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  • Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket

    Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket

    Sometimes it takes a near death experience to realize what is important in life and what is not. A person is amid choosing whether to help out a family member in trouble or to complete a certain task of his own. The person selfishly goes to complete the task. One can refer that it was wrong to not help the family member. No matter what, family should be the number one priority and that is

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Pieces of the Puzzle: the Island as a Macrocosm of Man

    Pieces of the Puzzle: the Island as a Macrocosm of Man

    Pieces of the Puzzle: the Island as a Macrocosm of Man In viewing the various aspects of the island society in Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society, a converse perspective must also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters then becomes a macrocosm, wherein the island represents the individual human and the various characters and symbols the elements of the human psyche. As such, Golding's world of children's morals and

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Bred
  • Manned Space Flight Vs Robotics

    Manned Space Flight Vs Robotics

    Robotics Will Only Leave Man on Earth. Since man came to be, he has always explored what was over the next mountain. Now that we have covered all four corners of the Earth, we now look up. Man has only touched the surface on space travel. We are beginning to discover, what it has to offer us, from the discovery of distant galaxies to medical breakthroughs. Man need to be present for these accomplishments not

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: July
  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor

    A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor

    A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O’Connor A woman who views herself as God and a man who views himself as Jesus Christ. This man didn’t go as far as to say he’s bigger than Jesus as a legendary Beatle once did; he however stated the following “Jesus thown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me…” As the above briefly demonstrates, O’Connor’s “A good man is

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: July
  • Native American Origin Myths

    Native American Origin Myths

    Prior to the Pilgrims arrival in the Americas in the 15th century, the Americas were inhabited by many Native American Tribes long before. It is estimated that their arrival in the Americas may “have been as recently as 12,000 years ago or as long ago as 70,000 years.”(2) Assuming the shorter estimate, the Native Americans would still “have been on the continent 30 times longer than the Europeans.”(2) During this time each Native American tribe

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Artur
  • Eat Drink Man Woman Summary

    Eat Drink Man Woman Summary

    Foreign films intimidate many people; it could be the culture shock, or it could be the hesitance to reading subtitles for two hours. Despite these setbacks, foreign films are some of the best made and Eat Drink Man Woman, directed by Ang Lee is no exception. Eat Drink Man Woman offers many elements of a great movie such as excellent filming techniques, interesting and unique characters, and unanticipated plot twists. Eat Drink Man Woman focuses

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Compare/contrast: "a Good Man Is Hard to Find" with "hills like White Elephants"

    Compare/contrast: "a Good Man Is Hard to Find" with "hills like White Elephants"

    Compare/Contrast: “Good Man” with “Hills” Currently, a plethora of outstanding stories have been written. What makes a story, though? The answer is the elements that the author includes into his or her writing, such as symbolism and imagery. “Hills like White Elephants,” written by Ernest Hemingway, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” written by Flannery O’Connor, are just two examples of admirable work. Each writer incorporated plenty of elements to improve the

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Jon
  • A Gay California Man

    A Gay California Man

    A gay California man, whose partner died in the September 11 terrorist attacks has become "legally vulnerable in ways (he) could never imagine"(Urges 1). Keith Brodowski lost his life partner, Jeff Coleman, to American Airlines flight 11, which was the first plane to hit the World Trade Center. Coleman was a flight attendant. Brodowski is now battling the state and the nation for survivors' benefits, granted to the widows of those who died. It

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Steve
  • How Does Man Addapt to Change: The Martian Chronicles

    How Does Man Addapt to Change: The Martian Chronicles

    In the Martian chronicles the question “how does man adapt to change?” is answered multiple times, but with all the same answer. The author, Brabury, takes real life situations that he was dealing with and made them into out of the ordinary times and settings, but with the same concept. Now he switched the answer to “how does man adapt to change?” to write his book. The answer to the question is of course, man

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Mikki
  • How Is the Film “one Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest” Different from the Book and How Does a Man Loose His Life While Struggling to Change the System in His Own Way?

    How Is the Film “one Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest” Different from the Book and How Does a Man Loose His Life While Struggling to Change the System in His Own Way?

    The theme of this story “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” according to Daniel Woods is “Power is the predominant theme of Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest': who holds power, who doesn't, who wants it, who loses it, how it is used to intimidate and manipulate and for what purposes, and, most especially, how it is disrupted and subverted, challenged, denied and assumed” (http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/cuckoosnest/essays/essay1.html). No, it is not McMurphy who flew over

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Bred
  • Invisibility of the Invisible Man

    Invisibility of the Invisible Man

    Invisibility of the Invisible Man Living in the city, one sees many homeless people. After a while, each person loses any individuality and only becomes “another homeless person.” Without a name or source of identification, every person would look the same. Ignoring that man sitting on the sidewalk and acting as if we had not seen him is the same as pretending that he did not exist. “Invisibility” is what the main character/narrator of Ralph

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Dead Man’s Path

    Dead Man’s Path

    DEAD MAN’S PATH by CHINUA ACHEBE The title of this story “Dead Man’s Path” foreshadows the series of events about to take place in the story. “Dead Man’s Path” does not only refer to the ancestral pathway but also refers to Obi’s choice of action. His “path” by not compromising has made him a “Dead Man”. Dead in this context is not death, but is referring to his failure. His dream died. The title also

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Bred
  • The Man Myth and Legend

    The Man Myth and Legend

    Malcolm X, is the biographical story, written and directed by Spike Lee, about the famous African America activist and Black Nationalist, Malcolm X, formerly known as Malcolm Little. The film is based on Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X, which was told to him by the great nationalist. The film centers around the life of the African-American activist Malcolm X, covering the film into three sections of his life, which eventually to his death and

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Malcolm X, a True Self Made Man

    Malcolm X, a True Self Made Man

    Alex Haley, the writer of Malcolm X’s biography knew that to succeed in America, a person must be educated. Without education it is almost impossible to achieve the self made man ideology (SMMI). In Malcolm’s case he achieved the SMMI without the help of a formal education. Malcolm X’s use of self education, coupled with religious inspiration and guidance, led him to become one of the greatest civil rights activists in America. It quickly became

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: regina
  • Frankie Manning

    Frankie Manning

    Jazz Biography Frankie Manning Frankie Manning was born at Jacksonville, Florida in 1914. At a young age he moved to Harlem along with his mother who was also a dancer. Frankie Manning began dancing at a young age and when he was in his early teens he danced at a Sunday afternoon dance at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem to the music of Vernon Andrade. Later he danced at the Rennaissance Ballroom that played swing

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Night by Elie Wiesel and a Man's Search for Meaning By

    Night by Elie Wiesel and a Man's Search for Meaning By

    In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read about a middle aged man's view. In the

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Old Man with Broken Wings

    The Old Man with Broken Wings

    This story is written in a style which is called magical realism. What does that mean? Some writers like to create moments when what passes for reality crosses paths with magic in order to challenge our assumptions. Other writers simply expand reality to a size large enough to include myth, magic and other extraordinary natural phenomena. This second sort is the one we are dealing with in this story. When the Old Man falls to

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Top
  • Origin of the Moon

    Origin of the Moon

    The origin of the moon is not absolutely known like most astronomical issues. Throughout the recorded history of mankind many theories have evolved trying to explain this phenomenon but even today there is not an absolute accepted answer. There are even conspiracy theorists who question the idea that we landed on the moon, citing that it could have been fabricated. By and large though, most believe that man did land on the moon in 1969,

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • Origins of My Values and Beliefs

    Origins of My Values and Beliefs

    Introduction Sex, whether as a subject of conversation or the actual act, is a topic that everyone has broached or thought about at many stages in their lives. For most of us it is a daily occurrence, we often think of it more often than we do about grocery lists, term paper assignments, rent payments, etc. It is one of the all consuming thoughts that a basic individual cannot shake or disavow, as it will

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Jessica
  • A Reflection on “a Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’connor

    A Reflection on “a Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’connor

    On my first reading of this story, I initially felt the fear frequently seen in grandmothers in confronting danger and how they try to convince us to stay away from it: “The Misfit is a loose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to this people….”, the grandmother said. As I have experienced in the past, once a Mom and Dad have made a decision

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Psychosocially Therapeutic Aspects of the Old Man and the Sea

    Psychosocially Therapeutic Aspects of the Old Man and the Sea

    Psychosocially therapeutic aspects of The old Man and the Sea This exceptional story should be used as a therapeutic aid for hopeless and depressed people who needed a powerful force for continuing struggles of life against fate. They should say as the boy Manolin, "I'll bring the luck by myself." In the story the old man tells us "It is silly not to hope...besides I believe it is a sin." Hemingway draws a distinction between

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Western and the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    Western and the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, all of the fundamental elements of Western movies can be easily seen. The first element requires the movie to have characters whose physical and mental toughness separate them from the crowds of modern civilization. Tom Doniphon stands out as being tough and a little rough around the edges. He is one of the few people who is not afraid of Liberty Valance, and won’t think twice about standing

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of Dr. Sacks's patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The other essays in this book include: •"The Lost Mariner", about Jimmie G., who has lost the ability to form new memories due to Korsakoff's syndrome. He can remember nothing of his

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Tasha
  • An Analysis of the Charater the Grandmother in "a Good Man Is Hard to Find"

    An Analysis of the Charater the Grandmother in "a Good Man Is Hard to Find"

    In the story A Good Man Is Hard to Find the grandmother considers herself to be a lady as well as a good person. The grandmother does not think it’s a good idea for the family to go to Florida with a criminal, the Misfit, on the loose and says that she “’couldn’t answer to [her] conscience if [she] did’” (O’Connor 454). On the trip the grandmother is dressed in a blue dress and a

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Dead Man Walking: The Death Penalty

    Dead Man Walking: The Death Penalty

    Dead Man Walking: The Death Penalty Dead Man Walking was an extraordinary movie that got me to re-examine and question some of my fundamental beliefs of the death penalty. I believe that this movie impacted my life greatly as it was very emotional and moving. Dead Man Walking was an excellent movie because it portrayed the feelings of both the families of the victims and the murderer himself. It showed how much pain and suffering

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Top

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