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Holocaust Humor: Hurtful or Helpful

"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.” -Mark Twain Humor within the Holocaust consistently raises debates based on the morality and respect. Do works that evoke any emotion other than sorrow or remorse discredit the event or the lives lost? Or does it deserve a spot within ...

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Courtly Love, Platonic Love, and Carnal Lust: Changing Love Conventions in Sonnets

Courtly Love, Platonic Love, and Carnal Lust: Changing Love Conventions in Sonnets Throughout the shift in culture and society throughout time, people have perceived love in many different ways. Due to the ever-changing perception of love and its importance in all levels of society, the love ...

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Roles Of Women In Africa

The perspective given from the book Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, states the way of life without any favoritism towards any particular way of life. Achebe affirmed that lifestyle as a native would void any outside influences. In this case, the male narration focuses not only of the tragedy ...

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Who am I?

Her name is Jane. She is a petite brunette with a giant personality. One of the most adoring people you will meet. She is from the borough of Brooklyn, where she grew up and loves to be. It his her home, her whole life has gone through a series of events, some great and some tragic. But these ...

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Creon Transfiguration

Antigone, which was written by Sophocles, is possibly the first written play that still exists today (www.imagi... 1). There is much controversy between who the 'tragic hero' is in the play. Some people say Antigone, some say Creon, others even say Heamon. I believe Creon displays all of the ...

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The Self vs. Society: The Over Man

Nosheen Syeda Self & Society: CORC 1309 February 23rd, 2011 The Self vs. Society: the Over man Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most prevailing philosophers of the nineteenth century; however, he was not prominent at the time. During the growing ages of science, Nietzsche described his ...

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Lady Macbeth

The play Macbeth is well known for its abundant use of imagery. Imagery is used for numerous reasons such as to convey certain visions to the audience and to give life to the play. One major use of imagery can be seen with the character of Lady Macbeth. Her characterization is strongly dependent ...

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A Brief History of African Music through The Colonial Period

Music before the 20th century was very different when compared to the music of the 21st Century. There were distinctive occasions for each type of African music. West African music, the African Diaspora, and the music of the Colonies each had different musical instruments. West African music ...

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Children

There is nothing like the way you feel when u are in purpose , it is soo much greater than the feeling of cold coca cola rushing down ur throat on a very hot, sunny and NEPAless day ! Much more than hot pepper soup when you are in bed with the “flu” on one of those annoyingly wet days! Finding ...

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Brighton Rock: Pinkie A Powerful Character

A novel which is influenced by the presence of a powerful character is ‘Brighton Rock’ by Graeme Greene. The character of Pinkie is a powerful character who, at rare points, the reader feels slight sympathy for, and Greene effectively creates the sense of power through characterisation and ...

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Barn Burning Critical Essay

Barn Burning by William Faulkner In the beginning of this story we see the general store was turned into a court room where the Justice of the Peace is sitting at the table. In the back of the room we find a young boy, Colonel Sartoris “Sarty” Snopes, crouched on a nail keg hoping he will not ...

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Resolved in Fiction

Escape to Fantasy In Shakespeare’s As You Like It and in Dante’s The Divine Comedy, we encounter two distinctly degraded community’s that are respectively situated in the human life and in the afterlife. By examining the process wherein an individual reestablishes a sense of community formation ...

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Technology: The Key to our Future

“There are over 1 billion internet users worldwide; that's 20% of the world’s population” (Clement). The internet was just the first step that led to all of the advances in technology. Technology has progressed from computers large enough to fill an entire room, to a hand held device. iPhones, ...

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“Gilgamesh’s Search for and Failure to Achieve Immortality”

As I was reading the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, I found myself thinking of how painful the loss of a good friend (brother in this case) can or must be, and how nice it would be to have immortality, if only to spend more time with those whom we love. But as we all know this is not possible, so ...

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Children's Blizzard

The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin is an intense story of hardships and the rough life on the American frontier. This book describes the pioneers’ journey to the prairie in search of a new life and a bountiful, rich new beginning. The traveler’s soon find out that the rumors are not all what ...

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Little Miss Underdog

Olive is an eccentric seven-year-old girl from the suburbs of Albuquerque, New Mexico whose dream is to be a beauty pageant queen. The only thing is that she is just an average girl; she wears glasses and is not up to beauty pageant standards. Throughout the movie, Olive is the happy member of her ...

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Learning the hard way: The excitement and regret of experiencing war as a child.

Learning the hard way: The excitement and regret of experiencing war as a child. “War is delightful to those who have no experience of it.” --Erastus As a child I had wanted to do things, go places, and gain experiences: one of which was to experience war. I loved war so much that, I wonder ...

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Description Of Victorian Age

A Description of Victorian Age In "England and the Nineteenth Century," David Thompson describes the Victorian Age as "one of strenuous activity and dynamic change, of ferment of ideas and recurrent social unrest, of great inventiveness and expansion." ("The Victorian Age," The Norton Anthology ...

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Blue Eyes

ABSTRACT Is it possible to create a computer, which can interact with us as we interact each other? For example imagine in a fine morning you walk on to your computer room and switch on your computer, and then it tells you “Hey friend, good morning you seem to be a bad mood today. And then it ...

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Constantine’s Struggle with Himself and His Empire

Sincere people are always a joy to be around, because you do not feel like you have to protect yourself in their presence, unless you were in the presence of the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was unpredictable in his display of sincerity and humanitarian actions. As Roman Emperor, Constantine ...

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