If you expect the worst‚ you’ll never be disappointed. Those could be the words heard from Ruby Cooper’s in the beginning of Sarah Dessen’s book “Lock and Key”. Lock and key is a roller-coaster of emotions and life lessons that will keep your turning page after page. Ruby’s story starts out in the many ram shackled apartments she lives in with her alcoholic mother who abandons her and ends in the luxurious home of her estranged sister Cora and brother in law Jamie. Ruby’s childhood was miserable
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Analysis: Themes and Form The Rape of the Lock is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of 18th-century high society. Basing his poem on a real incident among families of his acquaintance‚ Pope intended his verses to cool hot tempers and to encourage his friends to laugh at their own folly. The poem is perhaps the most outstanding example in the English language of the genre of mock-epic. The epic had long been considered one of the most serious of literary forms; it had been applied
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The Monroe Doctrine became one of the crucial foundations of American foreign policy over the next century; what was the occasion for Monroe’s articulation of this doctrine‚ and what were the circumstances motivating its adoption? The occasion for Monroe Doctrine was to inform the world in principle the rights and interests of the United States and Russia. The Monroe‚ doctrine was used to inform not only the world by European nations that the northwest coast was part of the United States and colonization
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Marilyn Monroe | mid-1950s | Born | Norma Jeane Mortenson June 1‚ 1926 Los Angeles‚ California‚ United States | Died | August 5‚ 1962 (aged 36) Brentwood‚ Los Angeles‚ California‚ United States | Cause of death | Barbiturate overdose | Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery‚ Westwood‚ Los Angeles | Nationality | American | Other names | Norma Jeane Baker Norma Jeane Dougherty Norma Jeane DiMaggio Marilyn Monroe Miller | Occupation | Actress‚ model‚ singer
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660: Charles II restored to the throne 1688-89: The GloriousRevolution.deposition of James IIand accession of William of Orange 1700: Death of John Dryden 1707: Act of Union unites Scotland and England‚ which thus became “Great Britain” 1714:Rule by Hanover begins with accession of George I 1744-45: Deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift 1784: Death of Jonathan Swift Neoclassicism: An Introduction • Neoclassicism dominated
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Table of contents What is Bandwidth? 1) In computer networks‚ bandwidth is often used as a synonym for data transfer rate - the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second). This kind of bandwidth is usually expressed in bits (of data) per second (bps). Occasionally‚ it’s expressed as bytes per second (Bps). A modem that works at 57‚600 bps has twice the bandwidth of a modem that works at 28‚800 bps. In general‚ a link with a high bandwidth
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approached the end of his presidency in 1816‚ a fellow Virginian and Republican—James Monroe—was elected as his successor. Monroe’s presidency was a continuation of the so-called “Virginia Dynasty‚” since all of the presidents between 1801 and 1825 were from Virginia. The fading Federalist Party ran a candidate in the 1816 election for the last time‚ securing only 34 electoral votes compared to Monroe’s 183 votes. Monroe came to the presidency with a solid political background; he had served as a U.S
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Marilyn Monroe and her many affairs? Could the U.S. government have anything to do with her sudden and unexpected death? Whatever the answers to these questions are‚ one thing is certain; there are too many unanswered questions for Monroe’s death to be a simple answer like suicide. Although Marilyn Monroe has been one of the most prominent and influential figures in Hollywood‚ she had to endure numerous hardships before she ultimately became known as a world famous actress and model. Monroe was born
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NAME: NEELAM KHALID CLASS: M.A(PREV) SUBJECT: PRACTICAL CRITICISM ANALYSIS OF THE POEM SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY CROUSE CODE# 510 SUBMITTED TO: MAM SAMINA DATE: 30‚ OCT‚ 2012 Byron wrote this poem SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY about Mrs.Wilmot‚ his cousin Robert Wilmot’s wife. It echos Wordsworth’s earlier " The Solitary Reaper"(1807) in its conceit‚ the speaker’s awe upon seeing a woman
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Flecknoe‚” the mock epic genre “treats the low‚ mean‚ or absurd in the grand language‚ lofty style‚ and solemn tone of epic poetry. The obvious disparity between subject and style makes the satiric point” (Greenblatt et al. 2237). Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a much more extended example of this genre. For this exercise‚ focus on one of the following passages from the poem to answer the three questions below: Canto 1‚ lines 121-144 (2690); Canto 3‚ lines 37-100 (2694-6); or Canto 5‚ lines 75-104 (2703)
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