Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the ro...

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Vampire- Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood). ... Wilson goes on to note that the word "vampire" seems to have originated either from the Turkish word for "witch", the Greek word which means "to drink", or is possibly a combination of several Slavic terms, including upir ("witch"), wempti ("to drink"), and pirati ("to blow") (577-78). ... This demon retained many qualities which vampires have been known to possess, including drinking blood of children or seducing men and then exhausting them, emerging at night, living in secluded caves, and having the ability to transfor...

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Right there lurking within the framework of tunes like Pickin the Cabbage and Night In Tunisia was the apposition between a four-four swing beat and a Latin or African rhythm. ... The real founders of this style have never received the full credit that they deserve for sparking a craze that swept the nation, and is really and truly, the only Jazz style that is still enormously popular today. ... It was Bauza who comforted Dizzy when he was dismissed from Cab Calloway's band for incorporating his Be-Bop ideas into Calloway's music every night on the bandstand, or as Calloway called it...

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Is it true that the monster is treacherous? Walton says that Victor showed letters and that W. saw the monster, to lend credibility to the story. Victor had thought to be useful, but without due consideration to values. Epic hero: "the greatness of his fall." Victor's speech: we do something not bec...

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"Enter: Philosopher, and lo! He proves to you it must be so- (Faust: 1928-29) Can Faust, pre and post Mephistopheles, be seen in an either Nietzschean or Schopenhauerian light? Introduction. This piece of work grew out of reading chapters four and five of Walter Kaufmann's book The Ow...

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In the first chapter, I was immediately introduced to all of the wonderful animals. Obviously most of the chapter is written to spark pity and a sense of sympathy for the poor, suffering farm animals, but the old Major's words are very telling. The wise old pig addresses the confl...

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As a god, the pharaoh made sure the sun rose everyday by traveling through the night to arrive safely in the morning. ... Every year he would put a written note into the Nile to make sure the waters flooded for harvest. ...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. He is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimi...

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July 12, 1979, there was an anti-disco demonstration, known as "Disco Demonstration Night", in where a crate of disco records was blown up during a baseball game in Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois. ... Due to this increase, the style of bagatelle was common among newly written songs for the piano, Für Elise being one of them.Not much is known about the background of the song due to the only thing left behind was the transcribed notes, with no obvious background information other than that the song title heavily implied that it was written for Elise, whose identity has not been conf...

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Synthetic refractories (temperature resistant) for furnaces used to make steel, glass, ceramics, cement Mid 1800's Porcelain electrical insulation Incandescent light bulb 1920's High-strength quartz-enriched porcelain for insulators Alumina spark plugs Glass windows for automobiles 1940's Capacitors and magnetic ferrites 1960's Application of carbides and nitrides 1970's Introduction of high-performance cellular ceramic substrates for catalytic converters and particulate filters for diesel engines 1980's Properties of Ceramics The properties of ceramic mate...

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The Making of A New Writer How does a man with yellow tinted aviator glasses, a trademark cigarette holder, and khaki pants become one of the most influential writers of modern day? With arrogance, and 22 loaded guns at all times of course. This writer has been through many different paths in life, his writing has the tendency to draw in all types of people: the heavily political, the heavily athletic, and the heavily psychotic. There can be no other than Hunter S. Thompson to fill this description. ...

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In April 1775 as the King's troops advanced on Concord Massachusetts Paul Revere would sound the alarm that "The British are coming, the British are coming" as he rode his horse through the late night streets. ...

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Guitar Heroes Perhaps the most influential experience in everybody's life occurs everytime they listen to music that makes them cry, laugh, or drive a little faster down the freeway. Music, which magnifies certain emotions to express what someone feels during particular events, has been around si...

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Two years later, a faction in Costa Rica even opted to become part of Mexico, sparking a civil war in the country's center between four neighboring cities. ... Note that the literal translation of Indian is Indio, which is an insulting term to Costa Rica's indigenous inhabitants. ... They were actively discriminated against in the early 1900's, not even being allowed to spend a night in the highlands, but since the 1949 constitution, they have had equal rights. ...

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People with DID (MPD) may experience any of the following: depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleep walking), panic attacks and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers"), alcohol and drug abuse, compulsions and rituals, psychotic-like symptoms (including auditory and visual hallucinations), and eating disorders. ...

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