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The Chrysanthemums, by John Steinbeck, is set in the beautiful valley of Salinas, California, during a time when California was the land of plenty. A place where dust storms and drought were unheard of, where water was plentiful and the air sprinkled with the sweet smell of fruit blossoms. A time when simple people farm…

The Civil War generated a tremendous leap of progress in the area of weaponry and medicineIn the brief but eventful 95 years between the forging of the UnitedStates and the civil strife that temporarily wrenched it apart, there weremuch advancement in the areas of both weaponry and medicine. One undid theatrocities of the other and…

Felony Murder Rule Criminal Law 2/19/2009 Melissa Bohling | Felony Murder Rule Many are upset and want the felony murder rule abolished. In California there is a case of Brandon Hein. He got drunk with some friends one night and the group of boys got into a fight with another boy. The boy got stabbed…

Literature has brought to surface some of the world’s greatest geniuses, most notably the renowned playwright, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in 1594 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He produced numerous masterpieces throughout his lifetime, such as Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was one of Shakespeare’s shortest plays and was first performed in 1601 in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. The…

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the boys who are stranded on the island come incontact with many unique elements that symbolize ideas or concepts. Through the use ofsymbols such as the beast, the pig’s head, and even Piggy’s specs, Golding demonstratesthat humans, when liberated from society’s rules and taboos, allow their natural capacityfor…

Balaenoptera Musculus, or the blue whale, is the largest mammal in the world. This enormous mammal can grow to be 110 feet long and weigh as much as 190 tons. That’s longer than two city buses and the total weight of 30 elephants. This giant is powered by a heart the size of a taxi-cab….

Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 are two books, both of which are supposed to be set in the future, which have numerous theme similarities throughout them. Of all their common factors, the ones that stand out most would have to be first, the outlawed reading of books; second, the preservation of health and youth…

Defense on SocratesThere are times in every mans life where our actions and beliefs collidethese collisions are known as contradictions. There are endless instances in which we are so determined to make a point that we resort to using absurd overstatements, demeaning language, and false accusations in our arguments. This tendency to contradict ourselves often…

The inspector slowly says ” are you sure you don’t know. ” Then he looks at Gerald, then at Eric, then at Sheila. ” By looking at them all separately you guess all three of them have had a part in the girls life that has made her commit suicide. This creates tension by wanting…

To millions around the world, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” is merely a childhood dreamland filled with riddles, fairy tails, and games without rules. However, to the trained eye, Alice’s world translates into much more than a child’s bedtime story. There are many undeniable patterns and connections seen throughout his story that are simply too…