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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.
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.
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.
Geology and Hope
Essay Grade: 88% (389 words, approx. 1 pages)
The following is a responsive essay to "Hope Springs Eternal" by Stephen King.
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.
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."
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Guilt
Essay Grade: 75% (439 words, approx. 2 pages)
A description of guilt and the feelings that it brings out in people.
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