Have you ever wondered why the Titanic sunk and how anyone ever survived? The sinking of the Titanic was a huge tragedy at the time and still is to this day.There were many passengers who made it out and lived‚ but as we all know there were more to not be so lucky. The ones who did live left a great story to tell that many do not know the completely truth of. As you most likely know‚ the Titanic sunk due to sailing into an iceberg which caused the death of many lives. And most of these lives could
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sisters. NELLIE BOUSTEAD: A FAILED PROPOSAL In 1891‚ Rizal took a vacation in Biarritz in order to find reprieve from his troubles in Madrid. He was a guest of the Boustead family in their winter residence‚ Villa Eliada. Mr. and Mrs. Boustead had two beautiful daughters‚ Adelina and Nellie. An Emotional Rebound After having lamented his frustrated romance with Leonor Rivera on account of the lady’s engagement to another man‚ Rizal came to develop considerable affection for Nellie‚ the prettier
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for her and Mrs. Grose proves to be a dear confidante. Problems begin to arise at the return of Miles from school. The Governess begins to see a ghosts and the house is thrown into disarray. Her erratic behavior undoes all her work and destabilizes Bly to the point which Flora no longer feels safe there. This behavior firmly shows that Miles does not die of spectral intervention‚ but at the hands of sexaully repressed governess. The Governess is‚ in the beginning‚ a force of reason for the household
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Historically Australian indigenous art is often politically or spiritually motivated. Historically Australian art is often politically or spiritually motivated. This statement is proved by a number of indigenous Australian artists including‚ Nellie Nakamarra Marks‚ who uses traditional techniques and motives to relay her spirituality‚ and Tony Albert‚ who recontextualises mainstream items‚ to create a postmodern collection‚ challenging the idea of stereotypical representations in mainstream
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McCarthyism in The Crucible In The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There is more to the play than the witch trials‚ though. The Crucible was composed during a time when a similar hysteria was sweeping through America. A virtually unkown senator by the name of Joseph McCarthy was propelled into infamy when while at a speaking engagement at thee Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling‚ West Virginia he charged 205 persons in the U.S
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stood at almost six feet tall and weighed around 240 pounds‚ which later increased to around 350 pounds during his presidency. During his term at the White House‚ Taft became stuck in the tub which then required many servants and butter to free him. Nellie‚ his wife‚ then ordered a new tub for the White House‚ one that could hold four average sized men
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‘The Turn of the Screw is essentially an ambivalent text. Its narrative prompts divergent‚ even opposite readings‚ but does not reconcile them. What happens remains irrevocably uncertain’ James uses the prologue to the novel to introduce the themes with in this Novella but more importantly he encourages the readers to be active in reading between the lines ‚ and not to accept what is said at face value ‚ James achieves this by surrounding Douglass with a group of people who are clearly and
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Giles (publ. 2010)‚ a neo-Victorian reworking of Henry James’s classic. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries‚ Henry James’s highly ambiguous late-Victorian ghost story The Turn of the Screw (1898)‚ which captures the mysterious events at Bly involving two of literature’s most infamous child characters‚ Flora
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her ability to think rationally‚ the apparitions’ resemblance to previous Bly workers‚ and Miles’s acknowledgment of Peter Quint. The governess is sane because she is able to think rationally before acting upon her actions. After the governess first sees Peter Quint on top of the tower‚ she decides that she is there to “protect and defend the little creatures in the world” (James 27). The role of the governess in the Bly household is caretaker of the children‚ meaning her job is to protect them
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French Riviera. He was a guest of the richBoustead family at its winter residence- Villa Eliada. He had befriended Mr.Boustead and his wife and the two charming daughters Adelina and Nellie. Hewas used to fence with the Boustead sisters at the studio of Juan Luna. It was inBiarritz where he had a serious romance with Nellie and finished the last chapter of his novel‚ El Filibusterismo. With the Bousteads in Biarritz. February 1891 - Rizal arrived in Biarritz.He was warmly welcomed by the Bousteads‚
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