Reader's Digest Essays

  • Character Analysis: The Captain Is Just Like Big Tobacco

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    sitting on leather chairs while African Americans serve drinks in their waiter suites.As Nick makes his way through as he gives an overview "The captain is the last great in tobacco, he introduced filters when cigarettes first got slammed by Readers Digest. Later he founded The Academy of Tobacco Studies...here the captain is a legend a self-made man who started with nothing and ended up with everything except evidently a son." in Nicks point of view shot the Captain looks up and says "Nick my boy,

  • Phil Mickelson: Pebble Beach Golf

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    Introduction I am the CEO of NBC. I am giving you the opportunity to join the production of our movie. The things that we will be using in our movie is, the use of your brand, and some of the golf professionals that you sponsor. This film will be 1-1.5 hours and will be a documentary of Phil Mickelson, and how he became one of the best short game players in the sport of golf. We will be working with PGA, US Golf, Augusta National Golf Club and the Open Championship. The film will be launched through

  • Cat People versus Dog People

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    62% of United States homes have at least one pet. Overall, homes that claim to have pets 78 million of them are dogs and 86 million are cats. These numbers are misleading, according to a survey in the Reader’s Digest 41% identified that they were cat people where as 74% were dog people (Reader’s Digest). My sister is a major dog person she can’t live without them some days. Her latest addition to the family is a Vizsla puppy named toby. According to her the nick name of this breed is a Velcro dog,

  • Hawthorne's Personality Revealed in His Novel, The House of the Seven Gables

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    in Salem, Massachusetts which is known as, "America's capital of hauntings, diabolical occurrences, and Puritan hellfire" (Reader's Digest). The characters of his stories are usually lonely and reclusive, and this novel is no exception. Hawthorne himself stated that, "Seven Gables was 'more characteristic of the author, and a more natural book for me to write.'" (Reader's Digest). One of the most important characters is this novel is that of Hepzibah Pyncheon. Hepzibah is an old woman with a pessimistic

  • Contrary Interpretations of The Yellow Wallpaper

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    interpretations. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.  The Yellow Wallpaper.  Ed. Dale M. Bauer.  Bedford Cultural Edition.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1998. ---. “The Yellow Wallpaper.”  Great American Short Stories.  Pleasantville: Reader’s Digest, 1977.  195-206. Works Consulted Golden, Catherine, ed. The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper." New York: Feminist Press, 1992 Kasmer, Lisa. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Symptomatic Reading

  • The Magazine Industry’s Top 5

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    three most influential literary journals in England in the early 18th century were Review, Tatler and Spectator. Ironically the first periodical to use the word magazine in its title was Gentleman’s Magazine in 1731, which was a predecessor to Reader’s Digest. American magazines were slow to emerge, because people did not have the time to read them. People in the colonial days worked from sunup until sundown. The first magazine in America was the American Magazine, followed three days later by the

  • Abraham of Chaldea

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    10 King James, Gen. 14:17 11 King James, Gen. 14:19-20 12 Halley, pg. 95 13 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 35 14 King James, 15:1 15 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 35 16 Unger's, pg. 13 17 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 36 18 Unger's, pg. 13 19 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 37 20 King James, Gen. 19:28 21 Heb. 11:19 22 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 40 23 Unger's, pg. 14 24 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 40 25 Reader's Digest Bible, pg. 40-41 26 Ungers's, pg. 14

  • Dangerous Animals of the Great Barrier Reef

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    Dangerous Animals of the Great Barrier Reef According to Dennis Fulkerson, one of the Australia Explorers (1996), the Great Barrier Reef is "God's underwater playground." Indeed, everyone in the group seemed to have a fabulous time exploring the reef. However, many of the group expressed some amount of fear about snorkelling on the reef, far away from the mainland. I began to wonder if there was really that much to be afraid of. We were only told that it was not box jellyfish season, and, more

  • The Effect of Technology On Humanity

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    "Dennis Hong: Making a Car for Blind Drivers." Speech. TED 2011. Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Long Beach. Mar. 2011. TED: Ideas worth Spreading. TED, May 2011. Web. 01 Mar. 2012. . Koerner, Brendan I. "Spy Games." Editorial. Reader's Digest. Reader's Digest. Reader's Digest. Web. . Kolata, Gina. "Could We Live Forever?" The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Nov. 2003. Web. 01 Mar. 2012. . "NOVA ScienceNOW: Can We Live Forever?" NOVA ScienceNOW. PBS. PBS, 26 Jan. 2011. Television.

  • John H. Johnson

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    news and information about African-Americans and prepare a weekly digest for Pace. He thought that a "Negro newspaper" could be sold and marketed and have people to be very interested in it. In 1942, Johnson borrowed $500 from his mother's furniture and started the Johnson Publishing Company. Johnson got idea, The Negro Digest, and modeled it after the Reader's Digest but it took aimed at African-Americans. He launched the Negro Digest, which took a serious look at racial issues and featured articles

  • Visual Art Essay

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    Introduction Visual art is a term that is broad in meaning and describes an array of different elements that make up the category of what is depicted as art and what Americans transcend from art to be of philosophical value. Throughout American history, humans have been fascinated with the aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and logic of art, and have adopted their understanding of these philosophies through global, historical, societal, and cultural context of the visual arts as a beginning

  • Summary Of My Beloved World By Sonia Sotomayor

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    Sotomayor Shines Through Racial discrimination is an ongoing reality in the lives of many Hispanics. Being a minority and living in poverty is tough. Hispanics have not always been very welcomed in America; they face challenges getting jobs, and being socially accepted. My Beloved World is a memoir by Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor grew up in a very poor neighborhood. She was diagnosed at the age of eight with diabetes, which was very dangerous because of the lack of technology. Her father died when

  • The TV Drug

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    Television does not have to be the center of your world. If you do included television in your day, make sure it is a small part of your overall life and not the driving force. Works Cited "17 Ways to Beat Your Television Addiction." Reader's Digest Version. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. Kubey, Robert, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. "Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor." Scientific America. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. "Television & Health." California State University, Northridge. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. Unplugged

  • Where Is Atlantis

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    Atlantis’s existence is still unproved. “Plato, one of the fathers of western thought, is out sole direct source for the legend of Atlantis. His fragmentary account of the continent that was swallowed up by the sea still excited the modern mind.” (Reader’s Digest) The story of Atlantis began about 11,000 years ago. Atlantis was the dwelling of Poseidon, the sea god in Greek mythology. Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito. He built an island, Atlantis, and he constructed a elaborate house

  • Comparing The Alaskan Malamute And Siberian Husky

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    Dogs come in all shapes and sizes. Some are large, some are small. Some are hairy, and some are bald. Each dog has its own unique characteristic and appearance that make it distinct from their peers. However, in some cases, these traits may also be replicated by another dog, which makes them look similar. While there are dogs such as dalmatians which are known for their distinctive spotted coat, or the bergamasco dogs which have three layers of matted locks that make them unique from other dogs

  • Canada's Interning the Japanese: Justified?

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    stating Japanese Canadians were no threat to Canada or of anyway dangerous (Bolotta et al, 2000). Furthermore, most Japanese Canadians were born in British Columbia, spoke little to no Japanese, and had little or no relation with Japan(_____*reader’s digest*,1969). In other words, this should have be an indicator that Japanese Canadians were no threat to the country. In simpler terms, the Canadian government had no justifications in interning the Japanese Canadians. Secondly, the extent of the internment

  • Education System Flaws

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    society has been prioritizing math and science being taught in school. Recently, careers that revolve around them are quite valued thanks to their ability to enhance the economy, causing the humanities to be less appreciated. For instance, in the Reader’s Digest article “The Closing of the (North) American Mind”, Robert Nielsen explains that due to their insufficient exposure to literature, students lack the “awareness of the depths as well as the heights of human nature” and are even doubting the existence

  • Workaholic Essay

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    Workaholics Workaholics are those who work at the expense of long hours every day without breaks. Being a workaholic is different from those who are a normal hard worker. The former had intense behavior of concerning their work and always to stay till the end of the day to get it finish while the latter has maintained a great quality of working benefits of their families and co-workers. Research had shown more on how being a workaholic isn’t a good sign. The signs that are going to be dealing

  • Porphyria’s Lover : Browning’s Portrait of a Madman

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    contains the methodical ramblings of a lunatic; it is a madman’s monologue that reveals the dark side of human nature. Power and passion coalesce to form the strangulation of the beautiful and innocent Porphyria, and at the same time strangle the reader’s ability to comprehend what is occurring and why it is occurring. The murder’s monologue depicts a heinous crime. The simple fact that the monologue is issued from the murderer himself creates a sense of distrust. There is no doubt that the man is

  • How Does Ray Bradbury Use Metaphors In All Summer In A Day

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    dig deeper into the story. The author uses symbolism to show the importance that ties in later on in the story with a certain object. In this story the author uses the sun. Some people may think that using metaphors is to create an image in the reader's mind when really it is to help the reader better understand what is going on. Metaphors are used to describe and compare the importance of certain details of the story. All summer in a day uses symbolism and metaphors. The author of All Summer