Her "fits" or convulsion, contortions and outbursts of gibberish baffled everyone in the small town. ... In 1672 Salem Village, a small farming village split from Salem Town, a prosperous town in Massachusetts. ... This controversial split contributed to the uneasy mood of the town and helped fuel the oncoming witch hunt. ... When the town physician could not diagnose the girls, it was assumed they were victims of witchcraft. ... The fact that our country was still developing played a huge role in the conviction of these people. ...

• Word Count: 1927
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• Grade Level: High School

For me weekends begin on a long strip of road in down town Hartford. ... Street racing isn't only found on the fast moving streets of down town Hartford, its all over the country. ... Hardcore streetracers enjoy every minute of it, and they love the risk involved, but our crew does it because its a hobby of all of ours that brings us all together as friends. ... Questions that may be in our minds, but we never ponder too long on them. ... If we did, we wouldn't leave our homes in fear of what may or may not happen today. ...

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After her brother's death, Idgie spends her adolescent years living in the woods, cutting herself off from her family, obtaining her socialization by drinking and gambling with the town's men. ... She seems to get great pleasure out of taunting the town preacher, wearing men's clothing, and befriending the black community in an era and region where there are definite racial boundaries. ... The majority of the town ridicules them, but over time the town becomes accepting of their partnership. This is a great example of utilitarianism; their actions not only saved themselves bu...

• Word Count: 1880
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• Grade Level: High School

I could not remember much about the town only that it was all dripping; squelchy and cold with winter rain most of our stay and dark. ... It was cheerful and clean and our room's window looked out into the well-lit streets of the market below and the bright lights from the town's top ridge. After we had a slight meal we felt sleepy and tired and flopped into our beds. ... It was cold, foggy morning (one could smell it) the dew settled on our heads and the cheeks felt coarse with hands. ... All through our stay there it was cold in Darjeeling. ...

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The Impact of Divorce to Our Childrens Futures Our society has changed in many decades. ... People need to do something that could change the system in our society, which could benefit a good result and positive outcome in our childrens future. People should vote and file a petition to change the system of our government that married couples should be prepared and do some kind of community services regarding child-rearing, or propose a town meeting that will discuss a healthy relationship that will benefit their role as parent and as husband and wife as well. ... The media, our environment...

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" And our adventure started. ... For me, the most unforgettable part of our tour is when we went to "Manila Boys Town". ... Our professor said that we should prepare a program for them. After we prepared a program for them, we entered Manila Boys Town. ... " We waved our hands too and said "Sige, babay na!...

• Word Count: 1969
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• Grade Level: High School

I will act in such a way, because it would be a travesty if we lived in a world where the negative actions of our leaders were shielded from the public's eyes. ... "When I think about former President Clinton, sure the affair comes to mind, but when all is said and done, he was one of the greatest Presidents in our history. The positive feats he accomplished for our country far outweigh the mistakes he made in his personal life. ... If this information were not printed, the town could go on with their happy lives and the mayor would still hold the full respect of the town and she would ...

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"Our force structure needs to be robust, flexible, and credible enough to meet the worst threats we can reasonably postulate." ... Leaving many of the small towns like Fort Repose completely isolated from the outside world. ... Disorder prevailed and the town turned on itself, the local sheriff is killed by outsiders who fled a "mushroomed town." ... This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... Frank is most likely trying to show our greed in society and how it is decaying us ...

• Word Count: 1812
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• Grade Level: High School

John's is the capital city of our province Newfoundland. ... The Icelanders for example dock into our St. ... Thus increasing tourist rates in our province. ... The town became incorporated on February 1955. ... The town of Logy Bay is home of the Marine Lab. ...

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He also recently finished writing a book the traces our family's name and history back almost a thousand years. ... The history of our country in this town was also really interesting to him. ... The colonial town was actually a popular destination to those in the upper class. ... We were at least somewhat a part of this town, him especially. ... On our left, the mountain would rise up out of the river to make for really amazing looking cliff edges all the way down. ...

• Word Count: 1774
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• Grade Level: High School

So, we are fed our opinion of Emily rather than left to create it. ... By making the narrator a generic member of the town we don't tend to judge or form an opinion of him/her either. ... We come to think of the narrator as the voice of the town as a whole, and we are made to take his word as our own. ... So we are ultimately transformed into citizens of Jefferson through the narrator and through our common feelings of and for Miss Grierson Instead of focusing on actual changes within the main character, Faulkner chooses to concentrate on a change in the town's as well as the rea...

• Word Count: 1870
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• Grade Level: High School

A study taken, involving 3 similar Canadian towns in the 1970's, is a key example. ... In the towns, forty-five children were observed on the playground. ... This is more plausible for television has the power, just like almost anything found in our society, to influence how we perceive our world. ... The violence seen on TV can distort our view about our world. ... Secondly, the film must be stored in our memory. ...

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But again, it's not the black or Mexican cowhand that has emerged in our folklore. ... Many of the cattle towns that have lived on in our lore and legend as the places of gunfights and wild unsocialized activities were also part of our myth. Towns like Dodge City, Kansas, Abilene, Kansas, were not centers of brothels and bar rooms. ... It was not just the you can't carry-your six guns in town today Charlie, but police roaming the streets, keeping law and order. The shootout that's dear to Hollywood seldom, if ever, occurred in these cattle towns. ...

• Word Count: 1347
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• Grade Level: High School

James Howard Kunstler's 1993 book, "Geography of Nowhere,"" contends that today's cities and towns are ruined by corporate gigantism, abstract renewal patterns, and public buildings that we have built. ... Kunstler further argues that people today have a great number of possessions such as modern technology that over time will not be worth maintaining because of insignificance and the failure to anticipate the cost of the social problems we created in letting our towns deteriorate. In contrast, Elizabeth Kolbert's 2008 article, "Turf War"" argues that today's lawns which ...

• Word Count: 1341
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Our society today is thoroughly impacted by all aspects of race, class and gender to an extent, in which it forces our society into a state of denial. ... So I decieded look at the two very diverse social situations situated in the same town, the town of Carteret. ... A bus stop right on the edge of the heart of town and another town entirely. ... All are neighboring cities from around our county. ... We have to be able to accept this in order to keep our race, class, age, and gender still an issue. ...

• Word Count: 2016
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• Grade Level: High School

Eisenhower, said that "I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him (Secretary of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.... There were many other reasons why some say that it was unnecessary to actually drop the bombs on the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Na...

• Word Count: 1613
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• Grade Level: High School

Our traditions go about as a compass for our human connections and individual collaborations, the subjective encounters of our family life, and eventually, the advancement of social orders. ... There are clues all through the story to clarify why the lottery is played in the town. ... The loss of one for some, when said like this the champ of the lottery ought to feel fortunate to have the chance to spare whatever is left of the town from a hard year and expand the general essentialness of the town. ... The town ought to put a stop to it and let it blur to time. This ought to make life in this...

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The use of description shaped my views on the characters, Miss Emily's house as well as the whole town. ... The dialogue indicates a town's person is most likely the narrator. ... The narrator begins the story by telling us of Miss Emily's death and how everyone in the town attended her funeral. ... "It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. ... "When Miss Emily died, our whole town went to her funeral: t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout history town hall meetings have used as the best method for individuals of a community to talk and discuss important issues and concerns they themselves and their community may have. ... One of the more vocal members of this town hall meeting to speak on behalf of segregation was Alabama Governor George Wallace. ... Johnson who showed great concern for our country in this moment of turmoil and the direction we are heading in as a country. ... It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning or our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor...

• Word Count: 1259
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For instance, there was a scene in which the town remembered the Griersons as a tableau. ... Another instance that Emily's father took care of everything includes the fact that their residence "had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spiresand set on what had once been our most select street", but now it was "an eyesore among eyesores" (367). ... It wasn't accepted among the town to take an interest in a construction worker, like Homer. ... Furthermore, the town and the reader believed that Emily and Homer had gotten married. ... The town's people con...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout her life, the town's people described Emily as a "hereditary obligation upon the town", almost as though she owed them her life (81). ... The town's people agree that "people hardly ever saw her" (83). ... Her secluded lifestyle would eventually separate her from the people in her town. ... Faulkner believes that if we cannot overcome our fear of change and live life for ourselves, there could be many negative consequences. ... It is easy to convince oneself that the world and our lives should always remain the same. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another way she proves this point is by showing how their town yearns for a break in traditional same-race marriages through dichromatic descriptions of the town in contrast to monochromatic descriptions of Abbie. ... Petry purposely writes of it poetically to heighten it to our typical sensations of what love means to us. The repetition in the three lines phrased slightly differently each time strengthens Link's claim that he loves Camillo, and enforces our belief in his feeling. ... Yet, another way she proves this point is by showing how their town yearns for a break in traditional...

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• Grade Level: High School

A teenage, male, Kentucky basketball fan who probably wants to be a player just like Towns will be aspirationally motivated. They consciously want to be like Towns. ... After imitating this behavior, we are either given positive or negative feedback from our peers. ... They are an extremely effective way of convincing the masses to feel a certain way about a brand or product because of our tendency to use models in our lives to imitate. These endorsements are by no means a bad thing, but it is important to form our own opinions, rather than adopt those of someone else....

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Craig Silvey has constructed Charlie in a way that allows us to grasp a deeper understanding on issues that happen in society from 1965 and relate them to our current issues. Silvey has portrayed the characters to show the bigger picture in our great society. ... Jasper is an Indigenous half-cast who is seen as the outsider of town. ... Jaspers character shows self-reliance, independence and maturity as he deals with the discrimination of the town. ... There are no strong women presented in the novel this is because the town is based around dominant males. ...

• Word Count: 1328
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• Grade Level: High School

Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... It was not that the surplus products of our society were not wanted, but rather that those whose needs were not satiated could not afford more. ... Farmers, most of who had been on their land for generation of their families, fell into debt and were given no assistance from our government. ... The Cunninghams send their children to school, as apposed to keeping them home to work in the field, and refuse to accept welfare o...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School