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    Harriet Robinson‚ “in the eyes of her overseer she was but a brute‚ a slave‚ to be beaten‚ pinched and pushed about.” Yet‚ as the demand for labor increased‚ factory owners began to see young farm women as an ideal labor force. As a result‚ “In 1814‚ Lowell opened the world’s first integrated cotton mill in Waltham‚ near Boston”

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    Bust Of St Lawrence

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    A bust of Saint Lawrence from Borgo San Lorenzo‚ a region just north of Florence‚ was recently attributed to the famous Florence sculptor‚ Donatello. It was sculpted during the Renaissance‚ circa 1440‚ and it demonstrated characteristics similar to that found in the Classics. The bust appears realistic and almost paradoxically idealistic‚ is viewable from multiple angles and is composed of terra-cotta. Its theme is religious‚ and both Classic and Renaissance sculptures commonly referred to stories

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    LAWRENCE LARRY POONS

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    ;;;;;o;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;LAWRENCE LARRY POONS I decided to write about Lawrence Poons due to fact he was an American and I want to write about someone who contributed to the art world from America. Secondly‚ I was intrigued about how Larry Poons used color to make his paintings have a sense of movement to the naked eye. Relying on how our brains work and how our eyes process information when stared at for a long period of time was an ingenious way manipulating our natural senses. Lawrence Poons better

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    Nurse and Friar Lawrence

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    The Nurse and Friar Lawrence were meritorious parental figures in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’‚ because they were stronger influences on Romeo and Juliet than their actual parents. The Nurse and Friar Lawrence knew more about Romeo and Juliet than their parents. In Juliet’s case‚ it is due to the fact that she was raised and breastfed as a child and mentored her whole life by the Nurse. “When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple Of my dug and felt it bitter‚ pretty fool‚ To see it tetchy

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    Friar Lawrence Balthasar

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    important role in the decisions the title characters make. Indeed‚ Friar Lawrence‚ Nurse‚ and Balthasar directly briong about the downfall of Romeo and Juliet though their roles as middlemen. For example‚ Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead‚ which causes Romeo to kill himself. Similarly‚ Nurse facilitates their love affair which brings them to the point where they would rather kill themselves than be apart. Likewise‚ Friar Lawrence marries them and comes up with the plan that leads to their deaths

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    Friar Lawrence Monologue

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    crumbled to this news‚ but Friar Lawrence had given us a glimmer of hope to reunite us. It might even be destiny. Friar Lawrence explained the plan to me‚ it involved a potion. Don’t worry my love‚ it will mimic the slumbers of death for 48 hours. To everyone who glances‚ I will look lifeless‚ which should fool them. Fear not Romeo‚ my body may seem lifeless & dead‚ but will awaken to your presence. On the night of my arrival at my tomb‚ I need you and Friar Lawrence to rescue me when the

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    dead and takes his life. Juliet wakes up to him taking the poison and takes her life too. Think before you do! Friar Lawrence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death. He should have thought things through. Like what would have happened if Romeo didn’t get the letter and how the families would feel. But his thought was honorable. Although I believe that Friar Lawrence is the blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death he seemed like he meant well. He just wanted them to be together. But if he

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    Mary Paul left Vermont for the Lowell Mills as an economic necessity of the times‚ leaving her father in an attempt to strike it out on her own. From her intimate and painstakingly detailed letters to her family‚ we can assume that she provides a very accurate account of her day to day life. She was a millworker who sought out an honest pay. Around the same time‚ through her writings‚ we can meet author Harriet Robinson’s as a child in Boston. She moved to Lowell with her mother‚ but her story not

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    One of the first and significant industrial cities in America was Lowell‚ Massachusetts. Wealthy men from Boston built massive factories on the Merrimack River in Lowell‚ MA. These factories created cotton and wool which soon produced more than the leading mills in Britain. America was gradually shifting into a nation of big factories where many Americans would find employment as laborers in these factories. Many men and women were employed at the mills for a variety of responsibilities such

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    Snake by D.H. Lawrence

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    Hillary Taylor English 1302/Vasbinder June 9‚ 2012 Essay 1/TPCAST/Final I’m Sorry My Snake In the poem “Snake‚” D.H. Lawrence will discuss someone who has wronged him or done something deceitful to him. As one can see in the following paragraph‚ Lawrence’s poem “Snake‚” is about the narrator’s encounter with a venomous snake at a water trough. The narrator appears to be a man who owns the water trough‚ and comes to it quite often. Once he arrives at the trough‚ the narrator sees that he

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