like a man when she joined General Custer as a scout at Fort Russell‚ Wyoming. She thought of herself as reckless and one of the best shots in the West. When they returned from Arizona‚ she was order to the Muscle Shell Indian outbreak. This is where she earned her name‚ "Calamity Jane." Over the next few years‚ she was ordered around‚ still continuing to dress and act like a man. She was found out to be a woman after being seen swimming nude. Later‚ she got severely sick and was in the hospital for
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Ethics - Animal Ethics: Animals for Entertainment." BBC. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/entertainment_1.shtml>. Birth‚ Accident Of. "Mortality as Morality." Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner. 14 Aug. 2009. Web. 30 Oct. 2011. <http://www.microkhan.com/2009/08/14/mortality-as-morality/>. Jamieson‚ Dale. "Against Zoos." The Animal Rights Library. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. <http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/jamieson01.htm>. Kuehn‚ Bridget M. "Is It Ethical
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Jane Eyre is a gothic novel. A gothic novel contains an atmosphere of gloom‚ terror‚ or mystery. Jane Eyre is a gothic novel because it contains elements of gloom and horror. One element of a gothic novel is that the uncanny challenges reality‚ and causes the character to believe in supernatural beings. The first example of this is when Jane is at Thornfield. Jane has left to mail a letter and is returning to Thornfield when she sees something. She believes it to be a gytrash‚ which is a spirit
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Charlotte Bronte’s character Jane Eyre had truly existed in that time period‚ she would have defied most of these cultural standards and proved herself a paradigm for aspiring feminists of her day. Jane’s commitment to dignity‚ independence‚ freedom of choice‚ unwillingness to submit to a man’s emotional power and willingness to speak her mind were fostered by some female characters in the novel. Yet these traits also contrast sharply with some of Bronte’s other female characters Jane Eyre can be labeled
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Devina Chintaman Survey of British Literature II Veronica Schanoes December 13‚ 2012 Hidden Meanings in Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is the story of an underprivileged‚ orphaned girl ’s pursue for love. However‚ the plot of Jane Eyre is very obscured. Suspense plays a great role in the story. In each chapter‚ Jane discovers an answer to one question only to be perplexed with another mystery or dilemma. Through the use of similes‚ metaphors‚ and other literary devices‚ Charlotte Bronte conveys
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“A Brief Summary on the Research and Influence of Dr. Jane Goodall” Jane Goodall is a famed English primatologist and ethologist . More than forty-five years of studying chimpanzee‚ or Pan Troglodyte‚ interactions in the wild has helped her become the world’s most famous expert on the animal. This paper will start with how Goodall began researching chimpanzees along with her alternative research methods‚ we will then delve into what are considered the three most important discoveries made by Goodall
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Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre emerges with a unique voice in the Victorian period for the work posits itself as a sentimental novel; however‚ it deliberately becomes unable to fulfill the genre‚ and then‚ it creates an altogether divergent novel that demonstrates its superiority by adding depth of structure in narration and character portrayal. Joan D. Peters’ essay‚ Finding a Voice: Towards a Woman’s Discourse of Dialogue in the Narration of Jane Eyre positions Gerard Genette’s theory of convergence
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PHIL-201 DB#2 Due to recent occurrences in history‚ the U.S. has found itself in various situations where serious questions have arisen about the way that we treat our prisoners of war. The question has been posed: should we torture someone if it means that we will gain information that will protect a large number of people? A person with a utilitarian view might suggest that because the torture would bring about the right information that would save many people‚ it would be ok to torture someone
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in places like California where the land was rich with gold. Mexicans and white settlers alike built cabins and prospered from the land‚ mining and fishing for gold in the rivers. In one famous account of Joaquin Murrieta in “Major Problems in Mexican American History”‚ white bandits came to Murrieta’s cabin and told him that they would not allow any Mexicans to prosper from the lands. They told him to get up and leave his land. When Murrieta refused they butted him in the head with their pistols
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In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte‚ good weather is Bronte’s tool to foreshadow positive events or moods and poor weather is the tool to set the tone for negative events or moods. This technique is exercised throughout the entire novel‚ alerting the readers of any up coming atmosphere. In the novel‚ Jane’s mood was‚ to a degree‚ determined by the weather mentioned. For example‚ after Jane was publicly‚ falsely accused of being a liar by Mr. Brocklehurst‚ an upcoming positive event was predicted
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