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  • The Winter of Our Discontent

    The Winter of Our Discontent

    The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck, 1996 ed. Within each action, man places his own self-interest. The morals of this are continuously questioned, and throughout The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck explores both the traditional, Christian view and the natural view of the world and its corruption. He shows how Ethan Allen’s life was that of a Christian, when he followed his morals, was very passive and generous, and even suffered and was

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    Essay Length: 306 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Use of Aphorisms in Steinbeck’s "the Winter of Our Discontent"

    Use of Aphorisms in Steinbeck’s "the Winter of Our Discontent"

    In John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Winter of Our Discontent, one can find many general truths and principles, also known as aphorisms. Ethan Allen Hawley, the main character, seems to gift the reader with another aphorism at the turn of every page, but some of these sayings may be considered more remarkable than others. One of the more noteworthy aphorisms is a statement made by Ethan at the end of chapter 6: “To be alive

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    Essay Length: 408 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Agrarian Discontent in the Late 1800's - Why the Farmers Were Wrong

    Agrarian Discontent in the Late 1800's - Why the Farmers Were Wrong

    "Why the Farmers Were Wrong" The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of agriculture, were selling at prices so low that it was

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    Essay Length: 1,527 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2009 By: David
  • Shakespeare (winter’s Tale)

    Shakespeare (winter’s Tale)

    The Winter’s Tale was written by William Shakespeare in 1609 up through almost 1611. This was one of the last plays he wrote. The plot of the play was based off prose fiction. Prose fiction is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to everyday speech. The Winter’s Tale is a comedy and a tragedy mixed together also known as a romance or tragicomedy. All of the plays

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    Essay Length: 1,690 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Yan
  • Homeless in New York City Winter

    Homeless in New York City Winter

    Introduction A/G Have you ever asked yourself why don’t this homeless person just go and stay in a shelter and eat and sleep in a warm place an d leave me alone? S/P Today I will inform my audience about the decisions homeless people have to make. C/I Many homeless people opt to stay on the streets rather than in a shelter. V/S After today you will understand why homeless people who live on

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    Essay Length: 1,277 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Lion in Winter Play Review

    Lion in Winter Play Review

    "The Lion in Winter" was performed on Saturday November 22nd was not as good as I thought it was going to be. The set was a great design and looked as it should for the time period. However, I didn't like how scenes were changed. The set should have been designed to encompass more aspects of the scene structure. There was a lot of unnecessary movement on stage when there shouldn't have been. Stage hands

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Vika
  • Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century

    Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century

    Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century America, like any other nation, has always relied heavily on agriculture. Differing from other nations, however, is the problems that agriculture has created through America’s short history. It can be argued that the Civil War was started by agriculture; the South developed as an agricultural dependent region, while the North developed as a industrial region; creating two distinct, almost separate cultures. Some twenty years after the Civil War, new

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    Essay Length: 429 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • Winter Dreams

    Winter Dreams

    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Winter Dreams,” ambitious, “desirous” Dexter stands at the threshold between admiring “glittering things” and finding out that the “glittering things” he admires fade away sooner or later. Dexter‘s character throughout this short story, changes in many ways, from being unaware of what he really wanted in life to being aware of what he actually became. Dexter in the story started off as a very young boy who worked as

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    Essay Length: 688 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Walt Whitman’s to a Locamotive in Winter

    Walt Whitman’s to a Locamotive in Winter

    Walt Whitman's “To A Locamotive in Winter” and Emily Dickinson's “I Like to See It Lap The Miles” are two very different poems about the same subject. Where Whitman uses strictly free verse, Dickinsons work is much more structured, with poynient line breaks, and punctuation. Their styles of personification also differ greatly. Where Whitman's work is almost an ode to the locomotive, Dickinson's is more a feeling of a journey. Another major difference in

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    Essay Length: 324 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Monika
  • Winter Vacation

    Winter Vacation

    For those who like winter sports like skiing and snowboarding, we have just the perfect place- the remote yet very popular mountain resort called Balea Lake. It is situated at an altitude of 2,034m, being the highest mountain resort of Romania. The cliffs are covered with snow from November till late July, sometimes still persisting till the new one arrives. First, you have to reach Balea Waterfall, and only afterwards try to get to the

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    Essay Length: 398 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Evolution and Its Discontents

    Evolution and Its Discontents

    Evolution and Its Discontents Charles Darwin's theory of evolution completely undermined the idea that we are designed for a purpose. His claim that we are all products of evolution questioned the traditional Western conceptions of our nature by suggesting that we are not made in God's image, but rather are the result of a natural evolutionary process that makes us a more developed version of the cognitive powers of nonhuman primates. Although there is no

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    Essay Length: 672 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    Globalization and Its Discontents

    Globalization and its discontents is a book of remarkable insight. The author draws upon his experiences as chief economist at the World Bank to explain major events in the global economy of the 1990s. The primary episodes that this book analyzes are the Asian Crisis and Russia’s post Soviet reforms. Empirical analysis by economists typically relies on formal statistics. Professor Stiglitz avoids this in his book, and much to his credit. Written history helps fill

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    Essay Length: 530 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Causes of Discontent Between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland

    The Causes of Discontent Between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland

    The causes of discontent between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, and timeline: The seed of religious division in Ireland was sown by the Reformation movement and a king's desires. The reformation religious movement of the 1500's that led to Protestantism. It had a tremendous impact on social, political, and economic life, and its influences are still felt today. The movement began in 1517 when Martin Luther, a German monk, protested certain practices of the Roman

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jessica
  • A Reading of “those Winter Sundays”

    A Reading of “those Winter Sundays”

    A Reading of “Those Winter Sundays” In Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” a relationship between the speaker and the speaker’s father is expressed in short but descriptive detail, revealing a kind of love that had gone unnoticed for so long. Throughout the poem, Hayden’s use of connotative diction keeps the poem short and sweet yet packed with significant meaning. The evocative sound patterns play just as great a role setting the harsh and reflective

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Artur
  • Cultural Analysis of the Coldest Winter Ever

    Cultural Analysis of the Coldest Winter Ever

    The Coldest Winter Ever Born Lisa Williamson in 1964, Sister Souljah is a hip-hop artist that burst to the forefront of mainstream media in 1992 when she was criticized by then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton for saying “If Black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” Clinton was trying to prove to other Democrats that he did not sympathize with the organization that Souljah was a member

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Steve
  • Purpose of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winters Night a Traveller.

    Purpose of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winters Night a Traveller.

    What does the novel add up to? What is it about? What values does it express? You must discuss the novel’s exploration of postmodern devices and concepts, its deliberate ambiguities (or even contradictions) and its tone. You need to show your knowledge of the whole novel, and address the above issues. Italo Calvino’s If on a winters night a traveler is a postmodern novel which is self-conscious of the literary and reading process. It is

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    Essay Length: 1,097 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Art Critque of Pissaro’s : A Winter Morning

    Art Critque of Pissaro’s : A Winter Morning

    Having never been to Europe, I always imagined the mornings in a city like Paris to have a certain eclectic ness about it. My notions of bright sunny mornings, people sipping coffee and eating croissants, and painters setting up their easels to begin a days work were obviously quite to the contrary of Camille Pissaro. In his painting, The Pont Neuf: A Winter Morning, Pissaro captured a more gloomy and mundane city scene set in

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Top
  • Agrarian Discontent in the Late 1800’s

    Agrarian Discontent in the Late 1800’s

    The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of agriculture, were selling at prices so low that it was nearly impossible for farmers to

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Spring, Summer, Fall Winter, and Spring” Movie Review

    Spring, Summer, Fall Winter, and Spring” Movie Review

    You don't have to be into religion to understand and allow yourself to get into this movie. Excellently set on a secluded lake in the mountains in Korea , director Kim Ki-duk has created a classic love story with a religious twist with the movie Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, And Spring. The movie doesn’t have a lot of talking and characters. The title is used to show the growing up of a young boy

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Farmers Discontent Ap Essay

    Farmers Discontent Ap Essay

    The United States from the beginning was a nation of farmers. But by the late nineteenth century, people were leaving the farm and moving into the city. It was around this time that the farmers saw threats to their way of life. The farmers were being pushed around by the banks, railroads companies. They had good reasons for agrarian discontent. The documents show the validity of the farmer's complaints, especially on bank mortgage rates and

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    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Vika
  • Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

    Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

    "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is a poem about a how the author is recalling how his father would wake up early on Sundays, a day which is usually a reserved as a day of rest by many, to fix a fire for his family. The mood of this poem is a bit sad. It portrays a father, who deeply cares for his family but doesn't seem to show it by emotions, words, or

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Jon
  • What Is Your Assessment of Elizabeth Winters as a Manager of Dmps?

    What Is Your Assessment of Elizabeth Winters as a Manager of Dmps?

    What is your assessment of Elizabeth Winters as a manager of DMPS? Relationship building Ms. Winters’ predecessors had learned the hard way the importance of an integrated peer network. When Maddox reorganised the divisions in 1999 in order to encourage collaboration and enhance the combination of expertise across units, he unintentionally separated the marketing and product development teams. Similarly, as some DMPS employees had noted, CW tended to isolate their new ventures “while they were

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Winter Wonderland in Jack London’s to Build a Fire

    The Winter Wonderland in Jack London’s to Build a Fire

    The Winter Wonderland In Jack London’S To Build A Fire No matter what type of story you are reading, setting always plays a key element in producing the desired effect. Jack London’s short story To Build A Fire provides an excellent example of this. In this story, a man hikes across a snow and ice covered plane towards the encampment where he is supposed to meet up with more travelers like himself. The setting of

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Observations from Winter Survival Test

    Observations from Winter Survival Test

    3. Part A: Answer to Case Study Question 2 3.1 Observations from Winter Survival Test From the winter survival test results, it was obvious that the group results were stronger. This is due to the limited knowledge and experience each individual has as compared to a group. Refer to Appendix A. 3.2 Intuitions & Team Creativity Individuals tend to make more intuitive based decisions according to their own logic (Dawson, R 1993). Therefore it is

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: July
  • Brins Winter

    Brins Winter

    Brian’s Winter By Gary Paulson I chose to read Brian’s Winter after reading Hatchet by Gary Paulson. I enjoyed that book so much I wanted to read another by the same author. It is nice because it has the same characters but also gives a lot more detail to the story. I think this book is great and I would recommend it for anybody who is interested in adventure books with lots of twists and

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    Essay Length: 336 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: July

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