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    dance that help to bring this all together. It is based on the ever popular song by Irving Berlin that was released in 1941‚ only a few week after the Pearl Harbor attacks. Originally sung in the film “Holiday Inn”‚ it still remains today as one of the bestselling recorded songs ever. Berlin wrote many songs that were hits‚ but this one is the only one that still seems near and dear to the hearts of many Americans. Not a

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson- -Uses Figurative Language. Figurative language is not meant to be interpreted literally. -Uses Extended Metaphors. Compares a person’s intellectual and spiritual life to a farmer’s cultivation of a plot of ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist‚ philosopher and poet. We can only learn‚ understand and profit from our own efforts and experience. We cannot rely on the work and experience of others. Every person intuitively understands and responds to the truth

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    I chose the reading by Emerson; I believe there is a lot of transcendentalism in this reading. Well I don’t believe there is a lot of transcendentalism‚ starting with the first paragraph first sentence where he writes‚ “Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies‚ histories‚ and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we‚ through their eyes.” He writes in confidence about his beliefs and how he feels about‚ basically

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    American photographer‚ Irving Penn was an extraordinary fashion and portraiture photographer. A common theme throughout the entirety of his body of work is capturing the essence of whatever is in front of the camera. He revolutionized the world of photography with his simple style‚ always photographing on a blank background. Aside from his work in fashion and portraiture‚ Penn also branched and did work in the area of still lifes. He believed “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact‚ touches

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    and say‚ ‘Oh‚ it’s a nice house but what a hideous window over the kitchen table.’ Only a writer really lives in a novel. So much of what works best about it are things that people who come to dinner never know about or see"(Interview 1). John Irving is an author and a master storyteller who illustrates his vivid tales through detailed and exact writing. John Irving’s A Widow For One Year is an intricate narrative of several love stories. In the opening scene‚ Ruth Cole‚ the main female character

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    BUSINESS STUDIES - RIP CURL BUSINESS REPORT SYNOPSIS Rip Curl have been operating in Australia since 1969 dealing in surfing products and accessories. Over the years consumer tastes have constantly changed and other surfing brands have moved into the market forcing Rip Curl to diversify their products and marketing strategies to remain one of Australia’s most successful businesses BUSINESS STRUCTURE Situational analysis Rip curl was born in 1969 when Brian Singer and Doug Warbick started

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    traditional European sense. The American interpretation of Surrealism resulted in works that were viscerally unconscious; and photography proved to be the only medium that fully encompassed the American Surrealist aesthetic . It was in this year‚ 1939‚ that Penn produced Scissors Shop‚ New York (1939) (fig.1). Scissors Shop would not be printed until 2001 and even after its physical creation; the silver gelatin print of this photograph would never be his most famous image. Irving Penn will forever be the

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts on the 25th of May‚ 1803 to his mother‚ Ruth Haskins‚ and his father Rev. William Emerson. Emerson’s father died at an early age‚ and he was raised by his mother as well as his Aunt Mary Emerson‚ who became a big influence in his life. In his younger years‚ Emerson attended the Boston Latin School at the age of nine‚ and then Harvard College at the early age of fourteen. After graduating from Harvard in 1821 at eighteen

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    What would you do if you got attacked by a rip current? Would you panic or would you stay calm and swim? Rip currents are strong waves that take the water from the coast and take it back to the ocean. Over 100 people drown each year because of rip currents. Over 80% of the rescues on beaches are because of rip currents. In all three sources: “Life Saver” by John DiConsiglio‚ “Rip Current Safety” by National Weather Service‚ and “How to Survive Beach Rip Currents” by UNSWTV‚ it shows that lifeguards

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    Washington Irving was a well-respected author of his time. He had written many works‚ and most were under his pen name: Diedrich Knickerbocker. Two of Irving’s‚ or Knickerbocker’s most famous works were that of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Both of these works have similarities as well as differences between them both. The stories were written during the same time period‚ yet are supposed to have taken place before and after a war. In America‚ there were lots of pressing issues

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