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    of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde‚ Dorian tells Basil after he reveals his altered painting‚ ”Each of us has heaven and hell in him‚ Basil‚” (Wilde‚ 122). The statement functions as a recurring theme in the novel whereas the righteousness‚ represented by Basil Hallward‚ struggles with immorality‚ represented by Lord Henry Wotton‚ for dominance. Although there are many characters that can relate to the statement‚ the three main characters that strengthen the theme as a whole are Dorian Gray‚ Basil Hallward

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    guide; not only do we not know when we will die‚ but also what comes after death. William Wordsworth‚ a nineteenth-century author‚ was no exception to this universal dilemma of considering death as the absolute end of one¡¯s existence or the beginning of one¡¯s existence in a new setting. ¡°Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being‚¡± Wordsworth frankly describes to Isabella Fenwick in 1843 about the anxiety and fear he experienced

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    ------------------------------------------------- William Faulkner William Faulkner (September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the20th century‚ his reputation is based on his novels‚ novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in his native state of Mississippi. He is considered one of the most important Southern writers along withMark Twain‚ Robert

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    William Faulkner QUICK FACTS * NAME: William Faulkner * OCCUPATION: Author * BIRTH DATE: September 25‚ 1897 * DEATH DATE: July 06‚ 1962 * EDUCATION: University of Mississippi * PLACE OF BIRTH: New Albany‚ Mississippi * PLACE OF DEATH: Byhalia‚ Mississippi * FULL NAME: William Cuthbert Faulkner * AKA: William Faulkner * ORIGINALLY: William Cuthbert Falkner * AKA: William Falkner BEST KNOWN FOR William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the

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    William James

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    William James (1842-1910) William James was a philosopher and psychologist but was most well known in the field of Psychology for developing the philosophy of pragmatism‚ or the Functionalist theory: "Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment." He was also the first Psychologist to be born in America. William James was born on January 11‚ 1842 in New York City. His father‚ Henry James Sr. was a

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    in a forest. Most gray wolves are in Europe‚ Canada‚ Asia‚ and many live in Alaska. Gray wolves were almost extinct but few survived and reproduced. Gray wolves have been around for 750‚000 years‚ and it migrated to North America from all over the globe. They are carnivores which means they eat meat and wolves hunt large hoofed animals like a deer‚ mountain goats‚ elk and bison. A wolf’s behaviour is that it can live alone or live in packs and what that means is that a bunch

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    English paper Handbook for William Dhouda‚ a Frankish mother‚ was separated from her son when he was still an adolescent. Her love and concern for the well-being of her son‚ William‚ led her to create a manual for him that described the proper ways in which a respected man would live his life. This manual‚ Handbook for William‚ is the only substantial text written by a woman that survived the Carolingian period. Although her writings are precious‚ offering a view of the intellectual

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    William Bradford

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    arrived in America? What does that say about his character? Answers 1.In 1607 Bradford and about 120 others were attacked as nonconformists to the Church of England. They withdrew to Holland‚ under the religious leadership of John Robinson and William Brewster‚ living for a year at Amsterdam and then in Leiden‚ where they stayed nearly 12 years. 2.In modern days the immigrants that come to America come and try and take our jobs. Also because a lot of immigrants come her and smuggle in drugs and

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    order to get to know the person we need to look to the inside – into the soul. This is the place where the real beauty and ugliness are hidden. The notion of inner and outer beauty is perfectly presented in the novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. The story described in this book shows how the external attractiveness influences people’s behavior and corrupts the inner beauty. The plot situated in the XIX England perfectly describes the higher class of this period. Shallow and

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    Serena Williams

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    Jameka Williams was born on September 26‚ 1981 in Saginaw‚ Michigan. Her parents are Richard and Oracene William’s. Serena was the youngest out of five girls. Serena and her sister Venus both participated in tennis while growing up. Serena’s father was a sharecropper from Louisiana. He read books and watched videos to teach Serena and Venus how to play. When Serena turned three she practiced for two hours on a court not far from her whome with her father. Serena’s father Richard Williams moved the

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