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- 10601: Absinthe Vines
- ... be going on a diet anytime soon. Money was all his to enjoy, because of one simple factor: Travis had a paying job. The bar was a dismal little place in the East Side of New York. Travis was supposed to serve drinks while the usual tender was off doing god-knows-what with god-knows-who. All of his past experience with alcohol had been rather one sided, but hell ... of death, and the worlds in between. The boy's name was Ben, he found out later, after they had drunken bottles of absinthe through the night. He was from an art school somewhere in New York, and had found the bar while he was studying the early 1900's, to paint his mind on the canvas, and become whole with it. It was a speakeasy during prohibition, and this held ... life, of things they must do. Ben had to go everywhere, do everything. Travis said he would rather stay in the same place the rest of his life. But that was the old Travis. The new Travis was an integral part of Ben now, he knew him better than himself. Travis knew of the abuse at an early age, Ben's escape to drugs, Ben's close call with death ...
- 10602: Are You Ready For Some Footbal
- ... to do because not only does it make you better it makes the whole team better. When you play football you build relationships with your teammates, more often than not, you make a lot of new friends. You find yourself spending time with other players off the field such as watching the big game, going to a bar, playing a round of golf in the off season, or simply just “hang ... to do with it, but I was just ecstatic to be back on the football field again, even though I wasn’t the one playing. With this coaching position I’ve experienced a lot of new relationships. From meeting a whole new group of players to other coaches it’s been a learning experience and I’ve already built new friendships that I know will last a long time. But the most important relationship I believe ...
- 10603: Analysis of Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"
- Analysis of Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" Poetry is the meaningful arrangement of words into an imaginative and emotional discourse. The ability to write old matter in new words. The entire art is the organization of words in a new way so that it will have a different emotional effect on the reader. Poets are constantly looking for new ways to express themselves. This is especially true of modern poetry. The contemporary poet is experimenting with language. William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" is a prime example of the search for proper literary ...
- 10604: A Critical Analysis Of William
- ... the same time as he is deceiving himself by believing her lies, he is in effect mirroring her actions. He presents himself as made of truth by establishing himself as an innocent, Unlearnèd in the world s false subtleties. Shakespeare begins the second stanza with a wonderful pun. Vainly thinking refers not only to the narrator s own vanity (which is driving him to such a deception), but also to the ... is so clearly not unacquainted with), now the tone is quite clearly regretful: the simple truth is repressed, held back. The phrase is also a paradox, for the poem has committed the reader to a world of intellectual complexity and sophistication, in which truth has become elusive and problematical: not simple at all. In this respect, the reader is able to feel the speaker s nostalgic yearning for an innocent world of simple verities. The third stanza begins with questions from the speaker: But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? These questions are not asked ...
- 10605: Ethan Frome And Their Eyes Wer
- In the world today, there are many forms of societal differences that hold people back from their dreams and desires. The two novels, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston ... back in the 60 s, or women not having as many rights as men. In this essay, I will attempt to convey the struggles that each respecting character had, and relate them to today s world. The thematic bond that I chose to do this essay on was Repression vs. Oppression. In the book Ethan Frome, the main character, Ethan, is oppressed in many different ways. First of all, Ethan s ... they did, but under the circumstances that each character was in, they chose the way that they thought would end their pains and sufferings. Overall, these books have themes that can be related to the world of today and the world of tomorrow.
- 10606: George C. Marshall
- George C. Marshall was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1901 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. During World War I he was stationed in France and won acclaim for his direction of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Before the offensive, Marshall was responsible for; the withdrawal of 200,000 men, and replacing them with ... were hospitals to treat the sick and wounded, moving more than 3,000 cannons and 40,000 tons of ammunition, all the while hiding these movements from the Germans by moving only at night. After World War I he was a high-level aide to General John J. Pershing. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall ...
- 10607: The American Dream
- ... This statement is imperative because it gives recognition to those who try to reach their goals, even if they cannot achieve them fully. Throughout history, we see people voyaging to America in search of a new life and new opportunities. Whether it be the Puritans escaping religious persecution, the Colonists in search of a new crop to make them rich, or immigrants looking for a better place to live and raise their children, all are given a chance to achieve the goals they have set for themselves in America. ...
- 10608: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... it was a town full of churches at the time of the Klan’s beginning (Wilson and Lester pg. 50). This birthplace was the birthplace of future misery and despair and the beginning of a new era( Oneline pg. 1). On an evening in May 1866, a few young men met with one of the most prominent member’s office at a Pulaski bar. In the course of the evening’s ... its land from immigrants express on what to expect in the up upcoming years from the famous and old Ku Klux Klan. Works Cited Chalmers, David M. Hooded Americanism Chicago: Quadrangle Paperbacks, 1965. Humphery, Edward New Family Encyclopedia New York: Lexicon Publications, 1982. Shipp, Bill Murder at Broad River Bridge Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers Limited, 1981. Wilson, D.L and Lester, J.C. Ku Klux Klan New York: Ams Press Inc, 1971 Knights of ...
- 10609: George Berkely Philosopher
- George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher. His philosophical beliefs were centered on one main belief, the belief that perception is the basis for existence. In doing so, he rejected the notion of a material world in favor of an immaterial world. Berkeley felt that all we really know about an object we learn from our perception of that object. He recognized that in the materialist’s view the real object is independent of any perceiver’s ... God cannot be perceived, and if to be is to be perceived, then God cannot possibly exist. Although the existence of God can be inferred through the classical ontological argument, doing so scuttles his immaterial world. If one can have knowledge through inference, then one can infer the existence of a material world. Berkeley’s answer to the existence of the tree in the quad is not convincing because his ...
- 10610: I.t. Doctors Database Analysis
- ... is very time-consuming when compared to a computer-based database. Say you have a paper-based database. If one of your clients move house or get married, you would have to create a whole new record because of the altered information. And say it was a family who moved residence, and then after you made the new records the parents got married. It would cause a lot of hassle and waste a lot of time, wouldn t it? The doctor would get annoyed searching for people s files and they would take ... moving house. You have to sift through loads of files to find a specific patients file The only way they are secure from prying eyes is to lock them in a cupboard Objectives of the new system Faster access to files Easier alteration of files Confidentiality To be less space- consuming Limitations If I were to create a new program to do this task from scratch, I would have to ...
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