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However, later trick films begin to abandon the “one-shot” principle. In Congress of Nations (1900), there are two distinct conceptual shots of the same scene; the viewer can tell that they are two separate shots because they are separated by a noticeable dissolve. In the first shot, the magician conjures up nationals... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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You see, that day wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I didn't want to see my goddamn brother, because I knew that he was gonna ask for some goddamn money again. Jeez. I was already hungover, and somebody was coming to ruin my day. Of course it'd be my luck. So I invited him in, just 'cause I'm a nice kind of guy, an... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
n | Although Vonnegut presents this theory of time to the reader, he does not endorse it; the concept is only presented in order to prove their absurdity and to offer a rebuttal. In addition to providing discussion fodder, “[the] Tralfamadorian sections of the novel may also serve another function since they provide a form... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
n | For the most part, Crusoe’s island serves as a temptationless model of the Weberian ethic, where Crusoe exemplifies how capitalism allows men to work towards their individual prosperity and spiritual salvation. However, society is not a perfect Weberian construct, and Defoe’s world beyond the island acknowledges how ca... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Our ancestors from a century ago would, without a doubt, call the food we eat today “Frankenfood.” Processed food may conjure images of frozen-and-reheated McDonald’s grease, but human tinkering is evident even in the origin of our food: the seed. For decades, agricultural technology companies have worked to perfect ... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
n | This quotation relates to Aristotle’s idea that a person must not only have knowledge of good and evil; he must express it in his actions to be virtuous. In addition, a simple virtuous act does not make a man virtuous; it is through repeated, habitual action that a man learns virtue.
One of the questions I have regard... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
n | Throughout the novel, Vonnegut approaches the topic of war in an unorthodox fashion, using ominous stylistic elements in order to bring about a dark, humorous tone. The language advances Vonnegut’s personal claim that war is cruel, not heroic as historians often present it. The first major example of Vonnegut’s dark st... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
n | If they saw ordinary people blogging about their crusade through social media, our Founding Fathers would identify rabble-rousing pamphleteers such as Thomas Paine. In ideology, we cannot differentiate these modern revolutions from the American campaign for independence two hundred years ago. We should not glorify our ... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
n | Both spiritual reassessment and moral reconciliation are evident in Brontë’s resolution to Wuthering Heights through Heathcliff’s realization that his vengeance was in error, his eventual peaceful burial next to his beloved Cathy and her husband, and the newfound love between Hareton and young Catherine.
Throughout the... | 18 | English | male | some college | student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | There was no evidence that the students had the opportunity to choose their own reading materials or subject matter during the examiner’s observation. The classroom did not have a library of books, but there were boxes of Spanish-language magazines in a variety of topics, such as People en Español, AutoMundo (Car World... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | He appeared very impatient with the assessment, and the examiner is still not entirely sure if he gave his best efforts, either out boredom and the desire to “get it over with” or out of suspicion or worry based on his immigration status (The examiner would like to note at this juncture that she has been accused many t... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | While he did not elaborate on most answers, his answers were, for the most part, sufficiently correct to earn at least a half point. He still did very well with questions regarding topic, evaluation, and inferences, and his responses to factual questions improved; but he still did poorly with vocabulary questions, whic... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Como Agua Para Chocolate is the original Spanish title for the 1989 book (and subsequent 1992 film) “Like Water for Chocolate” by Mexican author Laura Esquivel. I chose this book to reexamine because it (and the film) was used in my third-year Spanish class in high school. It was the first time I really remember fee... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | Many students, especially if they are younger, have an innate desire to know where things come from, why things are the way they are; This may be a ploy to get the teacher off track, but it begs a very interesting question- how much should the past of a language be explored with people seeking to learn it today? Englis... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The process to acquire a foreign language has five fairly basic, defined steps to it, although the exact defining lines between them vary from person to person and become slightly more blurry depending on the age when the learning commences. The first step is called preproduction, called the silent period. In learnin... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | One final reading difficulty that presented was a tendency to substitute unusual or uncommon words for more common or easier ones: bistro for boisterous, deseed for deceased, bridge for brigade, Uranus for uranium, etc.
While Manolo attempted to pronounce each word, he fidgeted profusely, rhythmically tapping his lef... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Intermediate fluency is the next stage in the process, wherein the students have an active vocabulary of at least 6000 words and can create more complex, multi-verb or multi-tense sentences, such as “I need to go to the bathroom because I cut my finger.” They will still have many errors, but have an easier time unde... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | The data makes it very difficult to pin down exactly where the thresholds for independent, instructional, and frustration are, as, depending on his focus that particular passage, his efforts would improve one side only to sacrifice the other.
Much like the word list portion, Manolo tried to read the passages quickly ... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | The other native speaker in the class reacted to the perceived insult, stating loudly she was from Columbia and punctuating the remark with a Spanish curse word while Manolo looked down at his desk. After the bell rang, Mrs. S. made a comment to the examiner with a similar observation.
Mrs. S. was able to provide so... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | The teacher must be aware of their output as well, making sure to speak clearly and enunciate into the microphone.
CAPD has risen to prominence since it was first isolated as a disorder in the 1950s; there are many groups continuing to do research to determine how to best assist persons diagnosed with the disorder. C... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Some of the behavioral characteristics that can be considered “red flags” for a patient are “difficulty understanding spoken language in competing messages, noisy backgrounds, or in reverberant environments; misunderstanding messages; inconsistent or inappropriate responding; frequent requests for repetitions, sayin... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
w | After a while, both Mama Elena and Rosaura die, leading to a night of passion for the true lovers... but all does not end well, as Pedro dies happily making love to Tita; Tita is tormented by the ghost of her mother, and, feeling nothing but loneliness, she begins to eat matches and candles. Pedro’s memory sparks a fla... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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This paper covers three areas of Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD). First, a brief definition of the disorder is provided. Next, diagnosis is explained, with common characteristics, or “red flags”. Finally, the paper concludes with ways that a teacher in a mainstreamed classroom environment can assist a st... | 25 | English | female | Some Graduate School | Unemployed Spanish Teacher | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | He calls this the ‘problem-posing’ method, which ‘accepts neither a well-behaved present nor a pre-determined future’ and ‘roots itself in the dynamic present.’ (pg 327) ‘Problem-solving’ here describes what the human experience already is - a constant re-interpretation of society and the actions that shape its nature.... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | “As in the case of most ’simple’ plans, the situation soon became quite complicated(McDonald, p 2).” However, their scheme was far from a solution and as the nation would soon find out, the beginning of an even larger problem.
Another one of the underlying causes of this situation can be s... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | On the other hand, this may simply be a sign that his obsession with the idea of suicide has grown.
Mortality is addressed in a number of ways in Hamlet. The play revolves around death, with nearly all relevant characters dead by the end; uncertainty dominates each in different ways. At the beginning, the reader and c... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | Private bank corruption ultimately drove the nation’s economy to the brink of destruction.
Speculator greed and corruption was merely a subdivision behind the United States’ financial dilemma; the common man was just as guilty. Although the common man of course did not have control over the majority of the fina... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | Most of my involvement at [Company Name] revolved around creating promotional sets for potential and current customers of the company. I researched products on the private ASI member company base under various criteria, sorting and consolidating them into smaller sets based on target consumer groups (i.e. political or... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | Plain-clothes police officers, not even an hour later, had effectively dispersed the group with the threat of violence. Activists re-appeared several times on other dates, scaling down their actions to ‘strolling’ rather than marching, but were again and again made the objects of physical violence. As time wore on, few... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Aldous Huxley criticizes the upcoming threat of both technology and the capitalistic structure by which it is reinforced through the creation of a dystopia in the novel Brave New World. Its people value community above the individual, and are conditioned from the very beginning to pursue immediate happiness above all ... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | The government’s actions was, in part, responsible for the economic failures of today.
Another similarity between both financial crises lies in loaner’s avarice. Speculators in current times, much like those of the Panic of 1819, sought to take advantage of the market by selling land based loosely on cred... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Despite an American education that can be seen as the new age of banking with ‘teaching for the test’ methodology, activists of all ages (but again, largely consisting of the young population) have come to their own conclusion about the real state of affairs in the United States today. Protesters demands fit under th... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | Thus one can figure out the agricultural lifestyle of the Chinese during the time period the character was in use, and when the plough became obsolete; once the ox-drawn plough was introduced, li came to mean power instead, and a different li, which includes the character for ox, replaced it.
Hessler chooses those liv... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Shakespeare has masterfully utilized the theme of uncertainty. He has created for his characters a sense of ambiguity, leaving those reading his works to sort out for themselves the motivations and nature of said characters. The element of sanity vs. insanity, the concept of mortality, and the potential immorality of ... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | Retaliation and preventative measures through censorship and police brutality, perhaps on a scale greater than the protestors’ actions themselves, have limited the growth of the movement. In analyzing the characteristics of the modern uprisings upon which this second Jasmine Revolution was inspired and comparing them t... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | Reification, or distortion of innocent concepts into, simultaneously, the grotesque and concrete, is portrayed in the novel by the use of soma. It represents the human desire for happiness, packaged in the form of a little pill. Soma causes a sense of complacency to overtake the consumer, relieving them of both physica... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | In the final paper, I chose to talk about the currently ongoing protests in New York City, adding in information I already knew about the Arab Spring, since the underlying message of Freire’s work dealt with ‘revolution.’ It was somewhat of a struggle to do so not because I had no knowledge whatsoever of either topic, ... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
u | In part of the text that is cited in Ebrey’s work The World Beyond China, he states that the Xiongnu people despise the old and weak and favor the young and strong, giving the best food to the latter and the worst to the former. This is highly contradictory with China’s idea of filial piety, which puts family and elde... | 18 | English | female | Some college | Student | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Many a great thinker has postulated an intimate connection between ethics and aesthetics, between truth and beauty. I believe that at a fundamental level there is a reason for this. As John Keats says in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty- That is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” ... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | They were unwilling to accept blacks as part of the Other toward whom they had responsibility, as Levinas says. An unwillingness to view the individuality and Otherness of others, and a refusal of our responsibility toward them, is a primary effect of prejudice and racism. The journey toward acceptance that Huck takes ... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | The author's willingness to subordinate both plot and protagonist is made evident a few chapters later. The protagonist has undergone the electroshock therapy, which is supposed to “produce the result of a preforontal lobotomy without the negative effects of the knife . . . the result is as complete a change of person... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Instead of making Christ all God, Dostoevsky emphasizes both His perfection and His humanness. The only explicit action that Christ takes during his time with the Inquisitor is at the end of the Inquisitor's very long diatribe against him. “He saw the Prisoner had listened intently all the time, looking gently in his f... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Because of political instability and infighting, there is little chance of any native language becoming an official or even de facto replacement for English in most of these countries. Many of these languages are oral, or have only recently adopted a written form. The long literary history of English and other European... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Hopefully, showing the interrelatedness between moral philosophy and literature shows that the two disciplines are deeply linked, in ways that cannot be fully explicated or understood. It is time that we accept the fact that morality and aesthetics are inextricably and inescapably connected, and that any judgment of l... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | For example, he uses the term a knot in my heart to refer to having a serious problem. This is a role outside traditional English semantics for that idiom, but never explains what it means. Even when does tell the reader what a term means, he is somewhat condescending and alienating, as his footnote describing the se... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Because fewer members of their cultural community speak English, there is less pressure to be local in English language literary production. In addition, the post-colonial guilt of Britain and America have caused a dramatic increase in cultural awareness and the desire to understand and come in contact with other cultu... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | The portrayal of a moral ideal, as my ultimate literary goal, as an end in itself—to which any didactic, intellectual or philosophical values contained in a novel are only the means. . . . Let me stress this: my purpose is not the philosophical enlightenment of my readers” .
Rand's characters are used as means to prom... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | I was yet to learn that time for these people had absolutely nothing to do with the clock hours on the gold- and-diamond watch now donated to the earth forever.
Much later I would understand that the releasing of attachment to objects and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in m... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Later in this same scene King Lear is choosing how to divide his kingdom before he dies. He asks his three daughters “which of you shall we say doth love us most?” . The king subsequently takes away Cordelia's portion and gives it to her older sisters. In these few lines Shakespeare again causes the reader to question... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Instead of focusing on the future of our language, I will instead discuss the effect that the present social and demographic situation has on various types of English writers.
The first type of literature that I will focus on is the traditional English language literatures, primarily British literature. These literatu... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | Because of this relationship between literature and ethics, I believe that the disciplines can be profitably intermingled, and that each can be enriched by viewing it through the lens of the other. Although I believe that this intermingling can be beneficial in both directions, this paper will focus on how the greatne... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
mm | But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then say... | 29 | English | male | BA | Localization Consultant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
f | Hoover responded that it was, and requested authorization to wiretap King not only at the locations suggested by Kennedy but “at any future address to which he may move,” though Kennedy reversed his request and denied authorization at the time. By October, Kennedy reconsidered yet again, signing another request for a... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | Two years later, in November of 1964, Hoover held a rare press conference in which he called King “the most notorious liar in the country,” creating a public relations debacle. In fact, he had also called King “’one of the lowest characters in the country’” and “gave an affirmative response” to a question regarding t... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes… You are no clergyman and you know it. I repeat you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that… King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days… You are done. There is but one way out for... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | Ivie Anderson follows with the melody in lyrics before ending the song with scat singing mirroring Nanton’s introductory solo, incorporating a similar elegant downward glissando to launch into the chorus for a final time. Slightly earlier, in Ring Dem Bells, a lively, solo-driven piece, Ellington uses scat singing in a... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | One example of this was his investigation of the civil rights movement, specifically Martin Luther King, Jr. Beginning in the early 1960s and in full force at the time of King’s assassination, Hoover and the FBI conducted surveillance and intelligence operations, frequently crossing the line to harassment, with the goa... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | It was Daviess firm belief that Wilkinson “[has] been, for years, a pensioner of Spain, and [has] held secret intelligence with that power; and you [Wilkinson] were engaged in Burr’s conspiracy and deserted him.” These insights by Daviess are particularly important, as in truth Jefferson’s embrace of Wilkinson as an... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | It has greatly advanced the concept of law enforcement by introducing scientific methods and professional disciplines.” However, the FBI’s investigation of Martin Luther King, Jr., is surprising and shocking in the extent that it was about personal destruction. The authors of a 1977 Department of Justice task force re... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
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Duke Ellington’s legacy in jazz derives in large part from his longevity and, by extension, his creative abilities to shape his orchestra. Ellington’s presence on the piano is subtle in many of the compositions selected for this assignment, but as a composer Ellington excelled at creating rich and complex pieces that ... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | This speech, in fact, was King’s famous “I Have A Dream” address during the March on Washington, an event to which some historians attribute Hoover’s fixation with King and desire to personally destroy the movement that seemed to be growing every day.” Thus, in September, Sullivan attempted yet again to satisfactori... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | At Burr’s defense was Henry Clay, in addition to the skills of Burr himself, and though Daviess “was quite an attorney… he had his hands full with Clay... Daviess had no chance at all.” The grand jury found Burr innocent, and Daviess took the decision personally, writing with some sarcasm that “ A great majority of th... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | It also focused on the fact that the indictment concerned an assembly of men on Blannerhassett’s Island as the overt act, and the testimony provided by the prosecution did not clearly demonstrate that it was a military force, or coherently show that it was organized, let alone by Burr who was in Kentucky at the time.... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | In a letter to Hay before Marshall issued his opinion and the subpoena, Jefferson responded to the request by Burr with his belief that “reserving the necessary right of the President of the U S to decide, independently of all other authority, what papers, coming to him as President, the public interests permit to be c... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | In addition, Johnson was particularly hostile towards King’s opposition to Vietnam, feeling betrayed after his efforts on civil rights legislation. Considering King’s opposition to the war a symptom of a larger idea of subversion, the FBI considered King’s Poor People’s campaign in a similar light. In an unsuccessfu... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | Harlem Air Shaft, Ellington’s attempt at capturing the variety of life, sounds, smells, and energy of Harlem, leans on the contributions of three signature pillars of Ellington’s band, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Nanton on trombone, and Williams on trumpet. The piece’s “jubilant, spirited, carefree” quality, as Ted Gioi... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
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Conditions in the United States at the turn of the 19th century afforded mobile, enterprising men like Burr ample opportunities to further their own power and sense of agency. After serving as vice-president and notoriously killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Burr saw the possibility of remaking himself in the loos... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | The trial of Burr for treason occurred in Richmond, Virginia, a “sleepy little town [that] became the cynosure of all eyes.” The courtroom could not hold the crowds, forcing Marshall to move the trial to the House of Delegates, a larger space, and among those in town were Andrew Jackson, a young Washington Irving as a... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
f | Nothing is left undone or unsaid which can tend to prejudice the public mind, and produce a conviction without evidence… They [the attacks] are practiced against me… not only with impunity, but with applause; and the authors and abettors suppose, with reason, that they are acquiring favour with the administration.
T... | 24 | English | male | B.A. | Teacher | N,N,N,N,N |
vv | The fact that the spaniel instinctively slinks away means the following two things: first, he doesn’t like Dunsey; and second, the dog expects an argument to ensue whenever the two brothers are in a room together.
When one first reads the phrase “Godfrey’s face parted with some of its gloom…” one would expect the phras... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | The interpretation of the Adam and Eve story during that time period also effectively stifled any early attempts at a women’s rights movement, because it decried women as being the cause of sin in the world.
It is evident from Bassanio’s speech in Act 3 Scene 2 that Law and religion are two professions e... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | He runs away from school, engages in underage drinking, and even hires a prostitute—all as a means of rebellion, as an attempt to escape from the societal constraints that seem to weigh down on him like an invisible force. In this way, Holden is an antihero: a bewildered, deluded teenager who at times acts in a rather ... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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The play Twelfth Night seems to say that although disguise is in fact useful in perpetrating long bouts of deception, in the end a person must reject that newly formed guise, or else risk losing themselves forever in the process. A big problem with ending a deception, however, is that one may find themselves alienated... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | Shylock’s impassioned speech is in anger against the Christians around him who have treated hun differently because of his religious preferences. Shylock argues that he has as much feelings as any Christian does, so he should be treated on the same level. Likewise, he believes that justice and revenge should not be dol... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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As for Sebastian’s reaction versus Olivia’s reaction, it would seem obvious that from the beginning of the section of lines, Olivia would be staring quite fixedly at Sebastian, until he finally speaks his line at 204, “You throw a strange regard upon me…” This implies that Olivia, caught up in the knowledge that her t... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | At the end of the novel, the author shocks readers by having Ingrid acquitted of her crimes. After all, in a morally fair world, it would only seem right that Ingrid would remain in jail, and Astrid would go on to live a happy life free of her mother. But the author seems to argue that this is not always the case. In f... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | Another bit of unusual imagery is that, although the hall in which Godfrey stands is full of material wealth (various hunting paraphernalia, clothing strewn about, containers of ale), there is no mention of any family photos in the room. In a sense, the “large, empty entrance hall” in which Godfrey stands represents th... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | The word antihero has actually been around since 1714, but the use of an antihero as the main character of fiction has become more widespread only in recent years. (Merriam-Webster Online)
One might say that moral ambiguity plays a key role in the development of the antihero. In essence, there can be no antihero unles... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | Jonathan Franzen seems to aptly sum up some of the basic sentiments of the antihero in the following passage from an interview conducted by Dave Weich of Powells...” (Powells.com Interviews – Jonathan Franzen)
The antihero is, in essence, the modern era’s response to the breakdown of conservatism, conformity, and relig... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | In the words of author Janet Fitch, “Art distills meaning from experience, which is often hard to do in reality.” (Author Interview: Janet Fitch) In other words, it is the job of the author to interpret the motives behind people’s actions, and this Franzen does with a sterling accuracy. Such accuracy is necessary in a ... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | To accomplish this, he planned to drink two vodka martinis and hit the sack before ten.” (Franzen 229)
In Janet Fitch’s novel White Oleander, the protagonist Astrid exemplifies the struggle of the antihero in that she is constantly at the mercy of a brutal, uncaring world. Fitch’s work does not so much stress the need... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | The same can also be said for Orsino, who quickly switches from seeing Cesario as a friend, to seeing Viola as his love interest: ”…And since you called me master for so long,/ Here is my hand. You shall from this time be/ Your master’s mistress.” (5.1. 312-315)
Although in the end it is revealed that Orsino is actual... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
vv | Shakespeare seems to be hinting that Shylock cares more about money than family; but being a good playwright, he does not say this outright, and instead puts the opinion in the mouth of his character Bassanio.
The second point, which is reinforced in Lorenzo’s speech, is Shylock’s ability to manipulate peopl... | 28 | English | female | bachelor's degree | administrative assistant | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
aa | Reasonable limits are needed to be set because hunters, sport shooters, and homeowners can own their weapons without going overboard with unneeded guns intended to kill as many people as possible as efficiently as possible. Reform has been put into place with gun registration for each weapon and owner, such as motor ve... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | The Second Amendment reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" (Bowman). The Second Amendment was originally ratified on the thought of the danger of national security being threatened (Bowman). The United St... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | These reductions in crime seem to correspond with a number of gun control laws that were implemented during this time, including the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
The correlation is not valid, however, because the statistics have become compounded with many other factors. Improved law enforcement, more severe ... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | He is showing how easy it would be for our government and leaders to mislead us and reduce our rights by not even giving us a choice in the matter at hand. During the time that Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 people were starting to become more lax and comfortable with what their leaders chose to do because they thought ... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
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Imperialism played a significant role in shaping American foreign policy. America used significant power many times when dealing with other countries during the 19th and 20th centuries. America never admitted that it was taking colonies and spreading out into an imperial force, but it did show several signs of being ... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
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Montag had rarely seen that many house lights. 'Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another time-did I tell you?-for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most peculiar.' 'But what do you talk about?' She laughed at this. 'Good night... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | The United States of America runs well because of the system of checks and balances in the government. The Second Amendment provides civilians with an important "check" to the power of the government. The right to bear arms stands as an important part of freedom and liberty, because it gives people a way to fight tyran... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | There are three main aspects of the gun control controversy: sociological, ethical, and legal. The sociological aspect is the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness that gun control laws have on reducing violent crimes. The ethical aspect is the protection of the United States citizens and protecting them from crime. T... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | He sees that the great armies and navies that England is amassing have no other purpose but to attack the colonies. He tries to show that they must prepare now for the imminent attack so at least they can be prepared and not caught off guard.
He is not only speaking to the men attending the Virginia convention in 1775,... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | Guns can also successfully stop shootings in progress, as Assistant Principal Joel Myrick did in Pearl, Mississippi, in 1997. Few media outlets reported the use of a gun to stop 16 year old Luke Woodham, but Myrick in fact retrieved a handgun from his car and returned to the school where he subdued Woodham before he co... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | The workers could never get out of the cycle because many of them were foreigners and could not speak English let alone get a job somewhere else. To make the point even more, they had no way of moving or the time to look for a different job because their pay was so low that they had just enough money left over each we... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
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I believe that The Jungle shows how human beings deep down inside are naturally greedy and self-centered. They only want to look out for themselves and make their lives as good as possible, but never look out for anyone lower then themselves. The Jungle shows this in many ways. The main obvious area is the owners and... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | More often, they hinder legal gun owners while doing nothing to stop criminals from illegally owning guns. Criminals are unaffected by gun control laws because they are already trained to break the law, so they simply acquire guns illegally. Gun control laws do, however, affect legal gun owners, making gun ownership fo... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | Both England and Japan have some of the tightest gun control laws as well as some of the lowest gun related homicide rates (Ballaro). The United State's homicide rates are twenty times greater than England and Wales, ten times greater than France and Germany, and only exceeded by a few Latin American countries (Harwood... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | Although I never got the VCR back together properly, and I did not know the term “engineering,” I knew that I had a passion. Whenever I got the chance to take apart an old piece of equipment, now with my parents’ permission so I would not face punishment again, I would sit in intense concentration for hours unscrewing... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
aa | The FBI has shown that even after every precaution taken to stop gun-related school violence knives are used more than three times more than guns in school incidents. Even if, theoretically, the gun control laws worked to stop all gun-related violence, there would still be over three-quarters of the violence seen in sc... | 24 | English | male | High School | construction worker | N,N,N,N,N |
z | I chose to approach Senator Feinstein with my legislation because as our elected representative she has a vested interest in the health and well-being of the citizens of California, and a responsibility to her constituency to protect our lives and ensure the safety of our highways. Because Ms. Feinstein helps legislat... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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