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Flowers For Algernon

... to help him. Is it not better to do your best than to be the best? Charlie Gordon was a motivated man who always put forth as much effort as he could! He struggled for independence and freedom in a world he desperately wanted to be a part of. A statement such as, "Im gonna try awful hard" is often heard spoken by Charlie. Everybody notices how hard Charlie tries to be what he considers normal. Dr. Strauss described Charlie best when he said, "But most people of his low mentality are hostile and uncooperative. They a ...

Number of words: 627 | Number of pages: 3

The Midwestern Farm

... places in society. I am very partial to this article. Some parts I like and others I did not. The author starts off the essay talking about how immigrants are making the population increase in dramatic numbers. He then proceeds on talking about how farming technology is improving. The technology that he talks about is still used today, but it is much improved. The immigrants that came over did not have the new and could not afford the technology that was being used by the bigger farmers. They still had to use the basics: sho ...

Number of words: 484 | Number of pages: 2

Friends

... just learned and then lost. It is a skill that can be used anywhere and any time thought life. The hardest part is to get the ball rolling and start meeting new people. College is not a difficult place to meet people. They are everywhere; in dorms, in classrooms, and simply walking around outside. Although this is a perfect atmosphere for meeting people, some may still have difficulty. The greatest challenge about meeting people is not only the hoping that they will keep a conversation with you, but also there is the fear of rejection. Ye ...

Number of words: 633 | Number of pages: 3

A Story From America

... pretend to listen, but this time I could feel something was different. She had an idea, maybe she had found a clue, in the case which had gone on my nerves for the last three weeks. “Cooper !”, she manages to pronounce before she throws some papers on my desk. “Do you remember, when we were investigating Mrs Alpher’s apartment ?”. “Yes, what is it ?” I say, trying to find out what’s on her mind. “You see, until now we haven’t found anyone that possibly could have gone into Mrs Alpher’s apartment, without anyone notici ...

Number of words: 1247 | Number of pages: 5

The Deadly Social Cloud (Satir

... third offence is punished by death. Before they are put to death they will be sentenced to thirty days in a high security prison, where fellow inmates will repeatedly rape them. Only inmates of lesser social crimes like murder, rape, and violent crimes will be able to do the molestation of the immoral convict. Only after the thirty-day prison sentence will they be put to death immediately. This villain of the human society will die the way that they chose their victims to die. They will be taken to a sealed room where pictures of clear ...

Number of words: 606 | Number of pages: 3

Julius Ceaser Essay Brutus Cha

... close to Caesar. In Roman times, the only way for someone to get close to a person of high rank is if he/she is close to him/her. In many points of the play, Brutus was talking and next to Caesar. Brutus also loves Caesar but fears his power. In the early acts of the play, Brutus says to Cassius, "What means this shouting? I do fear the people do choose Caesar for their king…yet I love him well."(act 1, scene 2, ll.85-89), as he is speaking to Cassius. Brutus loves Caesar, but would not allow him to "climber-upward…He then unto the ladd ...

Number of words: 841 | Number of pages: 4

Book Report On The Forbidden C

... Nowlan. Alex isn't exactly a reporter, but rather a tourist or assistant dragged along by his father for the experience in learning and looking at China's beauty and history. This wasn't exactly what was about to occur. Staying in the Beijing Hotel, Alex was able to see the beginning of a civil revolt, as the students began to protest. The students continued to standoff, as the government brought in troops. As the troops inched forward, they executed the students by the dozens even by the hundreds. Alex decided to take a ground view of thi ...

Number of words: 644 | Number of pages: 3

The Black Cat

... up, are too far gone to understand their mania, let alone to control it (Gargano 171). His stories usually have a horrible murder theme in which there is a obsessive narrator and they follow the development of the theme step by step with a realism that, barring with genius, might case a history from the twentieth-century psychiatry. This could not be presented more clearly than in “”. Those who may deny realism to Poe cannot be very familiar with our daily newspapers, which periodically carry true stories of murders committed ...

Number of words: 2638 | Number of pages: 10

Dracula

... in the vampire foxes. The most commonly known legend which is widely used in filming is the blood drinking man who can transform into a bat or mist, wearing a black cape with a suit and with fangs in his mouth. This significant type is the one that is been explained widely in the eastern European myths. This vampire preys on human victims which are chosen at random by biting and sucking blood from the veins in the side of the neck at night time. The prey also becomes a vampire and joins the world of the undead. These specific vampires are ...

Number of words: 1466 | Number of pages: 6

Antigone - Kreon As A Tragic Hero

... tragic heroes, Kreon suffers because of his hamartia and then realizes his flaw. The belief that Antigone is the hero is a strong one, but there is a stronger belief that Kreon, the Ruler of Thebes, is the true protagonist. Kreon’s main and foremost hamartia was his hybris, or his extreme pride. Kreon was a new king, and he would never let anyone prove him wrong or let anyone change his mind once it was made. One main event that showed Kreon’s hamartia and also caused the catastrophe was when he asked his son Haimon, who was engaged to ma ...

Number of words: 894 | Number of pages: 4

Le Cid (French)

... à partir de situations invraisemblables. Corneille, aussi ne suivait pas le processus traditionnel pour écrire une pièce, car il faisait les personnages agir selon la raison et non par l'impulsion. Les personnages réfléchissait avant de prendre leurs décisions. Corneille croyait que les grands sujets importants devaient être au-delà du vraisemblable et il dit aussi . (Corneille lui même) Corneille créa toujours des situations dans laquelle les personnages devaient prendre des décisions importante soit entre la vie o ...

Number of words: 2611 | Number of pages: 10

Pride And Prejudice - Marriage

... wrote about gentry like herself. That is why the characters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ are middle class people, like landowners, vicars, and officers. She does not mention servants much. Marriage in Jane Austen’s society marriage is the status all the women strive to achieve. Money and looks are essential for a good marriage, youthfulness also counts. If a woman never got married, because of lacking money or looks, she would go and live with a married sister or brother. If she did not have any brothers or sisters to live with, she wou ...

Number of words: 3400 | Number of pages: 13

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