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  • The Old Man and the Sea Summary

    The Old Man and the Sea Summary

    Santiago, an old fisherman, has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. For the first forty days, a boy named Manolin had fished with him, but Manolin’s parents, who call Santiago salao, or “the worst form of unlucky,” forced Manolin to leave him in order to work in a more prosperous boat. The old man is -wrinkled, splotched, and scarred from handling heavy fish on cords, but his eyes, which are the color of the

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    Essay Length: 3,347 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Reconstruction Was a Complete Failure in Its Effort to Bring Equality to the Black Man, from 1865-1877.

    Reconstruction Was a Complete Failure in Its Effort to Bring Equality to the Black Man, from 1865-1877.

    Reconstruction was not a complete failure but a “radical & noble attempt” to bring equality to the black man. It took three options to bring about a decent change for the former slaves .To help fix the problem in 1865 congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau the first federal welfare system to provide food, clothing, confiscated land, and education. This idea was able to succeed in education; unfortunately it was ended in 1872. Soon after Lincoln’s

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    Essay Length: 268 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Janna
  • Book Review: First Man, the Life of Neil Armstrong

    Book Review: First Man, the Life of Neil Armstrong

    First Man The Life of Neil Armstrong by James Hansen James Hansen is a history professor at Auburn University who has spent 25 years studying and writing the history of space. In the book the “First Man”, he provided the most comprehensive analysis of Neil Armstrong. There are 648 fact-filled pages, which are supplemented by another 121 pages of acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index, and photo credits. And well “First Man” is, as Hansen himself notes,

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    Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: regina
  • Contents of the Dean Man’s Pocket

    Contents of the Dean Man’s Pocket

    In contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets by Jack Finney, Tom Benecke is in his small eleventh floor apartment in New York City working while his wife Clare gets ready to go out to the movies to see a show he had also been wanting to see. Clare left the apartment about 7:00 p.m. just in time to see the beginning of the first feature. From Jack Finney’s details I gather that the story took

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    Essay Length: 467 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Steve
  • Invisible Man Entry

    Invisible Man Entry

    Invisible Man Journal Entry #1 To me, the most interesting part of this novel so far is the interaction with Jim Trueblood and the story that he tells. The different reactions that Jim gets from white people and black people is especially interesting because the whites, upon hearing about what Jim did with his daughter, describe the act as something disgusting but to be expected of or typical of black people and yet they offer

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    Essay Length: 355 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • St.Anseln’s ontological Argument for the Experience of God

    St.Anseln’s ontological Argument for the Experience of God

    St. Anselm's ontological argument for the experience of God. God's existence may vary from philosopher to philosopher, but according to the late St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury there was absolutely no doubt that God's presence is certain, and yet the philosopher desires the understanding of faith. As stated; if god cannot be thought to exist, then whomever which may be conceived, only a fool would believe that he God does not exist. Only a fool

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    Essay Length: 366 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mikki
  • To Be a Man Today

    To Be a Man Today

    To Be a Man Today Webster’s dictionary defines a “man” as, “one possessing in high degree the qualities considered distinctive of manhood.” In addition, society defines a “man” of today as some one who possesses strength, good looks, and wealth. My view differs from that of society and Webster’s Dictionary. To me, responsibility, character, and money are what make a man today. Responsibility is a number one quality necessary to define a man. For example,

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    Essay Length: 321 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Fallujah Marlboro Man

    The Fallujah Marlboro Man

    The Fallujah Marlboro Man James Blake Miller, a Marine in the U.S Armed Forces, is seen here smoking a cigarette in the field of battle. His face covered in camouflage, blood and sweat. His eyes focused heavily on the horizon, scanning for danger. The edging of his helmet worn and tattered from intense battle, and the expression on his face shows his tiredness. He is a warrior, protecting what we have today in the United

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    Essay Length: 293 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Personal Gods, Deism, & Ther Limits of Skepticism

    Personal Gods, Deism, & Ther Limits of Skepticism

    In order to continue our discussion of the legitimate philosophical, scientific, and religious aspects of the science and religion quagmire we need a frame of reference to guide us. What I present here is an elaboration on a classification scheme proposed by Michael Shermer. (5) Shermer suggests that there are three worldviews, or "models," that people can adopt when thinking about science and religion. According to the same worlds model there is only one reality

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    Essay Length: 3,709 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Revision

    Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Revision

    Throughout Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man are events serve only to put the main character through hardships. By the end of the novel the narrator has hit rock bottom, forced to live underground in New York. When he begins writing his memoirs, he first states his rather unhappy conclusion of being an “invisible man,” a person people force themselves to ignore, and that he is stuck that way in his underground hovel. By the end

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • 1984 - Man Vs. Society

    1984 - Man Vs. Society

    The main conflict in this story was man vs. society. The man, a frail person in his late 30's to early 40's named Winston, v. society's totalitarian government that controls every aspect of it's peoples' lives. In this book, 1984, the government eliminates privacy with an instrument called a telescreen, a tv with an intercom and a camera in every room, which is always on. They use the telescreens to keep constant surveillance over people

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    Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Janna
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: The Man Within

    W.E.B. Du Bois: The Man Within

    W. E. B. Du Bois was born on Church Street on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington at the south-western edge of Massachusetts, to Alfred Du Bois and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois, whose February 5, 1867 wedding had been announced in the Berkshire Courier. A man that would be greatly admired in his later years by many of his peers for his big steps he took for the African American civil rights. After graduating

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    Essay Length: 403 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Vika
  • Augustine’s Idea of God

    Augustine’s Idea of God

    Augustine's Idea of God Best to begin by hearing Augustine call on his God. quid es ergo, deus meus? summe, optime, potentissime, omnipotentissime, misericordissime et iustissime, secretissime et praesentissime, pulcherrime et fortissime, stabilis et incomprehensibilis, immutabilis mutans omnia, numquam novus numquam vetus, semper agens semper quietus, conligens et non egens, portans et implens et protegens, creans et nutriens et perficiens, quaerens cum nihil desit tibi. et quid diximus, deus meus, vita mea, dulcedo mea sancta,

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    Essay Length: 4,616 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jon
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God Growth and development are affected by many outside influences such as heredity and environment. Heredity influences are beyond one’s control, but environmental ones seem to have the greatest impact on a person's development. Throughout our lives the people we come in contact with will, in one way or another, influence who we become. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston Janie develops as a woman through her

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    Essay Length: 628 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • God Is a Psychological Need

    God Is a Psychological Need

    God is a psychological Need In C.E.M. Joad's essay "How Religion Arose, and Why it Flourished," Religion is described as a “psychological need.” Joad explains that we use God as a comfort device. Religious people look to God to abolish their fears that they may have. Joad argues that people are simply afraid of death. Joad claims believing in God is a security blanket; that God will protect them in death. I do not believe

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    Essay Length: 1,125 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Bipolar Disorder - one Man’s Journey to a Diagnosis

    Bipolar Disorder - one Man’s Journey to a Diagnosis

    Bipolar Disorder One Man’s Journey to a diagnosis Bipolar disorder, formally known as manic-depressive insanity ,according to the DSM-IV is defined as a person experiencing periods of depression and also periods of elation or manic episodes that last at least a week at one time, or at least for four days. .During periods of mania the mind is racing at top speed with ideas and plans. Thoughts of activities, excessive talking, writing, spending sprees,

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    Essay Length: 1,356 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • Discuss"home Burial" and "death of the Hired Man" by Frost

    Discuss"home Burial" and "death of the Hired Man" by Frost

    In Frost's "Home Burial," a married couple are mourning the death of their son, and they don't appear to possess enough  communication skills or not comfortable with each other to console one another in order to cope with their child's passing. The husband wants to talk to his wife, but she is aloof with him and avoids any confrontation. The two could be so stricken with grief that even speaking of their dead child could be hard to swallow, and

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    Essay Length: 283 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Janna
  • Dead Mans Path

    Dead Mans Path

    “Dead Men’s Path” Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path” is filled with symbolism. The story starts off in January of 1949, where young Michael Obi became headmaster of Ndume Central School. I think this is very symbolic it that Chinua Achebe would have been 19 in 1949, so this whole story may be based on what his hopes and dreams were, he eventually became a teacher, so maybe he wanted to become a headmaster and not

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    Essay Length: 797 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Old Man the Sea

    The Old Man the Sea

    The Old Man In The Sea The "Old Man and the Sea" is a heroic tale of man's strength pitted against forces he cannot control. It is a story about an old Cuban fisherman and his three-day battle with a giant Marlin. Through the use of three prominent themes; friendship, bravery, and Christianity; the "Old Man and the Sea" strives to teach important life lessons to the reader while also epitomizing Santiago, the old fisherman,

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Bred
  • Ice-Candy Man - Character Analysis

    Ice-Candy Man - Character Analysis

    Ice-Candy Man is the central figure in the novel as the action revolves around him. All the important incidents are inspired by his action in the main plot of Ayah-Masseur and Ice-Candy Man’s love triangle. All the other characters are passive as compared to him and remain flat whereas he is a round character undergoing changes from the beginning to the end of the novel. But still we can’t declare him to be the

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    Essay Length: 818 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Acts of God

    Acts of God

    Acts of God Farther away, 200 to 300 priests and Levites huddled near the High Priest, Chaim Levin, who stood a safe distance away in a tableau of mock defiance toward the men on the steps. A few steps farther back, the crowds watched from behind a line of armed Israeli soldiers. Reporters from the international news media, unable to leave the country and aware that Jerusalem was Christopher's destination, waited for his arrival, ready

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    Essay Length: 1,697 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Janna
  • Evaluate the Teleological Argument for the Existence of God

    Evaluate the Teleological Argument for the Existence of God

    Evaluate the teleological argument for the existence of God The arguments for the existence of God are usually understood as arguments for classical theism. H.P. Owen , in his book Concepts of Deity, defines theism as "...belief in one God, the Creator, who is infinite, self-existent, incorporeal, eternal, immutable, impassable, simple, perfect, omniscient and omnipotent." (pg 1) H.P.Owen uses Aquinas' Summa Theologica as his chief source for classical theism. It is here, as the last

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    Essay Length: 3,099 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: David
  • Who Is God

    Who Is God

    What/who is God? God The existence of the world and everything in it can only be explained if there is a God who is the first cause. Aquinas states that it is impossible for any being to be the efficient cause of itself because then it would have to bring itself into being, and to bring itself into being, it would have to exist before it existed. If a being exists, it is because some

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    Essay Length: 480 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: July
  • City of God

    City of God

    Living in the United States we ourselves have standards and also guidelines we follow as citizens of this great nation. Of course we must take the good with the bad but ones has the chance to go either way. We could choose to follow the majority of the citizens and live productive lives. Or we could be on the other side of the law living lives of crime. However, what about in other countries? Does

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    Essay Length: 1,857 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    The reason I chose," THE INVISIBLE MAN, "is because the black man in this story symbolizes the black the black man in society which is set up to fail. He is used, humiliated, and discriminated against through the whole book. He feels that he is invisible to society because society does not view him as a real person. Reading this book was very difficult, because the book was written in first person singular. I had

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    Essay Length: 607 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Bred

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