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Dracula
<view this essay>.... from and other vampires by the possession of a crucifix or practically any consecrated item fromthe Christian religion can be used to save you from the attack or presence of a vampire. For example, in the latter of the book Van Helsing uses a Host to prevent to enter his coffin. Another time, during the night Van Helsing and Lucy stay out near the courtyard of Castle , Van Helsing makes a (Holy circle) with the Host to keep vampires out and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host .....
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Malcolm X
<view this essay>.... after his father's death, his mother was put in a mental hospital. He grew up in East Lansing and Boston. He was a pimp, a hustler, drug user, and a drug dealer. He worked in the Harlem underworld and was almost killed by his boss after he betrayed him. Malcom turned to robbery and was caught by the police and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. While in jail, he was introduced to the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim group, and changed his name to Malcom X. The X replaced the slave name that was given by the white masters and stands for the his real name that he never knew. After his release from prison he started preaching for the Nation of Islam (NOI). His .....
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
<view this essay>.... deterrent of war. Even now, after almost fifty years since the “nightmare,” one only remembers the devastation after the A-bomb exploded, forgetting all the hard work it took to bring the remarkable weapon to life.
The story began when on August 2, 1939, a month before World War II began in Europe, Albert Einstein signed a letter addressed to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Concede in careful terms, the letter stated that recent nuclear research indicated extremely powerful bombs of a new type, based on Uranium, might soon be possible. Einstein warned that the secret work with Uranium was going on in Nazi Germany. He urged that similar American resea .....
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Electoral College Is No Longer
<view this essay>.... of the vote in a state. That doesn't mean he gets half
of the votes, that means he gets all teh electoral votes that state has. This no big if you
live in Vermont, but if you are talking about California with 54 electoral votes, you are
talking about a lot of electoral votes! If you got 36% should you get about that much of
the electoral votes, that would be close to 18 electoral votes you could have towards your
victory, but instead you get NONE, nada ZIP!
Perhaps revision is the answer to this problem or maybe it is just fine the way it is.
After all it is a simple fool proof plan. YOU get none or you get all. It doesn't take a
math whiz to figure t .....
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Reasons For The American Revolution
<view this essay>.... calendars, and playing
cards. The colonists politely petitioned Parliament and the King but only to
find they were speaking to a deaf ear.
The Quartering Act was the worst demand placed on colonists. This forced
colonists to provide food and shelter to men who took American jobs and raped
American women. Why should Americans waste their hard earned money on men sent
to enforce the unbearable English demands.
The Currency Act hurt colonists by making paper money, which Americans
had an abundance of, useless and converting them to gold and silver which was
very scarce there.
The American sailors were also subject to hardships brought forth by the
Brit .....
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Character Analysis
<view this essay>.... Unlike most girls, her
thumb is far from green. She can be found in a garden only when picking forbidden flowers.
Catherine is never able to figure something out on her own. She needs to be taught something
before she knows it. Sometimes she still doesn't learn because her mind tends to wander a bit.
Catherine is quite fond as books so long as they are far from educational. She has a
high amount of creativity however learning is not something she is fond of. She loves books
that have a mystery to them. Along with fantasy novels, Catherine (at age eight) feels she
would be fond of music lessons. She tries them for one year and of course does not like the .....
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Why Did The Textile Workers Un
<view this essay>.... back. The employyees of these mills lived in conditions resembling that of slaves before the civil war. They were worked greuling hours in inhospitable prisons called textile plants, yet were paid on average less than any other industrial worker in America. In the early twentieth century a sentiment of contempt began to grow between the laboring class and the all-powerful corporation. The masses began to push for union representation.
The importance of this industry is represented by the industries numbers. Textiles was the foundation of southern economy. In 1900 there were one hundred seventy-seven mills in North Carolina, but by the early nineteen twe .....
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Attribution
<view this essay>.... article on the subject is “Some Key Questions for the Waco Hearings” in the magazine Human Events, written by James Bovard. He cites documents from a fellow journalist, James Pate, exposing U.S. Military involvement in the attack on Waco. He also shows that the reason given by government officials for gassing the Davidians was inaccurate. They said it was to persuade them to come out, the U.S. Army Field Manual states “Generally persons reacting to CS(type of gas used) are incapable of executing organized and concerted actions, excessive exposure may make them incapable of vacating the area.” Also stated in the Army Fiel .....
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