The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program‚ ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe‚ in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.[1] The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948.[2] The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions‚ remove trade barriers‚ modernize industry‚ and make Europe prosperous again.[3] The
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EDGAR ALLEN POE BIOGRAPHY Edgar Poe was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ on January 19‚ 1809. Poe was the child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe‚ Along with an elder brother‚ William Henry Leonard Poe‚ and a younger sister‚ Rosalie Poe. Edgar’s father abandoned him and his family in 1810. Devastatingly his mother died a year later from consumption (pulmonary tuberculosis). With no one to care for Poe‚ he was then taken into the home of John Allan‚ the Allan’s
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Dear diary‚ Is that accurate? Is that the futile sentence everyone uses when they’re blindly pouring their thoughts onto a piece a paper in a notebook that gets discarded eventually? It is. They say writing your thoughts‚ helps control your emotions and everyday life behaviours. I disagree. However‚ why not try? As I dejectedly stand next to his sombre bed‚ I can hear his last brief breaths haltingly fading away. Holding his moist hand firmly‚ he tries to say his last few words before the final pulse
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view that the US policy of Marshall in 1947 was motivated mainly by the altruistic desire to help the economic recovery of Europe. The European Recovery Programme‚ more commonly known as the Marshall Plan‚ was the American foreign policy masterminded by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Its aim was to provide financial support to war-torn Europe‚ following the conclusion of World War II in 1945. The interpretations that I will be analysing argue whether the Marshall Plan was mainly motivated
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literature came out of a mix of the upcoming of romanticism‚ the decline of the enlightenment‚ and most of all from early gothic traditions themselves. Neo-gothic interests greatly sparked the minds of many 18th century writers‚ Edgar Allen Poe being one of them. Poe is classified as an American Horror author of the romanticism era who wrote many short stories and poems of weird‚ gloomy‚ and haunting concepts. The ideas behind many of his stories relate to the minds of many people who have felt like
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Bibliographical Review#2 John Marshall was born on September 24‚ 1755. He was an American jurist and statesman who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. John Marshall was born in a log cabin near Germantown‚ a rural community on the Virginia frontier‚ in what is now Fauquier County near Midland‚ Virginia to Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. The oldest of fifteen‚ John had eight sisters and six brothers. Also‚ several cousins were raised with
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American literary critic‚ poet‚ editor and writer Edgar Allan Poe. In his own writing‚ Doyle commented on Poe’s work‚ specifically mentioning his detective character Dupin in A Study In Scarlet‚ the first short story to feature Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes. In it‚ Dr. Watson‚ tries to complement Sherlock Holmes‚ comparing him to Poe’s detective from Murders in the Rue Morgue: "it is simple when you explain. You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe ’s Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist
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Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl both have different writing styles‚ but they also have some similarities. For instance both of the authors have a unique‚ dark way of writing stories. Both authors wrote some of their stories based on their childhood which in some cases was good and at other times was bad. The two authors both use similes when they write to make it more suspenseful for the reader and to explain the events in the story in a more detailed fashion. Poe and Dahl also use a great deal of
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Kerry James Marshall was born on October 17‚ 1955‚ in Birmingham. He received his education at Otis Art Institute located in Los Angeles‚ which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an honorary doctorate in 1999. The subject of his paintings‚ installations and public projects often stems from African-American popular culture‚ which is rooted from where he was born. He has said‚ “that you can’t be born in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ in 1955 and grow up in South Central in Los Angeles near the Black Panthers
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Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Kimberley Prescott LIT/210 08/01/2012 Sherry Salant Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Popular literature is incomplete without the names of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both of these authors lived in the same time period‚ yet lived very opposite lives. In fact‚ Poe received notoriety for criticizing Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Poe‚ 1847) In his career‚ he wrote several critiques of Hawthorne’s work. On a personal level‚ Poe often disagreed
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