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  • My Hero

    My Hero

    My Hero As a sixteen year old gay African-American male, I didn’t have many people in the media to look up to. Sure there was Ellen Degeneres, Pedro Zamora, and Elizabeth Burch. Sadly, there were no African-American male role models for me to look up to. All of that changed on April 30, 2000 while watching the Gay and Lesbian Millennium March on Washington Rally on television. Sure it was great to see all the

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Jon
  • Alan Greenspan Hero or Villian

    Alan Greenspan Hero or Villian

    ALAN GREENSPAN HERO OR VILLIAN? JENIFER SCHONE MACROECONOMICS To properly discuss Alan Greenspan, we need background information, where he worked and what exactly did/does he do. Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American Economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. Mr. Greenspan was appointed Federal Reserve (FED) chairman by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and was reappointed at successive

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Top
  • Comparison Between "countess P’s Advice for New Girls" by Natash Tretheway, "skinhead" by Patricia Smith, and "negro Hero" by Gwendolyn Brooks

    Comparison Between "countess P’s Advice for New Girls" by Natash Tretheway, "skinhead" by Patricia Smith, and "negro Hero" by Gwendolyn Brooks

    Persona is defined as the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. Persona poems are written in the first person as if the author is to be perceived as the character in the poem. Three poems that have persona as a theme are “Countess P’s Advice for New Girls” by Natasha Tretheway, “Negro Hero” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Skinhead” by Patricia Smith. These poems are about different types

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Wendy
  • No Heroes, No Villians

    No Heroes, No Villians

    Dave Lukas Dr. Papaleonardos Sociology 309 11 October 2007 No Heroes, No Villains After reading the story, I found I had mixed emotions about it. To explain, when we were getting into detail and finally finding out what really happened the day of June 28th, I found myself completely interested and glued to the book. I also enjoyed the way the incident was explained because I felt like I was there watching it all happen

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Yan
  • It Doesn’t Take a Hero

    It Doesn’t Take a Hero

    It Doesn’t Take a Hero Senior Seminar in Management Professor Jeffrey Cothman February 21, 2008 It Doesn’t Take a Hero In this book titled “It Doesn’t Take a Hero” (H. Norman Schwarzkopf), General H. Norman Schwarzkopf reveals his remarkable life and career. He begins his autobiography by describing his childhood and how he eventually became a leader in the U.S. Army. This type of autobiography demonstrates how a leader is developed and what is needed

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    Essay Length: 1,973 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Black Panthers, Hero's of the Black Community

    The Black Panthers, Hero's of the Black Community

    The Black Panther party for Self-Defense was an African American organization that was founded to promote civil rights and self-defense. It was active within the United States between the late 1960’s into the 1970’s. It was founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in October of 1966. The Black Panther Party was originally founded to further the African American civil rights movement and to fill the void in leadership amongst the

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: David
  • Hero

    Hero

    A hero is often a man that is usually of divine ancestry. A hero or heroine can be found in many different forms. There are certain characteristics that make up a hero or a heroine. Some of those characteristics are someone who is endowed with great courage, loyalty, obedience, cleverness, strength and someone who is noted for special achievement in a particular field. Depending on the book or the character a hero or heroine could

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Yan
  • Hamlet’s Tragic Flaw

    Hamlet’s Tragic Flaw

    Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play written to make the reader or director think for himself and create what he thinks to be Hamlets tragic flaw come alive. Any argument could be well supported or demolished on quotes and actions from the text and one's interpretation of these. The bottom line is not what is Hamlet's tragic flaw, but what tragic flaw can best be supported by the reader. Hamlet's tragic flaw is his inconsistent approach

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • Stephen Fuller Austin: A Texas Hero

    Stephen Fuller Austin: A Texas Hero

    Stephen Fuller Austin: A Texas Hero (1793-1836) It was November 3rd, 1793 in Wythe County, Virginia when Stephen Fuller Austin, son of Moses Austin, known as "The Father of Texas" was born. Austin attended school in Connecticut as a child and graduated from Transylvania University in Kentucky. In 1813, Austin was elected to the Legislature of Missouri and was reelected to that same position for three years until he moved to Arkansas. He was chosen

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Victor
  • Romeo and Juliet: A Tragic Confusion

    Romeo and Juliet: A Tragic Confusion

    Romeo and Juliet: A tragic confusion. “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, still-waking sleep, that is not what this is” (Shakespeare 1.1. 179-180). A string of contradictions explain the love story of Romeo and Juliet, a contradiction. Some critics consider this story a tragedy because Shakespeare once wrote; “the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves”. While others say it does not follow the standard Aristotelian form of tragedy (Krims

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Transcending Characteristics of a Mythical Hero

    The Transcending Characteristics of a Mythical Hero

    The Transcending Characteristics of a Mythical Hero Although separated by the wide gulf of time and culture, myths involving supernatural characters and gods exist in almost every society throughout the world. While this commonality may not be spectacular by itself, a detailed comparative study of the myths reveals a more striking similarity. Even in cultures as different and antagonistic as those of the Ancient Greeks and the Sumerians, predecessors of the Persians, there exists a

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    Essay Length: 1,513 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Heroes

    Heroes

    April 2008 There are some topics I save up because they'll be so much fun to write about. This is one of them: a list of my heroes. I'm not claiming this is a list of the n most admirable people. Who could make such a list, even if they wanted to? Einstein isn't on the list, for example, even though he probably deserves to be on any shortlist of admirable people. I once asked

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Antigone as a Hero

    Antigone as a Hero

    Antigone Heroes dominate modern culture. John Wayne, Rambo, and Wolverine stand out as modern day heroes. However, Hercules, Achilles, and Ajax still stand as popular heroes, although they come from a long time ago. Most people can recognize the concept of a hero easily, and while many types of heroes exist, tragic heroes lead the way as the easiest to recognize. While many people generalize a hero as the protagonist in a story, not every

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: July
  • A Heroes Tale

    A Heroes Tale

    “When, did the future change from a promise to a threat?” I said questioningly “I don’t know buddy but we are in some serious trouble” Max said softly “Things happened so fast, especially when you get caught up with the wrong people in the right place” I Chuckled but I was screaming on the inside I wanted to run far from here this was the last place I wanted to be standing on top of

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Beowulf: An Epic Hero

    Beowulf: An Epic Hero

    Nate Gauvain British Literature Beowulf Essay 9/22/04 Beowulf: An Epic Hero According to Abrams, the heroic poem is “a long verse narrative on a serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race." Beowulf fits Abrams’ description of an epic, exhibiting all of the characteristics listed throughout the book, thus defining Beowulf as a

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • Moses and Gilgamesh as Homeric Heroes

    Moses and Gilgamesh as Homeric Heroes

    Be it the firefighters who rush into towering infernos to save people, sports stars who never gives up on their dreams, or dedicated police officers whose persistence saves many lives, heroes come in many shapes and sizes. These heroes serve as role models for the rest of society to pattern, and as leaders in the local community. Heros of this type are not new. For millennia, those who go above and beyond the calls of

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Hero

    Hero

    Throughout my life, many different people have meant a great deal of importance in my life, but the most important person that has had the biggest impact on my life has to be my dad. My father has passed down many attributes to me in my lifetime. He taught me how to be hard working, a southern gentleman, a sportsman, and how to live in a Christian manner. Without my dad, I would not be

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Edward
  • Emma Bovary and Ivan Ilych: Evidence of Psychoanalysis Thirty Years Before Freud

    Emma Bovary and Ivan Ilych: Evidence of Psychoanalysis Thirty Years Before Freud

    Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern day psychology and psychoanalysis, described human consciousness as the combination of three elements, id, ego and superego. The id is what controls our personal desires, the superego controls our ideas about where we fit in society and the ego is in between these two elements balancing their effects to help us make rational decisions. Despite the fact that these theories were developed well after Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary or

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Hero’s Journey

    Hero’s Journey

    Jack was steaming mad. He had just had yet another fight with his mom about wasting food and was heading to the old tree house in the woods. They were always fighting about wasting food. He saw where she was coming from. They were pretty tight on cash, but if she was so intent on not wasting food why didn't she eat it. He was sitting at the foot of the abandoned tree house, drawing

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Magneto: Hero or Villain?

    Magneto: Hero or Villain?

    Magneto: hero or Villain? When we think of villains there are several that quickly come to mind. For Batman there is the Joker, Superman has Lex Luthor as his great revel, and Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin. Yet no other character is as complex as the X-Men's villain, Magneto. From they very beginning of the comic series there has not been a person that has crossed the line between hero and villain as much as

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: regina
  • What Does It Take to Be a Hero

    What Does It Take to Be a Hero

    The poem, Beowulf, by Seamus Heaney, depicts Beowulf as a perfect hero. Beowulf is the mythical son of Edgetho and later becomes the king of the Geats. In the poem, Beowulf’s shows heroism in two different phases of his life, youth and old age. Throughout the poem, Beowulf faces three difficult conflicts with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon. Throughout the novel Beowulf is a noted and respected warrior from Geatland. During Beowulf’s youth,

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Steve
  • Hero

    Hero

    Imagine growing up in a country where drinking out of the wrong water fountain might get you thrown into jail; where a man might have the very same job as his neighbor, but because of the color of his skin get paid less in a year than the other man made in a week; where the government told you that your ancestors and their ways of living were wrong and savage and not even human.

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Jack
  • Tragic Myrtle

    Tragic Myrtle

    In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to use precise diction and textual evidence in chapter 2 to bring to life the figure of Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle is portrayed as a disappointed tragic figure ; a person who is materialistic and uses objects to show herself and others that she is cape able of being what she pleases. The author uses his dexterous ordain of diction to select particular words to emphasize the

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly Madame Butterfly is a short story that exemplifies an eastern culture’s conscious and subconscious attempt at socially adaptation to a westernized world. In Nagasaki, Japan, before the First World War, Lieutenant Pinkerton of the United States Navy marries Cho-Cho-San or Madame Butterfly, a young geisha. For Pinkerton, it is just a casual affair. He feels, despite being warned by the American Consul, that she will treat the relationship with similar levity. Ultimately, for

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Top
  • Hero Honda - the Seed of the Organisation

    Hero Honda - the Seed of the Organisation

    STRATEGIC MARKETING CREATION OF AN ENTERPRISE: ENSURING THE RIGHT SEED PROJECT REPORT NEHA NATH [29] PRASHANT BHARGAVA [33] PREETHI JOSE [34] ROHINI K [41] TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 3 INDUSTRY BACKGROUND 3 THE SEED OF SUCCESS 4 THE MUNJALS AND THE HERO GROUP 4 CREATION OF HERO HONDA MOTORS LTD. 6 GROWTH OF HHML 7 A SUCCESSFUL KICK-START 7 MARKET LEADERSHIP 7 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 8 SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 9 DEALER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 9

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Steve

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