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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School