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    Humans will stand up to a bad situation and quash it. As said in Pitt’s work‚ people continue their lives after tragedy in three ways‚ they memorialize‚ they rebuild‚ and they go on. The first way is to memorialize the event and what is lost. In Sometimes‚ the World is Cruel‚ Pitt tells us the estimated death toll is around 100‚000 people. Even though this loss of life is horrifyingly large and extremely sad the people of Haiti don’t sit back and do nothing about it. They instantly begin to celebrate

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    Lincoln's Greatest Speech

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    Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural On March 4th‚ 1865‚ Abraham Lincoln stood up in front of a battered‚ angry‚ divided America to deliver his second inaugural speech. As any great president would do‚ Lincoln constructed his speech in such a way that would lead to healing and rebuilding for this bleeding and scarred country. Through the use of inclusive word choice‚ parallelism‚ repetitive references to the bible and encouraging phrases Lincoln masterfully crafted and shaped his dialogue

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    Monster Called Traffic Jam

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    A MONSTER CALLED TRAFFIC JAM Transportation enables human to commute from one place to another. It makes life easier. But‚ when depending on vehicles to go everywhere is no longer easier due to traffic jam‚ is life still easier? It is absolutely not. In today’s millennium era‚ traffic jam is one of the growing enemies. Everyone‚ especially commuters‚ surely hates that “monster”‚ the “monster” that consumes time and energy. The traffic jam is mainly caused by overcrowded vehicle quantity in streets

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    Today was the worst day ever. I woke up at 7:30 am‚ Napoleon told all of us to meet him in front of the windmill and listen to his commandments‚ after that he told us to grab as many weapons as possible‚ at first we were confused because we didn’t know what would happen and why we needed the aggressive weapons for. I decided to ask Squealer‚ he told us that at 10: 00 am there would be a battle between humans and animals‚ all the animals were shocked‚ some even fainted and some was trembling. However

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    My Greatest Failure

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    McCulloch 1 William A. McCulloch Professor Mejia English 1301 June 11‚ 2014 My Greatest Failure This is hard. A few years back I knew a young lady. Michelle was her name. We were not involved romantically‚ but we were in a relationship. Neither of us had many friends‚ she because she was rather abrasive; me because I have always been a loner. We met one evening at a Crown’s Book Store where we struck up a conversation about Terry Goodkind’s "Sword of Truth" series. I found her to be an

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    Napoleon Bonaparte was inarguably an important figure in the history of France and Europe. However‚ there has been much controversy over the subject in the past. Would history perceive him as a hero or an enemy of France and the world? Many twentieth-century dictators would later model themselves on Napoleon‚ more than a hundred years after his death. Napoleon was not the first dictator‚ so why was he such an important figurehead for future dictators? Some historians may consider that Napoleon was

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    Napoleon and Stalin It’s one of every human’s natural desires to acquire power. Because of this‚ almost all attempts in creating complete equality in society fail. The book Animal Farm by George Orwell was based on the Russian revolution and how it failed. The fault of this lies with Napoleon (who represents Joseph Stalin)‚ his desire for power‚ and the stupidity and ignorance of the other animals in Animal Farm. First of all‚ Joseph Stalin and Napoleon used many similar tactics to rise to power

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    2013 Joseph Stalin and Animal Farm Towards the climax of the novel‚ readers witness Napoleon rising to power on Animal Farm. What readers may not realize is the resemblance of this character’s qualities and those of Joseph Stalin during the Russian Revolution. These similarities and how writer George Orwell expresses them will be discussed in this paper. Animal Farm is an allegory using the character Napoleon to represent Joseph Stalin. To begin‚ both figures shared the same historical background

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    http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_time/html/page_2.html# Click on date‚ then if you want more information click on the event (will take you to event-specific pages) 1. Where and when was Napoleon born? 2. What did he do in October‚ 1795? And what title did he receive? 3. Under Napoleon as general‚ the French fought a prolonged war in 1795-6 with whom? (click on specific battles/victories to find out) http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_politic/people/page_1

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    The ideals and values of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment were rooted from the desire to eliminate absolute dominance‚ secure the rights of all men‚ and build a steady government. Napoleon Bonaparte‚ a French military leader and Emperor‚ endeavored to maintain these political ideologies‚ however‚ he was degenerate in his method for achieving them. He was egotistic and extremely narrow-minded; he was a power-hungry man that used manipulation to enforce his own self-interested ideas. This

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