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Summary Essays and Term Papers
Spousal Abuseis not isolated acts of “conflict tactics” in a vacuum. A battered spouse is one who may be controlled and terrorized by a combination of abusive tactics, both directly physical and not. Abuse is not simply a black or white male or female “thing” or a poor or rich “thing.” Anybody can do it. ...
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Summary Of Nathaniel Hawthornes "The Scarlet Letter"The story takes place in the Puritan village of Boston, Massachusetts,
during the first half of the 17th Century. Several years before the novel
begins, Hester Prynne came to the New World to await the arrival of her
husband who had business to conclude in Europe. However, Hester's husband
was ...
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Oliver Twist: SummaryOliver Twist is born an orphan when his mother dies in the Parish Workhouse. Oliver is raised by parish charity, unloved, underfed, and overworked. When he was nine, he dared to ask for seconds at dinner one night in the parish workhouse. He was sold to Mr.Sowerberry, an undertaker, for his taking ...
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Ah, Woe Is MeA) Summary of The Story: In the beginning of this short story we are introduced
to Sarah, an aging black servant living in South Africa. She works hard for an
upper-class white family and spends all of her money on education for her three
children who are sent to a boarding school. They come home ...
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Deppression And TeensTeenage depression is a growing problem in today's society and is often a major contributing factor for a multitude of adolescent problems. The statistics about teenage runaways, alcoholism, drug problems, pregnancy, eating disorders, and suicide are alarming. Even more startling are the ...
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Summary Of Terkel's My American CenturyAfter I began reading the book My American Century by Studs Terkel,
I quickly became interested in reading further. At first, I thought it
would be a long boring book to have to read, but I soon was very anxious to
continue my reading. The reading that I personally enjoyed the most was
the one ...
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Fahrenheit 451Imagine a culture where books are prohibited, where the basic rights illustrated in the First Amendment hold no weight and society is merely a brainwashed, mechanical population. According to Ray Bradbury, the author of , this depiction is actually an exaggerated forecast for the American future ...
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THe Catcher In The Rye: SummaryThe Catcher in the Rye is a book by J. D. Salinger and the story of a boy named Holden Caufield. He is no longer innocent, but exposed to the world. Phoebe, Holden's sister, is the opposite she is quite the innocent, never really being exposed to the world outside her protective bubble. Holden ...
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Killer Angels 2Fabulous insight into the military mind, the minds of men, the minds of people dedicated to a cause greater than themselves. Michael Shaara gives us a dozen characters worth caring about from both armies, and then plunges them into one of the most terrible things in America's history the "Battle ...
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Dennis RodmanTitle: Bad As I Wanna Be
# of pages: 258
Setting:
The book takes place in Dallas, Texas where Dennis
Rodman lived while he was a kid, Detroit, Michigan where Dennis
Rodman played basketball for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio,
Texas where Dennis Rodman played basketball for the San ...
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Summary Of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath"Synopsis:
The Grapes of Wrath is a story about the Joad family and their 1800
mile journey to the supposedly job plentiful California. The family in the
beginning of the book were sharecroppers in Oklahoma and were soon thrown
off their land by the bank. There had been a long drought and the ...
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Fort Pillow AttackTHE GRAND FABRICATION
It is almost as difficult to find consistent information about the
incident at Fort Pillow as it is to determine the moral significance of
its outcome. Scholars disagree about exactly what transpired on April 12,
1864 at Fort Pillow, when General Nathan Bedford Forrest ...
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Summary Of 1984The story begins with Winston, the main character, coming back to
his apartment from his job at the Ministry of Truth. Winston¹s job was to
change recorded events, predictions made by the Party, and documents to
make then ³correct². In actuality his job was to falsify history to
whatever was in ...
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Sphere: SummaryThe Sphere is a novel about a huge vessel that is discovered in the
South Pacific on the ocean floor. A group of scientists descended to
investigate the mysterious discovery. The protagonists are the
scientists: Norman, Ellen, Captain Barnes, Dr. Johnson, Beth, Harry, and
Ted. The antagonist of ...
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Hamlet - Act 1 SummaryThe last couple days have been miserable for me. The sudden death of my father has complicated my whole life and is causing me much grief. As well, my girlfriend has apparently been forbidden to see me and I have no idea why.
My mother is being a jerk. She has remarried after only 2 months of my ...
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The Bluest Eye: SummaryToni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who reside in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s (where Morrison herself was born). This family consists of the mother Pauline, the father Cholly, the son Sammy, and the daughter Pecola. The novel's focal point is the ...
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
The two main characters of mes are Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. They are both complex characters in their own ways, though Holmes is more mysterious. This may be because Watson narrates the stories, so we can see what he thinks and feels. About Holmes we only see what Watson thinks of ...
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Combined Sewer Overflows In The Boston AreaAt the turn of the century, Boston had one of the most advanced sewer systems in the country. Through decades of neglect and a failure to truly update the system until the 1980's, the pollution in Boston Harbor became so bad that the harbor became a national embarrassment. The two sewer ...
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Zeinert's The Salem Witchcraft Trials: SummaryThe story takes place during the sixteen-nineties (1690's or early
colonial America). This was a time when superstition was well beleived and
it was quite frightening for most people.
The place where the events in question took place was in Salem, a town in
the colony of Massachusetts. Around ...
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Edgar Allen PoeMany authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the ...
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