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- 9091: A Creative Essay On A Birthday....
- ... as possible. Picking up the clipboard with the patient's information, I found out that (5*****) was in labor. After several hours of comforting her, the baby finally decided to make his debut in the world. At about 1:00 PM, I delivered a fine young boy into this world. It really was amazing holding the little kid and realizing that I helped a life into the world. Later that day, while reading a movie review about "Apocalypse Now," I realized how amazing it really was. (Shipler) I would never forget that experience for as long as I lived." "Well Jake," said ...
- 9092: Custer's Last Stand
- ... I did not work hard at my studies. I graduated at the bottom of my class fro the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1861, and joined the Union Forces in the Civil War. I can honestly say that I was and still am very smart but I never accerted myself, I guess you could say that I was lazy. Well, during the war I served with General McClellan in Virginia. In 1863 I was assigned to the cavalry and soon revealed daring and brilliance as an officer. As a result I was promoted quickly. When the war ended, I was made a lieutenant colonel and sent to Kansas to fight Indians. After that I did whatever I could to help the country and I soon became General. Well that was a ...
- 9093: Paintball
- Paintball is a fast and furious sport. It is played on both a social and serious level by over 16 million people around the world (Cooke,11). It is one of the fastest growing sports on the planet. Paintball's history, games, guns, and safety are all part of the fun. In 1970, James Hale, an engineer, invented and patented ... team loses points every time a team member is eliminated. The team gains points every time they bring back the opposing side’s flag. Paintball is a fun and serious game. It does not glorify war. It is an old paintball adage that the sport actually proves how easy it is to be shot. The supporters of paintball like to prefer the sport as a tactical game of skill. (Cooke, 93 ...
- 9094: Creative Writing: South vs. North
- ... faces as we came out and started killing off the Unions. Then we came after them. They ran and scattered in all directions. This is their first realization that we were going to win this war. I also fought in many water battles and many other land battles, almost all of which I won. I lost only one battle. This was because of the North's change in warfare was first ... size of my army. I went all over the place trying to scavenge up soldiers to fight for me in the army against Grant. I was surprised that the different point of view in the war since the two months I had been in the hospital. Southerners were talking about losing the war. No one wanted to fight anymore. About a year later I had finally I gathered enough men up to fight. I marched them toward where Grant was supposedly located. We met Sherman, a Union ...
- 9095: Michael Jordan
- ... consecutive seasons . He was also a member of the Dream Team that won the gold metal in basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics . Many people consider Michael to be the best basketball player in the world . I consider him to be the best on earth . Also one of the most world renown players ever to be recognized all over the world . Jordan has signed many profitable contracts to endorse commercial products such as Nike , Pepsi , Gatorade , and many more .
- 9096: Cuckoos Nest
- ... most important way in which Kesey communicates his themes with the reader is through the use of third person narration. Kesey chooses one of the patients, Chief Bromden, as the narrator of the novel. The world which Bromden describes is a hazy, transparent realm, where the borders between insanity and sanity are unclear. “There’s long spells -three days, years- when you can’t see a thing, know where you are ... Big Nurse at first is simply to make his life on the ward more bearable. Taking possession of the tub room for an alternative recreation room, and trying to pass a vote to watch the World Series Baseball show us this. Meanwhile the other patients on the ward decide not to fight the Combine, but rather let themselves be ‘repaired’ in order to fit back into normal society again. But later ... restrictions and plunge head first into liberation. Using a wide variety of literary techniques Kesey successfully uses this novel as a platform to proclaim his themes and ideas which out branch out into the macrocosmic world of everyday life.
- 9097: "The Stone Boy": Psychiatric Report
- ... have either, so one can feel how Arnold must have felt. He had no one to talk to and this is what brought him to be so cold and calculated in his reaction to the world these past 12 years. Arnold has suffered a great amount of pain due to the incident, which also has changed the way he thinks and the way he looks at the world around him. At this stage I would like to suggest some therapy programs for Mr. Curwing. He has suffered many years of grief. I would like him to reacquaint with his family and friends since ... of his program. In the meantime we provide him with therapists with a view to helping him cultivate close relationships and being able to share his feelings and thoughts. He must also experience the social world around him. Maybe trying out different sport related activities or even some kind of social job may help. Doing sports can stimulate his blood circulation to keep him relaxed and doing team work and ...
- 9098: Chicano Literature
- ... I write my final paper on. Whitman's "Oh Captain, My Captain" happens to be my favorite Whitman poem. I cried the first time I read it. I've read works by some of the world's finest authors: Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Upton Sinclair, Alex Haley, etc. I suddenly realized that I have never read a work of fiction, or a play by ... In 1967 he separated form the UFWOC and El Teatro Campesino became an independent company (Hernandez 36). The playwright within Valdez emerged. He wrote the Root of a Scream, in 1967, which condemned the Vietnam War. Also in 1967 he wrote Los Vendidos. He wrote No saco nada de le escuela (year written I did not find). He wrote Bernabe, in 1970, a love story that takes place during the Mexican ...
- 9099: I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died
- ... brought upon by the speaker’s death. Onlookers surround the dead body and seem to be looking for clues to what may eventually await them when it is their turn to pass onto another possible world. In stanza three the speaker is preparing for a journey into an afterlife that may lie ahead. Dickinson writes, "I willed my keepsakes, signed away what portion of me I could make assignable, - and then ... to have the possessions that most living people deem necessary and leaves them behind as her soul comes closer to it’s fate. The speaker is getting ready to make this transition to the next world but then the fly reappears and puts a halt to this alteration. The final stanza of this poem includes the lines, "With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, between the light and me; and then the windows ... The fourth line mentions the sun at a time in which the dying years of the speaker’s life are revisited. This stanza also suggests that despite the speaker dying, life still continues in the world. The last stanza of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" is the most important of the poem. It writes, "Since then ‘t is centuries; but each feels shorter than the day I first ...
- 9100: John Adams
- ... very unstable and uncertain, both at home and abroad. Hamilton made bitter attacks on Adams’ policies (Elser, 1993). The fiscal situation was desolate. The national debt and the threat of what appeared to be inescapable war caused great stress, opposition, and even occasional violence (Onuf, 1993). Matters only became worse. The Federalist Congress created a provisional army which, though needed, added to the financial strain. Congress then passed three major oppressive ... 1975). Due to these congressional measures, citizens, including Jefferson, began to fear that the provisional army would not just fight France, but also use their military strength to attack protesting Americans, hence beginning a civil war. That Sedition Act had no immediate impact may be evidence that the Federalists were acting out of paranoia in their immediate frenzy to stop domestic opposition (Ferling, 1992). These events, along with the establishing of ... Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Calhoon, R. M. (1976). John Adams and the psychology of power. Review of American History, December 1976, 520-525. DeCarolis, L. M. (1995). The precipice of power: The quasi war with Adams, 1789- 1800. [On-line], Available: http://grid.let.rug.nl/~ welling/usa/hamilton/hamil36.htm. Esler, L. A.. (1993). Presidents of our United States. Chicago: Rand McNally. Ferling, J. E. (1992). John ...
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