In focusing on the last few weeks of Brandon's life, it tells the tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how her gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion, and hostility among the residents of an isolated American township still attempting to understand what happened during her fateful final days The article "The Girl from Foreign" states that there is a war faced by individuals with hyphenated identity. ... OBJECTIVES This study is aimed at achieving the following objectives: 1) In this study, the language and narrative technique in bot...

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Throughout she had a long career that included different works from poetry, screenplays for television programs and film, plays, directing acting, as well as public speaking. ... Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... According to Hudley, it was brutal for Angelou to be young and spend most of her youthful days sitting quietly and listening to charges brought against her color without a chance to say anything in defense (1). ... During her lifetime, Angelou states that she had read all works done by Thomas Wolfe, as well as memorizing his ...

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The conspiracy theorists, called the Oxfordians versus the Shakespearean traditional historian loyalists each provide compelling points of circumstantial evidence from the Elizabethan days of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. ... There is not any conclusive evidence that Shakespeare's works were composed by Edward de Vere nor the many other literary candidates proposed over the past two hundred years. ... With all these factors weighed, I conclude that indeed Edward de Vere probably can lay claim at least in part to some literary Comedy and Enterlude works in the 1580s and 1590s. .....

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Though well known for works such as: Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, Poe is also recognized as being the creator of Gothic writing. ... Just as irony is a huge role in Poe's works so is the usage of symbolism, this is also a very distinguishable characteristic of Edgar Allan Poe. ... It told of "The Victoria" which a hot air balloon was and how it was a European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days. ... After finding out this was a false article and nothing in it was proved to be true the newspaper withdrew...

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Salvatore is but one of the works in his impressive library of works and, my personal favorite. ... This book supplies more than enough action to redefine the silver screen This book, like most other Salvatore works, relies more on dialogue than on description to lay down the tone and setting for each "scene". ... The story spreads over a shorter breadth of time than most of the other books of the series, it begins with Aydrian as a boy in the elven valley of Andur"blough"inniness and progresses steadily until he finds his greatest ally, Marcalo De"Unnero, from then up until Aydrian's ...

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There was an emphasis on modernist works; the Cabaret was a focal point for the "newest art " (displayed inside). Among the works hung on the walls were abstract collages by Arp (focus on the material itself and influenced by Kandinsky). ... President Wilson's war message on 2 April 1917, which led the US to declare war on Germany 4 days later, and with the arrival of Dada publications in New York. ... NY Dada also employed the use of found objects and unconventional materials; their works often blurred the boundary between reality and illusionism. ...

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In his opening lines, Strand apparently gives the culmination of details for the reader to understand the setting of the story, "A man has been standing, in front of my house, for days." ... The verification that the two characters in Strand's "The Tunnel " are meant to be a shadow of one character or their doppelganger, is not immediately obvious but is merely hinted toward in the final lines, "I feel I'm being watched, and sometimes I hear, a man's voice, but nothing is done, and I have been waiting for days." These words echo in the mind of the reader as the opening lines are...

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According to the syllabi, a math test is in sixteen days, a biology exam in fifteen days, and one proposal argument essay is due in exactly two weeks. ... Out of the 18 that I polled in my Math 1431 class after a scheduled exam, 78% (14 out of 18) of the students admitted to procrastinating too much with their studying in the days prior to the test effected their performance on the test, and I"m sure that the other 22% did there fair share of procrastinating. ... Breaking large tasks into smaller ones works especially well with the unpleasant jobs. ...

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This time period is extremely important to the birth of American Literature, and it was thanks to many settlers coming to this New Land, now the United States, that we have great literary works to refer back to when speaking about the beginning of our nation. ... These women are Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson, who were the authors of some of the most prestigious Early American Literature works referred to today. ... As a result, authors of this time were very specific with their titles, and named their works solely based off of what was found within their writing. ... In order to unders...

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In many works of literature, there are multiple themes, both forthcoming and subtle. ... Daniel Addison, the Liberal campaign manager in Cumberland "Prescott, describes what occurs when this attitude reaches its breaking point: "I've always thought that a democracy works best when its citizens are prepared to forego personal benefit to protect the collective interest. ... Finally, Daniel loses his personal reliability when the Liberal leader thinks he creates the maverick image of Angus, the candidate Daniel works under. ... If I don't find a candidate to run against Cameron in ...

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In order to help us understand the meaning of Philosophy we must first understand the long debates regarding what it means to be human, and how "being" differs from "to be". Does an individual become human or is "that" individual only "that" individual? How does being differ from to be? The fundam...

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During his student days at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, Marx studied history and philosophy and was strongly influenced by the works of Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel. ... Many feel that Marx had got it wrong by predicting eminent revolution, but revolution did break out within days of the publication. ...

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Bob Woodward's Bush at War is an outstanding investigative account of the first one hundred days after the September 11 attacks, detailing the debates and decisions that resulted from meetings between President George W. ... This apparent breakdown in the intelligence community received heavy media scrutiny in the days following the attacks, with many pundits calling for massive restructuring and new leadership. ... in the works. ...

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The legislative bill, which instigates the controversy and events taking place in this book, calls for two separate days for primary elections. ... Finally after 4 days with no sign of the Bees, Brooks back from Oklahoma claims he had no affiliation with the Killer Bees and their cause, but had just found out about the happenings in the Texas Senate. ... It would seem that living in a 19 by 14 foot room with 8 other men for five days in order to avoid an unwanted bill as a fairly liberal action. ... Any event that calls for news coverage is already good to one who works for the media. ...

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The legislative bill, which instigates the controversy and events taking place in this book, calls for two separate days for primary elections. ... Finally after 4 days with no sign of the Bees, Brooks back from Oklahoma claims he had no affiliation with the Killer Bees and their cause, but had just found out about the happenings in the Texas Senate. ... It would seem that living in a 19 by 14 foot room with 8 other men for five days in order to avoid an unwanted bill as a fairly liberal action. ... Any event that calls for news coverage is already good to one who works for the media. ...

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By 1887, Sixty-five editions of Shakespeare's works were published and over eighty school editions of individual plays have been published. Not only this but a very known actor and playwright named David Garrick dedicated three days to Shakespeare in 1769 called the Shakespeare Jubilee where we delivered a speech at the start of the celebrations to commemorate the memory of this genius who may be the greatest poets all of time. ... Also, in 1864 a new edition of "The works of William Shakespeare" was printed and established itself and remained the highest standard text for almo...

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The studies have shown that there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration when looking at students with learning disabilities and what works best for them Some of the factors include teacher relationships, peer relationships, behavioral support, and even attendance. ... I hope to use my research to determine what works best and come up with practical ways that change can be made in order to best suit students who may be struggling because of a learning disability. ...

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Magical realism blends fantasy and reality to explain the unexplainable, to heighten the real, and add an aura of allure, found in fables and myths, a theme Isabel Allende employs in later works, such as Paula, the story of her daughter that is purported inspired by and is woven with threads of the Greek myth of Persephone (tale of a mother struggling with the loss of a daughter). ... Mermaid-like and fantastical, Allende describes that "At birth Rosa was white and smooth, without a wrinkle, like a porcelain doll, with green hair and yellow eyes-- the most beautiful creature to be born on...

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This diagnosis has symptoms of depression that occur during the fall and winter seasons when the days are shorter and there is less exposure to natural sunlight. ... People with SAD often purchase special lamps or subscribe to "light therapy" to simulate increased sunlight to get them through the days with the shorter periods of natural sunlight. ... His energy and talent clearly turned periods of depression into an exploration of the inner self, which combined with his careful observation of the external world, resulted in works such as the Melencolia engraving. ...

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Now a days many parents are considering home schooling their children. There are more and more young people being educated at home today. This trend comes from parental concerns about violence, peer pressure, teacher/student ratio, and the fear that children are not learning by poor teaching. Home s...

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The company pays one and a half times their regular hourly rate of pay when an agent works more than their scheduled hours per week. Also, for those individual days when an agent works more than ten hours per day, they are entitled to overtime dinner pay. ... Employees are entitled to a specified number of vacation days depending on how long they have been with the company. ...

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Need To Improve Labour Relations The company's situation is serious "more than 600 strikes and over 100,000 working days lost (representing nearly 20% of days lost to strikes in France) on the average over the last few years (excluding 1995). ... Any actions taken -whether commercial, technical, or organizational- to improve customer satisfaction and at the same time gain control of company spending, cannot be sustained unless the personnel understands them, agrees to them, and works to achieve them. ...

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In which, he improved working conditions, created public works, and set up a bright future for America. ... The laborer states, "I am sure slavery days were much better for the black slaves had their meals for sure three times a day and medical attention at that. ... The laborer states that the company he works for "sells from 50 percent to 60 percent higher than the stores in town" (In Foner ["Letter to Secretary" 159]). ...

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The New Deal got underway during the first 100 days of the Roosevelt administration and experienced both successes and failures; but those failures and a mounting opposition to New Deal policies and programs would deter the New Deal from moving forward. ... Among the high points were the Works Progress Act (WPA), the Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), farming and labor reform. ... The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a high point in that it would exemplified the notion of the "New Deal's humanitarian impulses....

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Ten days after arriving Philaret to Moscow, he submitted to be enthroned as Patriarch by Theophanes, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the prelates of the Russian Church. ... Michael laid the foundation for the iron industry , in the 1620 metal works were set up in the Ural, were built first factories for melting copper, was established very successful the development of weapons under Tula city, which is still working, and where started trading of weapons to other European countries. ... He did not travel like a leisured gentleman looking at works of art, but went as a workman in order to learn use...

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