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John Milton?s ?When I Consider How My Light is Spent?, 2002.
This paper reviews John Milton?s poem, ?When I Consider How My Light is Spent,? an excursion into doubt with one?s self and one?s God.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper explores the notion of how Milton struggled with feelings of worthiness and justification and how he reconciled these feelings through his faith. The paper points out that most critics agree that Milton is referring to his blindness when he refers to ?light? in the first line as well as ?half my days in the dark world? in the second line. The author believes that through Milton?s experience of going blind, it is possible for the reader to understand how a man of such faith might have ever questioned his value.
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"Paul Goodman also adds to interpretations of the poem by noting that it ?is a motion of thinking? or ?reflection on a problem? and the reflection can only be understood, Goodman states, if ?we consider the feeling accompanying it?. He asserts that the reflection is an argument on ?justification by works?. Because of how the poem is divided, Goodman explains, the reader can understand the first section representing the ?correct argument with regard to man?s justification: ?Who best/Bear him mild yoke, they serve Him best??, which leads to further reflection, although it is ?extraneous in the argument of justification?.
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A Summer Spent Backpacking, 2005.
Personal account of author's own backpacking experience.
1,291 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper describes the author's positive experience backpacking in America. The author talks about the emotionally and spiritually uplifting experience that backpacking can be, as well as its educational benefits in terms of self-sufficiency, responsibility, co-operation, endurance, survival skills, and planning ability.
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"Last summer my parents decided to go on a world cruise, which they had long dreamt of. My parents? decision left me with the prospect of a summer with nothing much to do other than laze around the house. In fact, this was precisely what I was looking forward to when a friend suggested that we spend the summer backpacking our way through some of the wilder terrain of America. Initially, when my friend mooted the idea, I demurred since I just could not see myself walking endless miles groaning under the weight of a heavy backpack. However, my friend was highly persistent and persuasive and finally I gave in. Today, when I look back, I am thankful that I did so, for it was a highly rewarding experience in more ways than one. Indeed, I would have never imagined that backpacking could actually lead to the development of several skills. More important, today I believe that backpacking is one of the best ways for a person to get in touch with themselves."
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Tax and the Criminal Justice System, 2005.
This paper looks at the effect of imprisonment and how tax dollars should be spent in the criminal justice system.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the effect of imprisonment and how tax dollars should be spent in the criminal justice system. The paper discusses whether tax dollars would be better spent on more police and more prisons, or on welfare programs and education to prevent crime.
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"The overwhelming response to reducing crime in the United States has been to build more prisons and incarcerate more people. Prisons in the United States had more than one and a half million people in prisons and jails and the money spent to keep them there is often taken from budgets that would otherwise be spent on human services programs. California, for example, spends more on prisons than it does for education."
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Lillian Ross' "Portrait of Hemingway", 1999.
A paper regarding the three days that Hemingway spent in New York in the sixties written by Lillian Ross, a journalist and friend of the Hemingway family.
710 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 25.95
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A polished paper regarding the three days that Hemingway spent in New York in the sixties written by Lillian Ross, a journalist and friend of the Hemingway family.
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Computers in Classrooms Are Ineffective Without Knowing How to Use Them, 2002.
This paper presents a discussion on the ineffectiveness of classroom computers. Billions of dollars are being spent each year nationwide on computers in the classroom and our national test scores are still declining.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper presents a discussion on the ineffectiveness of classroom computers. Billions of dollars are being spent each year nationwide on computers in the classroom and our national test scores are still declining. As long as the machines serve as dust collectors in the back of the classroom, we need to divert what we are spending to better uses. Lack of training, fast paced advances, and teacher apathy are all discussed.
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Walt Whitman's New Jersey, 2005.
Examines how American poet, Walt Whitman spent his later years in Cambden, NJ.
1,938 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper examines the life led by Walt Whitman after he arrived in Cambden. It looks at the poetry which he wrote during this time period and the people who influenced his life. The paper also shows the poor conditions under which Whitman lived.
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"The relationship that the poet had with his mother could be argued to be the strongest one of his lifetime, undeniably so as far as women were concerned. The uneducated woman and her genius poet son had little need for profoundly intellectual exchanges. Instead, it was the profound sympathy between them by which they were bonded. He would never find another like her, and to a great extend may have repressed his true sexuality, using the former as justification for never marrying. When she passed on, a terrible void was created in Whitman's' life, as there could never be anyone to replace her in his heart."
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Herodotus and his Examination of Barbarian Customs, 2008.
An examination of why Herodotus spent so much time discussing the customs of Barbarians in his Histories.
1,629 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses Herodotus' preoccupation with Barbarian customs, and explains how his Histories promote "Greekness" through the examination of that to which the Greeks compared themselves and inevitably found they were superior. The writer looks at Herodotus' cultural and intellectual milieu as well as his stated objectives in writing the Histories, and describes the cultural dualism he created by disparaging as well as giving due credit to non-Greek civilizations. The writer explains that the Histories contain much legend and fantasy and are more about customs and culture than battles or wars.The paper concludes that Herodotus created a past for the Greek people that is part myth and part reality, using Greek cultural superiority over non-Greek Barbarism in order to bring a pan-Hellenic unity to a people scattered over disparate regions and islands.
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"Despite this prevailing view, Herodotus appears to have taken a far more objective approach to determining the worth of people. In his proem, during his opening remarks, he clearly separates Greeks and Barbarians as inherently different but still reminds his audience that Barbarians are capable of great deeds. Herodotus outlines to the audience that his Histories are to be concerned not just with those deeds and the wider Greco-Persian conflict but also their causes. This explicit interest with causality is such that it has led to claims that Herodotus is the father of sociology, the father of anthropology and suggests that the content of his work must be concerned with custom."
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"Girl, Interrupted" ( Susanna Kaysen ), 1999.
Reviews author's account of her time spent in a mental institution.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" This paper is a consideration of Susanna Kaysen's autobiographical account of her time spent in a mental institution, Girl, Interrupted. Committed to McLean Hospital at the age of 18 after a brief examination by a psychiatrist she had never met before, Kaysen was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and subjected to the dehumanizing conditions of what was considered at the time to be the best mental health care the American medical community had to offer. The experience forced her to spend the rest of her life questioning her own sanity and the fundamental definition of sanity itself. Her account is poignant, brutal, and unrelenting, as she examines the episode that interrupted her life and changed it forever.
On April 27, 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen left her apartment and took two trains to reach the office of a new.."
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Computer Vision Syndrome, 2004.
Discussion of the host of physical problems resulting from the ever-increasing amount of time spent in front of a computer.
2,062 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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This paper first describes the vision problems caused by spending too much time in front of a computer screen and then describes the muscular and skeletal problems that may also result from extended periods of time in front of the computer. The paper also describes the physiological process that creates computer vision syndrome (CVS) and explains how these computer related health issues can translate into reduced worker productivity. Finally, the paper includes a discussion of the measures that can be taken to help protect the user from the physical problems described in the paper.
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"With the ever-increasing amount of time consumers are spending in front of their computer screens, this disability is considered on of the fastest growing work related health problems in the country today. For many Americans, the problem cannot be left behind at the office. Individuals come home, to spend time surfing the web, corresponding via email, and pursuing various computer based entertainment functions. The digital world is swiftly becoming dangerous to the health and wellbeing of a great many Americans."
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Mary Rowlandson's Captivity, 2002.
A look at the style of narrative used by Mary Rowlandson who spent three months as a captive with the Naragansett Indians in the seventeenth century.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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Mary Rowlandson's description of her experiences being held captive by Indians during the Metacom Wars in17th century New England represent the birth of a narrative genre. What characterizes the Rowlandson's narrative as particular is both the vivid detail of her experience and the ways her survival is woven through the Calvinist doctrine's of New England's Puritan religious communities. The narrative itself represents the sheer trauma of Rowlandson's experiences in a language that appeals relentlessly to salvation discourse and it is apparent that her religious passions sustained her to some degree during her three months as a hostage with the Naragansett Indians. It is also difficult to deny the ways the narrative is written after-the-fact and represents a particular reconstruction of the experience. It is in reading the narrative is a context of post-traumatic writing that it becomes possible to understand how Rowlandson's writing constitutes a particular act of recovery.
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Nuclear Waste Disposal, 1997.
Provides background of the problem and discusses issues such as spent fuel rods & liquid waste, storage containers, laws, health & environmental threats, site selection, transportation, costs and public views.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 111.95
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"NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL
Introduction
This research considers the issue of nuclear waste disposal in the United States. The nuclear waste present in the United States is a combination of spent fuel rods from commercial nuclear power generators, high-level liquid radioactive waste from government-owned nuclear reactors uses in the production of nuclear weapons, and miscellaneous low-level nuclear wastes.
While the way in which nuclear waste should be disposed is a volatile issue, one issue that has not been adequately considered is the separation of the spent fuel rods from the commercial reactors from the high-level weapons production-related nuclear waste with respect to disposal of the materials. Currently, policy calls for all nuclear waste to be placed in long-term storage at..."
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"Homage to Catalonia", 2002.
An analysis of George Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia' and the time he spent as a soldier during the Spanish Civil War.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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A discussion of George Orwell's vision of war from his experience as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War in the Marxist Unity Worker's Party. It details the political conflicts at the time and the idealism of the Marxist Worker's Party. Orwell discusses the meaning of the war to him as well as his profound feelings for the Spanish people, and the political agenda that counteracted any real progress made against Franco. Orwell could not have written about what he had just been through without writing about the political reasoning behind those he was fighting with, fighting against, and struggling against on the same side of the war.
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"George Orwell wrote ?Homage to Catalonia? about his time spent as a soldier for POUM, the Worker?s Party of Marxist Unity, during the Spanish Civil War. His vision of war was certainly different going in than it ended up being after he had spent several months on the front line. Perhaps the most disheartening aspect of the war (besides the cold) for him was the political conflicts that were undermining the overall efforts of those who were against Franco. Suppose Orwell wrote about his experiences without bringing in the very confusing different political agendas ? would the message of ?Homage to Catalonia? still be the same? Hardly - even Orwell himself said that it would ?be impossible to write about the Spanish war from a purely military angle. It was above all things a political war.? (46) Yet in spite of Orwell?s disgust at the conflict among those who were supposedly fighting for the same things, Orwell found it necessary to write his memoirs of his time in Spain. Clearly the war meant so many different things to him, and it is through ?Homage to Catalonia? that he tries to convey these meanings ? his profound feelings for the Spanish people, and the political agenda that counteracted any real progress made against Franco. To Orwell, his interactions with the P.O.U.M. Catalans, as well as those from other socialist ?groups? fighting on the same side were the people who affected him most profoundly. It was these relationships that shaped his experience, which is the sole purpose of his ?Homage to Catalonia?."
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Student Athletes.
This paper is a personal essay discussing the truth about collegiate student athletes.
880 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that college student athletes must get good grades to be able to complete. The author believes that student athletes have to work twice as hard as other students on campus because not only do they have the same everyday class work, but also they have double practices, weights, and six hours of mandatory study tables every week for first-semester freshmen. The paper relates that, more often than not, student athletes have to pay for some of their education; the only teams that truly give away full-ride scholarships at this university are football, basketball, and, in some instances, hockey.
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"When thinking of a collegiate student-athlete, most would think they get off easy; but the reality of it all is that they are some of the hardest working people in colleges and universities today. Before sitting down to talk with one, I thought that all student-athletes automatically were accepted to a college because they were going to be an athlete there. They all were given free educations if they were going to be playing a varsity sport. Also, I thought that not only were they not at all smart, but also they didn't learn anything because they were given tutors that did all their work for them."
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Memory Theory, 2006.
An essay describing the author's experience as an exchange student in Argentina and the psychological theories that were applicable to her language acquisition experience.
898 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper describes the author's efforts at learning the language of Argentina during a semester of school in that country and how, in her efforts at learning the language, she spontaneously employed concepts and theories associated with memory theory.
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"I had the opportunity to study abroad in Argentina for a semester. To maximize the experience, I completely immersed myself in the culture and language. Initially, this was exhausting and it was necessary to take frequent breaks and even naps to integrate what I had just experienced. Many times words and phrases escaped my grasp but I learned to relax and concentrate on the gist of the exchange, using verbal cues, body and facial gestures, context, and the overriding emotions to assist me in this endeavor. Naturally, the combination of a relaxed attitude and continual exposure fostered within me more accurate listening and speaking skills."
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