What intrigued me most in "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" was when the author talks about how the slaves would sing songs on their way to the Great House Farm. ... Yes, they would sing on their way to the Great House Farm, but it was on those days that they could simply breathe and be away from the constant work on the field and away from under the driver's lash. ... So yes, these slaves did sing verses like "I am going away to the Great House Farm! ... The author himself states of how he had often sung to drown his sorrows and seldom to express his happiness. ... What...

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• Grade Level: High School

In an excerpt from "Compassion in Buddhism without Beliefs," the author introduces us to the development of loving which the author rightly sees not just as a separate exercise but also as a means to developing mindfulness and loosening the grip of centeredness. ... If one wants that life awakening and to feel great, then we must extend our compassion to everybody. ... We should think that, "oh I am so great for helping this person." ... It was quite hard understanding what the author was trying to get at during the duration of this excerpt. ... I just didn't get what the author was ...

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As the first author in the collection of essays "From Jesus to Christ," Helmut Koester writes: " for a human being to be related to something that is beyond the powers of this world was certainly one great attraction," Christianity seems to offer closure to a certain longing. ... Author Wayne A. ... Christianity gave a taste of the great mystery that countless felt in their hearts yet had no satisfying explanations for. ...

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The short story "Open Boat" is a great example of an autobiographical fiction. An autobiographical fiction is when an author writes about a true occurrence that happened to him or her but puts a bit of fictional twist on it. ... Autobiographical fiction is a great way for an author to tell a story about human life, which is usually a mediocre event or one that might be common and turn it into a fascinating or thought provoking tale. Additionally, the author can express his or her own feelings and relay a message through this style of writing. ... This sentence was a great foreshadowing lin...

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However, the author fails to provide any statistics to back up her claims. ... The rate of obesity in America has increased greatly, and while there are plenty of people in our country with weight loss problems, there are also a great number of people without them. ... The author also spends too much time discussing the history of weight regulation. ... Statistics are necessary for a paper of this sort, and the author provides no numbers to back up her claims of weight loss being a problem. ... In conclusion, the author does a fine job of achieving her goals of showing how weight loss is ...

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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) makes great use of ethos, pathos, and logos to help effectively persuade the audience to stop deforestation. ... The message appears to be very apparent because of the relation that the author used to connect the human body to the way the earth survives and breathes. ... The author of the photograph uses human anatomy as a way to compare an ordinary pair of human lungs to the breathing wind path of the earth. The author made an emotional connection with the audience using the forest trees that were shaped into a neglected pair of lungs. ... The logical understandi...

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The novelette, Anthem, by Ayn Rand is a fictional story that displays the author's philosophical views. ... Some quotations in this story reflect many deeper ideas and show the authors true reason for writing this great novelette. ... In conclusion, it shows that some quotes used in this book reveal a much deeper meaning to the author's views on life. ...

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Disagreements with Blake's and Shelley's views on Human Society This whole year we have been talking about authors of the past. ... Well first of all they were brilliant authors who mastered the English language. ... The poems are great and I know they are trying to say something to humans but I don't think all of their advice should be followed. ...

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Each of these articles will be of great use to me regarding the points I want to make in my paper. ... The author, Ray Bohlin (1997), who has a B.S. in Zoology and a M.S. in Molecular Biology, is also the executive director of Probe Ministries "a nonprofit ministry whose mission is to assist the minds of believers with a Christian worldview. ... The positive point of this source is that the author looks at ethical issues in a scientific way. ... However, what might be slightly negative about using this source is the author's opinion in the end. ... The author clearly is in suppor...

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Many authors have voiced their ideas about how human suffering is not only all over the world, but is largely ignored by people who are not affected by it. ... The author begins by giving examples of different groups of people, some in hope, some in despair, all in indifference to the feelings of others. He says that suffering takes a human position when people are "opening a window or walking dully along"(4) while around them is some great anticipation or crisis. ... He says that while the aged are "reverently, passionately waiting for the miraculous birth"(5-6) there are children who do not ...

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Lack of family support, love, or discipline can cause great amounts of emotional stress. ... Author Mike A. ... This is a great amount. ... Author William Julius Wilson believes that neighborhoods are a major reason for the increase in violence among young males. ... Another person who believes differently than I do is Author Joseph A. ...

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" The position is more like the interaction between two separate cultures- or indeed two individuals- where we can indeed gain a great deal from the other, but will always retain its own distinct identity... One particular point that both authors make is that we can only see things as they are to us. ... The authors actually seem to be dealing with the same question what is there, basic to us all, that makes us an individual and also part of the larger world? While neither author attempts to answer such a vast question, they both provide guidelines on how one might go about and what one ...

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Nature Since the beginning of evolution, nature has played a great role in challenging Mankind on a daily basis. ... According to Carl Stephenson, the author of the short story "Leinengen vs. the ants," "the human brain needs only to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even Nature." ...

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The boy whom I recognized from Spanish class hugged his knees and sat in complete silence, his cloud of vulnerability had such a great thickness I could have ran my hand through it. ... In Steven Harvey's "The Robes of Memory," the author expresses the idea that memory can act as a tool to improve one's personality and altruism as a person. After explaining the author's memory of his old English building, he writes: "Our buildings grow on us - we wear them every day" (3) and expresses this memory as "an arresting occasion that released me, like magic, fr...

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Author Ann McClintock explains this in her essay called "Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising" when she illustrates with "A childhood rhyme claims that "names can never hurt me," but name calling is an effective way to damage the opposition, whether it is another car maker or a congressional candidate." ... But language has been a great thing for motivating people, and helping people out in need. ... Both authors of the essays make good points about how language has influenced us negatively, but I don't think it is that bad. ...

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The author calls " .this new culture Adcult" (par.2). ... "There is really no great difference between Evian and Mountain Spring, Colgate and Crest, Miller and Budweiser, Ford and Chevrolet. ... The author discusses how humans do not know the value of "things". ...

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Not only do they make great teachers, who practice right from wrong, molding us into great human beings: but they show a level of caring and sensitivity that the male race as a whole could not achieve. In the book Candide, the author Voltaire points our the cruelty put on to females, makes the reader aware, and want to act upon it. ...

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In the 50s, feminist activist and author Simone de Beauvoir, suggested in her book that the term "women" we use in everyday life today is different from the same term "women" used in her book. ... "Why are there no great woman artist?" ...

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In order to understand the great contrast from the people of New York, it is important to conceptualize the former typical New York society. ... The two authors speculate that humans" actions are determined by how they will be benefit from their actions. ... The events of September 11th, 2001, had a great effect on everyone around the world. ... The two opposing authors, Huxley and Hobbes, argue that human beings have the general inclination to be selfish, unkind, and unpleasant. ...

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Summary- Well, to start it off, this is a great book that questions the way people are supposed to act, and what a reader's elders have taught one about the way people should also think. ... Not until the very end of the book do the characters meet, and does the book come to a great ending. ... If one likes books such as The Great Gatsby, or The Adventures of Huck Finn, then one might not enjoy this book so. ... I absolutely love the writing style that the author chooses for this book. ...

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--John Dewey Out of the authors that I have read this year, Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey are the two that I have found the greatest commonality with in the subject of obtaining and gaining information. ... A larger class size would have the great possibility of some student's ideas being left uncovered. ...

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The author clearly states there side of the argument repeatedly . ... I really don't know that much about therapeutic cloning or how much it contributes to the scientific community but I do know that there have been great strides made in the use of therapeutic for use in Parkinson's disease. ...

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It seems plain that we may take a given great science fiction story such as Frank Robinson's "Oceans Are Wide" and find these qualities. ... This setting gives the author room to develop Matty into a strong leader before the goal of colonization is realized. ... Antczak asserts that "an author's creativity in this genre is seen in the development and description of the wonders of the universe." ...

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The characters and their names mean a great deal in this short story. ... He lied about his name in the story, so there has to be some meaning as to why the author chose the name she did for him. ... But the story later suggests that Manly Pointer is not the man that the author portrays him as at the beginning. ...

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Along with laws, Gulliver explained to his Master the system in which tainted officials rise into power through "bribing the majority of a senate or great council." ... People felt they knew all the answers; they were content; they were arrogant, therefore, the authors felt like they needed to inform the public. ... Though both authors did accomplish their goals, but in order to prove a point the oppositions must also be mention. ...

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