Essays Tagged: "nine years"

Why Are The Chicago Bulls So Good?

ng a Chicago Bulls game. I started to analyze why the team had the best record in the league. About nine years ago, the Chicago Bulls selected Michael Jordan in the third pick of the college draft fro ... ecome great, and his career stats prove that fact. Michael walks on the court and leads by example. Ninety percent of the time, Jordan will prevail. Without a leader, the team would not endure the pla ...

(2 pages) 38 1 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Mozart

was six, he was successful at the clavier, violin, and organ.Mozart started composing symphonies at nine years of age. In 1762 his father brought himto many concerts through Europe. Europeans ignored ...

(1 pages) 151 1 3.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Swinger's not just on playgrounds anymore

a swinger's party.1moreThe couple has now turned their lifestyle into their business. For the past nine years Dave and his wife Dawn have run their own swing club in the Chicago suburbs.'We own Coupl ... club, but what people do once they leave the club is up to them. The club has been going strong for nine years, and their marriage has been just as strong for the past 17. They believe the strength in ...

(7 pages) 60 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Day of Surprise

My father paid for the card andwe left the store.It was a week before Valentines Day in 1987. I was nine years old and intensely anxious.Expectation for February 14 had overcome every other thought I ...

(3 pages) 42 0 3.0 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

A Comparison of the Women in Deledda's "La Madre" and Wharton's "Ethan Frome"

o make up the bulk of the story. But there are many more similarities in these works. Released only nine years apart both novels deal with a struggle of the heart, of the faith, and a struggle of thei ...

(4 pages) 37 0 4.7 Dec/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Chicken

Sarah lived on a small farm in Ohio in 1959. She was nine years old, had brown hair and green eyes. Her mother raised chickens to eat and would sell the ... when she noticed something moving over by the barn. It was Maryanne and walking behind Maryanne was nine little baby chicks. She ran to the house to tell her mother and father. They all went out to th ...

(3 pages) 31 0 3.0 Jan/1996

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

The life and contributions of Henry III portarayed through "The Magnificent Century" By Thomas B. Costain

king, Louis, wanted England for himself. England needed somebody to take charge and Henry was only nine years old. William the Marshal was needed. Although William was old he still had the heart of a ... on the numerous times Henry does this would be extremely repetitious.The king of England was twenty-nine when he married. Being a bachelor was not his choice; to the contrary he searched long and hard ...

(6 pages) 63 0 3.9 Jun/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Juvenile delinquency

which the board of judges in Britain built their decision of releasing the pair after serving only nine years in prison, and that what infuriated the little boy's parents. With their early release, t ...

(4 pages) 102 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

A review of the Movie the Majestic!

ne mistakes him for being Luke Tremble, a soldier who fought in World War II, and has been lost for nine years. Worst of all, Harry Tremble (Martin Landau) mistakes him for his lost son. While Peter s ...

(3 pages) 45 1 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Black Elk Speaks - As told through John G. Neihard" By Nicholas Black Elk

Black Elk was nine years of age when he first had his vision. He became very ill during the summer. He heard a voi ... is own. He listened to the voices when they spoke of danger but pretty much shelved it. When he was nineteen, the voices spoke very aggressively with and out of fear he finally talked to a medicine ma ...

(6 pages) 102 0 4.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The life and power of Zues, King of the Gods in Greek Mythology.

w up his five brothers and sisters. Then he declared war againstthe titans.He fought the titans for nine years.The first marriage of Zeus was to Mytida (the goddess of thinking). Not long after his we ...

(2 pages) 91 3 3.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

This is a persuasive paper on capital punishment.

e Eighth Amendment. The Eighth Amendment protects citizens from "cruel and unusual punishment". For nine years, from 1967 until 1976, capital punishment was in a state of national moratorium. This mea ...

(3 pages) 181 1 1.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

The distribution, exhibition and production of the Nickeldeon theatres.

ived, the nickelodeon theatre was a pioneer movie house. It's reign began in 1905 and lasted a mere nine years ending in 1914. During these years it provided the movies with its first permanent home, ... le attending more than once a week, these figures suggest that a high percentage of the approximate ninety million Americans went to the movies. In Boston, theaters could house four hundred thousand p ...

(12 pages) 61 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Essay - Why did France declare War on Austria in 1792?

st the war, which was thought by the majority to be in France's best interests. The conflict lasted nine years and France lost 1.4 million inhabitants, and dramatically altered the trajectory of the r ...

(5 pages) 44 0 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

This is a review of Black Hawk Down against the theories of Clausewitz's Book "Three in On War".

ecessary and avoidable mishap that cost the United States 18 Special Operators in one day which for nine years held the less than envious title as the most violent fighting since the Vietnam War.Black ...

(8 pages) 80 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Women's roles in society, the pressures of being beautiful.

ave some kind of eating disorder. It is said that weight control methods are being used as young as nine years old. 10-25% of the women battling anorexia right now will die as a direct result of this ...

(4 pages) 198 4 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

"The Destructors" written by Graham Greene.

Graham Greene's "The Destructors" is a short story that takes place in London nine years after the conclusion of World War II. Post-war conflict had struck after that ("the last ...

(1 pages) 103 0 2.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Biography report of Canadian poet and song writer Leonard Cohen.

Jewish, and his father worked as a clothing merchant. However, Cohen's father died when Leonard was nine years old. At age 13, Cohen began playing a guitar (which he started to impress a girl), and wi ...

(3 pages) 25 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Equal Opportunity in the Workplace - Define affirmative action as it applies to the current workplace environment. What are the various ways organizations can support and develop equal opportunity?

making a slave a free man through the Emancipation Proclamation. After this, it took another fifty-nine years for a 1920 amendment to the Constitution to eliminate the distinction that voters be only ...

(6 pages) 655 1 3.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

This is an essay about "the classical American journey" as portraid in many books and movies

vel of the journey of Jim the main character's life. He moved from Virginia to Nebraska when he was nine years old because his parents died. As he grew up he moved from a farm to a small town to a sma ...

(3 pages) 45 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American