A strict man, William once told a five year old Albert to go to the police station with a note from his father after some mischief making. Upon reading the note, a sergeant put young Alfred in a cell and left him there for ten minutes. ... He was hired as a title designer for silent films. ... Also, in the spring of 1973 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with the Irving G. ... The Directors Guild of America also honored Hitchcock that spring with the prestigious D.W.Griffith Award for his directorial achievements. ...

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A strict man, William once told a five year old Albert to go to the police station with a note from his father after some mischief making. Upon reading the note, a sergeant put young Alfred in a cell and left him there for ten minutes. ... He was hired as a title designer for silent films. ... Also, in the spring of 1973 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with the Irving G. ... The Directors Guild of America also honored Hitchcock that spring with the prestigious D.W.Griffith Award for his directorial achievements. ...

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Also, many suicides occur in the spring, especially May, and not in the winter. It is also because of the sense of rebirth in the spring (Dolce 16). Many people also believe that people who commit suicide always leave notes. Actually many people do not leave notes, and its absence may make the death look like an accident. ... Suicide in an issue that is being studied continually, but the only thing that can stop this silent epidemic is education. ...

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He and Hannah met in a London boarding house where they both were living in the spring of 1885. ... When the results were tabulated, only five silents were chosen: D. ... It was on this note of quiet satisfaction that Chaplin's life drew to aclose. ...

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that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearièd, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! ... And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. ... with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form! ... Using paradox and oxymoron to open the second stanza, Keats praises the silent music coming from the pipes and timbrels as far more pleasing than the audible music of real life, for the music fro...

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In the fourth stanza the narrator is describing a deserted town where "thy streets for evermore Will silent be" and "Why thou art desolate, can e"er return" ([Ode] 4.38-40). ... Other words chosen are "emptied", "soul", "silent", "desolate" which all lead to an understanding or implication of death. ... It is critical to note that without the urn the narrator would not be entitled to be self-reflexive. ... In the line "Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu" ([Ode] 3.22) is a line that introduces the concepts of rebirth and renewal as spring is the season for both. The narrator chooses t...

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Her favorite show was Jerry Springer; she watched it everyday and even stayed up late for re-runs. ... He informed her by note of course that she had not paid rent in over five years and that she had to move out if she did not start paying rent. ... She went to find her landlord only to notice a note on his door that said left town for several years, please deposit rent in the mail slot, thank you management "Well what the flippin hell am I am gonna do now" said Snow. ... There were no words spoken, just very intense, silent stares. ...

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Individual acts of defiance ranged from the use of the Underground Railroad - a secret, organized network of people who helped fugitive slaves reach the Northern states and Canada - to the daily resistance or silent sabotage found on the plantations. ... He notes that it never became as well organized or as successful as the South believed. ... In the spring of 1863 only two black regiments existed, however, this had grown to sixty by the end of 1863. ... Batty and Parish note that less than 100 ever became officers and none ranked higher than captain. ... Stokesbury, in concurring with Wilson...

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The reader is informed: After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains. 322-27 The passage starts out with an allusion to John 18:3, which describes the soldiers who came to arrest Jesus. ... This is a reference to Jeremiah 2:13, which states: ""My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."" ... For ins...

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Stanley the brut was mean and Stella was only a silent observer. ... She not only demands the money, she tells him she's going out and she springs all of this on him on poker night. ... A thing to note also is that after Stanley hit Stella again sex was used to smooth the path and Stella was compensated with 10 dollars on the table. ...

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This is seen in the lines: Our brains knive us Wearied the night is silent Low our memory of the salient Worried by silence nervous ... Coupled with the rhyme style: knive us'- nervous' , silent' - salient', the result is that the reader is left on edge, aware of the tension the soldiers are experiencing . ... It is interesting to note though, that Owen at the end of this description of sudden movement, ends this stanza (as he does most of the stanzas in the poem) with the words but nothing happens. ... For God's invincible spring our l...

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In the spring of 1794 Dolly and James were introduced for the first time. ... The Castle was abandoned; to be raided, first, by American stragglers, and then to be burned by the British who conflagrated it after marching fifty sailors and marines silently through the avenue. ... Now there was noting but Montpellier and the calm monotonous beauty of the Blue Ridge. ...

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(Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ... "Hemingway believed that good writing springs from knowledge that the author should write about things which he really knows"." ...

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Before the civic spirit and individuality evident and necessary to the Renaissance came to fruition, there had to have been something to trigger a change in the mentality of the medieval civilization. The medieval manorialism fostered illiteracy and ignorance and a very narrow view of the outside w...

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Sometimes one dipped themselves into the chilly sea or into the warm springs. ... Annette went on to star in many silent films. ... However, sales were rising in the United States and those noting the growing number of private pools mentioned that thousands of shy women were probably purchasing bikinis to wear in the privacy of their own pools (Johnson 7). ...

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BIOGRAPHY According to Life Magazine and several other sources, Thomas Edison was "the most influential figure of the millennium." Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwoods mid-western village. He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class parents in the bustling port of Milan, Ohio: a community that, next to Odessa, Russia, was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. In 1854, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, which was also an up and coming shipping center. Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest...

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William Cullen Bryant incorporated consummation in "Thanatopsis-: So live, that when they summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death; Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. ... As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes ...

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1 Let us go then, you and I, 2 When the evening is spread out against the sky 3 Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5 The muttering retreats 6 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7 And sawdust restauran...

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The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second note was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. ... It started in 1962 with the publishing of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." ...

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We note that Rukmani is prepared at an early age to accept her role as a wife, which is evident in the gay response she makes to her mother, "I shall have a grand wedding". ... According to Meera Shirdwadkar, this trait is inbred in an Indian woman,"[T]he cause of her suffering springs mainly from poverty and natural calamity. ...

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What Shamanism Is By the Silver Circle Shaman (pronounced SHAH-maan) is a word from the language of the Tungus people of Siberia. A Shaman is a man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness at will. The Shaman does this to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality to acquire kn...

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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. The estate is not theirs but from an old man who is a relative of Mr John Dashwood. Mr John Dashwood is Mr Dashwood's son from a previous marriage. The old man dies and leaves his house to Mr Dashwood. When Mr Dashwood passes away shortly after, the house is inherited by his son. ...

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Is any cliché in American public discourse quite as stale as "liberal media bias-? Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? Not unless said person resides permanently in a wilderness beyond range of all TV, radio, newspaper delivery, and the U.S. Postal Service. ...

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