“Ten Days That Shook the World” is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917‚ which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders‚ especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek‚ closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920‚ shortly after the book was finished. John Reed’s classic account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917 isn’t an attempt at large-scale dispassionate historical analysis
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Jane Eyre /ˈɛər/ (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith‚ Elder & Co. of London‚ England‚ under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the bildungsroman genre‚ Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character‚ including her growth to adulthood‚ and her love for Mr.
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preceded by inconsistent behavior. Through the actions of the Reed family and Mr. Brocklehurst‚ Charlotte Brontë denounces the Victorian aristocracy for their self-righteous attitudes and their paltry treatment of members of lower social classes. Charlotte
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The reeds that I had went through a testing process where I played a scale to warm the reed up‚ and then played a small section of each variation to make sure it sounded nice. If the reed was not of good quality‚ the reed would be put back into the box with a marking to show it was tested and how good it is. Sometimes testing 10 reeds would take the entire 1 hour class! We tested the reeds because the variations are all very different from one another and we needed one reed that could play
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details or a lot. Consider the following two versions of the Aesop fable‚ “The Oak and the Reed.” An oak that had been uprooted by a storm was carried down a river to the banks where many reeds were growing. The oak was astonished to see that things so slight and frail had withstood the storm when so great and strong a tree as he himself had been uprooted. * “It’s really not amazing‚” said a reed. “You were destroyed by fighting against the storm‚ while we survived by yielding and bending
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Crucible starts out in the bedroom of Betty Parris‚ the sick daughter of the towns preacher Samuel Parris. The village people began to spread the rumor that witchcraft is the cause of Bettys illness. The Reverend John Hale is sent for by Mr. Parris to find out what is happening‚ because Hale is a investigator on strange events involving witchcraft. Samuel accuses and questions Abigail Williams‚ his niece‚ of dancing and chanting around a fire in the woods with Betty and his slave‚ Tituba to conjure
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where the adult dreams for more‚ but he would say that for females it is the longing for sexual matters not ambition. This is not true for Jane. Charlotte wrote also about two families that are in one way connected directly to Jane‚ the Rivers and the Reeds. In the first chapter Jane introduces the readers to her family. The first one introduced
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Jane Eyre By: Charlotte Bronte 1. “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering‚ indeed‚ in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed‚ when there was no company‚ dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so somber‚ and a rain so penetrating‚ that further out-door exercises was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks‚ especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming
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Reverend Hale’s actions changed many times throughout the story. “He is asked to come to Salem by Reverend Parris.” (Miller 1140) Reverend Hale was brought there to figure out what was wrong with Betty‚ and to hunt witches. “He checks on Betty to see why she will not wake up.” (Miller 1149) Reverend Hale declares Betty and a group of girls as possessing witchcraft because he believed the girls’ stories about being bewitched. “Once the people in Salem hear the news‚ they became outrageous.” (Miller 1155)
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Not soon thereafter‚ Abigail and her cousin Betty began showing signs of illness. These signs ranged from pinch marks to bite marks. These marks however‚ were from a “higher power” and the girls were diagnosed by Dr‚ Griggs that they were now under the “Evil Hand”. Another event that heavily impacted Abigail Williams’s life began On February 29th 1692‚ when a formal complaint was issued against Tituba‚ Sarah Osborne‚ and Sarah Good for afflicting Betty‚ Abigail‚ and other local girls such as Ann
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