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    Jacob Lawrence is an African American painter known for his style of "dynamic cubism". He was born September 7‚ 1917 in Atlantic City‚ New York. He died June 9‚ 2000 in Seattle‚ Washington at the age of 82. The Builders (the family)‚ is one of Lawrence’s paintings featuring construction. This work was made on silk screen on wove paper‚ made in year 1974‚ 30 x 22-1/8 in size and currently resides in the DC Moore Gallery‚ New York‚ NY. In the painting‚ you see a family of African Americans walking

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    “The Monkeys’ Paw” by W. W. Jacobs‚ is about a family that is given a monkey’s paw with a spell cast on it to give them three wishes. The family was warned by an old friend that they might not want to keep the paw because of the things it has done to him‚ but they did not listen. The first wish they used was for 200 pounds‚ and they got it at the cost of their only son. The second wish was made by the mother‚ Mrs. White‚ 10 days after burying her son. Her wish

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    Diffusion Jaydon‚ Jacob and Tyler obtained a 30 cm piece of dialysis tubing and cut 2.5cm off of the 30cm piece and soaked it in water. Then they tied one side off to form a bag. They then rubbed the other end of the bag to open it up and then are able to fill the bag with solution. The next step of the lab was to test for the presence of glucose in a 15% glucose and 1% starch. Then they took the 15% glucose and 1% starch and took 15 mL and placed them in enclosed bags. Jaydon‚ Jacob and Tyler then

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    Critique of Jacob Lawrence “Ironers” Critique of Jacob Lawrence “Ironers” The artist I chose to critique was Jacob Lawrence and his artwork “Ironers” which is one of his scenes of Harlem life. The artwork is created with Gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This painting shows three black women in different positions pressing the irons into colorful clothing that match the stripes and blocks in the background. At the top left side of the portrait I see red and black diamond shapes across the

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    How bad could a curse be? In the story The Monkey’s Paw written by W.W. Jacobs‚ An old Friend Sergeant Morris brings a monkey’s paw that grants wishes to the Whites. When Mr. White grants a wish with the paw‚ there is something tragic that happens for him to get his wish. The sergeant is the reason for the tragic events that happened to Mr. White’s family. Sergeant Morris was irresponsible and did not hide the secret of the monkey’s paw so it didn’t hurt others. Sergeant told the whites about the

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    forms in a land to become a lively town or country. Urban forms are houses‚ shops‚ streets‚ etc. There are a lot of theories used around the world. All of them are an effort to modernize urban. Jane Jacobs too had a thought in the urban planning. In a book of hers‚ The Death and Life of Great American Cities cited her opinion towards the city. It was more about safety and security on the streets among the strangers. Not less form Oscar Newman‚ his planning theories were more on defensible spaces.

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    battles and protect British trade. At a time‚ the British Empire owned around 25% of the world’s land‚ and at its peak was the largest empire in world history. It is undoubtable that trade and the role played by trading companies were largely responsible for this. The East India Company were able to spur the creation of a British consumer society‚ where more foreign goods were utilised than those grown and produced on home soil. Merchants supplied the people with tobacco‚ sugar‚ tea and spices; the

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    In the short story Rapunzel‚ wrote by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm‚ the sorcerer sheltered the girl away from all people and trouble‚ to protect her. Not knowing she would go against her will and does something that she will not approve of. I will explain how parents try to do what is best for their children‚ but they become too protective and the children straw away from what their parents was teaching them. Also I will explain when is it time to let your children make their own mistakes and learn from

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    unique in that New France had the fur trade‚ New Netherlands had war with neighboring Indians‚ New England had community formation as they followed Protestant principles‚ and New Spain had introduced diseases to America. Jacques Cartier took the St. Lawrence River to France back in the 1530s‚ but for 75 years it grew weak until Samuel de Champlain returned there in 1608 and formed the fur trade in Quebec. The newly founded New Netherland in 1621 also went into fur trading and had less respect for the

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    Cinderella written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is a revisionary version of Sapsorrow. In reading both tales‚ Sapsorrow is the pretext of Grimm’s Cinderella. The story of Sapsorrow is one of a sister who was treated very poorly by her “evil” sisters just as in Cinderella. The father in Sapsorrow who after their mother’s death was required to marry the very woman who’s finger his late wife’s ring would fit. During one of the sister’s bouts of treating Sapsorrow poorly again pretexting Cinderella

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