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    leading noblemen‚ old age pretending to be young‚ day overtaking night. The Nurse speaks of Juliet falling as a child when she relates a story to Lady Capulet. This story indirectly pertains to the rise and fall of the characters. Since this is a tragedy‚ the influence of wheel’s fortune cannot be overlooked. Indeed‚ Juliet’s role in the play does parallel the wheel of fortune‚ with her rise to the balcony and her fall to the vault. The Nurse also foreshadows‚ "An I might live to see thee married

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet’s death were tragic‚ but in the end it was really their faults. They were much too young to be as “in love” as they were. Neither of them knew what they truly wanted yet. The events in the play all branched off of Romeo and Juliet rushing into things they weren’t ready for that their age. Later on‚ when they were older‚ they could have continued their relationship. It was all established much too quickly. For one‚ Romeo was in and out of love

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    Tragedy‚ defined as “a lamentable‚ dreadful‚ or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster‚” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragedy) was prominent between 1939 and 1945. An alternate definition‚ “a disastrous event‚ especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life‚” was also prominent during these 6 long years‚ due to the Holocaust’s estimated death toll being that of 9 to 11 million. The Holocaust‚ (Holocaust derived from the Greek word “holos‚” meaning completely‚ and “kaustos

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    Bhopal Gas Tragedy

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    BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY At 11.00 PM on December 2 1984‚ while most of the one million residents of Bhopal slept‚ an operator at the plant noticed a small leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and increasing pressure inside a storage tank. The vent-gas scrubber‚ a safety device designer to neutralize toxic discharge from the MIC system‚ had been turned off three weeks prior . Apparently a faulty valve had allowed one ton of water for cleaning internal pipes to mix with forty tons of MIC. A 30 ton refrigeration

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    Armenian Tragedy Summary

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    This book is a study of the Armenian tragedy‚ and offers analysis by presenting it as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as a historical process in which a domestic conflict escalated and was consumed by a global war. It also establishes a link between genocide and nationality conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula and the Turko-American areas. The author examines the genocide through official WWI documents from Turkey‚ Imperial Germany‚ and Imperial Austria. The main premise of his study is

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    Bhopal Gas Tragedy

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    HEALTH THE BHOPAL DISASTER Ashay Chitre‚ a film maker living in Bhopal’s prestigious Bharat Bhawan‚ built by the state government to attract artists to this central Indian city‚ heard a commotion outside his window early in the morning at about 3 a m. It was a chill December and all the windows of Chitre’s house were closed. As Chitre and his wife Rohini‚ seven months pregnant‚ opened the window‚ they got a whiff of gas. They immediately felt breathless and their eyes and noses began to

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    The Tragedy of Madame Bovary Madame Bovary is both a product of and a commentary on life in 19th century France. Gustav Flaubert’s wrote the novel in a realistic style‚ which was then the major movement in art and literature. This technique‚ which allowed him to honestly portray the nature of provincial life‚ was the perfect medium to showcase his opinion of the bourgeoisie and their preoccupations. He used mostly his main character‚ Emma Bovary‚ to show that the corrupt values of the middle

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    MODERN ART

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    Modern art-kind of art that does not resemble anything; abstract & distorted Modern- means something new One of the things that make modern painting & sculpture hard to grasp is its sheer variety of styles. Some emerge & flourish for a few years & then drop out of fashion‚ to be replaced by another mode. This includes: Realism Impressionism Post-impressionism Neo-impressionism Fauvism Cubism Expressionism Surrealism Futurism Minimalism May 1874‚ a group of young artists held their

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    George Ryga

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    George Ryga Canadian playwright 1932 – 1987 George Ryga‚ one of Canada’s most prolific and powerful writers‚ was born in 1932 in Deep Creek‚ Alberta‚ of poor immigrant parents from the Ukraine. At the age of 16 one of his teachers encouraged him to enter a creative writing competition run by the Banff School of the Arts. The work he submitted won and he got a scholarship for the school sponsored by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. Unfortunately‚ his scholarship was revoked

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    George Carver

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    Have you ever heard of one African American that was an amazing inventor and a great influence still today? Well now you have. George Washington Caver had used crops for many uses and helped the Southern agricultural. Carver was the best scientist/inventor in history. He was and is a great influence. Carver was a great man. He accomplished many things like‚ discovering three hundred ways to use peanuts and another one hundred ways to use other crops. He also studied in agricultural. He helped

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