1. The rich people of Fall River‚ Massachusetts‚ lived on a hill above the less wealthy people who lived below the hill and by the river. 2. Andrew Borden became wealthy‚ because he was a banker. Unlike the other Bordens‚ he was miser‚ living below his means. 3. Lizzie Borden needs to get a husband‚ because in the 1890’s women in their 30’s married and had children. She also‚ wanted to live among the elite. Neither of these could happen if her parents were alive. 4. The police strategies/policies
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The U.S. Supreme Court case 469 U.S. 528 (1985)‚ Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority‚ was first argued on Monday‚ March 19‚ 1984 and reargued on Monday‚ October 1‚ 1984. It was finally decided on Tuesday‚ February 19‚ 1985. The panel consisted of Chief Justice‚ Warren E. Burger and Associate Justices‚ William J. Brennan‚ Jr.‚ Byron White‚ Thurgood Marshall‚ Harry Blackmun‚ Lewis F. Powell‚ Jr.‚ William Rehnquist‚ John Paul Stevens‚ Sandra Day O’Connor. The majority vote of 5 to
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Strange New Land‚ offers a seemingly vast view of the presence of African Americans in present day North America. Mr. Wood describes the harsh and often brutal fate of African Americans during the colonization of America. Exploring Chapter 1‚ allowed me to view the way different cultures took advantage of not only African Americans‚ but Native Americans as well. Native Americans were invaded by Spanish settlers‚ taken into slavery and forced to live with harsh living conditions. Settlers exposed
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In the presentation today we saw Logan Timothy Phillips‚ as slam poet from Tucson ‚Arizona. He was born April 7‚1983. He wrote a book “Sonoran Strange”. He is a NAU alumni. He read a couple of poems but the first one was about himself and that he shared that he didn’t write much about himself and that was out of his comfort zone. He shared his personal experience at NAU when he attended and how his career developed. He put himself out there and overcame his fear. In first poem that he read he stated
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The first article I have chosen is‚ "Juncture in the road: Chicano Studies Since: "El plan de Santa Barbara" by Ignacio M. Garcia. I have chosen this particular article for various reasons. One is because reading the first few paragraphs of the article stirred up many emotions within me. I found myself growing angry and once‚ again‚ repulsed by the United States discrimination system. The more knowledge I obtain on the United States‚ on its past and how it develops today‚ I can finally say that I
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The two poems‚ "Rising five" by Norman Nicholson and "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara share many of the same base themes through the use of language techniques. Both these poems are to do with life and yet both looked at different parts of it. They each used similar language techniques but for different reasons. They both use metaphors and imagery to emphasise their points In both "Rising five" and "Piano and Drums" metaphors are used to link the surrounding with life itself. In the poem‚ "Rising
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Compare and contrast Sheriff’s and Hill’s presentations of the effect o the experiences of work in Journey’s End and Strange Meetings. Strange Meeting by Susan Hill and Journey’s End by R.C. Sheriff both are books which recover the encounter that occurred during the time of World War one .Journey’s End much like strange meeting‚ goes in detail about the experiences of war and how characters from both books are affected. For example‚ Both Stanhope and Hilliard both have a different feeling towards
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Imploding the Miranda Complex in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Jennifer Bess The article of Jennifer Bess who is an assistant professor of Peace Studies at Coucher College in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ starts with a quotation from Alice Walker’ s book The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: A diary like this‚ with so many blank pages‚ seems to reflect a life permeated with gaps‚ an existence full of holes. But perhaps that is what happens when one’s experience
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"Strange Objects" by Gary Crew gives the reader the ability to think about many aspects of the novel in an abstract way. If read with an open mind‚ the reader can uncover many secrets of the novel‚ as well as some of the themes which the author would like you to discover. The plot‚ characterization‚ setting and conflict help to show the theme of ’history repeating itself ’. This is portrayed in the novel through what happened to Jan Pelgrom in the past‚ repeating itself with Steven Messenger in
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Emotion is a central theme in ‘Strange fits of passion’; even in the title we have “Passion”‚ shown in the Poet’s feelings for Lucy and in the sudden (seemingly unfounded) idea that “Lucy should be dead” Overseeing the whole scene we also have the moon‚ used by Wordsworth to counterpoint the Poet’s Journey to “Lucy’s cot”. As he draws closer to the cottage the moon descends until suddenly “the planet dropped” which in turn causes the Poet to have a startling thought exclaiming “O mercy!” “If Lucy
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