If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? ... Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... Hale arrives, it is quickly determined that "Tituba knows how to speak to the dead,"40 and that more went on than simply dancing. ... This novel does not deal so much with witche...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Imagine a world where words and pages are burnt into ashes, a world that destroys and has forgotten how to build, where the human race cannot think thoughts except ones that they are given to them, and can't remember what it feels like to know why one cries. In this world, one created by Ray Bradbur...

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• Grade Level: High School

Then the movement took place when Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man on a bus. ... Or if a black man walks in the presence of one or several KKK members, it would be unsafe for the black person. ... A 49 year old black man by the name of James Bryd Jr. was dragged by the back of a pickup truck (Boven). Police got the call of a dead body and the man's torso was found first, right arm second. ... If only that feeling of walking in public and being looked at the wrong way cou...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Taking credit for this day's events was one man, Osama Bin Laden. ... I was just walking out of first hour when I looked up at the monitor for the first time as they were replaying the earliest footage of the crash. ... Some people decided to go on with business as planned, while others stopped dead in their tracks refusing to comprehend what they just saw. ... If we can jump so "balls to the wall" into another mans war and get slaughtered for what we believe in, what in the world could be possibly have to think about when the neighborhood bully, who happened to be 4"10" and 95lbs., knock...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Gun Control The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else cannot take one's right to life. However there are times when people try. When that time comes, the victim must have a way to protect himself. A handgun ca...

• Word Count: 5482
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the acc...

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