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    My Antonia Chapter Summaries

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    Summary: Introduction The novel opens with an unnamed narrator recounting a train trip through Iowa the previous summer with an old friend named Jim Burden‚ with whom the narrator grew up in a small Nebraska town. The narrator recalls talking with Jim about childhood on the prairie‚ and then notes that while they both live in New York‚ they don’t see each other much‚ since Jim is frequently away on business and since the narrator doesn’t really like Jim’s wife. The narrator resumes talking about

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    Male Gaze

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    Spectatorship and Subjectivity. United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing Ltd‚ 1999. 146-152. Print.Ott‚ Brian‚ and Eric Aoki Children of Men. Dir Alfonso Cuarón. Universal Pictures DreamWorks‚ 2006. Only Angels Have Wings The Big Sleep. Dir. Howard Hawks. Warner Bros‚ 1946. The Fifth Element. Dir. Luc Besson. Patrice Ledoux. Columbia Pictures‚ 1997. The River of No Return Rear Window. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures Universal Pictures‚ 1954‚ 1983.

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    Goal Line Technology

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    systems were designed and tested to see if the technology would even have a chance to be used. After numerous test and hundreds of thousands dollars spent‚ two systems were approved. “GoalRef” and British-based “Hawk-Eye” were the two systems that were tested in real game scenarios. Hawk-eye technology uses seven different cameras at different angles in the back of the goal in order to triangulate the ball. Then a signal is sent to

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    Among these were troubles with Native Americans‚ War Hawks‚ British aid to Native Americans‚ and impressment. The Native Americans‚ led my Tecumseh‚ were uniting to stop American expansion. The Indians themselves were not much of a threat‚ but when Britain provided them with guns and ammunition‚ it got tougher on the US. At the same time‚ the War Hawks wanted to go to war with Britain; they wanted British soldiers out of America‚ for them to stop providing

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    two monuments still dominate the east bank of the Nile in the modern city‚ now called Luxor” ( McDowell 1996) . There are many of such the pieces of architecture that lasted through all these years. There were hawks at the feet of some of the statues that represented the City of the Hawk. A very important aspect was the Pharaoh’s and symbols of men in the statues. The Pharaoh’s symbols is worthy of note. The hats were white and red. Pharaoh’s are shown wearing a kilt‚ and they had a tail of a bull

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    suspicions that the British were in fact providing aid to the Native Americans and urging them to fight the settlers on the frontier. A group of Republicans known as the War Hawks wanted to go to war with Britain. Many believed that foreign powers (the British) were still influencing areas of the frontier region. In response the War Hawks wanted to preserve America’s self-respect and move forward to conquer Canada. They believed by pushing out British influence from the region it would stabilize the area

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    1929 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) ratified Sacco and Vanzetti arrested; First commercial radio broadcast in Pittsburg‚ Pennsylvania; Volstead Act- reinforced prohibition; Merchant Marine Act; Esch-Cummins Act Warren G. Harding elected (Rep) [1921-1923] Washington Disarmament Conference [1921-1922] Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration Sacco-Vanzetti Trial Congress passed resolution declaring WWI ’1919’ had officially ended Fordney-McCumber tariff Five-Power Naval Treaty; Four-Power

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    Warner Brothers

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    One of the most memorable people that can be remembered were the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers were the world’s first successful airplanes and first to invent an aircraft controls that made fixed wing powered flight possible. Today‚ the aircraft impacted to many people for easier travel and use of the wars. Wilbur and Orville Wright were the sons of Milton Wright‚ a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ. Wilbur was born on April 16‚ 1867‚ in Millville‚ Indiana. Orville was born on August

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    Explaining Motifs

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    I choose to write my motif explanation on A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett. In this short story‚ birds are a recurring motif; I will try to explain the significance of the birds and the white heron as it pertains to the story. The first birds mentioned are robins. Robins are symbolic of rebirth or the beginning of new ideas; the story mentions them as a being the product of a cats labor‚ “fat with young robins.” My intuition tells me that their meaning in the story is Sylvia’s new life in the country

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    What Makes A Storekeeper

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    1) Answer: a = Selena pays a storekeeper $1 for quart of milk. Storekeeper (revenue $1) -------Markets for Goods and Services--------Selena (spending $1) Goods sold Goods bought b = Stuart earns $4.50 per hour working at a fast-food restaurant. Factors of Production (labor) -------Markets for Factors of Production -------Stuart (labor) (Fast-food restaurant wage $4.50) Income ($4.50) c = Shanna spends $30 to get a haircut. Haircut salon (revenue $30) ---Markets for Goods

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