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Camping
Essay Grade: 83% (958 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses a personal experience during a camping trip to Petoskey State Park.
Can Alfred Hitchcock Be Considered an Auteur?
Essay Grade: 92% (1,778 words, approx. 6 pages)
Through the following analysis of four Alfred Hitchcock films -- Psycho (1960), "The 39 Steps" (1935), "Rebecca" (1940), "Rear Window" (1954), and "Psycho" (1960) -- one can conclude that Hitchcock's use of trademark techniques in all four films qualify him as an auteur. These techniques include creating suspense; similar characters, such as an innocent victim wrongly accused or a strong woman left vulnerable; human psychology, particularly voyeurism; location, usually in forgotten, derelict places; lighting; camera techniques, particularly the use of panorama shots; and controlling the emotions of the audience.
Capital Punishment, Pros and Cons
Essay Grade: 86% (1,393 words, approx. 5 pages)
Analyzes the pros and cons of capital punishment. Maintains that the death penalty should be thoughtfully analyzed and considered to understand that it is a punishment for a human rights violation, not a human rights violation itself. Discusses the death penalty as an effective deterrent to crime.
Career Essay
Essay Grade: 94% (329 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay discusses my career goals and elaborates on which occupation would be more feasible to achieve.
Caring for Contacts
Essay Grade: 96% (840 words, approx. 3 pages)
It is a process paper on how to take care of contact lenses.
Carlsbad Caverns
Essay Grade: 86% (340 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay provides information about my trip to Carlsbad Caverns.
Cars and Men
Essay Grade: 83% (851 words, approx. 3 pages)
Describes the ideal husband. Compares the search for a husband to the purchase of a new car.
Catalina Island
Essay Grade: 83% (489 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides personal narrative about a trip to Catalina Island, off the coast of California. Describes the island, its sights and activities.
Catcher in the Rye
Essay Grade: 86% (524 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses literary techniques used by JD Salinger in his classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Describes how Salinger utilizes first person perspective, symbolism and several language styles to help present the main character Holden Caulfield.
Categorizing of Questions
Essay Grade: 87% (969 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay explores the task of categorizing of questions.
Celebrating Our Veterans' Service
Essay Grade: 86% (449 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses the history of Veteran's Day in America. Explores reasons why it is important to celebrate our veterans. Describes Veteran's Day activities.
Celebrating the Hispanic Family
Essay Grade: 88% (918 words, approx. 3 pages)
A personal essay applauding the writer's family and Cuban heritage. Stresses the importance of reading and details how the writer's family has influenced him to read.
Cell Phone Use
Essay Grade: 81% (352 words, approx. 1 pages)
The use of cell phones of while driving should not be banned. The activity can be dangerous, but the benefits outweigh this. Also, earplugs are available.
Cell Phones
Essay Grade: 81% (453 words, approx. 2 pages)
Examines the costs of cell phones in todays economy and the charges you may incur. Describes the imporance of cell phones and explores potential health hazards.
Cell Phones Encourage Bullying
Essay Grade: 78% (409 words, approx. 1 pages)
Cell phones encourage text bullying because it is easier than bullying person to person as it is more subtle than face to face bullying, it is difficult to track down the bully when they are bullying from cell phone and it can take longer for consequences to be taken.
Change
Essay Grade: 88% (832 words, approx. 3 pages)
The following is a speech on change after an interview with my grandfather on his historical point of view.
Change
Essay Grade: 78% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
On ONE NIGHT THE MOON by Rachel Perkins, poem 'Infancy' by W H Davies, cartoon strip 'Drawn and quartered' by David Messer, and 'Everything's Changed' by Mike Guglielmucc
Changes in One's Life
Essay Grade: 88% (504 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes changes in one's life that impact you in the future as a person, like changing schools.
Character Essay: Uglies
Essay Grade: 75% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
The main character in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, Tally Youngblood, faces many problems that she has to overcome.
Character Sketch
Essay Grade: 75% (627 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay is a simple character sketch about Johnny, a DMV worker, who is on his way to work when a stop light takes forever to change.
Character Sketch for Joe
Essay Grade: 81% (789 words, approx. 3 pages)
Kindness, caring and forgiveness are some of the many fantastic traits found in Joe Gargery in the novel "Great Expectations." Despite his being unpolished, common, and uneducated, Joe's character truly identifies a remarkable person that cares deeply for others and is always willing to give even though he seldom receives in return.
Characteristics of the Fantasy Genre
Essay Grade: 83% (951 words, approx. 3 pages)
Examines the fantasy genre of literature. Discusses features which ensure successful fantasy fiction. Explores how Harry Potter and The Hobbit exhibit the best features of the genre.
Characterization in "a Rose for Emily"
Essay Grade: 75% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
"A Rose for Emily" is told by an anonymous narrator, who I find to be a very important character in the story. It makes me wonder why Faulkner didn't go into more detail about who this person was.
Charlotte Bronte
Essay Grade: 92% (1,150 words, approx. 4 pages)
The life of Charlotte Bronte and how it is reflected in her works.
Christmas Catastrophes
Essay Grade: 88% (1,341 words, approx. 5 pages)
Provides a first person account describing how hilarious Christmas can be. Fondly recalls memories of Christmas past.
Circles
Essay Grade: 80% (373 words, approx. 1 pages)
A nice college admission essay on circles as well as my plans for the future.
Civil Disobedience
Essay Grade: 78% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
Protesting is one examples of civil disobedience, or standing up for one's beliefs wiht knowledge of the consequences. A good example of the practice of civil disobedience took place in Nepal.
Classical Theories - Aristotle and Plato
Essay Grade: 83% (1,900 words, approx. 6 pages)
From the point of view of each of Plato and Aristotle, describe and judge a work of art created (or at least published/released/performed for the first time) since March 2003.
MOVIE - 'House of Sand and Fog'
Climbing Everest
Essay Grade: 83% (610 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes the adventure of climing Mt. Everst. Concludes that it is expensive for an average person and mentally unhealthy for absolutely anyone.
Clint Eastwood Holiday
Essay Grade: 81% (527 words, approx. 2 pages)
Advocates the establisment of a new holiday honoring film star and director Clint Eastwood. Details reasons why Eastwood is deserving of such an honor.
Cloning Is Wrong in Every Way
Essay Grade: 88% (1,683 words, approx. 6 pages)
Some people might not know what cloning really is. Well it is a process of making a genetic copy of something. It can be from a copy of a cell to the duplicate of a whole animal. The word "clone" started to be part of the English language thanks to a man named Herbert Webber. The word actually started as "clon", used to describe the genetic similarities with the parents. Soon the word changed to "clone" and in the early twentieth century, it became part of our language.
Codependency
Essay Grade: 92% (1,633 words, approx. 5 pages)
Facts and information about the mental illness of codependency.
College Entry Essay
Essay Grade: 94% (403 words, approx. 1 pages)
Colleges tend to request and essay to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the student applying. This is a persuasive essay about how I decided to become a Spanish translator.
College Is Not for Everyone
Essay Grade: 86% (580 words, approx. 2 pages)
Debates the importance of a college education and argues that not all students would benefit from the opportunity.
College Trouble
Essay Grade: 78% (2,246 words, approx. 8 pages)
One night in the life of a college man. WARNING: Harsh and extreme language
College: a World of Responsibility
Essay Grade: 88% (1,060 words, approx. 4 pages)
Examines the responsibilities of college students. Describes the experience of college life. Explores how students can successfully assimilate to campus life.
Coming to America
Essay Grade: 86% (698 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes the experience of emigrating to the United States from France. Expresses difficulty adapting from a French culture to the American culture. Details how the change was a life altering experience.
Community Service
Essay Grade: 78% (651 words, approx. 2 pages)
Future Generations is a place of loving, caring and friendly faces. This day care is available for any child of the ages from 5 months to there first day of school. Future Generations Day Care is located on Palisade Avenue in Jersey City. The Day Care is part of my community. It's somewhere that is safe and you can be sure your child will be comfortably at all times.
Compare and ContrastMy Best Friend
Essay Grade: 83% (541 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes the relationship between best friends. Explores the similarities and differences in the two personalities.
Comparing Two Significant Characters in "the Most Dangerous Game"
Essay Grade: 83% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the author portrays two distinctly alike men, who yet are very different. The two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff both have a strong passion for hunting. However when it comes to their values of the sport, they hold opposing views.
Comparison of Romeo and Juliet Book to Movie
Essay Grade: 86% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
There are many differences and comparisons between the movie version of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and the original Romeo and Juliet play, written by William Shakespeare. Zeffirelli's film version of the play is very unique and uses a lot of the most memorable scenes in the play by emphasizing them a bit more in the movie, then the scenes that are in the actual play.
Confined Entrapment
Essay Grade: 86% (2,109 words, approx. 7 pages)
Shakespeare's tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, explores the effects of patriarchal authority exerted over women and the responses to it. Through Juliet, Lady Capulet, and the Nurse, he establishes a common understanding of this type of society, but illuminates three different reactions to the social oppression by portraying the responses of a passionate lover, an idyllic housewife, and a vociferous attendant.
Conflict in Literature
Essay Grade: 83% (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
Conflict in literature, whether it is internal or external or is physical or psychological, provides a way to enrich any piece of fiction or nonfiction writing. As authors as diverse as Mitch Albom, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Hugh Clough reveal through their works, literature and history would not have such an impact on our lives today without the presence of conflict.
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