Essays Tagged: "cracks"

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A review of the book "The Words That Remade America" by Garry Wills

ormation is far from straight and hard fact, however; Wills' views and opinions seep in through the cracks, like sand through a sifter, after which, if one looks carefully, they may be regarded and de ...

(3 pages) 117 0 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Equal Access To Justice : this essay discusses what equal access to justice really means, and states what society can do to improve equal access to justice for all

and criminals punished in an appropriate manner. This system needs some works, because it has many cracks that money seems to fall right through.Equal access to justice means that everyone, despite s ...

(1 pages) 185 1 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Billy's Place, a creative horror story

field, clouds, dark and threatening, released their spell of murk on the world below, and the first cracks of the day's sunlight ripped through the massive layer of clouds, and shined upon the white e ...

(3 pages) 61 0 2.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

This is a project on Landslides

down a hill it is called a landslide. Landslides are caused by rain and melting snow that goes into cracks in the earth on top of a mountain or hill. Then the earth is weakened because the water makes ...

(1 pages) 47 0 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Skeleton's in the Closet. A creative imaginative story about a deadly disease threatening to kill all life on earth.

disease has not yet been reported to pass through solid walls. The disease however can pass through cracks in walls having a devastating effect, as it wipes out the large numbers of people that have p ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

This is my first essay!

sing her. The vile creature jumped at the creature, clawsextended. The beast was killed with two cracks of her whip. The child lookedup at the beast which saved her life. The girl child was no o ...

(4 pages) 39 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

A concert report on Rob and Amy the University band.

pool and chat with their friends. Everyone is very casual and informal and Rob can be heard making cracks about his friends in the crowd in between songs or a beer. Rob is responsible for running the ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

The Yellow Wall paper. In and out View with Summary

wn, the protagonist believed that she could earn her freedom, which indeed happened at the end. The cracks and markings on the wallpaper represent the tears of women and the color yellow represent dea ...

(1 pages) 62 0 2.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Basalt Floods. The theory behind such occurences and the effects and evidence of such floods on the earth.

k. They arereleased when immense volumes of magma apply pressure to the Earth's rigid crustuntil it cracks around huge, violent fountains of lava. It can take over amillion years to exhaust the magma ...

(2 pages) 26 0 1.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Life Of A Chair In 10 Years Time

of a discarded rotting sofa, I sat waiting in the abandoned tip. Flashes of light shone through the cracks in the fence from passing streetcars, creating vivid dancing shadows from the dejected furnit ... o little to them.As I tried to put that resentment behind me the sun started to glimmer through the cracks in the fence. I think to myself "Hopefully today will be more optimistic than the last."Note: ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Leadership

l, environmental, and societal needs are continuously changing. A Nobel Prize awaits the person who cracks the "genetic code" of leadership. Leadership, like beauty, is almost impossible to define...b ...

(14 pages) 1225 1 2.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication

My opinion about Four Generations By Joyce Maynard

eristics of her grandmother. We can realize that her grandmother was a naughty energetic woman who "cracks" nuts and was able to lift a car off the ground. She was also emotional, since she used to "w ...

(2 pages) 18 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Dreams Of The Past: An Explication of Louise Erdrich's Poem "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"

e they cross.8. The lame guard strikes a match and makes the dark9. less tolerant. We watch through cracks in boards10. as the land starts rolling, rolling till it hurts11. to be here, cold in regulat ... less extreme and in so doing lightens the darkness the runaways are hiding in."We watch through the cracks in boards / as the land starts rolling, rolling till it hurts / to be here, cold in regulatio ...

(6 pages) 40 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Assam Earthquake

ch was open for 5 days, came columns of steam and superheated liquid. Full villages fell into large cracks, dams broke and fields and towns flooded, forcing people into trees, where one woman gave bir ...

(2 pages) 25 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Gift of a thousand worlds Part one

o show. A child by the name of Lance walked over to the curb and watched the ants crawl through the cracks of the sidewalk. Lance was the son of half rich parents. His parents died when their truck we ... w words, "and God shall save those with the purest of souls." Then with a sickening thump and a few cracks of bones being broken by a truck, Lance was smashed aside and right in front of the kids and ...

(1 pages) 385 15 4.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

The Chronicals of Lance: Gift of a thousand worlds

o show. A child by the name of Lance walked over to the curb and watched the ants crawl through the cracks of the sidewalk. Lance was the son of half rich parents. His parents died when their truck we ... w words, "and God shall save those with the purest of souls." Then with a sickening thump and a few cracks of bones being broken by a truck, Lance was smashed aside and right in front of the kids and ...

(15 pages) 161 6 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

The rebelloin of Lance Part 1

ock, and then it started to crack apart. The hunters heard it to and saw light get emitted from the cracks, for some reason they started to back away slowly and turned and ran from the rock. Lance too ...

(1 pages) 52 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring By: J.R.R. Tolkien PGs: 535

oss Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Therefore, Frodo and his best friends, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Br ... nd a council is held to discuss what to do about the Ring. A Fellowship is created to travel to the Cracks of Doom to destroy the Ring. On their way, they must go through the mines of Moria. Af ...

(3 pages) 43 0 5.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Chagas

itted in the United States.How is Chagas disease spread?Triatomine bugs (or "kissing" bugs) live in cracks and holes of substandard housing from the southern United States to southern Argentina. The b ...

(3 pages) 37 0 4.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Earthquakes

t thatthe earth rested upon the back of some sort of animal. When that animal became restless, greatcracks appeared in the ground, and tall trees swayed and fell. In South America, the animal was awha ... proofed buildings. Heavy objects overturned.IX Buildings shifted from foundations, collapse, ground cracks. Highly destructive.X Masonry buildings destroyed, rails bent, serious ground fissures. Devas ...

(6 pages) 96 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays