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A Paper on Books That a Person Would Save after Reading Fahrenheit 451 (465 words, 1 pages)

The books I want to save The book "Fahrenheit 451" gave me the idea to write about the books I want to save for the world after me. The government likes to read through all books before they come out. And they don't let them all come out or just ... Read More

An Analysis on Odysseus’ Test for Penelope In “The Odyssey” by Homer (792 words, 1 pages)

Gentle waves lap against the Ithacian shore line as Odysseus has finally reached his native homeland. Rumors of the great turmoil that has rocked Odysseus home land and house has reached him abroad. After hearing the news, he decides to don a beggars disguise and so forth begins the great ... Read More

A Paper on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter Test (428 words, 1 pages)

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a test that best describes a person's personality. It consists of seventy questions that try to find out what kind of person you are. It tries to best identify where you like to focus your attention, how you prefer to take ... Read More

A Study Testing the Hypothesis That Divorce Provokes Aggressiveness in Boys (395 words, 1 pages)

The Effect of Divorce on Sons Aggression The divorce rate has dramatically and progressively increased in recent years (Bridgeman Alvon, 1991 Lowen Mill, 1998). Many literatures have cited the varied effects of divorce on children. The most significant findings are affective (Carry, 1989) and behavioral (Wright, 1984) disturbances. Particularly, boys ... Read More

A Paper on Schools and Testing (677 words, 2 pages)

SCHOOLS AND TESTING In the article provided, the author, Dick Williams, presents two ideas on the state of schools and education in the United States. The points of view he attempts to argue are the conditions of the nations schools and the quality of the educational system. During his efforts ... Read More

An Exam Based on the Reading the Book The Outsiders (601 words, 1 pages)

1. If I could be any one of the characters in the book The Outsiders, I would be Ponyboy because of his many good characteristics. He is intelligent which show by his good marks in school. He understands that its wrong to fight unless for self-defense. He is heroic this ... Read More

Preparing for Military Service, a Daunting Task for Youths in Germany (1048 words, 3 pages)

Every man in Germany has to join the military service for eighteen months or serve an alternative social service. However, an examination is given to those men who intend to render the alternative service that lasts 22 months. Less than thirty percent of all those who take the exam pass ... Read More

Preparation for the SEA Games in the Philippines (1964 words, 6 pages)

1.0 Executive Summary Sports is not just an entertainment, it enriches not only the fan, but the Filipino community as well. Being the host of the biennial event, which take turns among South East Asian countries in years, I do find a lot of opportunities for us not just to ... Read More

An Argument against Mandatory HIV Testing (1989 words, 3 pages)

AIDS has become a worldwide epidemic that has struck every identifiable group. However, persons who are considered to be in a high-risk group of contracting HIV, the disease believed to cause AIDS, are still stigmatized by the media and other professionals as being diseased and abnormal. It is quite surprising ... Read More

Questioning Your Beliefs by Reading Wendell Berry’s Life is a Miracle (802 words, 1 pages)

In Wendell Berrys Life is a Miracle, the idea that major changes need to be made within society is argued for with examples of ignorance and propriety. For us to understand what for Wendell Berry is arguing, we must first understand the definitions of both ignorance and propriety Ignorance is ... Read More

An Essay on Personal Experiences While Reading a Story about Segregation (409 words, 1 pages)

Joe Schneider 90899 This story led me to feel that in the 40s segregation was still very much in action and that the minorities were getting the short end of the stick. They were not only getting unequal education compared to the white school but they were not getting the ... Read More

An Analysis of Keirsey Character Sorter, a Personality Test (426 words, 2 pages)

Report on Keirsey Character Sorter By Linda Dietz Linda Dietz works in the University Advisement Center in the Resources Careers Department. She states that we all make our own choices through life. Examples given are,left and right handedness. This is one thing we choose in our developing years. One way ... Read More

Defining Intelligence and Testing It (1901 words, 4 pages)

Definition Intelligence Testing In reviewing the text, I found the definition of intelligence testing to be very simple testing used to measure intelligence. Two definitions found on an Internet site at dictionary.com are (a) A standardized test used to establish an intelligence level rating by measuring a subject's ability to ... Read More

Learning Life Lessons by Reading Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (642 words, 1 pages)

In the world today, everywhere you look you see something that has the potential to influence you. Whether this influence comes from a book, a teacher, or a movie it has the ability to change the way you view the world. I have run into a numerous amount of these ... Read More

Trying the Method of Strong Reading on the Example of Alice Munro’s The Albanian Virgin (1121 words, 2 pages)

Formal Paper 1 Although I consider myself to highly enjoy the act of reading and writing, I do not usually look forward to reading the introductions to works of literature, as I most often find the task to be somewhat tedious, and needless. However, on reviewing the Introduction to Ways ... Read More

Learning Life Lessons by Reading I’m a Fool (269 words, 1 pages)

I very much enjoyed reading the short story Im a Fool. It was very readable and it made a lot of sense to me. I know exactly what the narrator was feeling and thinking in the story, as I have been in similar situations. There are often times when you ... Read More

Othello as a Tragic Hero: Reading Shakespeare through Aristotle (847 words, 2 pages)

The definition of a tragic hero, as stated by Aristotle, is a man of great stature who, as a result of one tragic flaw, falls from greatness. To this degree, Othello fills the requirements. He is held with respect in Venice, where he lives. Here comes Brabantio and the valiant ... Read More

King Lear: An Example of Critical Reading (699 words, 1 pages)

The play King Lear is a good example of how critical readings achieve this as it has welcomed different types of readings influenced by social, cultural and historical contexts from which it arose. Of these readings, two in particular Aristotelian Tragedy and Marxism are best in demonstrating this. Aristotelian Tragedy ... Read More

An Analysis of Hatred in Nazism by Reading Articles by Sullivan, Reiss and Benfer (1523 words, 2 pages)

Hate and Nazism Hate is always and will always be part of our lives. Every day a new crime is committed and more are becoming to be about hate. People Hate other and it get a time when they discharge in violent ways in the hated. In Andrew Sullivans article ... Read More

Reading Stories as a Way of Finding a Meaning of Life on the Example of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun (910 words, 2 pages)

Stories are the central means by which we demonstrate our desire for a meaningful life. It is through stories that we convey our wishes, fears, and values. It is through stories, and through the sense of our lives as a story, with a beginning, middle, and end, which we create ... Read More

Examining the Grounds of Religions and God by Reading Descartes, Paley, Russell, Dickinson and Addison (2006 words, 5 pages)

Grounds of Religious Faith and The Existence of God If asked the question, What are the grounds for religious faith? One would probably sit and ponder on an answer for quite some time. However, you have to go right to the main argument, that argument is whether or not god ... Read More

Reading Journal on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (1301 words, 4 pages)

Author Mary Shelley Country England Title Frankenstein Genre FictionHorror 1. Characters, with a brief description of each. Victor Frankenstein He is the main character, a paradigm of ambition and curiosity. He does not know when to stop, and therefore loses everything. Elizabeth Lavenza She is the sweet sister-bride of Victor. ... Read More

Reading an Exercise for the Minds (458 words, 1 pages)

Reading - "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generation and nation". Happy is the man who acquires the habit of the reading when he is young. Poor indeed is the man who does not read, and empty is his life. Reading has different ... Read More

An Argument against Drug Testing in the Workplace (1453 words, 3 pages)

Drug testing in the workplace is a violation of employee privacy rights. Drug testing in the workplace was founded under the idea of protecting the employer from employees that had attendance, tardiness, theft and accidents assumed to be related to drug and alcohol abuse. To protect an employee's right to ... Read More

Five Books to Read on an Isolated Island (767 words, 1 pages)

After all these months of agony after being involved in excruciating scientific research and experiments, it is time for another, but of much less risk. I am to live ten long, miserable years on a lonely tropical island in complete isolation. To overcome discontentment from the lack of socialisation, I ... Read More

Responses from Reading Stand the Storm By Edward Reynolds (1968 words, 3 pages)

Reynolds, Edward. , Stand the Storm A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Longman. 1985. My Responses from Reading Stand the Storm With my sallow understanding of slavery, I imagined slavery only happening in the New World, where they obtained a better treatment than the book recorded at least, slaves ... Read More

Categories of Big Five Personality Test (273 words, 1 pages)

I took the Big Five Personality Test on the internet. Overall, I think the results were not too bad. However, some of the categories I scored a lot different than I thought I would. Otherwise, I think this a really interesting personality test to take. In the category of openness ... Read More

DNA Testing and Its Importance in Solving a Crime (1003 words, 2 pages)

Countless times you find that people go to jail, and it is of no fought of there own. They end-up telling there children crazy stories so that they won't find out what really happen and why daddy or mommy can't come home. Some tell there families that they are on ... Read More

The Benefits of the Leadership Skills I’ve Developed, Academic Rallies, and HOBY Experiences in Preparing Me for My Future Business Career (915 words, 2 pages)

As class president throughout the four years of high school, I have had many responsibilities in serving students and teachers at my school. At first I considered serving my school an obligation, but it did not take long for me to realize how fulfilling it was to help others without ... Read More

Understanding the Problems of Immigrants through Reading Russell Freedman’s “Immigrant Kids” (706 words, 3 pages)

After reading Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman I learned about what immigrants faced when traveling to America. The chapter told me about the trip to get to America. And also what the immigrants had to do when they arrived at Ellis Island. The author also tells me what they came ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013