Mid-way between West Egg and New York City, the Valley of Ashes lays. ... Nick Carraway's first vision of Gatsby was when he: Stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have swore he was trembling I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock . ... Following a central theme of modernism, this new God watches over his paradise that has been reduced to ash-heaps by modern man. ... I don't think he had ever really believed it its exist...

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Those locks of hair usually ended up inside a broach or a locket attached to a necklace where the item could lay close to ones heart. ... The modern age has lost touch with the old practices of ritual afforded the dying and the dead. ... Children died of childhood diseases. Many women died in childbirth or soon after of a fever. ... Artwis.com commented on the art of hairwork, saying The custom of giving and receiving hairwork can be for mourning or sentimental purposes, but its singular theme is love. ...

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Speaking directly to "the Southern States," he reaffirmed, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." ...

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Yoruba People An Overview: History, Geography, Ecology, Subsistence, Technology The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than twenty-five million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the border with Benin Republic and extends into Benin Republic itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but citie...

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