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The Tragic Challenger Explosion

Space Travel. It is a sense of national pride for many Americans. If you ask anyone who was alive at the time, they could probably tell you exactly where they were when they heard that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon. But all of the success in our space programs is ...

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Rabbit, Run Happy Endings

There is something extraordinarily powerful about the euphoria associated with happiness. What causes this and where does it come from? Some say it has to do with a completeness in one's self, a sense of well being and understanding. It also comes from living for the present, and living for the ...

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Where Are You Going Where Have

The story "Where are you going? Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, is about a young girl who was going threw a point in her life where she felt that her mother did not understand her. She felt that she could do no right in her others eyes. To make matters worse her mother was constantly ...

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen, Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy ...

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Louise Brooks

“There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only !” The flapper’s icon, was a talented silent film star of the Jazz Age. Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenon of the flapper era. Her trademark haircut, the “black helmet” was worn by ...

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Fried Green Tomatoes

At The Whistle Stop Café “HER ORIGINAL NAME was Patricia Neal”(Reynolds1), but the author of is better known under the alias: Fannie Flagg. In the novel she uniquely compares the modern day world to the world in the early and the middle 1900’s. As the novel shifts from the 1930’s to the ...

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Bless Me Ultima 2

Children believe what their parents tell them but as they get older they start to question that which used to be unquestionable. Bless Me, Ultima is a novel by Rudolfo Anaya about a young Chicano boy, Antonio Juan Marez y Luna, who is growing up and seeing the world for how cruel it really is. A ...

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Ethan Frome

For teenagers every problem (no matter how big or small) is a big deal. If they have too much homework, and can’t make it to the basketball game to hang out with their friends, it’s just not fair. When the boy or girl they’ve been infatuated with says they’re going to call, and never does, ...

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Oedipus The Irony

In Sophocles's Oedipus The King, Oedipus's life was set for him. He learned through the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, that during the span of his lifetime that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He was obviously concerned by this. Laius also received the same Oracle from Apollo. ...

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The Fires Of Jubilee

This book by Stephen B. Oates describes a sad and tragic story about a man named Nat Turner who was born into slavery and his fight to be free. Ironically, his willingness to do anything, even kill, to gain his freedom leads to his own demise. From the title of this book, “,” a ...

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Early Western Civilization, Egyptian Tomb

Egyptologists had lost interest in the site of tomb 5, which had been explored and looted decades ago. Therefore, they wanted to give way to a parking lot. However, no one would have ever known the treasure that lay only 200 ft. from King Tut's resting place which was beyond a few rubble strewn ...

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Why To Adopt

There are more than 143 million orphans in this world. Especially countries like China, Russia and India have a lot of poor, abused but most of all rejected children or babies without a family. India alone has more than 11 million rejected children living alone on the streets. As a comparison ...

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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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The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner The setting in the story takes place in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States from 1975 until the present day. The main character and protagonist in the story is Amir. Amir tells us about the unique relationship he has with Hassan, a Hazara boy. In The Kite Runner, ...

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BCS Vs Playoffs

The BCS system was created in 1998 because of the split National Championship. The BCS was made to ensure that a true champion of college football was crowned by using a system of ranking tams 1-25 and having the 1 and 2 teams play for the champion title. Recently there has been much controversy ...

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Nanjing Rape

When World War II broke out, on September 1st, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the German Army, there had already been a war going on in China for almost two years. Most know of the war crimes committed by Nazi’s during the war and many know of the war crimes trials that took place once the ...

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First Orchestra Experience

Clayton Russell Proffesor Sara McClure Music 110 May 9th I went to The Kimmel Center this evening, inside was the Verizon Hall where the show was held. The composer was Milan-born conductor Gianandrea Noseda, tonight was his Philadelphia Orchestra debut, he is music director of the Teatro ...

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Love

Sixbillionsecrets.com I love you, but I'll never have a chance with you. You're the friendly, positive, guy who everyone loves...and I'm the depressed, shy girl. Ever since I saw you on the first day of high school, I knew you were perfect. Please, just give me a chance, you'll love me back. I ...

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History Of The Drums

The Cow and the Clothes One fine day in Africa, I got a message from a man saying that I had to go to south with some clothes. I packed the clothes and my things and set out on my five day journey. I was going to try to sleep in a village every night. I traveled and traveled, talking to my-self ...

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Arete

Arete! "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you ever can." (Wesley). This quote is something that I live my life by every single day. The first sentence is my ...

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