As Paul moves from depression to exhilaration, form Pittsburgh to New York, Cather introduces introduces many symbols which dramatically contrast Paul's conflict. ... This foreshadows his escape from Cordelia Street to New York. ... While Paul is in New York, the snow changes from "whirling in curling eddies," showing his new found freedom from his life back on Cordelia street to a "raging storm" which makes the city "snow-bound" and lies "heavy on the roadways," comparing Paul's inability to escape from his Cordelia Street life. ... The first thing Paul does in his New York hote...

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Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, lives in an adult society when he moves into New York City yet he is only a teenager. ... After flunking out of Pency Prep, his last school, Holden takes the reader on an adventure as he returns home to New York for search of peace and completeness. ... Holden asks the readers questions about women and displays sexual frustration as he fails to become romantic with any woman in New York City. ...

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Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth in February 1863 by Massachusetts governor John A. ... We encamped in the city that night, and destroyed the depot, together with three locomotives and a train of thirty-five cars. ... Vols., 32d and I02d U.S.C.T., and for the 25th Ohio Vols., the I07th Ohio Vols., I5th and 56th N.Y. vols., and the 4th Mass., and the 3d New York Artillery, and for General [Edward E.] ...

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In verse five of "The Boxer" these are the lyrics : "Then I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone /Going home, Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me, /Leading me . . . ...

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The story leads up to the events of Paul's suicide, after a brief fling in New York. ... Paul loses his job at Carnegie hall and soon escaped to New York City; "when they had taken away his bone, the whole thing was virtually determined" (Cather 208). Paul stole some $3,000 that he was supposed to have deposited into the bank, but instead Paul took off for a high class fling in New York. ... One short fling in New York is all he really had. ...

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In the second part of the novel we see Holden escape top New York three days before he is due to return home. Holden's new surroundings are important in that it is in New York that Holden no longer is able to carry on with his miserable and confusing life, and his mental inability to understand his troubles alone becomes too overwhelming. ... As Holden leaves pencey prep and goes to New York on a journey into self discovery Holden interacts with people of low moral standards and are rude with little with or no respect for anybody but themselves. ... Holden finds himself in one of the worl...

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Knowledge and the Descent into Darkness At the dawning of the 21st century, the term "forbidden knowledge" seems almost quaint. In an age that we can unlock and utilize the power of the atom, read and write the code of life and look into the heavens to see literally billions of years down the r...

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The band's packed touring schedule in 1978 included a sold-out show at New York City's Madison Square Garden, which was recorded and released as the highly acclaimed live album Babylon By Bus. ... In 1980, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park. ...

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Although there is war and other events in the New York and Massachusetts area, the Meekers, the family the story focuses on, live in Redding. ... The cities of Redding and Verplancks Point, where the Meekers sold cattle every year, were real too. ...

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Jimi Hendrix "is considered one of the greatest guitarists in rock music history." (Encarta) He was born Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, but after his parents divorced, his father changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix. He picked up his first guitar at age 11...

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Jerry lives with a group of people who New York doesn't want the world to see: "The room beyond mine is occupied by a coloured queen There's someone living in the front room, but I've never seen who-. They are much happier to let people see the towering skyscrapers and bustling city streets, yet these citizens are kept out of sight. ...

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Even though Holden was not receiving treatments while he was in New York City, he still views himself as that way while telling the story because that is how he feels like he is supposed to be, pessimistic and sarcastic towards himself. ...

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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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Tupac Shakur: Wanted Dead or Alive??? Tupac Shakur is a controversial rapper, poet, and actor adored by many and hated by some. With his out spoken lyrics, he talked about real issues in the world, which are not the usual topics of many rappers. He always tried to give back to his community, and...

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Waiting for Godot qualifies as one of Samuel Beckett's most famous works. Originally written in French in 1948, Beckett personally translated the play into English. The world premiere was held on January 5, 1953, in the Left Bank Theatre of Babylon in Paris. The play's reputation spread slowly throu...

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