aspects of the early 20th century (1855 -1930). Much of his poetry portrays his opinions regarding modernity and industrialisation. In particular, poems such as Snake, The North Country and The Triumph of the Machine consider the effects these issues have on society. Lawrence uses

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    Essay Length: 1,452 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Childhood Insomnia Journal Summary

    Childhood Insomnia Journal Summary

    Insomnia is defined as the inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic. Difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep often require further attention. “No Simple Solution To Childhood Insomnia”, by Aaron Levin (2005) describes several symptoms and side effects of this horrific problem. For many years, beginning as a teenager, I had a terrible problem with “chronic insomnia”, as my doctors diagnosed it. Stress and depression were the two main factors that affected my sleep

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    Essay Length: 683 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Victor
  • Summary Of

    Summary Of

    The introduction of the story starts about the narrator’s father and the description of his labor and job. Her father is a fox-farmer who raises foxes which are skinned so that their pelt can be sold to fur traders. At the cellar of their house, the narrator and her brother (Laird) would observe their father doing skinning in an inquisitive admiring sort of way. The scenery of the narrators surrounding seems to be in a

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    Essay Length: 520 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy

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