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In 1995, 43,063 people died from breast cancer in the United States. It is the second leading cause of cancer death and the most common cancer in females aged 15 to 54. On average, if a woman develops this disease, her life expectancy drops by nineteen and a half years. This cancer is among the…

In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, an interesting idea is prejudice. This idea is portrayed in many aspects of the novel, and is directed towards both groups and individuals in the Maycomb community. Prejudice is linked with the ideas of fear, superstition and injustice. It is important because we can see…

Julius Caesar was the dictator of Rome from 61-44 BCE. He was born in the year 100 BC into a patrician family who claimed dependency from the kings of Alba Langa. At the time of his birth, Rome was still a republic and the empire was only beginning. Caesar made his way to praetorship by…

My first semester of my senior year is the first time in my life I have experienced a high degree of failure. By no means am I making excuses for my shortcomings, rather this essay is an examination of a point in my life in which I did not produce the results I set out…

Critique of Southern Depiction used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A common question while reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is if the South was really as it was depicted in this novel. A topic that was quite common in criticisms was the portrayal of speech in The Adventures of Huckleberry…

Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus is the most well known explorer by most school age children. When children are young, teachers tell them that Columbus was a very good person, a hero even. To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. He stole , killed, and tortured the natives….

plain to a child then death. Too frequently this task falls on a family member already struggling with their own grief. Nobody likes imagining dealing with a death of a loved one. Unfortunately the odds are high that some point you will face this situation. This may result to the death of a parent, friend,…

Autism Essay: A Pervasive Developmental/Spectrum DisorderAutism or PPD (pervasive developmental disorder) is defined by the Columbia encyclopedia as a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the inability to relate to and perceive the environment in a realistic manner. The onset of the disorder is in infancy or early childhood, generally before the age of thirty months,…

Last October, congress passed and President Clinton signed into law a new “sequel” to the unconstitutional Communications Decency Act. This new Internet censorship bill, the Child Online Protection Act or COPA (a. k. a. “CDA II”), would establish criminal penalties for any commercial distribution of material deemed “harmful to minors”. Although I feel that this…

Kelsey LilesPat PattersonEngl. 1301. 0816 March 2002American Drug Abuse EssayOur society has found itself directly in the middle of a transcontinental drug surge. An estimated 23 million of the world’s population regularly take illicit drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that 13. 6 million of those who habitually used illegal drugs in 1998 were…