Marlow shows the degrading effects of the Congo on his helmsman: "he had no restraint, no restraint - just like Kurtz - a tree swayed by the wind." ... In Conrad's world, all Kurtz can do is respond to the winds of darkness by being blown over. ... As much as Marlow also hints at Kurtz's dark energy, he shows the man as passively manipulated by the force of African darkness that mingles with his own dark heart. Marlow describes Kurtz's relationship with the Congo by stating: "The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. ... Al...

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"The Plantation Mistress" By Catherine Clinton The Plantation Mistress focuses on the elite women living on plantations with twenty or more slaves in the seven seaboard states of the plantation South during the period between 1780 and 1835. ... Clinton believed that southern women occupied an undesirable position with respect to women of the North. ... They were also burdened with more complex tasks of household management and lived in greater isolation; thus reducing the female companionship of emotional support and social gatherings. ... Even though I have not seen Gone With The Wind ...

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By 1979, Foster had won his first Grammy Award for co-writing the #1 song "After the Love Has Gone" recorded by Earth Wind & Fire. ... Foster, along with writing partner Carole Bayer-Sager, co-wrote and produced the soundtrack for Warner Brothers' first animated feature, Quest For Camelot. ... His most recent, The Symphony Sessions, featured the composer performing original works with the acclaimed eighty-three piece Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. ... Foster was honored in 1994 by the American Academy of Achievement with their prestigious Golden Plate Award. ... A native of Victoria, Bri...

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No foreign attackers since Kublai Khan 1281 when a violent storm had turned him back; this storm called kamikaze or divine wind During the previous 4 ½ months their armed forces had scored triumph after triumph (including assaults on American territories of Guam, Philippines and Hawaii) on the war fronts of the Pacific; victory fever reigns A US submariner named Capt. ... US commanders dared not attempt a carrier attack against Japan using short-range Navy aircraft b/c would be detected and attacked b4 launch point but Army bombers had much more range and could possible catch Japanese defe...

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In the novel, the kite acts as a symbol of reconciliation between Amir and Sohrab, providing Amir with hope for redemption. ... For instance, when the initially detached and aloof Sohrab participates in the kite-flying tournament, Sohrab's "glassy, vacant look in his eyes was gone" and "his face was a little flushed, his eyes suddenly alert. ... Gaining hope for the future, Amir runs the kite "with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lips.... The imagery of "a grown man running with a swarm of screaming children" e...

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Bob Dylan was born with the name Robert Allen Zimmerman, but in an interview he had early in his career as a musician when a reporter asked his name, he said it was Bob Dylan. ... First of all, Dylans songs were influential in the political arenas because he was able to bring attention to the problems associated with wars, racism and discrimination, and unscrupulous politicians. ... As an example, Blowin In The Wind, is the answer to nine questions, such as how many times must the cannonballs fly before theyre forever banned (Robock 484). ... Bob Dylan realized that he was able to influence ch...

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The nation itself is compared to an animal (perhaps a lion) with a "tawny pelt.... Lines 4-6 Walcott shatters the image of a paradise that many associate with Africa by describing a landscape littered with corpses. ... Line 25 presents a cynical view of the Mau Mau Uprising as just another colonial conflict where gorillas - negatively animalized Africans - fight with superman - a negative characterization of Europe. ... He certainly is not satisfied with the stock response of those from the outside. ... These demands were met with British resistance or excuses. ...

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This system is a hybrid, which uses multiple processes starting with a high efficiency reverse osmosis (hero) followed by evaporation and crystallization. ... The benefit to using hydroelectric power is that the water resource is not consumed once the energy is collected, as is the case with other sources of energy such as coal and oil. ... Another difficulty with wide span use of hydroelectric power is that it takes strong flowing water that is not geographically available everywhere where electricity is needed. ... In July 2013, TVA purchased 1,515 megawatts of energy from eight wind far...

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To understand all of this, from the beginning, one must begin with the Word. That is to say, one must start with the understanding of the theory, what became known as the painted Word, behind Modern art between 1945 and 1975. ... Essentially, to be genius because those art critics and those high society members say you are genius, and the rest of society, who try to catch up so hard with the "culturati" and never quite make it, flounders to support the new craze which is usually dead and gone by the time they all grasp it. ... Until 1950 or so, most of the basic art theories originated wit...

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A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... , I didn"t want my friends to think I was a dork communicating with one so I told her " you wish!" ... Franks to see if she was there , when I walked in she was there on the outside of a room 201 and I asked her what she was doing outside and she told me that the kid in room 201 has died and she started to cry ,since my friends were gone I thought ...

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The modernist answer to this "hell " has been supplanting the old beliefs with new ones more compatible with the self-knowledge gained. ... The dominant realist discourse is represented by the "Sea of Faith"," at the beginning of the poem "The tide is full, the moon lies fair"" (2); the moon was the Queen, that which controls the tide, which represents faith, meaning that during that period people still held the centripetal Victorian belief in religion and order, but, like the light that "gleams and is gone" in the first stanza, is being extinguished. ... In a way, it might have begun with th...

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British public became disillusioned with the use of force in international relations and as a result sought an approach consisting of an effective system of collective security. ... Looking on with hindsight many historians have condemned the actions of Chamberlain and his government. ... A union with Austria was forbidden and Germany was ordered to pay £6,600 million in reparations in war damages and pensions inflicted on Britain, Italy and France. ... Continuing with this view lord Lothian sated they are only going into there own back garden. ... With the benefit of hindsight it ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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