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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Some argue that the day Lincoln was shot was the most dramatic thing to ever happen to this country. April 14, 1865 was the day, Ford Theater was the place, and John Wilkes Booth was the perpetrator. Jim Bishop, appropriately titled "The Day Lincoln Was Shot", has eloquently put
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The Day of the Locust Essay
Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust tells the story of people who have come to California in search of the American Dream. They travel west hoping to escape less than perfect lives and pursue success in Hollywood. The characters in this novel dream of a life of luxury, having
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The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Review
My novel 'The Day They Came To Arrest The Book' was based upon racism in the late 70's. An era which occurred before I existed. There are many movies and books depicting events from this time, some of which I have seen or read. I had always thought that
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The Deadly Man
there was this guy that died and the other guy died and stuff and the only reason im writing this is bcause i need my registration thing and it says i have to write a book thingy so i rather do this... u know what i mean thats good cause
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The Deadly Power of Medusa
The Deadly Power of Medusa This book tells about Perseus's voyage to capture the head of Medusa. It all started when King Acrisius went to see the oracle of Delphi and learned that his daughter, Danae, would have a son who would someday kill him. The king locked Dana in
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The Death of a Hired Man
One of the social issues dealt with in Ibsen's problem plays is the oppression of women by conventions limiting them to a domestic life. In Hedda Gabler the heroine struggles to satisfy her ambitious and independent intellect within the narrow role society allows her. Unable to be creative in the
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The Death of a Soul - the Glance of History
The Death of a Soul, The Glance of History And meet the time as it seeks us. Cymberline Before the preface, I saw the sentence adopted from ShakespeareЎЇs Cymberline . All of the sudden, a sense of seriousness and heaviness mounted up in my heart. I felt the authorЎЇs
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The Deep End of the Ocean
The Deep end of the ocean is by Jacquelyn Mitchard. It is about a family who has a child kidnapped and the pain and suffering the family goes through. The mother and brother feel that the kidnapping is there fault. They try to find the kid who was kidnaped for
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The Deleterious Reactions of a Love That Could Never Be
The Deleterious Reactions of a Love That Could Never Be Wuthering Heights was written during a time in which social structure and culture were very important. All people fell into a specific class depending on the reputation and wealth of their family. Catherine was considered to be in a higher
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The Devastation of the Indies
Upon reading the devastation of the Indies, it is apparent that many ailments of prejudice existed in those times of newly discovered lands and territories unchartered to the Europeans. Those of racism towards an unfamiliar people, a sense of Heathenism assumed upon the Native American civilization, and the brutal
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman" was an excellent book that focuses on the unjusts that have been done to women in the name of witchcraft in Salem, and many other areas as well. It goes over statistical data surrounding
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman is a book dealing with witchcraft in Colonial New England. The author is Carol F. Karlsen, who is currently a professor in the history department at the University of Michigan specializing in American women, early American social and cultural studies; she received
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
Women today face many challenges, and i'm not trying to discriminate or hate, but the challenges of today don't seem to be nearly as hard or frightening as they were in the sixteen hundreds, The devil in the shape of a woman, witchcraft in colonial new england 1620 - 1725,
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The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith These notes are not full - you will have to do your own research & thinking - all I have done is sketch out some ideas and put together a chapter-by-chapter synopsis. Written in 1888 and originally published in episodic
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The Diary of Anne Frank
the planet, including arctic tundra and the Sahara Desert. Certain kinds of seabirds are commonly seen over the open ocean thousands of kilometers from the nearest land, but all birds must come ashore to raise their young. Highly developed animals, birds are sensitive and responsive, colorful and graceful, with habits
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that kept a diary while hiding from Nazi's in Amsterdam for two years. The diary ends when the Nazi's found her and her family. Her whole family was killed with the exception of her father. She was given the journal on
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The Difference of Black and Right
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak
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The Distruters
The Destructors Trevor's family was once an upper-middle class family, but has now lost their status and now is in the lower class. Since then Trevor has joined a gang, called the Wormsley Common Gang, with the leader being Blackie. Trevor was used to being an upper class boy and
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The Dobe Ju/'hoansi
The Dobe Ju/' hoansi Ch 10: The Ju/' hoansi & their neighbors o The Ju/'hoansi share the Dobe area with the Herero and Tswana pastorals. o They grow crops and have herds yet are all based on kinship and are don't have developed markets or governments. o Herero's are the
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The Donner Party: Party of 50
The greatness of Lady Chatterley's Lover lies in a paradox: it is simultaneously progressive and reactionary, modern and Victorian. It looks backwards towards a Victorian stylistic formality, and it seems to anticipate the social morality of the late 20th century in its frank engagement with explicit subject matter and profanity.
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The Double Standard in Robinson Crusoe
As I read the excerpts from Robinson Crusoe I was quite affected by the double standard that was evident on the part of our "hero." This theme of the double standard is one that is realized in most antiquated texts. In explanation, whatever action the white European male performs is
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The Drama of a Man's Mid-Life Crisis
The Drama of a Man's Mid-life Crisis The story "O' Youth and Beauty!" by John Cheever is about the Bentley family, who live in Shady Hill as a happily married couple, who have their fair share ups and downs. Cash Bentley, the father of the household, is a former track
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The Dungeon of Madness
The Dungeon of Madness In this story, Edgar Allan Poe (such as in many of his works) uses the setting to create a dark image inside our minds. He makes this specially through darkness, therefore the character makes a connection with death. "The physical setting oppresses him in the visions
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The Dyanmics of Female Representation in Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo
NAME: FRANK YAW AMEWUGA THE DYNAMICS OF FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN CHANGES BY AMA ATA AIDOO Swimming against the tide has always been an uphill task especially in a male dominated terrain. And it goes without saying that West African writing has been male dominated in terms of volumes produced. In
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The Dynamic Use of Symbolism in Shampoo Planet
The Dynamic Use of Symbolism in Shampoo Planet Douglas Coupland has been called the voice of Generation X by his critics because of his writing techniques, which deal mainly with youthful ideals. Most of his works involve young characters searching for truth and answers for their self-involved questions. Despite many
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The Effects of War on Soldiers
The Effects of War on Soldiers War is the most powerful threat we have on the earth today. War can accomplish a variety of things in a variety of ways and it is entirely up to the government to decide a country's war status. It is up to people that
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The Eight Elements of Tqm
The Eight Elements Of TQM By Nayantara Padhi Total Quality Management is a management approach that originated in the 1950's and has steadily become more popular since the early 1980's. Total Quality is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with
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The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution
 The book that I chose to read for my book review was, The Eight Essential Steps To Conflict Resolution by Dr. Dudley Weeks. The reason I chose to read a book on conflict resolution was to further improve my skills at avoiding and dealing with problems. Because I feel
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The Elephant Vanishes
In "The Elephant Vanishes Stories" by Haruki Murakami, he uses a mixture of fantasy and reality to engage the reader into the main idea of object or people disappearing. Most of his stories may seen as if they came from life but he adds mystery to each one of
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The Elizabethan World Picture by E. M. W. Tillyard
The book The Elizabethan World Picture by E. M. W. Tillyard is an account of the ideas and beliefs of people during the Elizabethan age. The book is an attempt to describe the way Shakespeare and his contemporaries viewed the universe, in order to come to a better understanding of
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