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  • A Dream That Came True

    A Dream That Came True

    A Dream That Came True It all started on a hot August day, the first day of Middle School football practice. I was kind of scared to be honest, because I was one of the smallest on the team, but what I lacked in size I made up for in speed.Truth be told I didn’t get to play much until the starting running back broke his hand in the game. Now I felt bad for

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    Submitted: April 12, 2016
  • The American Scream

    The American Scream

    Adam Witherspoon English 100 Prof. Talarico The American Scream America, the mighty and beautiful. A land filled with so much gold and riches beyond any other country in measure. A landfill of new “hope” and opportunities to the citizens of its doctrine. One has always been taught to work hard and achieve the “American Dream.” The white picket fence, family of four with the stay at home wife. The truth is this phrase has long

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    Essay Length: 1,862 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: May 10, 2016
  • Latin American History Crash Course

    Latin American History Crash Course

    Crash Course Quiz #1 1. The three institution controlled were the Spanish crown, the church, and patriarchy. The Spanish crown collected taxes on everything called the royal fifth. The church influenced people’s everyday lives. Patriarchy which made men in power and women are largely excluded from it. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was a 16-year-old girl who wrote poetry and books. She disguised herself as a boy that way she attends the university. However,

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    Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 15, 2016
  • Dream Analysis and Interpretation Paper

    Dream Analysis and Interpretation Paper

    Dream Analysis and Interpretation Paper Jade Zhang Everyone has dreams every day, various and exceedingly dreams. We usually hear about people talk about how miraculous their dreams are, and how deep impression the dreams made. Unfortunately, people seldom remember their dream when they are awake. How does the dream made? Why does people sleep? Dreams usually show about the information or experience of people’s life, they are usually used as a ‘form of communication and

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    Essay Length: 1,028 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 25, 2016
  • American Gangster - Frank Lucas

    American Gangster - Frank Lucas

    SARAH CHAULET 2/28/16 AMERICAN GANGSTER Sarah Chaulet Reaction Paper American Gangster “American Gangster” based on the true story of Frank Lucas’ life. It is the story of how he cut out the intermediary in the heroin business and the story of how Ritchie Roberts caught him. Throughout the film, we see the parallel between a cop and a criminal as we inch forward to see their lives finally meet. In the opening scene of the

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    Submitted: May 26, 2016
  • American Currency

    American Currency

    Happiness The smell of wet socks and moldy lasagna passed through the air. The bus took a stop for what seemed the millionth time. Enduring the two-hour bus ride after school to reach my advanced Art class; this should have been painful, yet I smiled in happiness. My travel represented my pursuit of knowledge, one which I had earned and would fully appreciate. I remembered applying to enroll in the course at the beginning of

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    Essay Length: 280 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2016
  • Dream Vacation

    Dream Vacation

    Dream Vacation PLAN/PRICE ESTIMATE: Multi city flight : Vancouver > Philippines > Australia Flight cost for (YVR) > MNL) > (SYD) : $1800 (screenshot below) 1st Flight : Vancouver(YVR) > Philippines (MNL) Date: Leave vancouver on August 1st , check in at 12:30pm layover at HongKong, Arrive at Manila 10:40pm (tues) (see image above). Upon arrival i will be staying at a nearby 4 star hotel, Remington hotel which will be $60/ night, the hotel

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    Essay Length: 1,122 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 21, 2016
  • Case Study on the My Lai Massacre - How Representative Is the My Lai Massacre as Evidence of American Experience in Vietnam?

    Case Study on the My Lai Massacre - How Representative Is the My Lai Massacre as Evidence of American Experience in Vietnam?

    Case study on the My Lai massacre How representative is the My Lai massacre as evidence of American Experience in Vietnam? “In war, truth is the first casualty” Aeschylus Word count 1998 Sanders, Samantha 007006 0056 Contents Table A. Plan of the investigation............................................................................................3 B. Summary of Evidence...............................................................................................4 C. Evaluation of sources................................................................................................6 D. Analysis.....................................................................................................................8 E. Conclusion...............................................................................................................11 F. Bibliography............................................................................................................12 A. Plan of the investigation This investigation assesses to what extent the ‘My Lai massacre’ is representative of

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    Essay Length: 3,345 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: July 10, 2016
  • Dreams Vs. Realities in a Mid-Summer Night’s Dream

    Dreams Vs. Realities in a Mid-Summer Night’s Dream

    Dreams vs. Realities in a Mid-Summer Night’s Dream Magic has the power to make impossible things realistic. In literature, magic dreams and nights mares reality. A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream is a Shakespearian play in which a character named Oberon demonstrates how dreams can alter reality, his character is shown to be observant, obsessed, and vengeful. To begin with, Shakespeare characterizes Oberon as an observant character; he connects him with the theme of dreams altering reality.

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    Essay Length: 741 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: July 14, 2016
  • Anti-Black Racisms in American Society

    Anti-Black Racisms in American Society

    Jennell Benson EID: JRB5883 AFR 303 Mid-Term Response to Prompt 1 Recently, there have been numerous events in our nation that has threatened the idea of equality and justice within our society. Issues of institutionalized racism, prejudice, and oppression have just as much impact today as they did during slavery and in the height of interpersonal racism. One of the cases that received the most attention in popular media was the murder of 18-year-old Michael

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    Essay Length: 1,868 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: July 21, 2016
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Scholar

    Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Scholar

    Taek Been Nam Module 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson American Scholar At Cambridge, August 31, 1837, Emerson delivered a lecture that is now known as “The American Scholar.” In this speech, Emerson boldly claims for the new intellectual identity and the original American literature that will no longer depend on the authority of the European past. His hope for the America as an independent nation that would stand firm and autonomous on its intellectual ground is

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    Essay Length: 2,406 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: August 15, 2016
  • Selecting a European Distribution Center Site for American International Automotive Industries

    Selecting a European Distribution Center Site for American International Automotive Industries

    I. Point of View The point of view used in this case is the Vice-President (VP) for taking the initiative to instruct Hamburg office to conduct a preliminary site search. Also, through further studying the five (5) potential sites, the VP can recommend the best location to be considered by the Top Management of American International Automotive Industries (AIAI). II. Synopsis The AIAI, a manufacturer of auto & truck engine, transmission and chassis parts, was

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    Essay Length: 464 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: August 31, 2016
  • Selecting a European Distribution Center Site for American International Automotive Industries

    Selecting a European Distribution Center Site for American International Automotive Industries

    Selecting a European Distribution Center Site for American International Automotive Industries A Case on Location Selection Table of Contents I. Point of View 2 II. Synopsis 2 III. Statement of the Problem 2 IV. Decision Criteria for Alternatives 3 V. Recommendations 3 VI. Contingency Plan 3 I. Point of View The point of view used in this case is the Vice-President (VP) for taking the initiative to instruct Hamburg office to conduct a preliminary

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    Essay Length: 492 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: August 31, 2016
  • The American Red Cross - Strength in Numbers

    The American Red Cross - Strength in Numbers

    Anderson Jordan Anderson Brooksie Kluge ENG 104 28 Sept. 2015 Strength in Numbers There are over 70,000 disasters each year in the United States. The American Red Cross responds to nearly all of them. Not only do they cater to peoples needs that have been affected by disasters in America, they also support hundreds of thousands of military families, millions of blood donations, processing and distributions of blood, health safety services, and international support to

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    Submitted: September 1, 2016
  • Single Story About Asian American

    Single Story About Asian American

    AAS100 Writing #1 Shuodong Zhang As Asian Chinese, when I came to the United States for the first time, I have never noticed that there were huge amount of Asian Americans in the United States. They have the similar look as the Asian people, however they have a native accent and most of them could not speak their original country’s language. In my early thoughts, Asian Americans come from Asian countries or their parents; grandparents

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    Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: September 17, 2016
  • American Citizen

    American Citizen

    American Citizen Does being born on American soil or taking an oath of citizenship make you an American? If it was viewed purely in a legal context it certainly would but being an American means so much more than the legal definition. America is a country built by immigrants for those that were “ yearning to breathe free” ( Lazarus). Emma Lazarus in her poem Statue of Liberty expresses the need for freedom that immigrants

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    Essay Length: 560 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: September 26, 2016
  • The Truth About Antonio’s Dreams

    The Truth About Antonio’s Dreams

    Tatiana Baron Mr. Holland English March 6, 2016 The Truth about Antonio’s Dreams In the book Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya there is a boy named Antonio; he has dreams that seem to show the future but also seem to give him more question then answers to his problems. Rudolfo Anaya really captivates the dreams in such a way that has me thinking that they aren’t the future but that Antonio's dreams do not

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    Essay Length: 627 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: September 27, 2016
  • Marketing Engineering for Excel Case Version

    Marketing Engineering for Excel Case Version

    MARKETING ENGINEERING FOR EXCEL CASE VERSION v120419 Case Can the Bunny Hop? By Arun Pereira, Arun Patro, and Gary L. Lilien 1. Before beginning any case, students should familiarize themselves with the model being used. Marketing Engineering for Excel comes with tutorials that demonstrate the capability of each model. The tutorial can be found under each model within the ME►XL menu after starting Excel. These tutorials are designed to work with our OfficeStar examples, which

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    Essay Length: 3,576 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: September 28, 2016
  • American Red Cross

    American Red Cross

    American Red Cross Bibliography: In my paper, I will discuss the Red Cross as an organization, explaining the back ground of the organization goals and what management issues it might face, while identifying the main problem, and searching for a possible solution they may consider to use to accomplish their goals as a nonprofit organization, as well as the solution the organization actually adapted and implemented, through the analysis of the problem. I will discuss

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    Essay Length: 2,550 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: September 30, 2016
  • History of Native American

    History of Native American

    The document I select to annotate on is ‘An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States’ written by Angelina Grimke in 1837. This article was written to assert women’s right to fight for the emancipation of slaves oppressed in the free states and it also emphasised on the importance of equal rights for women to put their thoughts and beliefs into actions politically, domestically or socially. The article was directed to the Women

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    Essay Length: 3,015 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: October 3, 2016
  • Introduction to American Politics

    Introduction to American Politics

    PSC 101: Introduction to American Politics EXAMINATION ONE Name: Austin Martines STUDENT ID NUMBER: 8000442585 DIRECTIONS: PLEASE ANSWER EACH QUESTION AS THOROUGHLY AS POSSIBLE, IN EACH OF ITS PARTS. TYPE YOUR ANSWERS TO EACH QUESTION, SINGLE SPACED. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE AT LEAST ONE PAGE ON EACH QUESTION. CITATIONS ARE NOT NECESSARY AS EACH ANSWER SHOULD REFLECT YOUR OWN THINKING AND REFLECTION ON THE QUESTION. YOUR EXAMINATION IS DUE BACK ON MONDAY SEPEMBER

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    Essay Length: 2,130 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: October 11, 2016
  • The Effects of the American Revolution

    The Effects of the American Revolution

    Prior to the American Revolution, society in the American colonies were unjust and lacked a sense of leadership. Slavery was popular, women were disrespected, the elite served as the owners to the land, and British government carried out many acts that resulted in taxation of the colonies. Because of a group of brave patriots who stood up for what they believed in, the American Revolution sparked. The effects resulted in the political, social, and economical

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    Submitted: November 15, 2016
  • American Revolution Dbq

    American Revolution Dbq

    Prior to the American Revolution, society in the American colonies were unjust and lacked a sense of leadership. Slavery was popular, women were disrespected, the elite served as the owners to the land, and British government carried out many acts that resulted in taxation of the colonies. Because of a group of brave patriots who stood up for what they believed in, the American Revolution sparked. The effects resulted in the political, social, and economical

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    Submitted: November 15, 2016
  • Young Americans Use of Tobacco

    Young Americans Use of Tobacco

    Today’s high school and college age Americans will have to deal with the actions and attitudes of those involved in the current debate over tobacco use in America. As today’s and tomorrow’s smokers and non-smokers, we need to understand that aspects of our future are being decided now. The use of tobacco has been proven to be very dangerous to health. All though smoking is hazardous to our health, 90% of the populations are smokers.

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    Submitted: November 18, 2016
  • American Society

    American Society

    American society Sabrina Pineda Sociology 001 0135 Professor Yesenia King 9 November 2016 1.The beauty of the past and present is being skinny.Lots of women have a hard time being able to love their body especially when they see a ad or a billboard of a skinny women.Even the women in those ad are being photoshopped because they are considered fat.Nature beauty isn't a thing anymore we tend to use lots of makeup and embrace

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    Essay Length: 830 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2016

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