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  • Racism and Prejudice

    Racism and Prejudice

    Racism and prejudice has been present in almost every civilization and society throughout history. Even though the world has progressed greatly in the last couple of decades, both socially and technologically, racism, hatred and prejudice still exists today, deeply embedded in old-fashioned, narrow-minded traditions and values. Racism is a case of ‘misplaced hate’ and ignorance, being not only discriminatory, but also seemingly foolish with disregard of all human commonsense. Why does racism still exist in

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Social Groups in My Life

    Social Groups in My Life

    Social Groups Hope Martinez University of Phoenix Sociology 100 Fay DeMeyer Introduction When examining the numerous “groups” I’ve been a part of, it better explains the person I am today. Many groups do not fall into a specific primary or secondary. At different time’s in life they are different things. While something’s stay constant—like church—the actual facility may change, a new pastor may come to teach. It is everyday unexpected items that change the familiar

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche TIMELINE * Born: 1844. Rocken, Germany * Died: 1900. Weimar, Germany * Major Works: The Gay Science (1882), * Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885), * Beyond Good & Evil (1886), * On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), MAJOR IDEAS Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • Simaks Look at Life in Desertion

    Simaks Look at Life in Desertion

    Jason Warren ENGL-371-010 Paper #1 Within the short story “Desertion” written by Clifford D. Simak the human race faces the ultimate challenge of the choice of free will vs. life determination. When the story opens we learn of a mission to liberate and populate the jovian planet Jupiter. The head of this study, and protagonist of the story, is a man named Kent Fowler. Fowler has two by two sent four men to Jupiter already

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Social Isolation in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

    Social Isolation in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

    Olaudah Equiano in his Interesting Narrative is taken from his African home and thrown into a Western world completely foreign to him. Equiano is a slave for a total of ten years and endeavors to take on certain traits and customs of Western thinking. He takes great pains to improve himself, learn religion, and adopt Western mercantilism. However, Equiano holds on to a great deal of his African heritage. Throughout the narrative, the author keeps

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Jack
  • Life and Times of Thomas Day

    Life and Times of Thomas Day

    Life and Times of Thomas Day Thomas Day was born in Dinwidee, Virginia in 1801 to a free slave mother. With the law that allowed children to be born free if their parents were free, Day was born free and did not have to be a slave. His family had been free since the early 18th century. He and his brother were educated by private tutors and they were trained by their father in cabinetry

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Top
  • Life at the Turn of the Century

    Life at the Turn of the Century

    Life at the turn of the century is getting better for many reasons. One reason is that there are new innovations in the field of photography. Another reason is that states are starting to require children to go to school. Lastly African Americans are fighting legal discrimination. One innovation in the field of photography is George Eastman (Eastman-Kodak) invented the first widely available camera. It cost only $25 for the camera which includes a roll

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Death Penalty - How Much Is a Life Worth?

    The Death Penalty - How Much Is a Life Worth?

    How much is a Life worth? Imagine that you are wrongfully accused of a crime, and due some factor, you are convicted of a crime that you did not commit, and your sentencing is the death penalty. How much would you say that your life is worth, and how much would you be willing to pay in order to know that you’ll have time to prove your innocence? This is the feeling that over 120

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • I Was Running for My Life

    I Was Running for My Life

    I was running for my life I remember in 4th grade these people that lived up the street from me carpooled with all of us that lived in the same neighborhood to go to school. I think I was eleven years old at the time sever years felt so long ago. But it really felt like yesterday. I remembered being terrified of dogs. Especially the golden retriever at the Carney’s residence. It was 8:00 pm

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • God Is Pro-Life

    God Is Pro-Life

    The reason I am pro-life, and oppose abortion, is because GOD is pro-life, and opposes abortion. Scriptural evidence of this is abundant; consider the words of Ps. 139:13-14: "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well." God then forbids the taking of innocent life [viz. a life not

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Steve
  • Life in the Colombian Cocain Trade

    Life in the Colombian Cocain Trade

    Colombian Cocaine Trade Cocaine is produced from the Coca plants usually found in the mountain climates of Colombia. The first cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until 1855. The cocaine alkaloid was first isolated by a German Chemist Friedrick Gaedcke. Cocaine was first used in the 1880’s as an anesthetic in eye, nose, and throat surgeries because of its capability to provide anesthesia as well as to constrict blood vessels and limit bleeding. Its therapeutic

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Yan
  • Life on Land Compared to Life on the Mississippi

    Life on Land Compared to Life on the Mississippi

    In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck lives in two different settings. One of the settings is on land with the widow and with his father and the other is on the river with Jim. There are many differences of living on land as opposed to living on the Mississippi River. On land, Huck has more rules to live by and he has to watch himself so as not to upset the widow

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Hard Knock Life for Langston Hughes

    The Hard Knock Life for Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes is often considered a voice of the African-American people and a prime example of the Harlem Renaissance. His writing does symbolize these titles, but the concept of Langston Hughes that portrays a black man's rise to poetic greatness from the depths of poverty and repression are largely exaggerated. America frequently confuses the ideas of segregation, suppression, and struggle associated with African-American history and imposes these ideas onto the stories of many black historical

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Life on the Global Assembly Line

    Life on the Global Assembly Line

    Analysis of Ehrenreich and Fuentes Ehrenreich and Fuentes “Life on the Global Assembly Line”, World Views, Third Edition, is ineffective because the witness testimony cannot be validated, the use of illustrations is illogical, their examples are based on unfounded information and their statistical data is often not substantiated by scientific data. Ehrenreich and Fuentes’ article is ineffective because witness testimony cannot be validated. Often Ehrenreich and Fuentes supply titles but no documentation. They present alleged

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Amistad Vs. the Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano

    Amistad Vs. the Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano

    CoMpArE and CoNtRaSt Both, “The Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano” and “Amistad” are important stories about slavery in pre-civil war america because they both address the issues of slavery. These gentlemen in the story made a difference in the slave trade. In “The life of Olaudah Equiano”, Olaudah was sold on a slave ship that came to the Barbados. Olaudah worked for his freedom, and in the end became efficient in American language.

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: regina
  • Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl opens with an introduction in which the author, Harriet Jacobs, states her reasons for writing an autobiography. Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the antislavery movement. A preface by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child makes a similar case for the book and states that the events it records are true. Jacobs uses the

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Yan
  • Tennessee Williams’s Life Story

    Tennessee Williams’s Life Story

    Tennessee Williams's Life Story Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, originated in the memory of Williams. Williams' family embodied his father, Cornelius Williams, his mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, his sister, Rose Williams, and his younger brother, Dakin Williams. Cornelius was an alcoholic, always away from home; Tennessee and Cornelius did not have a strong relationship, "By the late 1920s, mother and father were in open warfare, and both were good combatants. He came home drunk

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Malaria Life Cycle

    Malaria Life Cycle

    Page 1 of 6 Life Cycle of Malaria Page 2 of 6 Malaria is an ancient disease transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito that predates recorded history. Historically it was common in the swampy areas around Rome, and was believed that the tainted air in those locations made people very sick, the disease was therefore named malaria for the Latin root words bad air. Malaria is caused by small parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium which

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Legends in Life

    The Legends in Life

    The Legends In Life An Artist or group’s talent can be defined by the way the listener is pulled into the music. Writing about fundamental emotions to a compound condition that happened in the past, the artist must grasp the listener and wrap them into a nostalgic trance from the lyrics. The type of lyrics that can convey the reader into the past, present, or future time. The Temptations has mastered this talent. From their

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Bred
  • Life Expectancy in Canada

    Life Expectancy in Canada

    Assignment 2- Life Expectancy SOC 2107 Prof. G Goldman Stud # 3891894 Brent Stevens February 15th, 2006 Klingon Male Life Table Age Population (nPx) Deaths (nDx) nMx nqx lx ndx nLx Tx ex 0 36522 308 0.008433 0.008373 100,000 837 99,288 7,352,629 73.5 1 to 4 156802 94 0.000599 0.002394 99,163 237 396,081 7,253,341 73.1 5 to 9 215574 67 0.000311 0.001553 98,925 154 494,242 6,857,260 69.3 10 to 14 234599 76 0.000324 0.001618

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Max
  • Feminism and Racism in African American Literature

    Feminism and Racism in African American Literature

    Throughout literature, feminism and racism have played crucial roles in the lives of the characters and plotlines in stories and novels. Audiences are captivated by the drama a character must face in order to succeed in life or society. This struggle to overcome personal discrimination and adversity has transcended centuries and genres of literature. African American literature is no exception. Authors of African American literature would base the events that were taking place in the

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: regina
  • Anorexia Nervosa as a Life-Threatening Disorder

    Anorexia Nervosa as a Life-Threatening Disorder

    Anorexia Nervosa As a Life-Threatening Disorder Anorexia Nervosa is a disease that should not be handled lightly. While in our nation, it is not as publicized as other diseases such as cancer or heart disease, it does take lives everyday due to people having a distorted self-image. Many people in the medicinal field have come to various conclusions about the cause of anorexia and it’s effects on a person physiologically and psychologically. Some argue that

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: regina
  • The Life of Carl Marx

    The Life of Carl Marx

    Karl Marx was born into a progressive and wealthy Jewish family in Trier, Germany. His father Heinrich, who had descended from a long line of rabbis, converted to Christianity, despite his many deistic tendencies. Marx's father was actually born Herschel Mordechai, but when the Prussian authorities would not allow him to continue practicing law as a Jew, he joined the relatively liberal Lutheran denomination. The Marx household hosted many visiting intellectuals and artists during Karl's

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Top
  • Margaret Preston: Life Summary and Description of 3 Artworks

    Margaret Preston: Life Summary and Description of 3 Artworks

    Artworks: Native Flowers, Mixed Flowers and Implement BLue Margaret Preston was born on the 29th of April 18 in Port Adelaide. Throughout her career, she produced over 400 artworks applying diverse techniques such as etching, monotyping, woodcutting, stenciling and painting. She was both a painter, specializing in still life, landscape, and portraits, and a print maker. She is widely recognized as one of the most famous female Australian artists. Margaret studied art in Victoria and

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Life of Homer

    Life of Homer

    Homer Homer, a greek poet and one of the first of his time wrote, "The Odyssey and The Iliad." There is much not known about this man but the few pieces of information written about him. He is believed to lived between 1100 through 800 B.C. seeing how The Iliad revolves around the Trojan War. Many historians believe him to be the first of man to write literature of the western world. The only

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Monika