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  • Hannah More: The Freedom Of The Mind

    Hannah More: The Freedom Of The Mind

    Hannah More The Freedom of the Mind History, no matter the period is full of figures that are surrounded by controversy. There will always be those who receive criticism beyond their due, and are their greatest works are combed through like a one looking for lice in someone's hair. Such is the fate of Hannah More and her brilliant work. She is a person not well know to the common public, but who's work is

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    Essay Length: 1,450 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2010
  • A Mind Made Up

    A Mind Made Up

    A MIND MADE UP December 19, 2004 was a surprisingly peaceful night at the Elk City Police Department where I work as a Communications/Corrections Officer. My partner Angie and I were sitting at our consoles discussing the night's unusual quietness when the cacophonous ringing of the 911 phone interrupted our conversation. We both picked the line up, as usual, and I answered with the customary "911, state your emergency." It was Bridget, a fellow dispatcher,

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    Essay Length: 1,417 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2010
  • Sports Affect On The Mind

    Sports Affect On The Mind

    Don't we all have better things to do than sit around watching TV with racial/ethnic scorecards in hand? Your Sept. 21 editorial "Color TV" would answer "no." What a ridiculously stupid issue for anyone to get upset about. What's next, instituting a quota system for the Sunday comics? Or perhaps we should decry the lack of racially diverse professional sports mascots. Get real. And to suggest that the entertainment industry has banded together in some

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    Essay Length: 901 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2010
  • Positioning: The Battle Of Your Mind

    Positioning: The Battle Of Your Mind

    BOOK REVIEW OF POSITIONING: The Battle of your Mind BY: Jack Trout and Al Ries Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind is a book that shows one how to use powerful and innovative techniques to capture the biggest market share and become a household name, build one's strategy around the competitor's weaknesses, use the present position to its best advantage, choose the best name for the product, determine when and why less is more, and

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    Essay Length: 2,524 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2010
  • What Is On The Minds Of America's Youth Today?

    What Is On The Minds Of America's Youth Today?

    "What is on the minds of America's youth today?" was the prompt for an essay contest. The top of the page hosted two images; one of the youth of 1968 protesting racism, and one of teenagers on Spring Break in 2004. The magazine claimed that 30 years ago, young people were so focused on sit-ins, protests, and what was happening in the world around them and today, teens are content solely with "watching their MTV,

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    Essay Length: 1,511 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2010
  • Into The Wild But Out Of His Mind

    Into The Wild But Out Of His Mind

    Into the Wild but Out of His Mind After reading Krakauer and Thoreau I have learned about an alternative lifestyle that was brought to light by both of these writers. Both of these men write about a life of minimalism and the act of self-reliance. Through Thoreau's writing about his own life in Walden and his essay "Civil Disobedience" and the story of Chris McCandless told by Krakauer in his book Into the Wild we

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    Essay Length: 1,527 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2010
  • American Beauty

    American Beauty

    American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes in 1999, is one of the best and most unique films I have ever seen. One of the opening scenes of the movie starts with a view of Lester Burnham, his attractive, blonde wife Carolyn Burnham and their daughter Janie and what seems to be what seems to be the Burnhams picture perfect life and picture perfect marriage. The suburban house with the clean cut lawn and perfect

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    Essay Length: 1,491 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2010
  • How Is Contrast Used In 'Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes', Compared To The Use Of Contrast In 'Nothing'S Changed'?

    How Is Contrast Used In 'Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes', Compared To The Use Of Contrast In 'Nothing'S Changed'?

    The two poems I am comparing are 'Two Scavengers in a truck, Two Beautiful people in a Mercedes', written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, which shows the contrast between rich and poor in San Francisco, and 'Nothings Changed', written by Tatamkhulu Afrika. 'Nothing's Changed' is an autobiographical poem about a man returning to the town he grew up in as an adult, and how everything is still the same. The tone of 'Two Scavengers' changes between sombre,

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    Essay Length: 1,508 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2010
  • Psychedelics And The Mind

    Psychedelics And The Mind

    Since the dawn of time people have been seeking out psychoactive drugs for various reasons including religious revelation, emotional relief or for recreational use. It is true that man is not the only ones who seek out this intoxicated state. This behavior is shown in animals such as the caribou, most commonly known as the reindeer, which become so attached to hallucinogens that they grind their teeth down to the gum in order to scrape

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    Essay Length: 549 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2010
  • Open Your Minds America

    Open Your Minds America

    The coexistence of opposite and conflicting feelings about abortion is centuries old. Disagreements between public policy, morality and individual behavior on this issue existed even at the time of Plato and Aristotle. In the past few decades abortion issue has been brought into sharper focus and has been vigorously debated. A number of factors are responsible for this but perhaps the major one has been that associated with the sexual revolution which accentuates freedom

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    Essay Length: 1,658 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2010
  • A Beautiful Sin

    A Beautiful Sin

    A Beautiful Sin The Puritan society molded itself and created a government based upon the Bible and implemented it with force. The crime of adultery committed by Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, produced rage, and was suitable for serious punishment according to Puritan beliefs. In due course the town of Boston became intensely involved with Hester's life and her crime of adultery, and saw to it that she be publicly punished

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    Essay Length: 811 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • Racial Beauty Standards In "The Bluest Eye"

    Racial Beauty Standards In "The Bluest Eye"

    In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the character Claudia struggles with the beauty standard that harms her sense of self-esteem. Claudia tries to make sense of why the beauty standard does not include black girls. The beauty standard determines that blonde-haired blue-eyed white girls are the image of beauty and therefore they are worthy of not only attention, but are considered valuable to American culture of the 1940s. Thus, learning she has no value

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    Essay Length: 1,364 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2010
  • Water Hyacinth - Beautiful Troublemaker

    Water Hyacinth - Beautiful Troublemaker

    Water hyacinth has become the most serious weed in many tropical, warm and temperate freshwater habitats worldwide. It can be found in every continent except Europe. It has the highest growth rate of any saltwater, freshwater or land based plant. The water hyacinth is often called an "ecosystem engineer" or an invasive habitat modifier. In certain water bodies it is especially problematic because it forms thick mats which often weigh up to 200 tons per

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    Essay Length: 735 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2010
  • Why Can'T America Make Up Its Mind, Already?

    Why Can'T America Make Up Its Mind, Already?

    In discussing the problems surrounding the issue of factionalism in American society, James Madison concluded in Federalist #10, "The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects." (Federalist Papers 1999, ) In many ways, the nature of American politics has revolved around this question since our country's birth. What is the relationship between parties

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    Essay Length: 1,750 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2010
  • Beauty Kills.

    Beauty Kills.

    "Beauty Kills" In the 1920s, the flapper look was in with the slender, sophisticated, flattened breasts. 1950s Marilyn Monroe was portrayed as the sex goddess because her body was voluptuous and curvy now it's the opposite media states she was FAT, society's famous 3 letter word. 1960s, we experienced the Twiggy era taken from the word Twig; Twiggy was 97 lbs 5'8" this was the launch of the anorexic look. In 1990s the supermodel for

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    Essay Length: 1,305 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2010
  • Truth And Beauty Essay

    Truth And Beauty Essay

    The novel Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett, is built around the basis of friendship; however, this friendship is an extremely unique one. It is comprised of two writers who are completely different, and yet they are able to maintain their relationship despite the plight they encounter. They have compassion for one another, they empathize with each other, they trust each other for the most part, are usually honest with each other, and love each

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    Essay Length: 590 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2010
  • Power Of Youth And Beauty

    Power Of Youth And Beauty

    Darsielle Hayes 2/2/06 Eng 202B Power of Youth and Beauty Some say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Others say that it(beauty) is only skin deep. A person that is considered to have overwhelming beauty can commit a heinous crime and be forgiven because they have such beauty. In a society that puts beauty on a pedestal, youth and physical attractiveness become valuable possessions. Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian

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    Essay Length: 1,882 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2010
  • Out Of My Mind

    Out Of My Mind

    Throughout history people have always seemed to follow what notions that were considered cool. Though I doubt that cool was the word used to describe these notions, they were still in some form or another. One of the greatest farces ever committed in the name of these popular perceptions was medicine. At one time, medicine seems to have always involved some sort of harmful chemical: not to mention that the majority of doctors were men.

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    Essay Length: 590 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2010
  • Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map Of Civilization On The Mind Of The Enlightenment.

    Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map Of Civilization On The Mind Of The Enlightenment.

    Larry Wolff. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. xiv + 419 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-804-72314-1. Reviewed by Thomas J. Hegarty, University of Tampa. Published by HABSBURG (July, 1995) In a book based on an extraordinarily rich array of fascinating sources, including eighteenthcentury Western European travelers’ accounts of trips to Eastern Europe, maps and atlases drawn at the

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    Essay Length: 1,879 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2010
  • A Beautiful Tale Of First Love

    A Beautiful Tale Of First Love

    Once upon a time there was a girl who lived isolated up on the mountains her friends were nature and all the small animals she encountered like birds squirrel s deers rabbits. And even bears who she seem not to be afraid of and they seem to come to herwhehnever she was around. She had a cheerful desposition. Always with a smile that lit up her face and a tune to her lips a soft

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    Essay Length: 1,136 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2010
  • Beautiful Piety

    Beautiful Piety

    Gerard Manley Hopkins was a meticulous man who became a Jesuit priest and worked hard at spreading his faith in Roman Catholicism. Hopkins was acknowledged for his religious themes as well as his unique poetic techniques. Hopkins's poems consisted of what he called `sprung rhythm' as well as assonance, alliteration, and internal rhyme. Hopkins often resembled Romantic poets with his affection for nature and aim for individuality. With his strongly distinct language and eccentric forms,

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    Essay Length: 1,972 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2010
  • Modern Beauty

    Modern Beauty

    Before, grooming and anything to do with beauty care was exclusively attributed to women. They were the ones who got manicures, used creams, waxed, exfoliated, wore perfumes and even chose clothes that accentuated their figures in the best possible way and for every daily occasion, followed trends and fashion magazines for tips and even created fashion icons of “perfect women” such as Jackie Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe. Later, men started doing this sort of thing,

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    Essay Length: 292 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2010
  • American Beauty

    American Beauty

    Films are influential in our contemporary society, as they can present certain values that reflect society. Films either re-enforce particular values that we as viewers believe are important in society; or they challenge the values that we believe in. American Beauty is set in an upper middleclass white neighbourhood. The film revolves around Lester Burnham, a man who is struggling in an emotionally vacuumed marriage and living a predictable and tedious life. American Beauty both

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    Essay Length: 1,233 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2010
  • Hymm To Beauty

    Hymm To Beauty

    HYMM TO BEAUTY In the first four lines of the poem, Charles Baudelaire is questioning if beauty is heavenly or demon like. This poem is showing that beauty can be just as horrible as it is wonderful. In the last part of the first stanza, beauty is compared to the effect of wine. Drinking to much wine can put a negative or positive effect on you. Again, he is referencing beauty can be good

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    Essay Length: 515 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2010
  • Beauty

    Beauty

    Someone famous once said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Maybe he wasn't famous. Maybe "he" wasn't even a he; or perhaps, this statement is simply innate and widely accepted. Webster identifies beauty as being merely "good looks" or "the quality of being very pleasing". As Webster may have mastered a portion of the definition, I believe beauty delves much deeper than solely skin deep. Although it is eminent to find beauty in

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2010

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