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  • Animal Dreams

    Animal Dreams

    For many, true self-discovery takes a lifetime to achieve. In Barbara Kingsolver's novel, Animal Dreams, main character Codi Noline locates the individual masked beneath her various facades. Through flashbacks and narration shifts, the story of a bright and rebellious girl's exodus and eventual return to her constrictive hometown, where she copes with the deaths of her controlling, intransigent and disdainful father and adored sister Hallie. At first, Codi is unable to prescribe a personality or

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2010
  • Analysis Of Dream Deferred

    Analysis Of Dream Deferred

    Today's driving force in America is dreams. Each and every individual has a dream. Though everyone has a dream, there are obviously struggles and tribulations accomplishing the dream. This poem, "Dream Deferred," by Langston Hughes, is only one expression of many dreams. As an African American, living in a time when blacks are thought to be an inferior minority group, dreams and goals are difficult to realize. Hughes pertinently expresses his frustrations in his poem

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    Essay Length: 351 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2010
  • Midsummer Nights Dream Review

    Midsummer Nights Dream Review

    U of T holds a witty and daring performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Harthouse Theatre. The directors of this play chose to change the setting from Athens, Greece to Athens, Canada around the time of British colonization. Some viewers prefered the setting to stay the same, but I personally enjoyed it the way it was. The setting did not change the storyline at all. It made viewers learn and understand more about

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    Essay Length: 455 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2010
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper (With Cited)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper (With Cited)

    The play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, is about four lovers and their "dreamlike" adventure through a fairy ruled forest. There are many different characters in this play and they each play their own individual role in how the play is performed and read. Three main characters that showed great characteristics are: Puck, Tom Bottom, and Helena. The play, "A Midsummer Nights Dream" by William Shakespeare, uses characters and their conflicts to give

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    Essay Length: 1,126 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2010
  • Trampled Dreams

    Trampled Dreams

    Trampled Dreams Tennessee William's, The Glass Menagerie, tells the stories of three characters, their aspirations and goals, the challenges they strive to overcome, and the upsets that they are forced to confront. The play opens with a gentleman standing in a poorly lit alley wearing all dark clothing. The faint sounds of a train passing through can be heard in the background. As the train fades away, the sounds from Tom Wingfield’s footsteps can be

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    Essay Length: 2,467 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2010
  • Affect

    Affect

    "The armed forces are for you". "Join the armed forces". "Fight for your country". These are the slogans that today's youth hear and see all over the media. They hear nothing but the positive aspects of the armed forces. They never stop to think what kind of life that soldier lives when he/she returns home after their time served. American soldiers or soldiers in general are considered to be heroes. They put their lives on

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    Essay Length: 1,598 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2010
  • Gatsby And The American Dream

    Gatsby And The American Dream

    In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American Dream represents a climb from rags to riches while enjoying love, wealth, and high social status; however, this is never enough, as the dreamer will always desire for more. Only a certain few, the elite upper class, are able to obtain this dream. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby fails to achieve the American Dream because of his inability

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    Essay Length: 670 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2010
  • The American Dream

    The American Dream

    As of 2007 about 21,000,000 people live within the United States of America as illegal immigrants. On top of that about 650,000 of those illegal immigrants are also wanted fugitives in their native lands ("Illegal Immigration"). These are the type of statistics that continue to put America in the position as the ultimate place to live to further improve living conditions of others. Now some may ask what exactly is this dream you speak

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    Essay Length: 1,104 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2010
  • Prejudice Affecting Our Societies

    Prejudice Affecting Our Societies

    Prejudices Affecting Our Society In our society, we are able to witness how our prejudices can affect the way people live. At times, there are people who come forward and confront the injustice in our lives and try helping the victims. However, there are numerous occasions were we fail to confront the prejudice, and take no notice of the consequences that may result; this is evident in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird where the

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    Essay Length: 1,880 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2010
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nick Bottom In a Mid Summer Night's Dream, the character Nick Bottom is given a rather prominent role in the several scenes he appears in, although he is not a lead character in the play. Bottom is unique from all the other characters of the play not only because of the considerable contribution his character brings to the comedic value of the play, but because he is the only character able

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    Essay Length: 1,430 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2010
  • Dreams

    Dreams

    Epistemology is basically the study of how we know things or how we obtain knowledge of something to justify it. There are many ways to obtain this knowledge. One way is to compare your perspective to others whom have tried to justify their own beliefs. We demonstarted this in class when we gave our perspective on love, and compared our results with that of Robert burns ( who wrote a love poem, The Red, Red

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    Essay Length: 510 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2010
  • The Great Gatsby And The American Dream

    The Great Gatsby And The American Dream

    In the United States' Declaration of Independence, our founding fathers "Ð'...held certain truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." This sentiment can be considered the foundation of the American Dream, the dream that everyone has the ability to become what he or she desires to be. While many people work

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    Essay Length: 1,407 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2010
  • Love Theme In A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Love Theme In A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Alison Borghi 15 October 2007 Love Stinks "The course of true love never did run smooth" perfectly describes one of A Midsummer Night's Dream's major themes - the difficulty of love (Shakespeare I.i.134). Though the play is filled with romantic conflict, the tone remains so lighthearted that the audience never questions the certainty of a happy ending. A Midsummer Night's Dream discusses the issues of unbalanced love, unsentimental marriage, and love vs. reason. Almost everyone

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    Submitted: December 30, 2010
  • Will The Smoking Ban Will Affect Young Adults

    Will The Smoking Ban Will Affect Young Adults

    Introduction The issue that I will be looking at is if the smoking ban will affect young adults (ages 21 and under behaviour) when it comes to going out. I plan to find out if the ban will discourage people from going out or encourage them because of the ban. The reason that I am conducting this research is because it is an interesting subject to me which means that I will stay motivated thought

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    Essay Length: 4,468 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2010
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream

    A Midsummer Nights Dream

    A Midsummer Nights Dream, by William Shakespeare is a play about love, fantasy, and magic. In a passage in Act I scene i, Hermia has just refused to marry Demetrius, going against her fathers demands. This enrages her father, so her father brings her to Theseus, where the passage begins with Theseus telling Hermia that she must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In this passage, Shakespeare conveys the idea that people are often inconsiderate

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    Submitted: December 31, 2010
  • A Dream Worth Dreaming

    A Dream Worth Dreaming

    A Dream Worth Dreaming Although to the casual reader The Great Gatsby may only appear as a poetic muse on the seemingly endless rollercoaster that is love, if one plunges deeper into this novel it is easily discovered that not only is this the quintessential grail quest but it is quite plainly a search for the American dream. Gatsby plays a duel role in this piece of American history; he is both the Holy Crusader,

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    Submitted: December 31, 2010
  • Character Sketch Of The Narrator In "Was It A Dream?" By Guy De Maupassant

    Character Sketch Of The Narrator In "Was It A Dream?" By Guy De Maupassant

    Character Sketch of the Narrator in "Was it a Dream?" By Guy de Maupassant In the first paragraph alone, many important aspects of the narrator's character are revealed. It is revealed to the reader that the narrator was in love and is grieving for the woman he loved. It is also in the first paragraph where the major conflict is revealed. The major conflict, in which the narrator is involved, is his own torment from

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    Essay Length: 621 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2011
  • A Dream Ruined, Blindness Appreciated

    A Dream Ruined, Blindness Appreciated

    Nick Carraway has never been able to understand Jay Gatsby throughout the three months he acquainted himself with him. Aside from being the partial narrator of the story, he was also, reluctantly, the final judge of each character of the novel, especially Gatsby. Apparently, as quoted in Chapter 1, NickÐ'ÐŽÐ'Їs final judgement of Gatsby -Ð'ÐŽÐ'oNo-Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake

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    Essay Length: 658 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2011
  • Fishing For Dreams

    Fishing For Dreams

    An Introduction A Brief History A young boy fishing in a pool of dreams that is the image and/or logo we see when we watch the latest production from DreamWorks. DreamWorks LLC, a publicly traded American film company, was founded in late 1994. Founders are media frontrunners Jeffery Katzenberg, formally the top manager of Disney's animated unit and responsible for such hits as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King,

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    Essay Length: 1,273 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2011
  • Mlk Analysis Dream Speech

    Mlk Analysis Dream Speech

    Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream" delivered on August 28, 1963 is said to be the greatest demonstration of America's history. Dr. King intended to appeal to both black and white audiences through his inspirational speech. Written in a persuasive, stylistic manner, he used strong diction to call for a change in the nation, doing so without violence. He successfully combined the use of repetition, word choice and figurative language in his speech

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    Essay Length: 1,055 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2011
  • Advertising In The Dream Society

    Advertising In The Dream Society

    Advertising in the Dream Society Brompton Bicycle is a company that sells foldable bicycles, since our assignment consists of making a basic advertisement for the company we will discuss the various factors which are to be taken into consideration when making such an advertisement. We'd like to start with our target group, but first we have to point out that the foldable bicycles main features are its light weight and the possibility to fold it

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    Submitted: January 2, 2011
  • Macro-Economic Factors Affecting Mutual Funds In India

    Macro-Economic Factors Affecting Mutual Funds In India

    Abstract A mutual fund is a form of collective investment that pools money from investors and invests the money in stocks, bonds, short-term money-market instruments, and/or other securities. The portfolio manager trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing a gain or loss, and collects the dividend or interest income. The investment proceeds are then passed on to the individual investors. The rationale behind a mutual fund is that there are large number of investors who lack

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    Submitted: January 3, 2011
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    The book Bone is a glance at the lives of a Chinese-American family living in Chinatown, and trying to just make it. Mah, Leila’s mother, left her home of China in pursuit of the elusive “American dream” and came up short. The book Bone by Fae Myenne Ng attempts to communicate that the so called “American dream” is impossible to attain and that one has to make his or her own dream happen. No one

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    Essay Length: 706 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2011
  • How Stereotypes Affect Society

    How Stereotypes Affect Society

    In this world there are many things people are guilty of, one of those guilt’s is stereotyping others , even if it wasn’t meant in a harmful are negative way we all have been a victim or the aggressor . This paper will discuses what stereotypes are, how they affect people and how stereotypes can affect society. However, the common factor in either situation is that no good comes from stereotyping others. All most everyone

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    Essay Length: 1,009 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2011
  • American Dream In The Great Gatsby

    American Dream In The Great Gatsby

    Work Log #3 The American Dream is a subjective term commonly implying a fulfillment of success and satisfaction in one’s life. F. Scott Fitzgerald, composer of the text The Great Gatsby, utilizes one of the main characters, Jay Gatsby, to provide the reader with a more defined and insightful perspective of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby is a character inclined to achieve the American Dream, motivated by pursuing factors of wealth, social class, and love,

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    Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2011

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