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  • Waking Up American

    Waking Up American

    Waking up American Everything had changed. He still haunts me, dressed in half ripped clothes, sitting on a cardboard, holding on tight to his empty begging cup and weeping for his mother, but she was no where to be found. His pitiful cries moved me to want to scoop him up, comfort him and give him a home, but I didn't. No one paid attention to him. I stood there attempting to figure out if

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    Essay Length: 3,416 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2011
  • The Quiet American

    The Quiet American

    The Quiet American (1955) is a novel (ISBN 0099478390) written by British author Graham Greene. It has been adapted into films twice, in 1958 and in 2002. Plot Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Set in Saigon, Vietnam in the early 1950s during the end of the First Indochina War, it portrays two concurrent conflicts: a romantic triangle between the veteran British journalist Thomas Fowler, the young American Alden Pyle, and Fowler's Vietnamese girlfriend

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    Essay Length: 286 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2011
  • In Cold Blood: The Devastation Of An American Dream

    In Cold Blood: The Devastation Of An American Dream

    In Cold Blood: The Devastation of an American Dream On November 14, 1959, two men armed with a shotgun and a knife, raided and killed a family of four. This occurrence resonated the community that lived close by (Knickerbocker 1 of 3). By contrasting the lives of the Clutter family and the lives of the killers, Truman Capote creates a harsh view of America and its increasing violence. Spending over half a decade writing the

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    Essay Length: 1,866 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2011
  • Power And Politics

    Power And Politics

    Introduction After a day of strenuous work in the office, Damien and Steven settled into the conference room over a cup of coffee. Steven was the Assistant manager heading Project Planning department for General Motors and Damien was the Project Planning Executive working in his department. However they did not share a formal reporting relationship. These evening discussions had become routine as the project was at a very crucial stage and both were aware of

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    Essay Length: 3,113 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: May 31, 2011
  • Show How The Masked Ball Scene In Act 1 Scene 5 Of 'Romeo And Juliet' Is Such A Dramatic And Important Scene With Shakespeare'S Audiences. You Should Refer To Words In The Text But You May Also Include References To Filmed Versions You Have Watched

    Show How The Masked Ball Scene In Act 1 Scene 5 Of 'Romeo And Juliet' Is Such A Dramatic And Important Scene With Shakespeare'S Audiences. You Should Refer To Words In The Text But You May Also Include References To Filmed Versions You Have Watched

    The masked ball comes in early in the play and from the prologue the audience know that Romeo and Juliet will meet and fall in love even though they are from feuding families. This allows dramatic irony throughout the play. For example: 'A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.' (Narrator, prologue, line 6) This means that they meet by chance and that they will die together. After they meet at the ball they do

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    Essay Length: 1,720 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: June 1, 2011
  • The Impact Of The Eye Gouging Scene (Act Iii Sc Vii) In King Lear

    The Impact Of The Eye Gouging Scene (Act Iii Sc Vii) In King Lear

    In King Lear, Act III Scene VII is one of the most painful scenes in English drama, as the audience witnesses Cornwall gouging out Gloucester's eyes. In the scene prior to this, Edmund betrays Gloucester's trust by informing Cornwall that Gloucester is helping Lear and as a result Cornwall seeks out Gloucester. Edmund is seen as the reason for Gloucester's punishment. This scene highlights the psychological cruelty of the play and contrasts madness and sanity.

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    Essay Length: 1,180 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 1, 2011
  • American Falg Burning

    American Falg Burning

    American Flag Burning How big of a problem is flag burning such that a Constitutional amendment is required to prohibit it? Given how strong people's emotions seem to run when this issue comes up, you might think that this is one of the most pressing matters facing America. The truth, though, is that bans on flag burning and desecration are a solution in search of a problem: flag burning almost never occurs, and when it

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    Essay Length: 1,174 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2011
  • Review Of Linking Strategy To Structure: The Power Of Systematic Organization Design

    Review Of Linking Strategy To Structure: The Power Of Systematic Organization Design

    Review of Linking Strategy to Structure: The Power of Systematic Organization Design Introduction The reviewed paper explores a comprehensive and yet flexible model for designing and launching new organization in the context of the process paradigm of organizational design. The Organization Design Model utilizes a four-phase framework that is 1. determining the design framework, 2. designing the organization, 3. developing the details, and 4. implementing the new design. Literature review Organization design is used to

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    Essay Length: 548 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2011
  • The Development Of American Popular Culture/Electronic Media

    The Development Of American Popular Culture/Electronic Media

    The Development of American Popular Culture/Electronic Media Popular Culture is the arts, artifacts, entertainment, fads, beliefs and values that are shared by large segments of society in America. Knowing this we can see how the electronic medias have great influences over the American pop culture. Music, television, radio and movies have all been influences, sometimes, not good and sometimes they have. Before television, radio was the big link for current events being reported fast. It

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    Essay Length: 934 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2011
  • Macbeth And The Power Of Persuasion

    Macbeth And The Power Of Persuasion

    Persuasion is a powerful and threatening tool against those who are weak. It can sway one's decisions between good and evil, concealing judgment and jading the conscience. It plays the critical role of a spectral villain, an invisible danger to the protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Macbeth is a victim of persuasion of others, making him ultimately not responsible for his actions. Macbeth's own partner Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to commit murder and

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    Essay Length: 1,460 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2011
  • Americanization In The Jazz Singer

    Americanization In The Jazz Singer

    In the film, The Jazz Singer, the protagonist, Jakie Rabinowitz, goes through a major character change in becoming Americanized. That is, in leaving his family's Jewish faith, he adopts the attitude and culture of the American way of life. However, there are many phases and steps he takes in doing this along the way. The first signs are the feud between Jakie and his father and goes as far as his name changing and meeting

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    Essay Length: 988 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2011
  • Explore Shakespeare'S Presentation Of The Three Great Leaders: Caesar, Antony And Cleopatra, Through The Changing Fortunes Of Acts Iii And Iv. Explain How The Balance Of Audience Sympathy Shifts

    Explore Shakespeare'S Presentation Of The Three Great Leaders: Caesar, Antony And Cleopatra, Through The Changing Fortunes Of Acts Iii And Iv. Explain How The Balance Of Audience Sympathy Shifts

    During the scenes depicting the Battle of Actium, Shakespeare's presentation of Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra cause the balance of audience sympathy to change between the three great leaders. Audience sympathy never lies by any real amount with Caesar, and in Acts III and IV, the audience feels increasingly alienated from him. This is largely due to his calculated, ruthless style of leadership, which becomes more evident during the battle. Caesar judges wisely, and

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    Submitted: June 4, 2011
  • The Patriot Act

    The Patriot Act

    The Patriot Act: How Necessary is It? The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-56), also known as the US Patriot Act was passed by President Bush in September of 2001. The Patriot Act gives government officials both domestic and international legal clearances to wire tap electronic communications, related to terrorism. It also eliminates the checks and balances that previously gave courts

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    Submitted: June 4, 2011
  • Ethics Of Identity: Japanese-American Internment

    Ethics Of Identity: Japanese-American Internment

    Ethics of Identity: Japanese-American Internment Since 1893, when Fredrick Jackson Turner announced that the American identity was not a byproduct of the first colonists, but that it emerged out of the wilderness and only grew with the surfacing of the frontier, America has placed a great emphasis on the notion of a national identity. However, the paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many different traditions,

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    Submitted: June 4, 2011
  • The American Health Care Delivery System

    The American Health Care Delivery System

    The top three ethics on my list would be honesty, confidentiality, and respect. As a health care provider and a patient these three ethics is what I live by and want in return. The essential component of trust is honesty. I am honest with all involved in my care and I expect them to do the same. The honesty principle extends to issues such as confidentiality of information especially when this information becomes available to

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    Essay Length: 275 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 4, 2011
  • Language As A Powerful And Healing Device In Three Contemporary Canadian Novels.

    Language As A Powerful And Healing Device In Three Contemporary Canadian Novels.

    This essay aims at analysing the use of language as an extremely powerful instrument to gain freedom back and to recover from a past of sufferance and victimization in three major Canadian contemporary novels: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Joy Kogawa's Obasan. LANGUAGE: the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting in the use of words in a structured and conventional way. (Oxford Dictionary of English,2003) By analysing

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    Essay Length: 1,057 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 5, 2011
  • Power Of Words

    Power Of Words

    Story is the Key to Survival Stories have been around for as long as humans can remember, whether it be through myths, folklore, or biblical references. Stories can help us in being fully alive. It is in our instincts that we use story to survive, without story mentally we wouldn't make it through life. The gift of story is something we as humans need to survive. Stories allow us to be alive not only physically

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    Essay Length: 599 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 5, 2011
  • To Act Or Not To Act

    To Act Or Not To Act

    King Hamlet's unjust death during a conflict with opposing nations sets the stage for a tragic end in Shakespeare's Hamlet; One of the main and central points that reigns heavily in this tragic play's focal point has to do with the indecisiveness of characters that we see in the play itself, most particularly within the tragic hero Hamlet himself. Whether or not the same fate might have befallen Hamlet in the end of the play

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    Essay Length: 686 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 5, 2011
  • The Theme Of Class And The Evolution Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

    The Theme Of Class And The Evolution Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

    Written in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's, 'The Great Gatsby' is often referred to as 'The Great American Novel' and as the quintessential work, which captures the mood of the 'Jazz Age'. In this paper I will examine how class is an articulation of insecurities felt by the American people in the years following the First World War. I will also be writing about the idea of the American dream and corruption of this dream by

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    Essay Length: 2,744 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: June 6, 2011
  • Export Opportunity: Ballard Power Systems

    Export Opportunity: Ballard Power Systems

    Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Ballard) is one of the world's leading companies in hydrogen fuel cell technology, and is primarily concerned with continuing to lead the world in this technology's development. Ballard's employees and managers are motivated to make hydrogen fuel cells commercially viable on a global scale (Business Focus). The company's head office and major manufacturing facilities are located in Burnaby, British Columbia (Facilities and Locations). The company has been specializing in the development,

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    Essay Length: 2,325 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: June 7, 2011
  • Will American Education Crash?

    Will American Education Crash?

    Will American Education Crash? Like the stock market, American education has its ups and downs. Unfortunately, today American education is coming closer and closer to crashing. If the stock market crashes people lose millions of dollars. If American education crashes the country will lose millions of intelligent young minds. Just as if a stock holder was to make poor choices, people everywhere today are making bad choices with how students across America are being taught.

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    Essay Length: 1,187 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 8, 2011
  • His American Dream

    His American Dream

    His American Dream Few pieces of literature can claim the magnitude and timelessness that are exhibited by Martin Luther King's letter from jail. Its significance within its era is unmatched, and it has an undisputable amount of historical quality. Many factors contributed to its importance and forced such an act of civil disobedience. Overall, the work was a manifestation of his frustration with society's injustices and oppression. Most importantly, this letter was written in response

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    Essay Length: 413 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 8, 2011
  • Body And Character In Luke & Acts

    Body And Character In Luke & Acts

    Body and Character in Luke and Acts is on the subject of physiognomics, which is the study of the relationship between the physical and the moral. Philosophers, astrologers, and physicians practiced physiognomics in the late antiquity, while philosopher Pythagoras was the beginner of physiognomy. There are kinds of physiognomic analysis: anatomical method, which looks at facial features; zoological method, which is the appearance between the person and features of various kinds of animals; and ethnographical

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    Essay Length: 517 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 8, 2011
  • Discuss The Importance Of Act Three, Scene 5. How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Devices In Order To Make It Such An Interesting And Important Scene?

    Discuss The Importance Of Act Three, Scene 5. How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Devices In Order To Make It Such An Interesting And Important Scene?

    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story. The story concerns the love between two young people, Romeo and Juliet. This is set against a feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. This feud develops the themes of conflict, deception and dignity in the play. The play includes a lot of themes, love, family, hate, deception and revenge. In the Elizabethan period, women were subordinate to men. They were

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    Essay Length: 1,699 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: June 9, 2011
  • How Do Creon From "Antigone" By Sophocles And Bernarda From "House Of Bernarda Alba" By Frederico Lorca Respond To Challenges To Their Power?

    How Do Creon From "Antigone" By Sophocles And Bernarda From "House Of Bernarda Alba" By Frederico Lorca Respond To Challenges To Their Power?

    Creon, the King of Thebes, and Bernarda, who is the head of her household are the most powerful characters in their plays. Both characters want to have complete control over everything and everyone around them; however both suffer losses as a result of their attitudes and use of power. The main difference between Creon and Bernarda is how they react to these losses and to the challenges to their authority. It is this aspect which

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    Essay Length: 1,449 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: June 9, 2011

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