Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (March 3‚ 1847 - August 2‚ 1922) was a teacher‚ scientist‚ and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. His family was known for teaching people how to speak English clearly. Both his grandfather‚ Alexander Bell‚ and his father‚ Alexander Melville Bell‚ taught elocution. His father wrote often about this and is most known for his invention and writings of Visible Speech. In
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The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic of Toronto was created in memory of Barbara Teena Schlifer who was going to be a lawyer‚ but was brutally raped and murdered on April 11th 1980. The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic opened in September of 1985‚ 5 years after the incident‚ and was established by two women named Frances Rappaport and Patricia Ashby‚ who were Barbara’s friends and were going to be her future law partners‚ in memory of all the
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“The Destructors” The short story “The Destructors” by Graham Greene tells the story of a gang of young boys who have grown up in war-torn London. When approached with an aberration in their society‚ the boys resort to demolition in order to restore the order to their town‚ despite its already devastated landscape. The gang of young boys meets every morning in a lot where “the last bomb of the first blitz” fell. The dreary setting is juxtaposed by the “beautiful” house where “old misery” presided
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creative in what they do‚ and their imagination is based on what they see in their environment. In the short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene‚ a group of boys who call themselves the Wormsley Common‚ are faced with many difficult decisions to make. "It was on the eve of August Bank Holiday that the latest recruit became the leader of the Wormsley Commom Gang"(Graham Greene). Trevor‚ the new leader and protagonist of the story whom the boys call T. for short‚ suggests for the boys to destroy a 200-year-old
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Barbara Kruger is by any bar one of the most unique and celebrated artists of the 21st Century. Her style of employing popular culture both as a tool and subject in her artistic works to critique common norms and values has changed the way we think about postmodern life. The questions and ideas brought forth by her work traverses consumerism‚ race‚ autonomy and economics. Her ability to use few words and an image to create an instant connection between the artist‚ the message and the viewer is a
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In this chapter‚ Barbara Arrowsmith is a young girl whose brain was asymmetry and her body was not normal since her right side was larger than her left. Due to her learning disabilities‚ she lacked the spatial reasoning. She also had kinesthetic problem as well as visual disability. She had trouble understanding math concepts‚ grammar. Due to her dyslexic‚ she couldn’t tell the different between b‚ d‚ q‚ and p‚ read “saw” as “was” which almost cost her life since she sniffles sulfuric acids. She
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The Spirals of No Return Miss Barbara Owens grew up in the little town of Comer Idaho‚ where some of the “world’s finest eats” remained. She was a rather scrawny child who found comfort in cooking for her sickly sister‚ Annabeth. Anna her younger sister‚ had been diagnosed with a serious case of tuberculosis. Her family often had difficulty coping with Annabeth’s dire condition. Barbara and Anna’s parents were often at work so Barbara was in charge of cooking‚ cleaning‚ and caring for her little
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| | | Television journalist. Born September 25‚ 1931‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. She was the daughter of nightclub impresario Lou Walters (owner of New York ’s swanky Latin Quarter) and his wife‚ Dena. In 1937‚ Lou Walters expanded his business‚ which caused his family to adopt an itinerant lifestyle‚ moving from Boston to New York to Miami Beach. Walters attended the all-female Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville
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This short story by Graham Greene is a critical yet humorous one in which a group of young teenagers have formed a gang in post-blitz London and plot to tear down the only symbolic house left standing after a bombing raid leveled an area. It would be wise to look at the characters and their influence in this short story and the results they have on various subsequent view-points that the reader will see. Main Characters: Trevor or T. is the protagonist in the story as the plot revolves around
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Graham Greene uses the motif of light to symbolize power. One young boy Trevor‚ nicknamed T‚ took power in the gang over Blackie to plan on destroying Mr. Thomas’s house. While the gang was destroying the house‚ T. found notes that he wanted to burn. The flame of the burning note only “illuminated his brooding face” (55). Only having T.’s face illuminate symbolized that T. had the power‚ and he was in charge of all of the destruction that the gang “created.” While the burning note was a form of light “illuminating” power
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