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Western Filmsare the major defining genre of the American film industry, a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins - they focus on the West - in ...
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Public HangingsCapital punishment seemed to have been regenerated from the beginning of mankind, where beheading was considered an honorable method of meeting death, whereas hanging carried with it a definite stigma. The era of public hanging was emotionally satisfying even though the surroundings was ...
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MARGARET ATWOODIN 1970 , known only in small, mostly Canadian circles for her poetry, published a book entitled The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a persona poem sequence written from the point of view of a legendary 19th-century Canadian pioneer who had encountered the notorious murderess Grace Marks on a visit to ...
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Geroffrey ChaucerKnown as the Father of the English Language, Geoffrey Chaucer, after six centuries, has retained his status as one of the three or four greatest English poets. Throughout his assiduous life as a courtier and civil servant under the royalty of Edward III and Richard II, Chaucer has written many ...
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Donatello (1386-1466) was a master of sculpture in bronze and marble and was considered one of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists of his time. There is much more to know about him, though then the name alone. He has created some of the greatest works of art, not only in the Italian ...
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Henry FordTo say that dilly-dallied around before finally establishing a serious car company would be invalid. The 40 year old man had been acquiring valuable knowledge regarding business, engines, management, and most importantly cars. Now it was time to take a leap of faith.
In 1903 the Ford Motor ...
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Aspartame And Olestra: Will We Buy The Bull??
The eighties were the years of muscle building and nouvelle cuisine and we
like to call it the decade of the fitness obsession. We, the people of the
nineties, have gotten so discouraged with all of our Ab Trainers and Buns
of Steel that we have reverted to what seems to be an easy way to ...
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Sappho (the Greek Poet)One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world, Sappho was born some time between 630 and 612 BC. She was said to be small and dark in appearance. Sappho's home was the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. She was born of a noble family, the child of ...
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Helen KellerIn 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark - she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a ...
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1984: A Political Statement Against TotalitarianismOutline
Thesis Statement- This paper will examine how George Orwell wrote
1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism.
I Introduction
II Summary of 1984
III Roles of major Charters
A. Big Brother
B. Winston
C. O'Brien
D. Julia
E. Shop ...
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Miyamoto Musashi
During the ancient period of Japan there existed a time of war and power struggles. There were many people who followed the Bushido code or way of the warrior. These people were called samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their lives to the Bushido code there were none greater ...
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Virtual Reality: What It Is And How It WorksImagine being able to point into the sky and fly. Or perhaps walk
through space and connect molecules together. These are some of the
dreams that have come with the invention of virtual reality. With
the introduction of computers, numerous applications have been
enhanced ...
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The History Of Medicineis like a huge puzzle, and it has taken
many tortuous and gruesome routes to try to fit the pieces together. It
has gone from ancient myths that attempted to explain disease to the great
capabilities of today's medicine.
The first crude forms of medicine go back to prehistoric man. Even
before ...
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StarsMagnitudes
The magnitude scale was invented by an ancient Greek astronomer named Hipparchus
in about 150 BC He ranked the he could see in terms of their brightness,
with 1 representing the brightest down to 6 representing the faintest. Modern
astronomy has extended this system to stars brighter ...
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Charles DickinsThe "rebirth" of art in Italy was connected with the rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, and science and the evolution of empirical methods of study in these fields. Increased awareness of classical knowledge created a new resolve to learn by direct observation and study of ...
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Separation And Survival InIn the spring of 1841, Solomon Northup accepted an offer of short-term employment as a musician, accompanying a pair of white men, circus performers working their way back to their troupe. A free African-American and resident of New York state, Northup expected the job to take him from Saratoga ...
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BeerThe first and most important step in brewing is cleanliness. "Brewing is ninety percent janitorial," said Frederick Bowman, founder of Portland Brewing. (Bowman) The first step in the actual brewing process is malting. Malting is what is done to the barley to prepare it for brewing. The steps of ...
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Richard Lederer: His WorksRichard Lederer was once asked where he would get all these funny stories he
answered:
"Ever since I became a writer, I had found that questions the most difficult to
answer and had only recently come up with an analogy that I thought would
satisfy both my audience and me. Pouncing on the ...
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Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach AnDover Beach and Self-Dependence
Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, in 1822. He had to live in the shadow of his famous father who ran the Rugby school beginning in 1828. He went to the Rugby school since age 6, but his achievement were ...
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Technology In The HomeThe Toilet Yes...those tales you've heard are true. The toilet was first patented in England in 1775, invented by one Thomas Crapper, but the extraordinary automatic device called the flush toilet has been around for a long time. Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400's designed one that worked, at ...
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