Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man who from a young age had a love for literature, and later took a position in 1863 at Harvard (legallanguage.com, Paul Revere's Ride). ... Paul Revere arranged to have the signal in the Old North Church, if the British were coming by land he lit one lantern and if they were coming by sea he would light two lanterns (bostonteapartyship.com, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere). ... In the beginning of Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's Ride it says "Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that day and year....

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Gregers manages to shatter Hjalmar's illusions, but succeeds only because he drives the impressionable fourteen-year-old Hedvig to commit suicide. ... This idea is aptly hinted by Gregers when he questions Ekdal: "How can a man like you---a man who loves the open air- live in the middle of a stuffy city, shut in here by the four walls." ... According to Gregers, Hjalmar is the wild duck because he has dived to the "bottom" clinging to the weed on the sea bed. ...

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When Hawthorne was four years old, his father, who was a sea captain (also named Nathaniel), died of yellow fever. His mother, Elizabeth Manning Hathorne, could not manage 3 young children on her own and moved the family to his uncle Manning's house where he spent the remainder of his youth. When Nathaniel was 9-years-old, he injured his foot and was unable to walk or attend school for a very long period. ... Another one of his works, "Young Goodman Brown", also takes place during the Puritan era and depicts a young man's conflict between the good and evil within humans ("N...

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It is a place made of man-made environment opposed to the natural environment. ... Athens consisted of many important historic buildings such as temples and theaters, these include the Parthenon, the Old Temple of Athena, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, and the Theatre of Dionysus. ... The close proximity to the sea, made Pointe-a-Pierre an ideal location for the oil refinery industry. ...

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It has had a major impact on the way business in conducted no longer dose correspondence have to be hand written or typed on a manual typewriter mistakes then could be very unforgiving and rewrites would waste many man-hours you could have as many as thirty departmental staff members that needed evaluations written. ... I remember receiving letters from home when on deployment that was over four weeks old. ... I can receive a message from home in minutes no matter where I am in the world be it sea or land. ...

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The soldiers are "bent double, like old beggars" which is contrary to the popular image of soldiers being strong and able. ... He illustrates the tragic event metaphorically by comparing the man choking on the gases to someone "drowning " in a "green sea. " This comparison serves to emphasize the explicit hazard troops face during war which in turn brings to the fore front the misconception that there is minimal danger involved while deployed. ... One example of this is when the wounded soldier is described as thrashing around "like a man in fire or lime. " The association of choking and being...

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Beowulf "Heard how Grendel filled nights with horror and quickly commanded a boat fitted out, proclaiming that he'd go to that famous king would sail across the sea to Hrothgar" (Beowulf 112-115) It was Beowulf's loyalty to the Danes that conveyed him to Hrothgar to overcome Grendel. ... In his day, he was the mightiest man on earth, highborn and powerful" (Beowulf, 196-198). ... This same notion is again when Beowulf is depicted as, "the man who of all men was foremost and strongest in the days of his life" (Heaney 788). This passage demonstrates the idea of...

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Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young with older love, unrequited romantic love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love/romance, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. ... The characters are usual for a romantic drama: a young man Noah Calhoun (main character), young woman Allison Hamilton (main character), strict parents Anne and John Hamilton, fiancé Lon Hammond Jr., girl on the side Martha Shaw (she wants to be on the first place, but there i...

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The composer's use of similes illustrates to us the unimaginable, horrific scenes of war in a way we might be able to fathom "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks". ... For example, it is displayed when Owen says, "Under a green sea, I saw him drowning" and "Blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs". ... Owen refers to the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" meaning it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country, as "the old lie" suggesting that Horace, the man who composed the saying over 2000 years a...

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At last, the Untied States went to war with Great Britain to protect its right to "freedom of the seas.... From the Democrats became visible the first "common man" president in Andrew Jackson. ... In order for Jackson to accomplish this, he vetoed many bills that he believed would cause danger to society or disregard his beliefs about right and wrong in the name of the "common man," although Jackson may have vetoed some bills for revenge-loving reasons, rather than deciding on what is most beneficial to the United States. ... By the period of the re-development of the...

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Altaic Languages, family of languages spoken in a vast area of Eurasia, extending from Turkey in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east. ... The latter is the official language of Ethiopia, spoken by Coptic Christians and Hebrew is basically the language of the Old Testament. ... If a man traveled out of his own tribal area, he was likely to find that the local inhabitants could not understand a word he said. ...

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The persona's inner epiphany of a self destructive society is furthered strengthened through the allusions to "the raft of medusa" which is a painting that alludes to shipwreck survivors that have resorted to cannibalism as they float across the sea. ... Meatworks shows the inner workings of a man moving away from the materialistic life of the city to the nicer life of the country where a person's importance isn't measured on there belongings. ... The persona then tries to "clean" themselves from the materialistic lifestyle and rediscover the true meaning of ...

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On her way down on the old Line Road to Stoney Brook she was very lonely and cold but managed to stay on the trail until she noticed that a bear was following her and it was getting dark and she started to loose her path on the trail but she manage to catch sight of a cabin roof and then she went to the cabin and got in there to get away from the bear but the bear ended up breaking off the door to the cabin and tried to get her but the bear hit some of the ashes from the stove and caught the cabin on fire which forced the bear to run away. ... Epic of Survival: Shackleton was about a great shi...

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