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Underground Railroad

I know you’re wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is that everybody has heard of the , but not everyone knows just what it was. Firstly, it wasn’t underground, and it wasn’t even a railroad. The term "" actually comes from a runaway slave, who while being chased ...

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The Challenges Faced In Jane E

The novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, has a plot that is filled with an extraordinary amount of problems. Or so it seems as you are reading it. However, it comes to your attention after you have finished it, that there is a common thread running throughout the book. There are many little ...

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Architecture Set In Motion

1. Bouffrand: Salon de la Princess, hotel de Soubise, Paris, France, begun 1730’s Salon de la Princess, is a many sided cylindrical interior room and is part of the Rococo style that incorporates minimal architectural features and light airy decor, that develops into a profession of interior ...

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Ethan Frome: Fantasy Is An Escape From Winter

Ethan Frome, the title character of Edith Wharton's tragic novel, lives in his own world of silence, where he replaces his scarcity of words with images and fantasies. There is striking symbolism in the imagery, predominantly that of winter which connotes frigidity, detachment, bleakness and ...

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Tricky's Pre-Millenium Tension

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tunnel. I'm your DJ, and I'm gonna take you on a tour of a twelve-inch...yes, a twelve-inch. We're gonna start with the kick and the bass. You like the bass? It's filtered...I know how you feel it...." It's three o'clock on a Sunday morning, and the 5,000 ...

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The Good Earth

In the critically acclaimed novel , Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him by his father. ...

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The Legend Of Baby Doe

by John Burke copyright 1974 & 1989 John Burke, a former newspaperman, has published biographies, mysteries, popular histories, and juvenile biographies. He has written biographies on Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, George Thomas, and many others. Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in ...

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The Ozone Layer

In environmental science the green house effect is a common term for the role water vapor; carbon dioxide and ozone play in keeping the earth’s surface warmer than it would normally be. The atmosphere is primarily transparent to infrared radiation from the sun, which is mostly absorbed by the ...

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Abraham Lincoln 4

Lincoln, Abraham,16th president of the United States, who steered the Union to victory in the American Civil War and abolished slavery. Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, the son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken by ...

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Suicide In Las Vega

Hell is expensive. This is my first thought as my plane lands in Las Vegas. The Luxor hotel's glass pyramid seems dangerously close to the runway's edge, as do its chocolate-and-gold sphinx and rows of shaved palms. I wonder if these rooms tremble when jets land. Behind the Luxor are mountains ...

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Is Jesus A Socialist - The Jun

The Jungle – Is Jesus a Socialist? There are many interpretations that different individuals can develop on one event, material, or thing, and on such example is the Bible. In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, an advocate of Socialism, uses a character to tie Socialism with Jesus. The character is an ...

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With Malice Toward None By Ste

Stephen B. Oates is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of eight other books, including The Fires of Jubilee and To Purge This Land with Blood. His task in this biography was to perpetuate Lincoln as he was in the days he lived. His purpose of this ...

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Angelas Ashes Summary

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish ...

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John Adams

John Quincy Adams was the only son of a president to become president. He had an impressive political background that began at the age of fourteen. He was an intelligent and industrious individual. He was a man of strong character and high principles. By all account, his presidency should have ...

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Abraham Lincoln

Although other states such as Indiana lay claim to his birth, most sources agree that was born on February 12, 1809, in a backwoods cabin in Hodgeville, Kentucky. In an interview during his campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as "the short and simple annals of ...

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William McKinley

Twenty-Fifth President 1897-1901 Born: 1/29/1843 Birthplace: Niles, Ohio was born in Niles, Ohio, on Jan. 29, 1843. He taught school, then served in the Civil War, rising from the ranks to become a major. McKinley opened a law office in Canton, Ohio, and in 1871 married Ida Saxton. Elected to ...

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Stowaways

have been a problem to shipowners for about as long as there have been ships in the sea. In the early days of sailing ships and looser maritime legislation, this was a relatively minor problem. This probably had to due with the fact that the ships were smaller in comparison to today's ...

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Analysis Of The Kingdom Of Mat

In order to understand the ramifications of Matthias’s formation of his kingdom, the social,financial, ethnic, and sexual conditions of the times must be realized as the catalysts that cause the cults to form. A whole series of evangelic congregations appeared in the early decades of the ...

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Fahrenheit 451: Change

What is change? Webster's Second Collegiate Dictionary, defines change as to cause to become different; alter; transform; convert. Many things, people, and world events are able to change. Peace may be present for years and shattered by a disagreement over religion, or shift of political ...

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Stephen Crane

Today in modern America, it has become almost impossible to avoid the tales of horror that surround us almost anywhere we go. Scandals, murders, theft, corruption, extortion, abuse, prostitution, all common occurrences in this day in age. A hundred years ago however, people did not see the world ...

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