Although the musical titled "A Cracker as big as the Ritz- consumes many days and nights of their time, it is a failure and is never put on by the club. ... The idea just keeps swimming in his mind, distracting him for many days after words. He approaches Dyson a couple of days later, and asks if he could be appointed his advisor so he can further develop the idea as his junior research paper, which is required so he does not flunk out of college. ...

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He drew off his own life experiences to write his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to get across. ... Almost immediately Henry fell in love, and five days after meeting Ellen he wrote in his journal: "There is no remedy for love but to love more (Miller 25)." ... Thoreau eliminated the days of hiking so that the book had a greater unity of focusing on a single week on the water. ...

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Another famous author with a large cult following is Stephen King.29 His works have gained a great audience not because of their characters or stories, but because of King himself. ... As observed by King, "one touch of horror makes the whole world kin."31 The Puritans of America's early days did not understand much about their universe. ... "Nothing was more common in those days than to interpret all meteoric appearances and other natural phenomena" as supernatural revelations.51 When Dimmesdale, in all of his guilt, sees the meteor streak across the sky, he imagines that it i...

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But Shirk feels that, in those pre-Tienenmen days, such a move came about also as a result of an attempt by CCP leaders to demonstrate, in a more practical and thus less obviously ideological manner than Mao had done, their moral force. ...

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Tupac was rushed to the hospital, and after undergoing several lengthy surgeries and surviving for seven days, he finally passed away on September 13, 1996 at 4:03 am. ... Prior to his "death" Tupac purchased, read and thoroughly studied the publications and works of Machiavelli, who was a 16th century Italian war strategist who mastered the art of faking ones death, to fool his enemies. ...

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In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Rep...

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I plan on researching the effects of rap on today's youth. As Glenn Collins explains, "the influence of rap is now evident in the nation's language, music, fashion and advertising" (C15). I also plan on researching the effects of good clean lyrics that Will Smith uses, compared to the vulgar and v...

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Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strengt...

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