Johnson's 250th birthday, Mary Lascelles concludes that 'London has not the brilliance of its original, because it lacks the lightening flash of its irony'.2 Lascelles is arguably right to find irony in Juvenal's 'Satire III', and in sensing none in London, she aligns herself with the vast majority of those who have published their views on the poem. ... For example, in the presentation of the city, Juvenal comments that residents live 'in dread of fires, and buildings collapsing continually' and notes that there are a 'thousand other dangers of...

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Not only does this site have information about being aware of what is prohibited and how you can go through security checks a lot more smoothly, they also have information about prescreening allowing you to go through the process of everything 2 hours earlier so that way you can get through it sooner than later so all you have to do is just flash your id and go. ...

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But it's important to note that even before his participation in the war, Gurney was already suffering from an eccentric personality; supported by his mental outbreak in 1913, alluding to his already unfit mind to serve in the war. ...

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Plot Overview Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo. As h...

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Taken from the novel, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, the quote, " in pulsing dark, crouched, I holding on, clutching tight, rocking, somewhere behind the gate, and a dark red clotting light and pressure and pain and then OUT into a flat white light where shapes move and things flash and glitter." (135) is a description of the miracle of birth. ...

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Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

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