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Games: Responsible for Violence in Teens
Essay Grade: 83%   (302 words, approx. 1 pages)
Examines the role of television and electronic games in popular culture. Explores how violent games influence the behavior of teenagers. Describes why teenagers find such games appealing.
Gandhi as a Hindu
Essay Grade: 78%   (413 words, approx. 1 pages)
Gandhi was a good man with great intentions; however, some of his intentions were in direct opposition to the teachings of his own faith, Hinduism. Gandhi spent most of his life fighting against the caste system, calling himself a Muslim, a Christian, and a Sikh, as well as a Hindu. He apparently also believed he was a great man who deserved great respect from others, thus implying a sense of self-importance that also goes against the teachings of Hinduism.
Garden State Analysis
Essay Grade: 78%   (1,532 words, approx. 5 pages)
In the move Garden State Andrew Largeman returned home for his mother's funeral for the first time in a decade. Having been overmedicated for years, Andrew was numb to his feelings and the world around him. He decided to leave all his medicine behind when he went home; he thought that he wanted to reconnect with his feelings that had be lost for so many years.
Gay and Lesbian Adoptions
Essay Grade: 81%   (2,848 words, approx. 10 pages)
This essay is about gays and lesbians and how they should be able to adopt children.
Gender and Its Relationship with the Joy Luck Club
Essay Grade: 75%   (1,231 words, approx. 4 pages)
Gender is the prominent theme throughout the Joy Luck Club. It goes through different time periods, generations, different cultures showing that, whether we like it or not, gender shapes our culture and interactions with others.
Gender Bias Critic of Antigone
Essay Grade: 83%   (2,365 words, approx. 8 pages)
In Sophocles' epic tragedy, Antigone, a strong gender bias is present throughout the tragedy, and is partially responsible for the downfall of the king. The essential moral of the tragedy is the warning to the people in power. Sophocles warns the leaders in power not to transgress the rules and limits of governing the people. Sophocles' epic tragedy represented man, woman, death, and the balance between them.
Gender Misconceptions
Essay Grade: 75%   (864 words, approx. 3 pages)
Women allow themselves to be conceived as weaker creatures because of the habits of existence continually underlying society. Men view women as an extension of their existence, only being used for their constant servitude and never viewing them able to develop their own independence of mind.
Gender Role Behaviors
Essay Grade: 81%   (541 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the essay by Holly Devor "Gender role Behaviors and Attitudes." Describes the classic characteristics of males and females, clothing in daily life.
Gender Roles in Society
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,177 words, approx. 4 pages)
Defines and discusses gender roles. Discusses how children acquire gender roles. Explores how various cultures stereotype gender roles.
Gender Roles in the Media
Essay Grade: 88%   (3,952 words, approx. 13 pages)
A critical analysis of the degree to which boys and girls grow into their respective genders with the help of media images.
Gender Shopping
Essay Grade: 83%   (671 words, approx. 2 pages)
Explains differences in gender shopping habits. Compares the habits of a brother and sister.
General Revelations of God
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,332 words, approx. 4 pages)
Questions if humans have the ability to reach God. Argues that the witness of Scripture and leading theologians attest that individuals have a limited knowledge of God through general revelation in the natural world.
Generation Gap
Essay Grade: 83%   (670 words, approx. 2 pages)
It is a fact of life that the generation gap or "clash" is something that has existed and will continue to exist as long as man exists on this earth. It is not restricted to certain parts of the world, to certain times of human history or to certain cultures. That is why this "clash" is a fact of a life accepted by all generations, all over the world and through all time.
Genesis
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,673 words, approx. 6 pages)
Discusses the book of Genesis from the Old Testament. Summarizes the chapter. Attempts to decipher its message.
Genesis 18
Essay Grade: 95%   (1,957 words, approx. 7 pages)
Essay provides an analysis of Genesis 18.
Genius
Essay Grade: 93%   (839 words, approx. 3 pages)
Definition Of Genius
Geodemographics: A Futuristic Marketing Tool
Essay Grade: 86%   (828 words, approx. 3 pages)
Defining geodemographics and its potential uses and abuses.
Geology and Hope
Essay Grade: 88%   (389 words, approx. 1 pages)
The following is a responsive essay to "Hope Springs Eternal" by Stephen King.
Ghandi Was a Great Man
Essay Grade: 83%   (796 words, approx. 3 pages)
Mahatma Ghandi was a great leader to the people and his life became a message to the world. The message he brought to the world was of truth, freedom and non-violence. He fought for many different causes, and his weapons were Satya (truth) and Ahisma (non-violence). He fought strong and hard with his weapons of Satya and Ahisma to win the independence of the Indian people.
Ghosts
Essay Grade: 91%   (1,142 words, approx. 4 pages)
The uproar Ghosts caused when first published by Henrik Ibsen
Gift Wrap
Essay Grade: 90%   (917 words, approx. 3 pages)
Analyzes the amount of peer pressure experienced by students in the 6th grade.
Gikonyo and Karanja Are Seen as Antithesis to Each Other. Compare and Contrast Their Characters.
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,448 words, approx. 5 pages)
Gikonyo and Karanja, two very different and contrasting individuals in Ngugi's novel "A Grain of Wheat," are pivotal characters in depicting for us both sides of the divided African community during Kenya's time of The State of Emergency.
Gilgamesh: Mesopotamian Versus American Culture
Essay Grade: 87%   (704 words, approx. 2 pages)
Uses the ancient Mesopotamian text "Gilgamesh" to compare Mesopotamian and American cultures.
Girls Are Not Superior to Boys
Essay Grade: 86%   (612 words, approx. 2 pages)
Debates whether girls are superior to boys. Explores the status of women throughout history. Compares how men and women perform comparable tasks. Questions the superiority of either sex.
Gladiator: The Movie
Essay Grade: 83%   (804 words, approx. 3 pages)

"What we do in life echoes in eternity." A famous tag line of the movie that Maximus (Russell Crowe) said to his men before they merge in the battlefield. Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). A very highly intense action sequence directed by Ridley Scott. A film that won multiple awards including, best costume design, visual, pictures and sound effects. The "Gladiator."

Glass to Powder
Essay Grade: 86%   (974 words, approx. 3 pages)
Comparison and contrast of wakeboarding and snowboarding.
Go Ask Alice
Essay Grade: 78%   (768 words, approx. 3 pages)
Go Ask Alice is about a typical teenager with obstacles to overcome due to her use of drugs. She faces the usual anxieties of a crush on a boy, peer pressure, social acceptance, her weight and self esteem.
Goals and Growth
Essay Grade: 78%   (978 words, approx. 3 pages)
My goals, my growth
God or Good: the Euthyphro Dilemma
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,534 words, approx. 5 pages)
A dilemma facing those who base their lives on religious ethics is piety, as elaborated by Socrates in the Platonic dialogue 'Euthyphro'.
God's Judgment
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,140 words, approx. 4 pages)
My essay is Christian base on the judgment of God. It is why I believe that God is willing to send people to hell.
Gods and Their Connotations
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,453 words, approx. 5 pages)
Details different names for God used throughout history. Provides background detail on those names.
Going Home
Essay Grade: 88%   (388 words, approx. 1 pages)
This is a persuasive essay, aiming to persuade the reader that a set weekend curfew would be the right choice for a community to make. It contains seven paragraphs including the topic sentence and a conclusion.
Good Example of the Saying, "they Grow Up So Fast"
Essay Grade: 78%   (638 words, approx. 2 pages)
The analysis of Jem Finch's maturing in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.
Good Old Books Verses Bad New Televisions
Essay Grade: 86%   (542 words, approx. 2 pages)
Contrary to what parents may think, television is not only more entertaining than books, but it is also more educational and more useful in our daily lives. Television pictures are more understandable than the words of a book; television can serve as a more effective study guide than books, particularly through educational channels such as the History Channel and the Discovery Channel; and television provides prompt delivery of important information on the day's events than books ever could. In short, television provides us with any kind of information or entertainment we may choose to utilize.
Good Will Hunting, an Analysis of Fear as a Prominent Theme.
Essay Grade: 96%   (857 words, approx. 3 pages)
Good Will Hunting's theme of fear are much like our own and delivers a belief that there is world beyond what we know.
Good Will Hunting: an Analysis of Fear as an Evident Theme.
Essay Grade: 83%   (857 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay analyzes fear as a primary theme which contributes to hindering Will's success.
Gothic: Provoking Unease
Essay Grade: 75%   (1,467 words, approx. 5 pages)
In the Gothic genre, transgression can not only be a stimulus, but serves as an outcome to the story too. This is particularly true in Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" whereby the stories end on a highly transgressive note - a girl eating up her grandmother and inheriting all her wealth, a girl turning into a tiger, a girl strangling the Erl-king.
Grace, an Interview
Essay Grade: 86%   (815 words, approx. 3 pages)
An interview with a family friend. Describes her early life, hopes and dreams.
Graded Equal
Essay Grade: 83%   (511 words, approx. 2 pages)
Argues why students should be graded equally without regard to level of effort. Maintains that teachers should grade by level of achievement alone.
Graduation Speech-Visionary
Essay Grade: 83%   (512 words, approx. 2 pages)
This is my submission for a contest to write a speech for Graduation. The speech is Visionary, as opposed to Reflective.
Grandma
Essay Grade: 88%   (625 words, approx. 2 pages)
This is a heartfelt essay that I have written about the times that me and my Grandma have shared.
Grandma's Quilt
Essay Grade: 87%   (390 words, approx. 1 pages)
Creative symbolism essay on the significance of a quilt.
Great Expectations
Essay Grade: 88%   (514 words, approx. 2 pages)
This is an essay about the book of "Great Expectations" the main character is Pip.
Great Man Theory Vs. Determinist Theory
Essay Grade: 92%   (554 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay attempts to answer the question: do great men make circumstances or do the circumstances make great men?
Great Speech's That Echo Into the Future of Today
Essay Grade: 88%   (2,908 words, approx. 10 pages)
A great speech is one that is fully understood by its audience. One that people should be able to refer to over transcending periods of time, relate to people on many different levels & in any places in their lives. Just like Lincoln & King, Vaclav Havel also wishes for a better environment that is not morally contaminated, a government that is of the people, by the people, for the people & dreamt of a society based on freedom & equality.
Greek God in My Own Eyes
Essay Grade: 83%   (442 words, approx. 2 pages)
This is a made up Greek God
Greg Crister's "Too Much of a Good Thing"
Essay Grade: 78%   (1,230 words, approx. 4 pages)
Greg Crister, the author of the op-ed essay that was featured in the Los Angeles Times, "Too Much of a Good Thing," argues that in order to stop obesity, we should stigmatize overeating. It is no more than a simple solution for a very complex problem that plaques the world today.
Growing Young: Is It Possible?
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,127 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay explores if anti-aging products actually work.
Guilt
Essay Grade: 75%   (439 words, approx. 2 pages)
A description of guilt and the feelings that it brings out in people.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji; Sikhidsm
Essay Grade: 81%   (519 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay is about Guru Nanak Dev Ji; the founder of Sikhidsm.
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