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    In the novel "Frankenstein‚" by Mary Shelley‚ Victor Frankenstein is the creator of a "monster." Because of his thirst for knowledge and ambition to create life‚ he goes too far and creates a huge creature‚ which he immediately rejects. This rejection plays a major part in the monster’s hatred for humans‚ especially Victor. The author‚ Mary Shelley‚ supports the theme‚ loss of innocence‚ through plot‚ setting and characterization. This essay will explain the many ways that the characters lost their

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    William Wordsworth

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    British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚ Wordsworth focused on the nature‚ children‚ the poor‚ common people‚ and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion

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    Biography of Mary Kom

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    NAME - URSULA DAS CLASS- 9 A ROLL- 40 MARY KOM Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom better known as M.C Mary Kom was just another story on the sports page. But with an Olympic medal in hand ‚ she has become India’s latest sports star. She is the first boxer who has made women’s boxing popular in India. Like any other Olympic athlete ‚ Mary Kom’s story is inspiring but it is more so considering the background she comes from . Mary Kom was born on 1 March ‚ 1983 in the north-eastern state of Manipur

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    Queen Mary Ship

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    The Queen Mary is a ship that was used for 1936 through 1967. The ship is reported to be haunted and their have been many different types of paranormal activity on the ship. The Queen Mary was built to be a cruise ship but during the ships timeline she was also a troop ship‚ and “Bride and Baby Voyage”. The ship was built in Scotland from the start in 1930 and finally finished on 1936. The construction on the ship was stopped between the years 1931 through 1934 because of the great depression

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    Owls by Mary Oliver

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    one of the most mysterious animals of the world. In an excerpt from Mary Oliver’s essay "Owls‚" she discusses her fear as well as her utmost admiration of this most frightening of creatures. Mary Oliver’s use of threatening imagery conveys her deep fear of the power of this frightful creature. By using phrases referring to "it’s razor-tipped toes" and discussing the "heavy‚ crisp‚ breathy snapping of it’s hooked beak‚" Mary Oliver wants the reader to understand just how dangerous and scary these

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    Wordsworth William Blake and William Wordsworth were two of the most influential of all of the romantic writers‚ although neither was fully appreciated until years after his death. They grew up with very different lifestyles which greatly affected the way they as individuals viewed the world and wrote about it. Both play an important role in Literature today. Despite their differences‚ with their literature backgrounds they cannot help but have a few similarities. William Wordsworth was

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    Snow” by William Carlos WilliamsWilliams addresses his observations and interpretations of the 1565 painting Hunters in The Snow by Pieter Brueghel. Williams starts the poem off talking about the landscape of the painting. He says “the overall picture is winter icy mountains in the background.” By saying this‚ he wants us to understand the setting of the painting‚ and probably wants us to focus specifically on the winter time‚ and what people do at this time. Moving forward‚ Williams then states

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    Mary Surratt Conspiracy

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    Kaleb Cockerell English 11 Angela Bray The Conspiracies of a Confederate While doing some research on Mary Surratt I discovered that she was the first woman in America to be hanged. She was hanged for being part of the conspiracy theory along with John Wilkes Booth for Lincoln’s assassination. Leading up to her death she still pleading guilty. In this paper we will discuss what events happened in her life leading her to the path that she chose. Surratt was born in Waterloo‚ Maryland in May 1823

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    ​The importance of a poem does not always come in its meaning. William Carlos Williams illustrates this in his work‚ “The Great Figure.” Being an extremely short story about a man seeing a fire truck speed past him on a gloomy night‚ the actual story leaves readers searching for more. Acting almost as a piece of rebellion against more traditional poetry‚ Williams is able to take the focus away from the physical meaning of the poem and make readers focus on the careful structural choices he made.

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    images of "Spring and All" William Carlos Williams was born on September 17‚ 1883 in Rutherford‚ New Jersey. He was a poet‚ novelist and a doctor‚ and worked hard throughout his life. He was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. He had his own techniques and I just finished reading "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams. I realized that Williams also used dashes in his poems just like Emily Dickinson used in her poetry. I also liked how Williams used contrasts between winter

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