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An Essay on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) (2155 words, 3 pages)

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four has been challenged on such grounds as profanity, immorality, and obscenity. It has been charged with being Communistic, containing sex references, and being depressing. Some of these charges are absurd, and though some have a grain of truth when items are taken out of context, on ... Read More

Suicide as a Way Out as Portrayed in Doris Lessing’s To Room Nineteen (816 words, 1 pages)

Until Death Do Us Part Everybody has a time in their life when they just need to be alone. Whether its to think about life, or free themselves from their daily stress, isolation from the world may well be a necessary thing. In To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing, the ... Read More

A Paper on Nine Promotion Levels within the Chicago Police Department (839 words, 2 pages)

In Chicago, a good police officer is determined by the work activity he or she does. Work activity can range from writing someone a parking ticket to chasing a gangbanger down a dark alley and arresting that person for a murder he just committed. While police officers may look at ... Read More

An Essay on the Changes in the Lives of Women over the Last Fifty Years (437 words, 1 pages)

Over the last fifty years women's lives have changed for all types of reasons some for good and some for bad. The book shows us the changes. When Katia was 17 her father chose her husband and they moved to Australia away from her family and friends. Francesco didn't really ... Read More

An Analysis of Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (1039 words, 2 pages)

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been considered a very powerful piece of speculative fiction since its publication in 1949. In the novel, Orwell draws on his own understanding of totalitarianism to create a very believable world dominated by a totalitarian government. Readers come to understand the potentially devastating effects of ... Read More

The Nine Steps to Success (1492 words, 5 pages)

Success may come in many different shapes and sizes depending on a persons viewpoint of life. Success is a promise, a commitment, and in the long run a victory. I believe success encompasses all types of prosperity, whether prosperity means fame and fortune, health and love or even a growing ... Read More

The Use of Symbolism in J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories (1095 words, 4 pages)

There are few books in which the meaning is almost completely up to the interpretation of the readers. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger is one of the few. Readers are able to decipher the symbolism and significance behind each of the short stories without them being given. The short stories ... Read More

The Resilience of Cats and the Origin of the Theory of the Nine Lives of Cats (599 words, 2 pages)

I've heard the phrase a cat has nine lives since I was an immature child. This is not true, but people are known to assume this true because cats can fall from such high places and be only mildly injured. One theory on the origin of this expression is that, ... Read More

The Changes in the Idea of Family Life in the Last Fifty Years in America (784 words, 2 pages)

Would it be true to say that the idea of family life has changed radically in the last fifty or so years?Everyone dreams about having his own family, children and live as the happiest person in the world. It is hard to define which is the perfect family, because perfectness ... Read More

Same Sex Marriage Should be Legalized in All Fifty States of America (1177 words, 4 pages)

Legalization of Same Sex MarriageSame sex marriage is the one of the most widely voiced debates in society today. Many more states are deciding to legalize gay marriage, which is causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to speak openly about their opinions. Some people decide to take the political side ... Read More

A Review of Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (1766 words, 5 pages)

I enjoyed reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Every time I put it down and stopped reading, it left me seeking answers and I could not wait to pick it back up and start reading again. The whole theme of the book is bullying and the results of bullying in ... Read More

Physician-Assisted Suicide Should Be Legalized in All Fifty States of America (1608 words, 5 pages)

Physician-assisted SuicideEvery year, thousands of patients suffer in hospitals from long-term diseases and incurable cancers. It is hard to watch anyone you love live in pain, but it is even harder to let them pass. Many doctors today have agreed with the idea of physician-assisted suicide, or a practice in ... Read More

A Personal Analysis of the Nine Hispanic Films We Watched in Class (3593 words, 11 pages)

The nine movies we watched in class all powerfully affected me in one way or another and I appreciated how every film, despite being completely unique from each other, left me impressed and in awe. Whether the films genre was fantasy, like El Laberinto del Fauno, drama, as was Mujeres ... Read More

Little Nine Rock, a Youth Group of the Civil Rights Movement (1451 words, 6 pages)

Inspired YouthThe Civil Rights Movement utilized the youth, ranging in ages from elementary school to college, through non-violent protests, demonstrating the harsh reality of segregation advocates, leading to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One of the first examples that gained an immense amount of media attention was when nine ... Read More

An Analysis of Documents One, Two, Four, and Nine to See the Horrors of the Treatment of Slaves (642 words, 2 pages)

Aspects of a slaves life were not easy, and there was never a moment to rest. Slaves had to deal with discrimination and torture all through-out their lives. There was no equality between the black man and the white man. At this point in history, slavery was extremely dark with ... Read More

Manipulation and Obsession in Fifty Shades of Grey, a Novel by E.L. James (1057 words, 5 pages)

50 Shades of Sexual Abuse Misinterpretation of romance and healthy BDSM I just finished reading the most AMAZING book a woman whispers, leaning secretively to her friends ear beside her. Fifty Shades of Grey! The friend gasps and blushes, turning towards her with wide eyes. You mean the one about ... Read More

A Comprehensive Analysis of Nineteen Minutes, a Novel by Jodi Picoult (1505 words, 5 pages)

Nineteen Minutes, a novel by Jodi Picoult, does an outstanding job at displaying basic human personalities, thoughts, and consequent actions, before, during, and after a tragic circumstance. The thoughts of the individual characters has increase my desire to learn more about psychology, not only because of the complexity of these ... Read More

Paternalism and the Loss of Life in The Fifty-First Dragon by Heywood Broun (898 words, 3 pages)

The Collegiate Dragon-SlayersIn the quaint, marble-laden Hewitt Quadrangle of Yale University, an aged stone monument stands near the University Dining Commons. It reads In memory of the men of Yale who, true to her traditions, gave their lives that freedom might not perish from the earth. Behind this cenotaph lies ... Read More

An Examination of the Arguments of Guinness on the Questions of Chapters Eight and Nine in Unspeakable (582 words, 2 pages)

The question of chapters eight and nine in Unspeakable is "Are we really worse, or are we just modern?" Guinness' answer to this, in a nutshell, is no. Individual people are not more inclined to personal, immoral acts, but changes in societal structure and improvements in technology have created a ... Read More

The History of Women’s Movement in Fifty Years (1491 words, 5 pages)

A Push for EqualityThe Past Fifty Years of the Womens MovementThe past fifty years in American society have been marked by nearly constant change. Over time, the messages of many social movements change, adapting to fluctuating conditions. However, one movement has remained fairly consistent in its message, from 1963 through ... Read More

An Overview and Analysis of the Novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (2795 words, 9 pages)

SettingNineteen Eighty-Four is set in London in an alternate timeline of history, in which the year is 1984. It is a dystopian world in which London is in a province named Airstrip One, of a nation named Oceania. Oceania is one of three superpowers. It controls the entirety of the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Fifties and Sixties in College Education (1430 words, 7 pages)

In the fifties and sixties, families could normally do pretty well on a single income. One parent would work, and that would be sufficient to buy a house, a car, a college education for their children and to retire comfortably. But, by the mid 1970s, one income was no longer ... Read More

The Nine Virtues That Define Us as Being Humane (829 words, 2 pages)

The Nine VirtuesHumanity is the quality of being humane, or showing kindness and benevolence. To be humane is to acknowledge ones fundamental nature as a human, or a being capable of selflessness or generosity. Humanity requires what is described as the metaphorical heart, and is therefore specific to humans or ... Read More

An Analysis of Chapter Nine of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (358 words, 2 pages)

In chapter nine of The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, Hassan and Ali are forced to leave the house of Amir and Baba because Amirs Christmas presents are found under Hassans bed as if he had stolen them. However the narrator (present day Amir) explains to the reader that ... Read More

An Analysis of the Civil Rights Movements During the Fifties and Sixties in the United States (832 words, 3 pages)

Civil Rights MovementsIn the middle of the 1950s and early 1960s, the under-represented minorities in the United States were fighting for their rights. It started with the African Americans at first, who were mistreated the most and persecuted in the free south. The free North accepted the blacks and tried ... Read More

A Study on Student Athletes and Their Reliance on Vealey’s Nine Sources of Confidence (581 words, 3 pages)

This study looks at student athletes' reliance on Vealey's ninesources of confidence. Achievement goal-orientation, perfectionism, andcoach-induced motivational climates were utilized as predictors of selfconfidence sources (Machida et. al 2011, p. 173). The results yielded thatadaptive perfectionism positively predicted controllable and uncontrollablesources while maladaptive perfectionism only predicted the uncontrollablesources of self ... Read More

An Analysis of Book Nine of The Iliad (350 words, 1 pages)

The Illiad Book 9In Book nine Achilleus makes three important speeches to Odysseus, Phoinix and Aias. In each one he speaks of glory and honor. However they all differ slightly, and seem to depend on who hes speaking to and what his feelings are at the moment.When speaking to Odysseus, ... Read More

An Analysis of Chapter Nine of John Locke’s Second Treatise (254 words, 1 pages)

The Role of Government in a State of NatureIn chapter nine of John Lockes Second Treatise he outlines a specific, limited role of the government in protecting the individual rights of citizens. According to Locke, in a state of nature, people have the right to do whatsoever he thinks fit ... Read More

The Opening of the Box Where I Have Lived for the Nineteen Years of My Life (1547 words, 4 pages)

I have lived in a box for nineteen years of my life. I am nineteen years old. That is my story of where I have physically been. I was born and raised in the same town, and as I write this today I still remain here. The physical story of ... Read More

Reflection of NINE for IX Film; Venus Williams (476 words, 2 pages)

NINE for IX Film ReflectionThe NINE for IX film is an EPSN series of episodes about Title IX and the progress women have made in honor of the 40th anniversary of the law. Title IX is prohibits sex discrimination in education programs and activities. This law requires gender equality for ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013