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    Fubini‚ A famous mathematicianwas born January 19th 1987 in Venice‚ Italy. His father‚ Lazzaro Fubini‚ was a mathematics teacher so he came from a mathematical background. Guido was influenced by his father towards mathematics when he was young. He attended secondary school in Venice where he showed that he was brilliant in mathematics. It was then clear that from this stage he would follow this career. In 1896 Guido entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. There he was taught by Dini and

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    Death of the Author “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the author.” Barthes argues that- Literature is studied through an understanding of authors not individual texts Text and author should be studied independently from one another Author should not be held solely responsible for the success or failure of a text as they are separate entities The responsibility of a text lies with the reader A text should be defined by the interpretation of its readers not the authors intended

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    Richard Cory Ezra Farmer

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    Abigail Bauer AP English 02/17/15 While reading the poems “Richard Cory” and “Ezra Farmer”‚ it is almost immediately evident which poem is an original and which is a parody. Both poems are clearly about men that are popular among those he meets‚ but once the reader looks beneath the surface‚ they notice how the diction plays an important role in relaying the theme to the audience it is presented to. In the poem “Richard Cory” written by Edwin Arlington Robinson‚ the theme being portrayed is that

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    better for years after. “Franklin wrote‚ in August 1784 to his friend George Whatley‚ that he was happy in the invention of double spectacles‚ which serving for distant objects as well as near ones‚ make my eyes as useful to me as ever they were" (Ben Franklin’s Inventions). Franklin also helped discover aspects of electricity people hadn’t figured out yet using a key and a kite. It was thought that electricity was made up of two opposing forces. With Franklin’s experiments it all showed that electricity

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    In 1972‚ three friends who were running a sardine and pickle store in Queens‚ New York City‚ started up a beverage company to sell apple juice. After 20 years’ development‚ the annual sales of this company were growing from $4 million (1984) to $674 million (1994)‚ increasing 168 folds. “Snapple” became a well-known beverage brand. Through analysis of Snapple’s marketing mix‚ we can peek at the reasons why Snapple can achieve such successes 1) Product. Snapple’s major product is a bottled apple

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    Ex Slaves

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    University of Pennsylvania‚ was teaching one if his classes and he asked his students what the Thirteenth Amendment forbade. Not a single person answered him so Dolfman said‚ "We have ex-slaves here who should know about the Thirteenth Amendment". After saying this‚ he also referred to himself as an ex-slave considering he comes from a Jewish background. The black students in the class took offense to this and eventually took it far enough where Professor Dolfman was asked to leave the University

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    Slave Trade

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    The Slave Trade The Slave trade had great impact on the Americas and Africa. The triangular trade was major in the slave trade. This was when Europeans would go to Africa to get slaves‚ to the Americas to trade the slaves for products such as sugar‚ tobacco and rum‚ and then brought to England where they would trade those products for alcohol and other items. They would then go back to Africa to get more African slaves and repeat this triangular trade. This essay is false. There was trade but

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    Slave Ship

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    The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker is a great fiction novel that describes the horrifying experiences of Africans‚ seamen‚ and captains on their journey through the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage marked the water way in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas. The use of slaves provided a great economy for the European countries due to the fact that these African slaves provided free labor while cultivating sugar cane in the Caribbean and America. Rediker describes the slave migration

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    Benjamin Franklin and The Wright Brothers PHL458 What is a famous thinker? A famous thinker is some one who thought of something that change the world in which we live in. There are a lot of famous thinkers in the world like: Martin Luther King Jr‚ Steve Jobs‚ Bill Gates‚ and Michael Jackson. I will be discussing Benjamin Franklin and The Wright Brothers for my famous thinkers. Benjamin Franklin and The Wright Brothers are famous thinkers that showed the world new Idea ’s

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ the author Harriet Jacobs (also the main character in book)‚ paints a very powerful‚ and emotion picture of what the institution of Slavery was like for the slave and master in America‚ and the toll that it took on the human soul. Before reading this book‚ I was given a list of questions to ponder on while reading. These questions ranged from‚ compare and contrast survival techniques used by two characters in the book‚ to was this work difficult to read and

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