During the Civil War‚ submarines technologically advanced. Using submarines was considered an elite and dangerous job (Katcher 45). Also in spring of 1861‚ unknown vessels were found by the Naval Services (Barney 309-11). Submarines were made almost illegal. The Southern side was under a Secret Service (Vert). The Confederates had no Navy (Weaver). The North considered them “infernal machines”. Most of the records of submarines were intentionally destroyed (Vert). Submarines resembled a whale
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By: fred The book ALIVE‚ by Piers Paul Read identified many possible themes‚ although I do think there are two that stand out. These two themes are survival and cooperation. Survival plays a major throughout the entire story. The most gruesome part in the story occurred when the remaining 28 passengers of the Fairchild were forced to cut up and eat there deceased friends and family members so that they would be able to survive. This drastic action was long disputed. This group of people went
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In fall of 1917‚ the Canadian armies were sent North Belgium after their great success at the Vimy Ridge battle in April. The battle occurred in Ypres area of Belgium‚ where the Passchendaele is located; it was the scene for several First World War Battles. However‚ it is understood the Passchendaele is mentioned as the horrific fighting condition. Because the area was made up of flat‚ low land and filled around with sticky mud which turned the battlefield dip into the sea of mud during the raining
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1350-01 1. How did the wave of Immigrants coming into New York influence the kind of entertainment being created? 2. Discuss the importance of early comedians‚ such as Harrigan and Hart‚ and Weber and Fields on the way musicals developed. 3. Describe what Tin Pan Alley was‚ and its importance in the rise of musical theatre composers. 4. How did Irving Berlin get his start‚ and what made his work resonate so much with his audiences? As a teenager Irving Berlin learned the value of hard work‚ he
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Shipbreaker Summary Set in a terrifying dystopian America where fossil fuels have run out and cities have been drowned‚ Shipbreaker takes place along the US Gulf Coast and centers around the life of a seventeen year old boy named Nailer‚ who is just one of the numerous teens working in crews to disassemble grounded oil tankers for their parts. Living a life of complete and utter poverty‚ Nailer works on the light crew scavenging for copper wiring and other light metals from the ships‚
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Would Broadway be what it is today without the magic of Sondheim? Stephen Sondheim is an American composer that dates all the way back to 1930. (Stephen Sondheim Biography.com) Sondheim is a musical theatre legend who has won eight Tony awards‚ making him the composer who has received the most Tony’s (Tony Awards Facts and Trivia Tonyawards.com.) His words and wisdom seep onto paper and put on a variety of productions. From “West Side Story” to “Passion‚” there is diversity between the shows that
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Micharus Neely 3/11/2014 EDU 260 Water Is Wide Journal Entries Section 1 (chapter 1-2) Passage: The Water is Wide is about Pat Conroy’s experiences he had while teaching for two years and the local school on the island of Yamacraw off the coast of South Carolina. The book starts with Pat Conroy meeting with Henry Piedmont‚ the Superintendent of the Beaufort school districts‚ about his interest in teaching at Yamacraw Island. Pat admits to the reader that he was racist as a child because
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What makes a man go into cold‚ frigid water to save other people? What makes people go to save others? Why do people go to such great lengths to save other people? In the story “The Man in the Water” by Roger Rosenblatt‚ these questions are addressed to the reader. He is wanting us to think about these questions and others. Another question that can come from this is why would someone give up their life to save others? So the theme I will say is the theme for this story is bravery. This paragraph
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1. Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner got the inspiration for the musical Camelot from the idea based on the King Arthur Legend as adapted from the novel The Once and the Future King. Lerner also wrote the music with Frederick Loewe in the 1960’s. The musical faced criticism because some say it wasn’t as good as My Fair Lady‚ and the musical did suffer from structural problems‚ but it still was able to tour around the country. 2. There were two ways that the economics of producing Broadway musicals changed
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Alice Munro The Found Boat 1974 At the end of Bell Street‚ McKay Street‚ Mayo Street‚ there was the Flood. It was the Wawanash River‚ which every spring overflowed its banks. Some springs‚ say one in every five‚ it covered the roads on that side of town and washed over the fields‚ creating a shallow choppy take. Light reflected off the water made every- thing bright and cold‚ as it is in a lakeside town‚ and woke or revived in people certain vague hopes of disaster. Mostly during the late afternoon
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