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  • "house of Mr. Biswas" as a Diasporic Novel

    "house of Mr. Biswas" as a Diasporic Novel

    Examine a "House of Mr. Biswas" as a diasporic novel. Ans. : V. S. Naipaul is an Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. He has also written works of non-fiction,

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    Essay Length: 968 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2012
  • "relationship Selling-The Key to Getting and Keeping Customers" by Jim Cathcart

    "relationship Selling-The Key to Getting and Keeping Customers" by Jim Cathcart

    Summary This book, written by Jim Cathcart extends in eight parts and presents basic elements of selling at its finest. The author calls this approach "relationship selling" and explores every aspect of it. In the first part the differences between traditional selling and relationship selling are made clear. The most

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    Essay Length: 982 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 26, 2011
  • "spring and All" - Death to Life

    "spring and All" - Death to Life

    When all is cold and pale in the winter, the trees and bushes are brown and bare, and all seems dead, it is hard to imagine that in just a few weeks or months, the same surroundings will be vivid and colorful, a symbol of life itself. William Carlos Williams,

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    Essay Length: 652 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 24, 2013
  • "the Lesson" Analysis

    "the Lesson" Analysis

    The lesson By Toni Cade Bambara Summary: “The Lesson” takes place in a time where equality was nothing but an idea, where blacks where still treated as inferiors because of the skin tone they were born with. “The lesson” is about a group of black children living in a slum

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    Essay Length: 501 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 16, 2017
  • "the Necklace" a Closer Look at the Characters

    "the Necklace" a Closer Look at the Characters

    Characters in a story can be classified as "dynamic" or "static". Dynamic characters are characters that change as the story progresses. That is, they recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances. Static characters, which can also be described as "flat", are characters that are not well developed and remain fairly

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    Essay Length: 1,429 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2012
  • "there Is No Frigate like a Book" Analysis

    "there Is No Frigate like a Book" Analysis

    Thesis The connotations Dickenson employs to express her theme, compares modes of transportation to forms of literature suggesting the journey the heart and mind takes when engulfed in a book or poetry is more powerful than a physical adventure, because the imagination can take you anywhere. Analysis of "There is

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    Essay Length: 848 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2011
  • "we Real Cool" Case

    "we Real Cool" Case

    In "We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks, one can almost imagine the essence of troubled teenagers, while she is reading this poem. Her great poem is unique because it uses only a few descriptive words to describe a gang of rebellious teens. Also, the few descriptive words made this poem

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    Essay Length: 320 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 6, 2012
  • 'of Mice and Men' Sadness and Suffering in a Disinterested World

    'of Mice and Men' Sadness and Suffering in a Disinterested World

    "Of Mice And Men" convey the idea of careless choices people make which can escalate to their sadness and suffering. The text is more than a misfortune of Lennie's death, it also deals with the misery of individuals in a world where no one really cares about anyone else. The

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    Essay Length: 475 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 7, 2011
  • 101 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Married

    101 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Married

    Linda and Charlie Bloom, authors of 101 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Married novel, explains and elaborates on simple lessons to making love last. The two chapters selected are Chapter 29: Love isn’t just a feeling; it’s an action that shows our caring, and Chapter In the

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    Essay Length: 446 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2018
  • 1984 Vs. Brave New World

    1984 Vs. Brave New World

    Both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote how they envisioned America in the future. While each account gave comparably alarming views, Huxley's thoughts on how the United States would turn out are much more relevant today. Nell Postman, a contemporary social critic, states this in his passage contrasting Orwell's 1984

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    Essay Length: 687 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: August 28, 2011
  • 2 Sides Globalization

    2 Sides Globalization

    In these days, all countries of the world insist the significance of globalization. However, the world faces the dark side of globalization, such as polarization. It is such irony that globalization causes polarization, because the pros of globalization assert it giving reasons that globalization is indeed the key of bringing

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    Essay Length: 308 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: October 8, 2017
  • 5 People You Meet in Heaven

    5 People You Meet in Heaven

    The novel begins with Eddie's eighty third birthday, he is a maintenance worker at Ruby Pier which is an amusement park. The conflict is between Eddie and himself. The setting is basically the park and heaven. Imagery and symbolism are the literary devices. Eddie is the protagonist. His day is

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    Essay Length: 692 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2011
  • 8 Indicators of the Fire Service

    8 Indicators of the Fire Service

    There are eight indicators of terrorism according to Bennett (2007). This discussion gives an overview of the eight indicators of a terror attack. Which two can be easily monitored and exposed by law enforcement investigations? Eight indicators of Terror Attacks. 1. Surveillance- Terrorist will watch a selected target to determine

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    Essay Length: 550 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2012
  • A Beautiful Mind

    A Beautiful Mind

    A Beautiful Mind What truly is logic? Who decides reason? The words of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994. John Nash, a Princeton student in the year 1948 was a very intelligent man. Mathematics came naturally to him. While in Princeton John became very good friends with his roommate

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    Essay Length: 462 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 7, 2012
  • A Book and Movie That Holden Would Like

    A Book and Movie That Holden Would Like

    A Books That Holden Would Like The Stranger by Albert Camus The Stranger by Albert Camus is a book about a man named Meursault and his perspective before and after his mom's death. Meursault is a character that would appeal to Holden because his disconnection to society. He is completely

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    Essay Length: 358 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2012
  • A Brief Analysis of to Kill a Mockingbird

    A Brief Analysis of to Kill a Mockingbird

    Abstract In light of human moral theory, discussion is made between old and young, good and evil in the novel of To Kill A Mockingbird which showed the story of a white law who help an African-American man against a falsely raping crime accused by a white woman. At the

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    Essay Length: 2,314 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2013
  • A Catcher in the Rye

    A Catcher in the Rye

    Chapter 6: Chapter six marks a major turning point for Holden. This turning point is found in the physical struggle between Holden and Stradlater. After Stradlater returns from his date with Jane, he asks Holden if he's written his composition for him. Stradlater reads the paper and quickly shoots it

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    Essay Length: 1,574 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: August 6, 2011
  • A Chorus Line

    A Chorus Line

    A Chorus Line opened on Broadway on July 25, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, the musical received 12 Tony Award nominations and won 9 of them. The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest ever running production in Broadway history until the record was passed by

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    Essay Length: 1,078 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: October 29, 2013
  • A Christmas Carol Book Report

    A Christmas Carol Book Report

    A christmas Carol Characters Scrooge: Scrooge is a lonely old and cold man who is avaricious and unfriendly with anyone who tries to be in contact with him. His days consist of saving money, counting money and making money as an accountant. All he thinks about is money and that

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    Essay Length: 833 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2012
  • A Comparative Examination of the Similarities Between the Taoist and Buddhist Texts

    A Comparative Examination of the Similarities Between the Taoist and Buddhist Texts

    The relationship between Taoism and Buddhism is complex but existent and long standing. Though born of different period and origin the two schools of thought frequently correlate and turn their similarly sighting eye on tantamount ideology. Whether this agreement is the result of enduring regional concerns or of a direct

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    Essay Length: 1,546 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 10, 2013
  • A Critical Evaluation of Employee Performance Management System (pms) at State Trading Organization Plc.

    A Critical Evaluation of Employee Performance Management System (pms) at State Trading Organization Plc.

    UNIT 08 | RESEARCH PROJECT FINAL PROJECT RESEARCH PROJECT-UNIT 08 A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PMS) AT STATE TRADING ORGANIZATION PLC. Name: ID: Assessor: Matthew Street Date of submission: Word count: 4390 words Table of Contents Abstract 5 CHAPTER ONE 5 1.0 Introduction 5 1.1 Background 5

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    Essay Length: 5,404 Words / 22 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2017
  • A Cry in the Night

    A Cry in the Night

    1. Higgins Clark, Mary. A Cry in the Night. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1982. 2. Exposition- The main characters are Jenny Krueger, mother of Tina and Beth Krueger and wife of Erich Krueger, Rooney and Clyde Toomis, and Luke and Mark Garrett. Rising Action- When Jenny goes into

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    Essay Length: 1,018 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: September 28, 2011
  • A Day in the Life of Brent Dorsey

    A Day in the Life of Brent Dorsey

    Case 3.1 1. The alternatives available to Brent are working at the normal pace, trying to rush the work with the normal sample size, or cut the sample size. If Brent chose to work at the normal pace he would get the best and most accurate result. Being accurate and

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    Essay Length: 621 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: July 30, 2011
  • A Doll House

    A Doll House

    In the drama, "A Doll House" Henrik Ibsen displays an intriguing conflict of a woman's strife. However, without knowledge of the setting being in 1879, it would be difficult to grasp why such conflict would even come to rise. During this time period the social norms between the sexes restricted

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    Essay Length: 1,241 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: October 21, 2012
  • A Dream of Red Mansions

    A Dream of Red Mansions

    A Dream of Red Mansions, or Chronicles of the Stone, is the greatest masterpiece of Chinese classical novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties with the most profound influence on later generations. The work is comprised of 120 chapters, the first 80 of which were written by Tsao Hsueh-chin and

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    Essay Length: 522 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2012
  • A Fable for Tomorrow by Rachel Carson.

    A Fable for Tomorrow by Rachel Carson.

    Within the short story titled, A Fable for Tomorrow by Rachel Carson, the topic of the delicacy of our world’s ecosystem is presented. The story takes place in a town where everyone and everything seems to live in beautiful unity. The animals as well as nature lived harmonious and happy

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    Essay Length: 446 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2019
  • A Funny Story

    A Funny Story

    In this day and society, depression has proven to show up as a monstrous, life-altering factor in this generation of young teenagers. In fact, roughly twenty percent of the entire world's adolescents will experience clinical depression before reaching adulthood. As many as eight percent of teenagers are likely to suffer

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    Essay Length: 1,267 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2013
  • A Good Night's Sleep

    A Good Night's Sleep

    The story 'A good night's sleep' is a short story, which runs over one night. The narrator is a 3rd person restricted and tells the story from the protagonist George Lockhart's point-of-view. George Lockhart is an elderly man in probably about the mid forties. His life does not have much

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    Essay Length: 604 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2012
  • A Hero Is Simply Defined as a Person

    A Hero Is Simply Defined as a Person

    A hero is simply defined as a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Heroism often comes into play when the smallest act of kindness can be of greater value to the recipient. For example, Ernesto Quinonez shows the difference between

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    Essay Length: 920 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2013
  • A House on Mango Street

    A House on Mango Street

    In the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza keeps hope for the future by dreaming for another house of her own. Esperanza always says that her dream is a "house of my own". Esperanza thinks "someday I will have a house of my own and that

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: September 22, 2011

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