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    Heritage vs History

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    Other Topics. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press‚ 1980. Lowenthal‚ David. Fabricating Heritage‚ History & Memory‚ History & Memory Volume 10‚ Number 1(1998) http://www.ancient-greece.org/art/parthenon-frieze.html http://www.mayalin.com/ -------------------------------------------- [ 1 ]. Lowenthal‚ David. Fabricating Heritage‚ History & Memory‚ History & Memory Volume 10‚ (1998) p 89-111 [ 2 ]. Jackson‚ John Brinkerhoff. The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics. Amherst: University

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    Nora Burrell‚ was a teacher.[citation needed] Drew and his siblings grew up in DC’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood[4] and he graduated from Dunbar High School in 1922.[5] Drew won an athletics scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts‚[6] where he graduated in 1926.[7] An outstanding athlete at Amherst‚[8] Drew also joined Omega Psi Phi fraternity.[9] He attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal‚ Canada‚ receiving his M.D. in 1933 as well as a Master of Surgery degree‚[7] and ranked 2nd

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    Independence Day of the year 1872 a baby named John Calvin Coolidge was born in the town of Plymouth Notch‚ Vermont‚ to a family of 3 children and both parents. Coolidge went to the Black River Academy until he reached college age then he went to Amherst College. At Amherst College he participated in debates. At the college he met a philosophy professor named Charles E. Garman who had an influence on him. After Calvin Coolidge’s graduation his father pressured him to become a lawyer. Calvin moved to Northampton

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    John Bates Clark

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    Background Information: Born: January 26‚ 1847‚ Location: Providence‚ Rhode Island Died: March 21‚ 1938‚ Location: New York‚ New York J. B. Clark received his schooling at Brown University which he joined for couple of years but then relocated to Amherst College‚ in Massachusetts‚ and he was awarded his degree at the age of 25. Clark was an American “neo-classical” economist: the late 17th to mid-19th centuries. From 1872 to 1875‚ he went to the University of Zurich in Switzerland During the same

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    Emily Dickinson

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    family and that’s part of the reason that she was very morbid and wrote about death. Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst‚ Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. As a child she was brought up into the Puritan way of life. She was born on December 10‚ 1830 and died fifty-six years later. Emily lived isolated in the house she was born in; except for the short time she attended Amherst Academy and Holyoke Female Seminary. Emily Dickinson never married and lived on the reliance of her father. Dickinson

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    Mahadevi Verma

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    Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry (Syracuse University Press) and has published articles in Feminist Media Studies‚ the Journal of International Women’s Studies‚ and Gender and Language. 20 Northpointe Parkway‚ Suite 188‚ Amherst‚ New York 14228 www.cambriapress.com T (716)568-7828 F (716)608-1489 E info@cambriapress.com An innovative‚ independent‚ non-subsidy publisher of academic research

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    Dowry System in India

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    Dan Brown (born June 22‚ 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction‚ best known for the 2003 bestselling novel‚ The Da Vinci Code. Brown ’s novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period‚[1] and feature the recurring themes of cryptography‚ keys‚ symbols‚ codes‚ and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages‚ and as of 2012‚ sold over 200 million copies. Two of them‚ The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons‚ have been adapted into films. Brown ’s novels that feature

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    Stemcell Research

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    Controversy (pp. 183-194). Amherst‚ NY: Prometheus Books. Kalb‚ C.‚ & Rosenberg‚ D. (2004‚ October 25). Stem cell division. Newsweek‚ 144‚ 42-47. Kay‚ K.‚ & Henderson‚ M. (2003). Paralyzed mouse walks again as scientist fight stem cell ban. In M. Ruse & C. A. Pynes (Eds.)‚ The Stem Cell Controversy (pp. 71-73). Amherst‚ NY: Prometheus Books. Maienschein‚ J. (2003). The language really matters. In M. Ruse & C. A. Pynes (Eds.)‚ The Stem Cell Controversy (pp. 35-50). Amherst‚ NY: Prometheus Books

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    How can a lonesome person change the face of lyric poetry? Well Emily Dickinson did and she lived immensely isolated throughout her adulthood in her family home. Emily Dickinson‚ a lyric poet and a Puritan from Amherst‚ Massachusetts became one of the most known and popular lyric poet. Lyric poetry conveys the thoughts and expressions that the poet feels (“Lyric Poetry”). Even though a profusion of her work is concise‚ her works till impacted the concept of lyric poetry. Her writing influenced by

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    On Monday‚ September 27‚ I had the pleasure of attending a performance by the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Founded and headed by Bandleader Dave Sporny this professional big band played rare and historically big band works to some of the newest original contemporary jazz music. The Amherst Brewing Company looked small from the outside‚ even when I got inside there were many dining tables and a small place by the window for a fifteen piece band to fit in. Surprisingly they all fit perfectly. They took

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