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Oedipus Rex

In the story of , Sophocles portrays the main character, Oedipus, as a good natured person that has bad judgment and frailty. Oedipus makes a few bad decisions and is condemned to profound suffering because of his pride. I agree with Aristotle that he brings it all on to himself because of his ...

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The Adventures And Maturing Of Huckleberry Finn

"My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired." Mark Twain uses these words to help create the character of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses dialogue and dialects to show the reader the adventures of a young, rambunctious boy. Huck paints pictures for his readers with his ...

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Parental Pressure Within High School Students

I. I became interested in this topic because my entire academic life has been filled with pressure from my parents. This pressure was mainly in school and grades, and in high school, the amount of pressure increased dramatically. This is because my parents now realized that everything in high ...

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Pro_choice Among Women

E-mail: fastlanedriver@ureach.com An onlookers view of Pro Choice amongst women Many clinics provide abortion services for women with unplanned or uncontrollable pregnancies. Some women find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy rather than an uncontrollable one. Unplanned in fact that a ...

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Personal Essay: Prejudice

I. BACKGROUND The location was a moderate to large size city near the east coast of Massachusetts. The city has a mix of all races and is diverse in its racial distribution. It is a city where most of the people are middle class working folks. While it is a moderate size city, it has few city ...

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The Micmac V.S. The Iroquois

Although the Micmac and the Iroquois Confederacy are both Aboriginal groups, they have many differences as well as similarities. One area of such, is their traditional justice systems. Their governments and laws are in some ways similar, but in many ways different. The Micmac reside in what is ...

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Reaching Up For Manhood

Under-privileged, African-American boys are more prevalent in today's society than the typical person would like to recognize or admit. These boys seem to be faced with an ideal in which they need to follow or conform to as any and all cultures have. However, the problem is that for these boys, ...

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Fahrenheit 451

Life may be confusing to you when your job is to commit arson to any house that has a book in it. At least that's the way it was for Guy Montag. Guy Montag was a fireman and in the future, a firefighters job wasn't to stop fires, but it was actually to start them. In the future, books were ...

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Freedom

State of Nature To trigger off any philosophy on what should be the characteristics of the state we must first imagine living in a state of nature (living with the lack of a state). Since we cannot trace back to any time that we've been without government, we must imagine what it would be like in ...

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Civil War Journal

Dear Journal, August 2, 1863 With Dixie in my heart, today is the day that South Carolina recruited me for this war. I must soon be ready to go to the regiment I was assigned to. I am in the 3rd Infantry Regiment of South Carolina. I would rather have been in the cavalry since, the ...

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The Catcher In The Rye: A Classic

There are many necessary components that make up a classic novel. Although it may be a matter of opinion, to consider a novel a classic, there are certain standards it must follow. "The Catcher in the Rye" should be considered a classic because of the style of writing J.D. Salinger uses, his use ...

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Anorexia And Bulimia Nervosa

"When she was fourteen, a modeling agency said that her face was too fat. It was a death sentence." (Toronto Sun, 1994) Sheena Carpenter died in November 1993. She was found on the kitchen floor of her apartment by her mother. She was twenty-two years old. . . and weighed only fifty pounds. Sheena ...

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Gangs

are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today's cities. What has made these groups come about? Why do kids feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable and prestigious way to live? The long range answer to these questions can only be speculated upon, but in the short term ...

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Daddy By Danielle Steele And A

The two books River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean are both stories where the main characters are male. The books deal with how a man reacts when he is presented with different situations. Oliver, the main character from Daddy, and Norman the main character from A River Runs Through It, are ...

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Flowers For Algernon

is a story about a failed scientific experiment. However, the radio play also deals with other issues such as love and friendship, medical ethics, tampering with human intelligence and the consequences, and conflict of interest. On one level is about a scientific experiment that goes wrong. ...

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1984

-George Orwell Summary Chapter 1 and 2 We are introduced to Winston Smith the main character of the story. Works at Ministry of truth. Ministry of truth is one of four government buildings in destroyed London, the main city of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania. Year is 1984 and three contries ...

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How Was the Underground Railroad Advertised?

The history of the Underground Railroad has many books and articles written about it and they even have a few personal diaries and letters of correspondence but the question we ask now over a hundred years later after slavery has been abolished. Was the Underground Railroad effectively advertised ...

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Genetic Engineering

It is a well-known fact that drugs and alcohol can damage the fetus. The drugs may damage chromosomes in the fetus, which may develop into a deformity, mental problems, or even addiction to the drug. It is also possible that a drug damaged the father's sperm cells, which damaged inversely damaged ...

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From Bodega Dreams

From Bodega Dreams most of the story about Mr. Blessington. He is the English teacher at Julia de Burgos junior high school. Most of the kids don’t like him at all. He always explains Robert Frost poems entire his English class. Mr. Blessington is white and thinks that he is doing favor by teaching ...

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Russian Revolution and Animal Farm

The Russian Revolution a very important period of time which too many was hope of freedom from a communist era. What people don’t always know or conclude is that the book Animal Farm makes references to the revolution. They think, what a book can tell me that I don’t already know. I think that ...

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