Open Mind Essays and Term Papers
A Pro-Choice ArgumentIn the battle for and against abortion rights, I take the position of pro-choice. I believe that a woman should have the right to govern what she does with her body. When faced with the decision, however, I do not know whether or not I could terminate my pregnancy. This is the way most people ...
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Causes Of World War IThe First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not
yet discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes
than what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the
assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of
Austria-Hungary, and ...
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Margaret Atwoods Surfacing - AMargaret Atwood's Surfacing is an intensely symbolic novel about an artist whose weekend trip home to search for her missing father turns into a journey of self discovery. The main character in the story is also the narrator and is not given a name probably because readers will be able to ...
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Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The AmericanAmerica has been a country of immigrants since Europeans first settled it over five hundred years ago. America has always faced the problem of assimilation, a challenge faced by every country with a considerable immigrant population. Because immigrants founded America, her culture is a combination ...
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German World Of Disappointment“The ” From the youngest child to the oldest man, everyone has experienced the unpleasant feeling of disappointment. Everyone has been to a place that was not all that they anticipated it to be. No one can say that someone has never somehow let them down. At one point or another, everyone has been ...
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Brave New World Vs. Modern SocAlthough the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was written more than
60 years ago, its subject has become more popular since most of the
technologies described in the book have, at least, partially, become a reality.
Huxley's community of Utopia is a futuristic society designed by ...
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AlchemyThe science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in ...
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Virginia WoolfThere are many authors who have the ability to be one of the greatest writers of all time, but to my knowledge of books I believe the majority I read are excellent. to many, is a prominent writer. I wish I could say the same as well. I can not judge her writing for I have just began to study ...
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The Power And The Glory"The roof couldn't keep out this rain." (p. 152)
"Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill. An animal never knows despair."
-Graham Greene, "" (p. 141)
In Graham Greene's , setting is essential in understanding the spiritual conquest of the main character. The story takes place ...
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The African Queen Summary Char"The African Queen" is the tale of two companions with different personalities who develop
an untrustworthy love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. They struggle against the climate, the river, the bugs, the Germans and, most of all, against each ...
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Computer CrimesIt's the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on
your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with
your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button
press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start ...
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HeroinIt was a sunny June morning in 1996. Jimmy Chaimberlin walked into Jonathan Melvoin’s hotel room. He found him lying unconscious in his bed and rushed to dial 911. Despite his quick reaction, when the paramedics arrived, they pronounced Melvoin dead at 4:00 a.m. on June 20, 1996. This is just one ...
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Treatment And The Sex Offenderby Brent M. Pergram, Masters of Arts in Sociology
The Martinson Report of the early 1970’s, said that rehabilitative efforts or treatment programs in general had failed to reduce recidivism. The Report led those in control of government and the criminal justice system to say that rehabilitation ...
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I Want To BelieveIntroduction Ever since US Air Force Pilot Kenneth Arnold coined the term Flying Saucer, on 24th June 1947, after allegedly encountering nine disk shaped objects while out flying over the Cascade Mountains, the world wide sightings of such objects, has increased logarithmically. By 1957 the furor ...
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Hemingways Hills Like White El“Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway
In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” the two main characters, Jig and the unnamed American man, are at a train station in Spain trying to decide whether or not they (actually just Jig) should go through ...
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Mothers And Daughters RelationshipsBeauty, is it in the eye of the beholder? For many people beauty is an image that society has constructed and manipulated. For a long time society has influenced our views of beauty. Television and magazines have created the “Perfect” image of a woman. This perfect woman image consists of a ...
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HypnosisThe British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has
called it "a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may
be induced by another person," (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is
still much about that is not understood. Because it resembles ...
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What Is Euthanasia?Euthanasia is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as "the action of
killing an individual for reasons considered to be merciful" (469). Here,
killing is described as the physical action where one individual actively
kills another. Euthanasia is tolerated in the medical field under ...
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Art CensorshipOriginally, when the question of was first addressed I was quite ambivalent about my position. I felt indecisive because on one hand I feel that there should be freedom of speech yet, on the other hand I'm against promoting anti- Semitism. I felt torn between two worlds. Then I began to ...
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Ordinary Peopleby Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional family who relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or prevent anxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth ...
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