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    Novelist Edith Wharton wrote her defining work‚ 1905’s the House of Mirth‚ on a subject she knew all too well: the style-over-substance realm of New York’s upper-crust society during the Gilded Age. Having been raised in this "fashionable" society‚ Wharton knew both its intricacies and cruelties firsthand. The triumphant rise and tragic fall of protagonist Lily Bart demonstrate both the "sunshine and shadow" of the Gilded Age. The House of Mirth not only exposes the reality of how "the other

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    could into a small satchel. Jews were also required to wear the yellow star of david. The Franks were in hiding for 2 years along with another family the Van Pelz and their 15 year old son Peter‚ also a dentist named Albert Dussel (“Anne Frank”). Edith Frank and Otto decided to give Anne a journal to write in for the long boring days that they were in hiding‚ this is when “The Diary of Anne Frank” all began. Miep Gies‚ (Otto’s assistant) and her husband decided to help the Franks out. She had a big

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    1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz

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    Tolkien went to serve with the British army in the Battle of Somme. Upon his departure from England he became motivated to write the poem‚ The Lonely Isle (Garth 89). Earlier that year‚ before Tolkien enlisted in the military‚ he married a woman named Edith Bratt‚ whom he met when he was only 16 years old. The time of war was particularly difficult on Bratt who feared each day that door knockers would bring news of her husband’s death. Tolkien’s cases of Trench Foot and Trench Fever may very well have

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    many years with her family in order to hide from the Nazis lurking around the area at the time. She wrote in her diary as the years passed on and named it “Kitty”. Anne Frank was born in June 12‚ 1929‚ in Frankfurt‚ and was the child of Otto and Edith Frank‚ both being from respected Jewish families. The two parents already had a three-year-old daughter when Anne was born who was named Margot Frank. Because of the Great Depression caused by Germany’s loss from WWI‚ the Franks‚ as well as most other

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    The Importance of Supply Chain Management Supply chain management (SCM) is very important and effective to all companies. David Simchi-Levi‚ Philip Kaminsky‚ and Edith Simchi-Levi defines supply chain management as “a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ warehouses‚ and stores‚ so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities‚ to the right locations‚ and at the right time‚ in order to minimize systemwide costs while satisfying service

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    Cited: Grimal‚ Pierre. The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology. London: Penguin‚ 1991. Hamilton‚ Edith. Mythology. New York: Little‚ Brown and Cmpany‚ 1942. Harris‚ Stephen L‚ and Platzner‚ Gloria. Classical Mythology: Images and Insights. Mountain View: Mayfield 2001.

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    Her parents were Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer. Anne went to a school called The 6th Montessori School from 1934 and 1941. Anne enjoyed school and liked to participate in plays. One of her former teachers ‘Mrs Kuperus’ remembered that Anne was a talker who always ideas‚ and was

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    INTRODUCTION Marryat was a royal navy officer who helped Great Britain to extend her empire. He was a writer who lived in the Victorian era. In his The Children of the New Forest‚ he refers to the bloody civil war that his country had back in the seventeenth century. At the time of the civil war in Great Britain‚ Cromwell and his side called the Levellers who were mostly members of the middle-class revolted against King Charles I and dethroned the King of England. Marryat who was a member of the

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    Immaturity As A Result of Society’s Limitations in The House of Mirth In her scholarly article entitled “Another Sleeping Beauty: Narcissism in The House of Mirth” Joan Lidoff asserts that the character of Lily Bart in the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton‚ “like many other heroines‚ act out a cultural dilemma: when society provides no adult female role of active responsibility and initiative‚ women are confined to passive and childlike states and cannot mature.” I agree with Lidoff’s claim after

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