because of Goat Island. The Canadian Falls have no such obstacle. In winter‚ water flows continually‚ though mist and water creates ice formations along the banks of the Falls. This ice bridge often extends for several miles. On February 24‚ 1888‚ the local newspaper reported that 20‚000 people watched and tobogganed on the ice bridge. Shacks selling photographs‚ souvenirs and liquor were plentiful. These activities took place every winter. On February 4‚ 1912‚ the ice bridge shattered‚ killing
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New Year’s Day ------------------------------------------------- Every country has New Year’s Day. Most countries celebrate New Year on the first of January‚ the same as Thailand and Australia. However‚ in Thailand they are celebrated New Year by themselves because they have a second New Year called Song Kran Day or Thai New Year’s Day. This essay will look at the similarities and differences between Thai and Australia New Year. ------------------------------------------------- There are similarities
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appears in Bad Behavior‚ a collection of her stories published in 1989. In essence‚ it revolves around a family’s troubles‚ as well as desperate love lingering among its members. A short story on philia is The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde‚ published in 1888‚ and whose central theme is true friendship. The last one is on eros; it’s called Kapre: A Love Story‚ and was written by Erin Chupeco in 2011. Of course‚ as a psychology major‚ my initial plan of action is to make a psychological criticism of the
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prime minister of a small Indian state (Porbandar). At the age of 13‚ he married Kasturbai Makanji who was also 13. The fact that he finished middle school‚ high school and went to law school as a married man deserves some kind of recognition. In 1888‚ Gandhi sailed to London‚ England to continue his legal education. Gandhi became a lawyer and returned to India in 1891. After unsuccessfully trying to practice law in India‚ he moved to Natal South Africa to work at a law firm in 1893. It was then
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Summary In the famous poem “The Spider and the Fly” written in 1829‚ Mary Howitt writes of a spider who cunningly persuades a fly to visit his parlor through flattery and carefully chosen words. The fly at first resists‚ but eventually falls prey to vanity‚ and‚ when the spider has disappeared‚ flutters into the parlor‚ only to be pounced upon and devoured for dinner. On the literal level‚ the spider uses meiosis to tranquilize the fly’s fears of the web‚ and all its implications (first and foremost:
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Nikola Tesla and Induction motor Name: Boris Halada Academic year: 2014/2015 Language supervisor: PaedDr. Dagmar Rusková‚ PhD. Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor‚ electrical engineer‚ mechanical engineer‚ and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas
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1763‚ the capital was moved from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro to keep control over the new mining areas (Skidmore‚ 1999). On September 7‚ 1882 Brazil gained its independence from Portugal‚ where they maintained a monarchy until slavery was abolished in 1888. In 1889 Brazil was proclaimed a republic. After a few decades of populist and military leaders‚ the military regime peacefully ceded power in 1985 (Skidmore‚
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U.S. Policy for Chinese Immigration The California gold rush of 1849 and new discoveries of gold in Colorado and Nevada in the late 1850s attracted a large number of Asians to the American West. In the 1860s others came to work on the cross-country railroad‚ and some were shipped east to break strikes in the 1870s. Denigrated as the “Yellow Peril‚” Asians became the target of racist attacks. Anti-Chinese riots erupted in San Francisco in 1877‚ leading President Rutherford Hayes to write in
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On February 28‚ 1888‚ a year after the publication of Noli Me Tangere‚ and six months after his arrival in the Philippines‚ José Rizal sailed from Manila again‚ by "advice" of the government. The letters he wrote back home show how his heart ached at going‚ yet his judgment told him that it was best for him to go. The phenomenal effect of Noli Me Tangere made it clear that Rizal could wield a mighty influence through his pen‚ but to write the truth he would have to go to some country where he would
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Most heroism deals with promotion of virtue and reproach of vice. Sloughing off from such a hackneyed‚ yet widely used frame of thought‚ the novel ‘The Happy Prince’ (1888) by Oscar Wilde connects heroism with compassion. With a subconscious reminiscent between ‘courage’ and ‘hero’‚ compassion is generally not a primary association with a strong image of a hero. Oscar Wilde however‚ through utilization of ‘the happy prince’ as a mechanism‚ conveys the idea of compassion and sacrifice which consists
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