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    Margaret Mitchell. She was born in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ in a family of the president of the Atlanta Historical Society. All the family was interested in American history and she grew up in an atmosphere of stones about the Civil War. After graduating from the college Margaret Mitchell worked for a time for the Atlanta Journal. In 1925 she got married. In the following ten years she put on paper all the stories she had heard about the Civil War. The result was Gone with the Wind. It was first published

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    Upon Westminster Bridge’’ effective use of poetic devices explaining how William Wordsworth sees true beauty within nature In the poem ’’composed upon Westminster bridge’’‚ William Wordsworth illustrates and observes the calm early morning view he has from his special viewing point off Westminster Bridge. He has a unique way of describing it with simple language‚ reflecting in the simplest way his own personal first person perspective and thoughts on the scene from the bridge. Wordsworth uses

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    accessing the actual "greatness" attributed to Catherine the Great‚ Empress of Russia during the European Enlightenment‚ one must look at all aspects of her rule. Her outgoing personality left her to be described as anything from "terrible" to "great". She could be deceptive yet honest‚ humorous yet firm‚ and light-hearted yet wise. Thus the Enlightenment would not have been a part of Russian history if not for the determination of Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great’s exceptional character and illuminating

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    Singaporean Short Story By Catherine Lim He dreamt about it‚ he hankered after it like an addict after his opiate. When it came to his mind the idea of big and beautiful house‚ Tay Soon always think of it until it become his insanity in his life. A house. A house of his dream‚ just like what his family see every time they pass by in their street behind the elegant subdivision and in pages of Homes and Modern living Magazines. He knows every detail of his dream house from the aluminum sliding door

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    PEOPLE ON THE BRIDGE by Phaitoon Thanya Pride Always Comes Before A Fall The short story “People on the bridge” by Phaitoon Thanya generally reveals about the human nature. It is about a number of different characters that end up trying to cross a narrow bridge to fulfill their obligations but were obstructed by two bull keepers and their bulls who could not pass each other in the middle of the bridge. The story ended tragically with the deaths of the two bull keepers that were crashed onto

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    Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce‚ the story starts by immediately drawing the reader in‚ showcasing Bierce’s vast knowledge of literary skills: "A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama‚ looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back‚ the wrists bound with a cord‚" (Bierce‚ 1). Bierce fought in the Civil War‚ which inspired his collection of macabre Civil War based stories. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is no exception. The

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    When conducting an interview for the American Film Institute‚ actor Jeff Bridges‚ discussing 1941’s Citizen Kane‚ said its director was "twenty-five years old‚ and he didn’t know what he couldn’t do...and Greg Toland gave him all the confidence in the world (2011‚ 0:28 sec.). Bridges was of course talking about the late‚ great Orson Welles. But who was Greg Toland? Well known in Hollywood at the time‚ Toland was a longtime cinematographer who had not only won an Academy Award for 1939’s Wuthering

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    The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest and most iconic bridges in the world this majestic bridge is located in New York City‚ New York. In 1853‚ the only way to get from Brooklyn to New York City was by ferry boat. John Roebling‚ a famous bridge builder‚ was on a ferry stuck between ice chunks in the middle of winter. He set out to design and build a bridge connecting these two cities. Building the Brooklyn Bridge would not be an easy undertaking. The bridge would need to be high enough

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    Overview of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge the will of a person to want to live is strongest when it is the time of their death. When Peyton was asked to aid the confederates at Owl Creek Bridge‚ he had no fear of death and of the penalty. Until he was captured and prepared to be executed‚ then he realized how much he yearned to live. In his fantasy he escaped and ran for miles‚ barefoot‚ to return home to his wife. That his wife was everything to him‚ and

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    the music of Æolian harps." Ambrose Bierce uses allusions and imagery to create a sense of wonderment and mysteriousness for first-time readers of his historical fiction story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Within this short story‚ a man named Peyton Farquhar is being hung from Owl Creek Bridge for trespassing into Union territory during the civil war. As he is dropped the rope breaks and he makes his escape after dropping into the river below. After swimming through gunfire and a vortex‚ traversing

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