The summer of 1871 had been remarkably dry that year and most of the cities 60,000 stables, barns, houses, stores, and other warehouses were made out of wood.2 This made the great city of Chicago susceptible to tremendous damage from a fire. ... Preventing future fires, a city ordinance banned the use of lamps, candles, and lanterns in any area that contained straw, hay, or any other flammable material.9 However, despite these precautions fires still managed to break out in barns around Chicago. ... O'Leary went out into the barn to check on her milk cow and accidentally left a kerosen...

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In the first part, barn owl' we are introduced to a mischievous child who sneaks out to kill a barn owl. ... In barn owl' the child's change is conveyed through a variety of techniques. ... It is clear she wishes her life remained unchanged as she attempts to rekindle her youth a small pilot light burning' however, she realizes it would be ridiculous too many things are tying me to the ground'. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The maker of the film "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?- has transformed the Odyssey of Ulysses into a film for many reasons, and with great effect. He took many things directly from the text and put them into his film without much alteration to show an obvious link between the two texts, some of these in...

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• Grade Level: High School

Who would of thought that eating hamburgers, steaks and drinking milk could produce an epidemic disease? These types of food are frequently eaten for their appealing tastes and nutritional values. The discovery of Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (CJD) has been a long and remarkable one. The cause of this disease is a mutated prion protein within the brain that can be either inherited or acquired. These mutations create sponge like holes that destroy the brain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that ...

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Many more neighborhoods suffered the same fate, as fires engulfed their homes, when the woman left a candle burning while she read so she could see. Burning buildings, blazing fires, and darkness plagued world citizens for centuries until a solution in 1879 was brought. ... Bales, A women tried to light a lantern in her barn when a cow kicked over the lantern and set the city on fire. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School