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Exile Essays and Term Papers
Gao XingjianPlaywright, critic and novelist, Gao Xingjian is a prominent leader of the avant-garde movement in fiction and drama that began in the wake of the Cultural Revolution in China. “Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence (Xingjian 1).” Communist China tried to suppress Gao’s works ...
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ApolloApollo has a forbidding, brilliant, youthful presence; he is gazed at from a distance—majestic, stately, impressive. In him we 'know ourselves' from the distance we are from the gods, and from the difference of our mortal condition. There is a reason Apollo is noticed by his absence when Hector ...
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Rights Defenders with No RightsMany know about the holocaust and the Rwandan genocide but few see the violation of human rights towards rights defenders in Indonesia today. Intimidation, torture and murder have been frequently committed by the police, and military. Also these rights defenders have been labeled as terrorist and ...
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Oedipus versus CreonJohn Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, once said: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” (“Brainy Quotes”). In other words, when one can say that they have taken something positively useful from their ...
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Joseph Conrad“. . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone. . . .,”(Conrad 71). With this thought consuming verse, along ...
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Brothers And Keepers AnalysisCriminology can affect the mind in many different ways. Sometimes after being incriminated, you can actually go crazy. In Brothers and Keepers by J. E. Wideman, and young male goes through changes as he is incriminated of a serious crime. In my research, I plan on telling the story of what ...
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Shot Heard Around The World: JFKNovember 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas at 1:30 p.m. while traveling in an open top presidential motorcade with Texas governor John Conally (Wicker). He was pronounced dead at 2 p.m. of a fatal head wound caused by one of the bullets (Wicker). Lee Harvey Oswald, the ...
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Food and LiteratureDuring the 1600’s food affected literature and was reflected in the literary works of that time. Food was an important part of life during the 1600s. Not only did food keep people alive it also played an important part in shaping peoples lives. Food portrayed the status and origin of the people ...
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The Age of Absolutism: French RoyaltyThe Age of Absolutism: French Royalty
The French took royalist absolutism to staggering heights. Louis XIV proclaimed himself the “sun king” after rising to power, which highlighted the role of the king as the center of the social and political universe. The absolute monarchy of Louis XIV was, ...
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Literary Criticism on The Kite RunnerThe Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini can be seen as a great book but at the same time one that is too simple and easy. In discussions of The Kite Runner, one controversial issue has been the inner levels of the novel. On one hand, many people believe that the novel is filled with numerous ...
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Joseph StalinDBQ Essay
The rule of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union was to change Russia into a modern industrial power. He was able to accomplish this by modernizing the Russian economy with the 5-year plan. Stalin increased industrial production and set out to increase agricultural production with his ...
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Antigone: A Greek TragedyAntigone, the play, is a Greek tragedy written in 441 B.C. by Sophocles, one of the greatest tragedians in history. The majority of Greek tragedians in this epoch used Aristotle’s Chain of Cause and Effect to create a tragic hero, which is very much necessary to write a Greek tragedy. Aristotle’s ...
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ApologyApology
The Apology was the trial of Socrates in Athens, about 400 BC. ”. In the Apology is account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, and corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates' speech, however, is by no ...
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HamletHamlet is arguably the greatest dramatic character ever created. From the moment we meet the crestfallen prince we are enraptured by his elegant intensity. Shrouded in his inky cloak, Hamlet is a man of radical contradictions -- he is reckless yet cautious, courteous yet uncivil, tender yet ...
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Medea Character Analysis3) Offer an analysis of the character of Medea. What motivates her and why? How are we to understand the final moments of the play when she "gets away with" such unimaginable crimes?
Medea is the princess of Colchis and somewhat of a wife to Jason. Medea can be explained in four words, that ...
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The Tragic Demise of Olaf the Vampire HunterOlaf the vampire hunter trudged warily through the dense undergrowth of the forest in the gloom of the night. Olaf was a young, tenacious man with good skill in the dual silver shortswords that were sheathed on either side of his waist belt. He also carried various potions of condensed garlic and ...
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Fate Is A Many Splendored ThingIn every culture, there is some sort of belief or point of view on fate; it is often seen as a force that is both unbeatable and immeasurable. The hand of fate is usually inescapable and leads the bravest of soldiers or the most loved of kings to meet their doom, controlling everything that leads ...
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Essay on ImmigrationESSAY ON IMMIGRATION: PARADOXICAL IDENTITIES
Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama [1885-1951] sailed to San Francisco at the age of nineteen, where there was a growing community of Japanese immigrants. It was a period of intense discrimination and agitation against Asian, and particularly Japanese ...
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Joseph Stalin BiographyJoseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori in Russia on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a weakness for alcohol, who left Gori when Stalin was young. Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, raised him until he was old enough to attend the Tiflis ...
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The SpectatorI have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure 'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right Understanding of an Author. ...
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