After all of the children Shelley birthed, she was extremely lucky not to have died from complications as her mother did (2). ... During this era, children died young due to diseases and birthing complications; Before she wrote her novel, Shelley had three children who each died at an early age or prematurely, which is similar to the novel since the savage's first victims are children. ... The second was a young woman named Justine Moritz who represents Shelley's daughter Clara, who died at the age of one (Franklin 3). ... Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died on August 9...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although the first year almost half of the population died, by 1632, 11 years after the beginning their population was up to 500. ... A first line of nonseparating Puritans led by John Endecott, reached Salem in 1628, and the first installment of the Great Migration, a thousand strong, arrived under John Winthrop in the summer of 1630 (Morgan, 80). ...

• Word Count: 2388
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the summer of 1985, one Los Angeles case clearly helped answer that question. ... Most of the women died, but a small percentage survived to provide a description of the attacker: he was tall, thin, young, Hispanic, and had an angular face. ...

• Word Count: 1944
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate