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Ellen DeGeneres, 2005.
A biographical look at Ellen DeGeneres and her open admission of homosexuality.
1,768 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the comedienne and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres, and her candid exposure of her homosexuality. Specifically, it discusses DeGeneres and how her life has influenced the gay and lesbian community within the entertainment world.
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"Ellen DeGeneres was born on January 26, 1958, in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and spent much of her young life in the suburbs of New Orleans. She has a brother, Vance, who is four years older than she is, and grew up in a Christian Scientist family. Ellen spent her high school years in Atlanta, Texas, after her mother and father divorced and her mother moved to Atlanta. She seems to have been good at some athletics, such as tennis, and a bit heavyset. When she graduated from high school, she moved back to New Orleans and began working at a series of jobs like oyster shucking and running errands for a law firm. Her first job in comedy was as the emcee for a local club called "Clyde's Corner." She began her stand up comedy career at clubs in New Orleans, and entered the "Funniest Person in New Orleans" contest, which led to her winning the "Funniest Person in America" contest in 1982. She moved to San Francisco in 1983 to capitalize on her "Funniest Person" title, and then moved on to Los Angeles in 1986, where she worked such notable venues as The Improv."
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?Ellen Foster? by Kaye Gibbons, 2001.
This paper reviews the book ?Ellen Foster? by Kaye Gibbons about a nasty little villain.
765 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper reviews ?Ellen Foster?, the title character, in a novel by Kaye Gibbons, a nine or ten years old who hates her father and wants him dead. The author states that most of the book is about Ellen?s search for a new mother who can live up to her anticipations. The author finds Ellen Foster to be a very unpleasant and lascivious child, certainly not a good example for real children.
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"Ellen Foster is apparently a child murderer. People are dying like flies around her. This cannot be a coincidence. It must be Ellen who murders them, although the novel never says so explicitly. Ellen is the narrator of the novel, so it is not surprising that she appears to be innocent. In the first page, we can read: ?But I did not kill my daddy. He drank his own self to death the year after the County moved me out. I heard they found him shut up in the house dead and everything. Next thing I know he?s in the ground and the house is rented to another family of four.? Already here we see a notorious liar and juvenile offender trying to deny her hideous crimes. Probably she put poison in his liquor. It is not stated what killed him the second time."
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The Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 2004.
Explores the life and poetry of Africa-American poet, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
1,949 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper looks at the subject, message, and broad appeal of the poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the popularity she enjoyed as a poet in her day, her philosophy of human rights, and her involvement in activities that could help further the rights of black people. The paper includes some of Harper's poems in order to demonstrate her technique, style, and use of imagery.
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"Benjamin Brawley writes of her that she was clearly a minor poet who gained a reputation in part because of other activities. For instance, for six years prior to the Civil War Harper was an anti-slavery agent in the East, and for more than thirty years after the war she was a lecturer in the South on temperance and home-building, with her major interest being in moral and social reform. She was born of free parents in Baltimore, and when they died, she had to make her own living beginning at age 13. Later, she was a teacher for three years in Ohio, but when Maryland passed an act forbidding free Negroes from the North to come to the state or they would be imprisoned and sold into slavery, she dedicated herself to fighting this wrong and other limits on freedom (Brawley 100-101)."
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Journalist Ellen Goodman, 2002.
Examines Ellen Goodman's style of writing known as feminist journalism.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses well-known journalist Ellen Goodman. Her style of non-confrontational feminism is examined and her use of rhetorical techniques is analyzed. The paper reviews several of Goodman's essays and cites them as examples of her technique. Finally, the paper provides a brief critique of Goodman's writing style.
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"Ellen Goodman is often called a feminist journalist. However, within the framework of any ideological movement such as feminism, there are many different factions and many different ?isms.? Rather than attempting a radical critique of gender roles, Goodman usually prefers a more gentle, mainstream examination of the relationship of males and females in contemporary society. Goodman does not discount the presence of discrimination against women today. She acknowledges that she has faced discrimination personally, both professionally and as a media consumer. But Goodman also, through the use of a discursive and relatively un-confrontational rhetorical prose style, reinforces male and female binaries. Goodman?s refusal to use a traditionally structured argument in many of her pieces on gender both reinforces as well as questions gender norms."
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?Ellen Foster? by Kaye Gibbons, 2004.
This paper is a review of the novella, ?Ellen Foster? by Kaye Gibbons, the story of a young girl who learns that people cannot be obligated to love her because they are blood relations.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that, throughout the novel, Ellen experiences multiple, emotionally wrenching experiences. The author points out that the social worker who tried to help did not understand the problem with her abusive father. The paper concludes that the lesson of the story is that, if someone truly loves us for who we are, it neutralizes all the hate from those who should have loved us, but did not.
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"At the start of the novel, Ellen is a child with a child?s understanding of family love. The story opens with Ellen saying to herself, ?When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy ... the way I liked best was letting go a poisonous spider in his bed ... Of course I would call the rescue squad and tell them to come quick something?s the matter with my daddy.? (p. 1) This opening demonstrates more than Ellen?s naive understanding of death. It also demonstrates her difficulty building close relationships with others. She calls her father ?my daddy,? rather than ?daddy.? She almost refers to him as an object in her environment rather than an important person in her life. Her father is verbally abusive, and Ellen knows her daddy is a ?big wind up toy of a man? not even worth talking back to (p. 3), but she also knows this is not how a family should be."
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Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, 2004.
Biographical account of Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry.
2,685 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper provides a biography of actresses, Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, as well as a description of their characters and personalities. The paper goes on to discuss the typical image held of female actresses during the Victorian era and the origin, evolution, and impact of the pin-up, as well as how actresses of the Victorian era manipulated the photographic images to their advantage.
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"Through the use of visual imagery to promote their theatrical identities, female performers in the mid-19th century shifted these personae from the relative isolation of the stage to mass media and popular culture. Both the burlesque tradition and the photographic ?pin-up? originated in this period - and the pin-up genre was utilized and manipulated by actresses in the realm of the burlesque. As representations of female performers who explored pointedly sexual roles (both on- and offstage) between a binary cultural construction, many of these early pin-ups can be read as a parallel to and inspiration for some of the more transgressive and unabashedly feminist uses and readings of the genre today."
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"Ellen Foster", 1996.
Analyzes novel's motif of food as means of understanding Ellen & her evolution from self-obsession to loving a black friend.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will analyze Kaye Gibbons novel Ellen Foster, focusing on the motif of food as a means of understanding the development of the character of Ellen, specifically in terms of her ability to move from such mundane (but obviously basic) needs as food to a love for her "colored" friend Starletta.
The preoccupation of Ellen with food serves as a recurring motif throughout the book. This motif is used by Gibbons to highlight the hunger Ellen experienced as a younger child, the continuing sense of physical and emotional insecurity which is intimately related to that lack of food, and the self-centered concerns of the character that are reflected in her obsession with food. The fact that by the end of the novel Ellen is able to finally gain some sense of herself, of security and happiness, and finally come to see the great worth of her friend is a sign..."
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Ellen Marram, 2004.
A profile of the career of this American businesswoman.
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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Ellen Marram obtained her MBA at a time when few women were majoring in business, and fewer still were gaining their MBAs. She has had a long and varied business career and continues to change and grow as the face of business grows across the globe. This paper examines the history of Marram's career in companies such as Nabisco and Tropicana and how she successfully moved into the global economy by managing Internet companies. The paper includes quotes of famous sayings by Ellen Marram to present her personality and business views.
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"During her tenure at Tropicana, she was named one of the Top 25 Managers of the Year 1998 by Business Week magazine. Her next challenge came in 1999, when she took over leadership of a small, start-up Internet company called efdex Inc. The company planned to act as an online food and drink exchange and trading system where purveyors and clients could meet globally and create business opportunities and alliances."
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Ellen Glasgow, 2002.
Analyzes the article "Heroism and Tragedy: The Rise of the Redneck in Glasgow's Fiction" by Duane Carr.
1,164 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses the 1996 article, "Heroism and Tragedy: the Rise of the Redneck in Glasgow's Fiction", in which Duane Carr speaks of Ellen Glasgow as a transitional author entrapped by ideals of the traditional and the modern. Carr's stated thesis is associated with Glasgow's character as a person as well as an author. The paper shows Carr's criticism for Glasgow's characters in her novel, "Barren Ground". It shows also his praise for one character, Dorinda, who, according to Carr, represents a completeness in Glasgow's work.
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"Though Carr contends that there is no real solution offered for the dichotomy of old versus new or traditional versus modern, the real interpretation lies in the idea that each step toward anything is gradual. Dorinda realizes that she has a lack of control over just how much change can occur and, though this may be sad because she seems to lose so much of her vision through this realization, she also acknowledges the vision in what is right in from of her, the land, her family and a simple life. Dorinda learns that it is alright to be just who she is and not ruin her own life by constantly trying to manipulate and alter her situation."
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"The Right To Privacy" by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, 2000.
A review of the work on legal privacy claims in courts and the fate of those claims, focusing on weakness of privacy laws.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy is an introduction to the wide variety of privacy claims made by American citizens and the fate of those claims in the courts. The book is intended for a general readership, rather than for legal scholars, and it is designed as if in answer to a list of points about privacy that almost any group of Americans would produce if they were asked to name the areas of privacy in which they were most interested. The authors respond to the prevailing idea in American society that there is some kind of legal protection for privacy rights.
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"The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy is an introduction to the wide variety of privacy claims made by American citizens and the fate of those claims in the courts. The book is intended for a general readership, rather than for legal scholars, and it is designed as if in answer to a list of points about privacy that almost any group of Americans would produce if they were asked to name the areas of privacy in which they were most interested. The authors respond to the prevailing idea in American society that there is some kind of legal protection for privacy rights. They demonstrate instead that, not only is there little explicit protection of privacy in the United States Constitution or in legislation, the laws that do exist often fail to provide the kind of protection people believe they promise. In addition, as the authors demonstrate with their..."
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Ellen: A Profile of Anorexia Nervosa, 2002.
A narrative essay illustrating a young girl's suffering with anorexia nervosa.
1,818 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper presents a fictional case study of a young girl's battle with anorexia nervosa. The disease is described through the story of 'Ellen'. The paper provides an overview of the signs and symptoms of the disorder and available treatments are discussed. Various theories of the etiology of the eating disorder are explained in this paper. Anorexia nervosa is also compared and contrasted with bulimia.
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"Ellen enjoyed her life in high school. She excelled in her studies as well as in athletics, with hopes of achieving a college scholarship. She was popular but not ostentatious; a somewhat shy, attractive young woman with an average build (5?4? 115 #) toned by gymnastics. Having a strong parental influence in her life helped her to excel, but also made her constantly feel like her parents controlled her, that she had no sense of autonomy from them. The onset of puberty brought her attention from the boys at school, but, as she developed, her body started to change. Her breasts became larger, her hips became fuller, and her slender frame began to gain weight. At first Ellen enjoyed her transformation, she felt like she was becoming a woman. But her metamorphosis came at a price - she couldn?t perform her gymnastics as well, and she was pressured by her coach to go back to the ?old Ellen?. Her mother "suggested" she diet and exercise to lose weight, and she did. After a few short weeks she looked and felt better, not having realized that the insidious nature of her disease was already setting in, controlling her."
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Ellen Gilchrist's "Falling Through Space", 1997.
Critical review of autobiographical essays, focusing on author's manipulation of photographs & text.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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" In Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist, the author, a novelist and short-story writer, collected a number of miscellaneous pieces that were originally broadcast on National Public Radio, or published in various magazines. The radio pieces constituted a running journal in which autobiography, discussion of her work, and reflections on personal concerns are featured. The selections are arranged in three sections: Origins, Influences, and Work. But, Gilchrist has also included a fourth section: 24 pages of black-and-white photographs that show, primarily, earlier generations of her family, her childhood and youth, and a small number of later pictures. These pictures sometimes tell a different story from the ones conveyed in the written parts of the book.
The photographs truly constitute a separate section of the.."
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"In Our Defense" by Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy, 1996.
Critical review of work exploring court decisions involving threats to the Bill of Rights.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"In the book In Our defense, authors Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy make reference to a number of major civil liberties cases as they illustrate the power and importance of the Bill of Rights. The government is prevented by the Constitution from engaging in a wide variety of behaviors which the Founding Fathers feared, based on their experience in Europe with an unfettered government. While majority rules, it is also true that the Constitution protects the rights of the minority against the onslaught of the majority. The bill of Rights involves a statement of such protections, as an examination of some of the cases cited will show.
The Progressive magazine case is an interesting one in which the magazine was going to print an article detailing the production of an atomic bomb, specifically an H-bomb. The..."
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Degeneration Stages of Alzheimer's Disease, 2004.
Reviews the progress of Alzheimer's disease through progressive stages.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper examines the progress of Alzheimer's disease through its progressive stages. It focuses on changes in the cardiovascular system, the circulatory system, and the muscular system, the three major degenerative stages of the disease. Background and description of the disease are also included.
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"This paper examined the progress of Alzheimer's disease in patients through three degenerative stages of the disease. In the earlier stages of Alzheimer's disease the most observable effects in the..."
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Ellen Bravo, 1999.
Examines the life, career and leadership of author and director of "9 to 5", the National Association of Working Women.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"Introduction
Ellen Bravo is a published author and executive director of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women based in Milwaukee. She has dedicated much of her adult life to eliminating sexual harassment on the job, and toward helping define the term "sexual harassment" itself. Bravo is recognized as a leader among working women, but little research has been conducted into her leadership style. This research examines her life and her leadership, and evaluates how others can learn from Bravo's example in this field.
Biographical Background
Born in 1944, Bravo is one of three children raised in the midwest by parents who initially maintained a traditional one income, one full-time homemaker partnership in their marriage. As the children..."
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