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A Review of the Videotape Fractals Narrated by R.C. Clark (400 words, 2 pages)

The videotape "Fractals" was narrated by a writer of science fiction,R.C. Clark, who is the creator of 2001 Space Odessy. Individuals interviewed,experts on the subject included professor Stuart, Dr. Michael Barnsley, StevenHawkins, author of A Brief History in Time, and creator of the Mandelbrot set,Dr. Benoit Mandlebrot. These men introduced ... Read More

A Review of the Book Jurassic Park (728 words, 3 pages)

A billionaire has created a technique to clone dinosaurs. From the left behindDNA that his crack team of scientists and experts extract he is able to grow thedinosaurs in labs and lock them up on an island behind electrified fences. Hehas created a sort of theme park on the island ... Read More

A Review of Upton Sinclair’s Book The Jungle (322 words, 2 pages)

As I opened the cover of The Jungle, I anticipated reading atragic story about the cruelness inflicted upon a poor, working-class family. Ihad read an excerpt from the novel and had conversed with people who had readit I thought the story was going to be solid, and perhaps even entertaining. ... Read More

A Review of Maxim Magazine (885 words, 3 pages)

While I was flipping through the pages of Maxim magazine looking at thegorgeous women and laughing at the funny captions, I stumbled upon anadvertisement that made me laugh out loud. It is a series of four pages, twofacing each other, and then two more layed out in the same way. ... Read More

A Review of the Biggest Social Issue in the United States and the World- Euthanasia (1402 words, 6 pages)

Over the years, the practice of physician assisted suicide, affectionately knowas euthanasia, has evolved into one of the biggest social issues in the UnitedStates and the World. There have been many controversies over whether or noteuthanasia is justified. In some places in the United States, euthanasia isconsidered murder (Jussim 47). ... Read More

A Review of Michael Crischton’s “Eaters of the Dead” (1246 words, 5 pages)

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton is a fiction but with historicalbackground. Through this piece Crichton hopes to express the way of life for theVikings in the year 922 AD while at the same time creating an entertainingstory. Using a manuscript written by Ibn-Fadlan Crichton pieced together a bookfilled ... Read More

A Plot Review of Robert Lipsyte’s Novel “The Contender” (643 words, 3 pages)

I. In the beginning of the book Alfred was already a drop out of high school andworking for Jewish people at a grocery store. He faced some problems with Majorbecause he did not want to go rob the grocery store on Friday night. Major andhis click beat him up for ... Read More

A Review of the Infamous Supreme Court Case “Gomillion versus Lightfoot” (574 words, 3 pages)

The unprecedented Gomillion v. Lightfoot came to the Supreme Court because theborders of Tuskegee, Alabama were redrawn. They went from a square shape to anirregular one to exclude black neighborhoods, on the outer edges of the city,violating the 15th Amendment, denying them a vote because of race. This practiceis also ... Read More

A Plot Review of the Anglo-Saxon Epic “Beowulf” (974 words, 4 pages)

The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is the most important work of Old Englishliterature, and is well deserved of the distinction. The epic tells the story ofa hero, a Scandinavian prince named Beowulf, who rids the Danes of the monsterGrendel, a descendent of Cain, and of his exploits fighting Grendel's mother anda ... Read More

A review of James Patterson’s “Along Came A Spider” (516 words, 2 pages)

James Patterson wrote Along Came A Spider. The genre is adult fiction. It is agood novel because it has a great mystery in it. This novel also has a lesson init. The lesson is not to tie your family up with your work. The setting in thisnovel takes place in ... Read More

A Review of Alphonse Mucha’s Lorenzaccio (1898) and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s Jardin de Paris (1893) (596 words, 3 pages)

The 1890's was the beginning of the first poster graphics. Not only have theseposters been seen as advertisements but they are also looked upon as works ofart. Two excellent examples of different work done during this period areAlphonse Mucha's Lorenzaccio (1898) and Henri Toulouse- Lautrec's Jardin deParis (1893). Each poster ... Read More

A Review of William Wallace’s Diary Insert About a Trip to America on Boat (2220 words, 4 pages)

Day 1Hi my name is William Wallace. Im 14 years old and I live in Britain. Im going to America on a boat that will drop us off at Ellis Island. Im keeping a journal throughout my voyage to America because one day I hope to send it back to ... Read More

A Review of Leo Battista Alberti’s First Works, the Palazzo Reccelai (484 words, 2 pages)

The Palazzo Ruccelai was one of the first works by Leon BattistaAlberti.He was an Italian architect, architectural theorist, and universal genius.Albert was the most important early Renaissance architect after FilippoBrunelleschi (Gympel, 44). The "Palazzo" originated in Florence. Themonumental private building is derived from "palatium." This Latinword comes from the Roman ... Read More

A Review of Abrigo do Lagar Velho’s ‘Implication of Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Hybrid’ (1593 words, 7 pages)

Implications of Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Hybrid by Abrigo do Lagar Velho.In a recent excavation at Abrigo do Lagar Velho in Portugal, Duarte et al(1999) unearthed what was later to be recognized as early human skeletal remainswhich pointed to interbreeding between Neanderthal and Modern Humans during themid - upper Palaeolithic transition. The ... Read More

A Review of Francoise Dussart’s “First Impression: Diary of a French Anthropologist in New York City” (1312 words, 6 pages)

Thestories that are told in Distant Mirrors reflect how people can be socomfortable with the way they live that they will never realize what is aroundthem. This does not happen unless they take the initiative to research theoutside world. I focused on three stories. These three stories share inthe fact ... Read More

A Review of Barry Levinson’s Directed Movie “Good Morning, Vietnam” (904 words, 4 pages)

The movie Good Morning, Vietnam Directed by Barry Levinson andwritten by Mitch Markowitz Had a solid view, that was portrayed in many ways, onthe roles of the North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, and American Soldiers. Italso depicted a clear picture of the Vietnamese Civilians and Viet Cong. Thefilm began with a ... Read More

A Review of Ibsen’s Play “Peer Gynt” (329 words, 2 pages)

For those whose only acquaintance withPeer Gynt is Edvard Grieg's hauntingly beautiful opera music, lbsen's playmay come as a shock, especially if one realizes it was written in 1867and presented to a European audience steeped in Victorianism. The dramais a satire on Man. Peer is one of modern drama's first ... Read More

A Review of the Complicated Plot in “A Tale of Two Cities” (232 words, 2 pages)

Dickens conceived the idea for this complicatedplot while acting in a play. Every event penned in A Tale of Two Citiesdraws toward one great climax, set against the backdrop of the greaterdrama history. Master of detailed settings and characterizations, Dickensgave himself the challenge of stripping details down to the bone ... Read More

A Plot Review of William Shakespeare’s Play “Hamlet” (1675 words, 8 pages)

Hamlet one of Shakespeare's greatest plays,where the young prince of Denmark must uncover the truth about his fathersdeath. Hamlet a play that tells the story of a young prince who's fatherrecently died. Hamlets uncle Claudius marries his mother the queen andtakes the throne. As the play is told Hamlet finds ... Read More

A Review of the Play “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (780 words, 4 pages)

The play "The Devil and Daniel Webster"was written by Stephen Vincent Bent in 1938. Stephen Vincent Bentwas born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from YaleUniversity and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. "The Devil and Daniel Webster"has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality,yet an ... Read More

A Summary and Character Review of the Client by John Grisham (1468 words, 6 pages)

The Client by John Grisham takes placein Memphis, Tennessee. It starts out with a little boy, named Mark andhis brother sneaking into the woods to try and smoke cigarettes. Whilein the woods, they witness a man kill himself. But before he does so, thisman tells Mark some very important secrets, ... Read More

A Review of Richard Feyman’s “The Amateur Scientist” (784 words, 4 pages)

I was on my way to work, when I startedto read this interesting story and I don't deny that I was a little scepticalin the beginning. But the more I read, the more I wanted to know aboutthis man and his unique ways to define Science. I finished reading it ... Read More

A Review of the Book “Johnny Tremain” (373 words, 2 pages)

After reading the book Johnny Tremain,How would you describe Mr. Lorne? You would probably say that he is a friendlyman that helps out other people. He runs a newspaper, called the BostonObserver , in the colony of Massachusetts where he lives. The newspaperis well known and popular in the colony. ... Read More

A Review of the Autobiography of Booker Washing in “Up From Slavery” (2589 words, 12 pages)

The autobiography of Booker T. Washingtitled Up From Slavery is a rich narrative of the man's life from slaveryto one of the founders of the Tuskegee Institute. The book takes us throughone of the most dynamic periods in this country's history, especially AfricanAmericans. I am very interested in the period ... Read More

A Review of William Golding’s Book “Lord of the Flies” (1854 words, 8 pages)

Essay Question TwoLord of the Flies opens with the introductionof a small group of English boys that are marooned on an island. The planewas evacuating them from atomic war-ridden England. This is a suiting timefor this novel to be written- it shows how savage even little boys canbe, and that ... Read More

A Review of Ernest Hemingway’s Story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” (1891 words, 9 pages)

Ernest Hemingway has created a masterpieceof mystery in his story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber". Themystery does not reveal itself to the reader until the end of the story,yet it leaves a lot to the imagination. At the end of the storyMargaret Macomber kills her husband byaccident, in ... Read More

A Review of the Story of the Old Major (588 words, 3 pages)

Before the death of Old Major the animalsare inspired to rebel against the humans. They join together as a strongteam to eventually, in chapter two, drive Mr. Jones from the farm. TheSeven Commandments are soon developed with all the animals contented asequals.Right from the beginning of the rebellion,the pigs can ... Read More

A Review of the Controversial Case in U.S History , ‘Roe et al v. Wade District Attorney’ (2990 words, 15 pages)

In Roe et al. v. Wade District Attorneyof Dallas County (1973), one of the most controversial cases in recenthistory, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state laws that limit awoman's right to an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy.Justices Rehnquist and White dissented.Mr. Justice Blackmun delivered the ... Read More

A Review of the Adventures of an Early King of Britain, the Legend of King Arthur (1901 words, 8 pages)

The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of storiesthat has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred yearsof English history. The legend of King Arthur tells of the adventures ofan early king of Britain and the knights and ladies who made up his royalcourt at Camelot. It tells of ... Read More

A Review of the Earliest Chinese Poetry, The Neolithic ware (476 words, 3 pages)

The earliest Chinese pottery ofwhich we have any records is the Neolithic ware from the river plains andloess highlands of north and north-west China. It was made between 5000and 2000 B.C. and contains bowls, jars, pots and beakers of low-fires earthenware.This pots were not turned on a wheel but were ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013