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Open Mind Essays and Term Papers
A Crime In The NeighborhoodIt was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste
of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants
traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another’s cookout, was
rocked by ...
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Aristophanes Views On LoveIn the Symposium, a most interesting view on love and soul mates are provided by one of the characters, Aristophanes. In the speech of Aristophanes, he says that there is basically a type of love that connects people. Aristophanes begins his description of love by telling the tale of how love ...
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From Noble Macbeth To This Dead ButcherPeople of Shakespear's time are often thought of as Elizabethans but in fact Macbeth was written when Queen Elizabeth was on her deathbed and had appointed James the VI of Scotland her successor.Shakespeare wrote the play with this new king in mind. The basic story of Macbeth follows that of the ...
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Genetic Engineering, History And FutureAltering the Face of Science
Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to computer. But science, in the past, has ...
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Gary Soto's Like Mexicans: Personal ExperiencesMy decision to write in response to Gary Soto's work, “Like Mexicans”
was influenced for the most part because of the similarities between myself and
Gary Soto, and our families included. Gary Soto is a Mexican American male, who
grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in the industrial part of a town ...
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Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne was a truly outstanding author. His detailed descriptions and imagery will surely keep people interested in reading The for years to come. In writing this book he used themes evident throughout the entirety of the novel. These themes are illustrated in what happens to the ...
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Justify The Knowledge Or It Will be Taught in Vain
If you were to ask a teenager today if he or she would rather study or watch television, what do you think the answer would be? From what I have seen in myself when I was a teenager and in almost everyone that I meet, nobody would rather study. Today's fast food culture has ...
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The Stranger: Quote Analysis ExpansionNever the less I answered that I had pretty much lost the habit of analyzing myself and that it would be hard for me to tell him what he wanted to know. I probably did love Maman, but that didn’t mean anything. At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead. ...
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The Chosen By Chaim PotokA. Plot Summary
is set in the 1940\'s neighborhood of Brooklyn in Williamsburg. Two boys who live a few blocks from each other but in totally different environments forge a unique relationship. Reuven Malter, the son of an Orthodox Jewish scholar, and Danny Saunders, the brilliant son of a ...
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An Introduction To GreekdomI was first introduced to the black greek system by my cousins, both of whom are members of my fraternity. I remember being about 7 or 8 years old and one of my cousins had just finished pledging. He had a paddle in the corner of his room with all of his information on it (date and time of ...
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Heart Of Darkness - RacismChinua Achebe, a well-known writer, once gave a lecture at the University of Massachusetts about Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, entitled "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Throughout his essay, Achebe notes how Conrad used Africa as a background only, and how he "set ...
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A Doll's House: Role Of Women As The Comforter"A Doll's House" is classified under the "second phase" of Henrik
Ibsen's career. It was during this period which he made the transition
from mythical and historical dramas to plays dealing with social problems.
It was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life.
Written ...
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I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" By: Maya Angelou § When I started reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, I thought that it was a little boring at first but I thought that it was about a young African-American girl who tells her troubles in life as she grows up. § I changed my mind about my ...
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Taming Of The ShrewFor the sixteenth century "The " was extremely controversial. It portrays an independent young woman who falls in love with the only man she does not scare. For women to voice such strong opinions was considered extremely crude. Today we recognize it as wrong to stop anyone— regardless ...
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Personal Writing: A Schoolyard Lesson"Get up, get up you have school today," my mother blurted out, as I
fell out of bed. I stood up and waddled to the bathroom. Looking into the
mirror I smiled to myself; I knew today was going to be just fine. My
family and I had just moved from Guatemala, and today was to be my first
day at ...
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USSR: The Doomed EmpireIntroduction:
The 1940's and the next four decades after, were a time of bitter
struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. National identity as well as
ideological differences brought both countries to the brink of nuclear war, a
revolutionary style of warfare causing the most ...
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Shooting An ElephantThe story that my evaluation will be based on is written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a ...
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My Antonia: A ReviewMy Antonia has been called nostalgic and elegiac because it
celebrates the past. The inscription on the title page of My Antonia is a
quotation from Virgil: "Optima dies... prima fugit." This sentence, meaning
"the best days are first to flee", helps incorporate all the elements of
the novel I ...
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Maya Angelou - Tragedy To TriuMaya Angelou is a very triumphant woman. She has written many books and poems that have given her great success. If one would talk to her, he or she would think she has lead a normal, happy life. Her life is blissful now, but it wasn’t always perfect. Maya Angelou’s sorrowful life experiences ...
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