Turn of Century was a time of great social upheaval and cultural change for the women of America who inhabited a world that was neither of the nineteenth century nor the twentieth. ... The dawn of the consumer era brought on new spending opportunities for most Americans; however, it did nothing to loosen the standards of behavior to which women adhered. ... Instead, it simply offered a new set of rules. ... In the short fiction, the patient is slowly driven mad by her cure, cut off from any intellectual pursuits whatsoever. ... She was a brave and strong minded person; she was diagnosed with...

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This included adding new states to their country. ... We made the Open Door Notes so the other European countries wouldn't curve up China. Teddy Roosevelt became into role of world leader. ... This was made because of the states were in need of a shorter way get through canals of central America. ... Strong, powerful, and brave....

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The way that we perceive the world is constantly being challenged and altered because of our subjective views of the texts that we read, particularly through distinctively visual techniques. ... The mateship between the women in the play changes the way we perceive the world through the use of distinctively visual techniques. ... In the author's note Misto describes why he wrote the play "I didn't have the power to build a memorial so I wrote a play instead". ... The short film 'Mankind Is No Island' also uses distinctively visual features to convey the injustic...

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After the 1919 World Series scandal by the "Black Sox", along with the problems in the National Commission, professional baseball was reorganized and a new commissioner was appointed. ... The 1932 World Series tried to correct all this. ... "The Ball disappeared from the premises in a high, sizzling line, carrying an incredible distance in an incredibly short time." ... In 1933 a new game was created in baseball, the All-Star Game. ... In the winter of 1934 the Babe signed with the Boston Braves, but couldn't finish the season due to irresolvable problems between himself and McCarthy, the...

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It is a little known fact that more Americans were killed in The Civil War than in both World Wars combined. ... It was thought to be too short at the time, but it went down as one of the most famous speeches in American History. The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ... The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember wha...

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For instance, when Inspector Gadget gets a new assignment it always says it will self-destruct. ... True heroes are the firefighters and rescue workers in New York City who saved thousands of people on September 11. ... A hero can be as simple as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity or a brave as a fire fighter that rushes in and out of burning buildings saving children and adults. ... They burst into giggles when Wiley Coyote falls off of the cliff, and they feel a sense of security when The Power Rangers kill their many enemies to save the world. The subconsciously take notes on the cartoons...

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Holder played the role of the larger-than-life marshal in the white hat, riding bravely into lawless Dodge City. ... He and his attorneys say someone stole his original research paper and forged a new one to make it look as though he had plagiarized. ... He picked the Allied bombing campaign of Europe during World War II. ... A federal prosecutor says someone left it for him anonymously under his office door in a plain envelope, along with a short note and a photocopy of a second paper on the same subject - the one Holder is alleged to have copied from. ... In some cases, lines connect a n...

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was a short dip in the water with women and men on opposite sides of the beach (History of Women's Swimwear 1). ... Reard called his bikini 'smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit? ... forming an intense market for the Prosch 7 swimwear all over the world in 1957 (Bikini History 1). In July of 1959 the New York Post searched the beaches of New York City for bikinis, but found only a few. 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...

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In fact, he wrote nearly seventy short works of fiction. ... Poe developed a theory that he applied to both his short stories and his poems. Its most basic principle was that in short fiction and poetry, the writer should aim at creating a single and total psychological or spiritual effect upon the reader. ... Whether sent to lure me, or whether to bring disruption, morose yet all brave, enchanted on this deserted property on which this home is plagued with horror- tell me truthfully, I ask- is there relief in Gilead? ... Line 21, "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came ra...

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Beneath the familiarity of middle-class life, in the opening and closing scenes, and the culture of children's play evident in the adventures in Never Land is the anxiety aroused by the shifts in masculine identity in relation to modern life, including the new technologies of the workplace and the demise of Empire. ... In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives- (19), which is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly phys...

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At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... "Plato told," stands by itself in a short spurt and draw the reader's attention, as if Plato is going to speak again. ... Also, the "old sith avenue el" refers to an old elevated subway train that ran through New York City, and was torn up to trade to Japan. 3 Now, to put the ideas together, the "nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue," is the metal Japan acquired from the U.S. to make into bullets for Japanese soldiers d...

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Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. ... This was further refined in Vietnam, the outcome being a new system, which was called the DEROS (date of expected return from overseas) system. ... The veterans of World War II spent weeks or in extreme cases even months with their respective units returning on ships, or planes from all over the world. ... Green troops or "f---ing new guys" with almost no experience in combat were thrown into their places. ... In World War II and almost every other war in Un...

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The father of the new objective school was the great Leopold von Ranke. ... This German school made history writing into a profession and founded the formal academic study of history, though they fell short of their ideal of writing about the past "as it actually happened."" ... Turner, emphasized social and economic factors in explaining historical development, as did the "new history- of James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...

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Despite the many thematic references to "dreams- and the fantastic setting of the Athenian forest, the play also contains a fair amount of commentary on Shakespeare's contemporary English world. ... Lysander Hermia's boyfriend, Lysander, is just as brave as Hermia herself; he stands up to Theseus and Egeus when they insist that his girlfriend marry another man, Demetrius. ... Lysander's madness is reasonably short-lived however, and he is soon himself again. ...

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