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  • The Dream Game

    The Dream Game

    The Dream Game We were playing our arch rival, the Tojans. It was the one game that I had circled on the schedule in the preseason. It was the bottom of the ninth inning. There were two outs. Only seconds earlier I had my name announced. "Now batting, number one, Matt Matteo." I stepped into the batter's box and did my usual ritual in which I swing my bat towards the pitcher and dig my

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    Essay Length: 906 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Different Views of the American Dream

    Different Views of the American Dream

    Different Views of the American Dream Upon entering the fictional world of the story, “Two Kinds”, thought up by the author Amy Tan, we can easily target one of the author’s main themes, which is the American Dream. Tan demonstrates this idea through the different interpretations the two main characters have of the American Dream. These two characters being the mother and the daughter, they have very different visions of the American Dream, which will

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    Essay Length: 789 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: July
  • Dream Interpretation

    Dream Interpretation

    December 7, 1999 It Was Only a Dream She awakens in the night, the visions from her mind still vivid. The dream was amazingly realistic. A long hallway stretched before her. Several doors lined the hallway, each with a padlock. A ring full of keys weighed heavily in her hand. What did it all mean? Did this hallway symbolize her life? The doors could have meant many things, possibly the choices she faces daily. As

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    Essay Length: 2,559 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jon
  • Beloved Dreams?

    Beloved Dreams?

    English Lit. and Film 3/13/06 Beloved Dreams? In movies, it is crucial to understand that objects and images that are portrayed in films are always up for interpretation by the audience. The movie “Beloved”, starring Oprah and Danny Glover, gives wonderful, and at sometimes confusing images that exercise the minds and raises many question of audiences that have witnessed this movie for what it is worth. Interpretations of the images within this movie are profound

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    Essay Length: 999 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

    Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

    The title of the book I read was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It’s a non-fiction book, which means it is make-believe. The author is H.P. Lovecraft; he is a horror book writer. Some of his other books are At The Mountains of Madness, The Doom that cam to Sarnath, and The Tomb. The publisher of this book is Del Rey, published in 1939. You can buy this book for $5.99, at your local bookstore.

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    Essay Length: 321 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Mikki
  • I Have a Dream

    I Have a Dream

    Paper IV Born the son of a Baptist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. was a well respected advocate, a gifted orator and a highly persuasive writer. In the summer of 1963, Blacks joined together in a march, which ended at the front of the Lincoln memorial steps, where there, a 34 year old King, gave his speech called “I have a dream.” Using a number of persuasion and literary tools in his speech, King contributed

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    Essay Length: 728 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: July
  • The World of Dreams

    The World of Dreams

    Introduction We are about enter into mysterious and fascinating world of dreams where the rules of reality do not apply. I hope that this research of the world of dreaming will help everybody to understand the sense of the dreams, the key to unlocking and interpreting the meanings of your dreams. We realize that all dreams are unique. No other individual can have the same background, the same emtions, or the same experiences. Every dream

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    Essay Length: 606 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Vika
  • Sleep Apnea

    Sleep Apnea

    Sleep is essential to life; it is one of several components, including food and water, which keep the living alive. However, a significant percentage of the human population has considerable difficulty reaching and maintaining Stage IV within their sleeping patterns, the stage that allows the mind and body to fall into a deep and restorative sleep, otherwise known as REM sleep(http://www.medicinenet.com/sleep_apnea/article.htm). At the core of this difficulty is a condition known as obstructive sleep apnea,

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    Essay Length: 2,644 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Edward
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream

    F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream

    F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream In this essay I plan to discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald and how his life influenced his writings. I am going to show how his life was connected to his fiction. Also I am going to talk about Fitzgerald's main thematic issue in my favorite novel he wrote "The Great Gatsby". Fitzgerald was a writer during the roaring 20's. This period was also known as the Jazz Age. The

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    Essay Length: 3,120 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Fonta
  • American Dreams and Obstacles

    American Dreams and Obstacles

    In the novels we have read this year all of the characters have a dream. However, there have been obstacles that sometimes hinder these American dreams. These obstacles range from internal conflict to society itself. Is it possible for these dynamic characters to struggle with obstacles and overcome them to reach their dream? Americans in our society have a dream that consist of a vivid plan and multiple goals. Often times this dream has a

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    Essay Length: 2,551 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream

    How does editing, mis en scene, sound and cinematography in the opening sequence of Requiem for a dream represent the effects of drug abuse on the main characters? Requiem for a dream was made in 2000, and was directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film exposes the truth about drug addiction and the effects it has on peoples lives. It also shows people who are trying to fit into society which can have disastrous effects which

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    Essay Length: 962 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mikki
  • My Frist Sleep Over

    My Frist Sleep Over

    On friday i went to my first sleepover and although i thought it was going to be fun......it was a disaster! i didn't like it not one bit. the only part i liked was on saturday when we played truth or dare and we played Twister and i won 2 of 3 games. my feet hurt really bad though and i was in a odd position the 2nd round, so i just gave up cuz

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Significance of Daisy Buchanan’s American Dream in the Great Gatsby

    The Significance of Daisy Buchanan’s American Dream in the Great Gatsby

    The Significance of Daisy Buchanan’s American Dream in The Great Gatsby Some women during the 1920s lived the life with the role of a repressed woman. Repressed women did not make decisions for themselves; they relied solely on their husbands. Their husbands treated them as if they were objects without any feelings whatsoever. Repressed women showed no self respect, and they did not live their life in reality. These women’s emotions were suppressed as they

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Monika
  • Sleep Apnia

    Sleep Apnia

    Sleep Apnea Sleep is essential to life; it is one of several components, including food and water, which keep the living alive. However, a significant percentage of the human population has considerable difficulty reaching and maintaining Stage IV within their sleeping patterns, the stage that allows the mind and body to fall into a deep and restorative sleep, otherwise known as REM sleep. At the core of this difficulty is a condition known as obstructive

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    Essay Length: 1,528 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Midsummer Nights Dream

    Midsummer Nights Dream

    Everyone thinks they will fall in love or be in love with someone else at one point in there life. Love is a very strong word. In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare it was used to its full potential. It could be true love or just an attraction that you think is love but it really isn’t. First there was the love between Theseus and Hippolyta, which lasted throughout the whole play.

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Max
  • Midsummer Night’s Dream + Related Texts

    Midsummer Night’s Dream + Related Texts

    Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595), Rebecca Young’s Western Suburbs Hero (2001) and the feature article written by Tony Vermeer Couple’s campaign against heartbreak (Sunday Telegraph, Feb, 2008) highlights that all individuals experience displacement, it is a paradigm present in every aspect of society. Displacement occurs as a result of the rejection of traditional societal values and social establishmentarianism. The dialogue provides insight into the assumptions underlying the concept of displacement. Act One; Scene One of

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    American Dream Throughout history, Americans hoped of having a piece of the American Dream. The American Dream is a dream connoting hope for prosperity and happiness symbolized particularly by having a house of ones own. In today’s market place, only 14% of Californians are able to achieve this dream. (Lansner, 2006) This has resulted in an increase in renters, rental owners seeing an opportunity to make money, and the rise in the cost of rent.

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Steve
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    My great-grandfather moved to this country from Thailand. His lineage situation is a bit confusing considering he is of mixed blood. In those days racism was on a uphill slope, especially in such countries as Taiwan and China, and Japan, that would have been considered blasphemous and it still is today. Today we live in a more enlightened time, being of Taiwanese and Jamaican blood he and his parents were abandoned by his family and

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Unattainable Dream

    Unattainable Dream

    An Unattainable Daydream In a world full of cheaters, liars, and con artists, the last person anyone should lie to is themselves. However, that is exactly what took place in Raymond Carver’s, “Neighbors.” In this story, Bill and Arlene Miller were left with the opportunity to take care of Jim and Harriet Stone’s apartment while they were away visiting family for ten days. The Millers had grown weary of their lives and often felt jealous

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Kevin
  • It’s Just a Dream

    It’s Just a Dream

    It’s Just a Dream When one hears the word “America,” one may associate that with freedom and democracy. For many others, the idea of opportunity and refuge comes to mind. These ideas enabled people to develop the American dream. For many years, the American dream was a contagious fantasy that plagued the world with the belief that prosperity and happiness will arise by coming to America. It offers false hopes to its followers because it

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: David
  • Dreams and What They Mean

    Dreams and What They Mean

    Dreams and What They Mean Psychologists seem to fall into two groups regarding dreams. The first group believes that dreams have no real purpose; while the second group believes they do have a purpose, although this group cannot reach a consensus on what the purpose might be. Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous of the dream theorists. He believed that dreams helped to preserve sleep by keeping individuals from waking as a result of

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Where Trouble Sleeps

    Where Trouble Sleeps

    The story takes place in the small town of Listre, North Carolina in 1950, and Edgrton captures the rhythm and feel of the town pefectly. As he has done in previous novels, Edgerton tells this story through multiple first person perspectives, sometimes through the eyes of a young boy, sometimes those of his mother, sometimes as a stranger in town. At age seven, young Stephen Toomey is being taught by his mother how to be

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Helena Monolouge - a Midsummer-Night’s Dream

    Helena Monolouge - a Midsummer-Night’s Dream

    Created excrpt from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' in the character of Helena. (right after Demetrius and Lysander have told her they were in love with her) Oh, how did these things come to pass? I have grown used to Demetrius treating me with ill manner, but not Lysander. Why, he himself told me that he and Hermia were to escape through this very forest so that they could proclaim their love and, without the peril

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: David
  • My American Dream Compared to the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

    My American Dream Compared to the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

    What is the "American Dream"? The "American Dream" has as many definitions as there are souls that strive for it. I know that my "American Dream" is being able to have the freedom of choice and helping others that I care about get their dream as well. Willy Loman's definition differs from mine; he is looking for social status and material belongings, instead of true peace and happiness within. The "American Dream" is the idea

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • Sleep Hallow

    Sleep Hallow

    Rather than attempt to dissect the works of a more obscure writer I’ve decided to go with America’s first well known and widely respected author, Washington Irving. Washington’s story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is well known among my peers, but I can accurately assume far less have bothered to read it. I am sure most are familiar with the many movies and cartoon knockoffs the Headless Horseman has spawned. They shall not fret however,

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Wendy

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