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'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

One of the Negatives of Advanced Technology: Identity Theft

his or her social security number written on various documents, someone that throws all mail into the trash without securing vital...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Fast Food, Dietary Additives, and Other Food Concerns

Our conception of the ideal diet is shaped by a number of factors. As Pollan observes, many of these factors are political and sh...

Depression and Anxiety in Women With Breast Cancer and Their Partners

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

Poverty in Thailand: Internal or External Causes?

extending on into her future. Under the leadership of Pridi Banomyong (a man whose life had been immersed in the effort to ...

The Female Influence on British Literature

however, the lives of the fictional Frankenstein and the author of the book had many similarities. Both were treated as objects r...

Synthetic Fertilizers: An Alternative

spread between many. The salt water of the oceans, for example, interlace with the fresh waters which flow from the rivers to fo...

Paulo Coelho/The Alchemist

he meets, as well as the lessons that he learns. This plot sounds simplistic and stereotypical, and in many ways this is true; how...

Computer Technology in the Classroom: Advantages and Disadvantages

Instructional technology has been in a state of evolution throughout history. In the latter part of the twentieth century, howeve...

The Demographics of AIDS

all susceptible to being infected with this devastating disease. Unfortunately, in fact, HIV infections are increasing among all ...

Need and the Inventor’s Spirit

and which will continue to grow in their impact. Additional effects of fossil fuel dependence are even more straightforward. The...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

Economics and Environment

credited with coming up with the fourth law of thermodynamics in that whenever matter contacts matter, some will be made unavailab...

An Overview of Fuel Cell Technology

electrons back from the external circuit to the catalyst, where they can recombine with the hydrogen ions and oxygen to form water...

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

to remain calm. After three days the body was transferred. Now work had taken place on the body apart from the storage. Now, after...

Community Life

The student will want to address the fact that for those who already know how to make their situation better and have the desire t...

A Reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

and how it reflected the changes in Russian society and government around the end of the nineteenth century. However, before addr...

Literature and How It Has Evolved

politics of the time did. It seemed to be a time of little direction, and the writing of the period reflects this. It can be said...

Behavioral Issues Among Students With Learning Disabilities

could accommodate virtually every child in class. Thankfully, it eventually became obvious that the problem with overwhelming num...

F. Scot Fitzgerald and a look at the American Dream

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

Lolita's Innocence

innocence. The ideal, at least the American ideal, is centered on youth. Lolita is young but may not be the innocent that Humber...

Structure of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Mystery Writing and The Telling of Lies and Headhunter by Timothy Findley

and retrieve Kurtz before his evil legacy is felt throughout Toronto. Through it all, however, the reader is constantly nag...

Women of the Nineteenth Century in Stories by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

'The Country Girls' and 'The Dead'

village. Even though most of the protests...

Historical Connections Between Liverpool and Shanghai

This paper discusses the common historical aspects of these two very different and distant cities. The author examines how Ninete...

The History and Evolution of Infection Control

estimating it will cost a normal sized office up to $1,200 per year to comply with the new regulations. OSHA wants to see a writt...