jury. On the night before her execution‚ she sent her last letter to her sister in law‚ Elisabeth. "I am calm‚" the queen wrote‚ "as people are whose conscience is clear". Then in the moments before her execution‚ the priest told her to have courage and she responded "Courage? The moment when my ills are going to end is not the moment when courage is going to fail me." When and where was Marie Antoinette born? She was born on November 2‚ 1775‚ in Vienna Austria. Family
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nicknamed "Jackie" after her father‚ Jack Bouvier. Young Jackie’s parents were a very well off coupled. Her father had an estimated fortune of 7 million dollars and Janet came from a wealthy family also‚ her father had been chairman of the board of Chase National Bank. Asides for the Bouviers wealth‚ the other thing they were most noted for was their beauty‚ Jack in particular. His slim nose‚ wide set blue eyes‚ shiny black hair and muscular build earned him the description as "drippingly
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of pride and prejudice can be summed up in the exchange between Darcy and Elizabeth‚ after he proposed. Darcy clearly defines the reasons for his prejudice: "Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" (Pg.164) Elizabeth’s prejudice
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	Most people‚ when forced to give up the one thing they truly love‚ would rather see it be destroyed than in the hands of another person. In "Old Woman Magoun‚" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman‚ the old woman is in that position. She is burdened with relinquishing custody of her granddaughter‚ Lily‚ to the child’s father. Throughout the story‚ the old woman faces an inner struggle over caring for and‚ ultimately‚ losing her granddaughter. She deals with her struggle in a very realistic
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when Elizabeth becomes sick with a fever‚ his mother nurses her back to health at the cost of her own life. On her deathbed‚ Victor’s mom says‚ "Elizabeth‚ my love‚ you must supply my place to my younger children. Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and‚ happy and beloved as I have been‚ is it not hard . . . a hope of meeting you in another world" (42). Elizabeth is expected to fill in as the role of the mother by taking care of and protecting the young children. Although she replaces
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In 1977‚ Bragg parted ways with the National Theatre of the Deaf and found a position as an artist-in- residence at Gallaudet College. During his time here‚ he was offered a position as a technical consultant for an NBC production of "And Your Name is Jonah" which gave way to even more opportunity for members of the Deaf community. Bragg continued writing‚ directing‚ and teaching up until 1997 when he retired. Bragg moved back to California and often continues to write‚ lecture‚ and perform
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Act I is centered around introducing the play and some of its characters. The play opens around a crowd of people waiting for Caesar’s return after his victory over Pompey’s sons. As the parade marches by‚ a soothsayer bids Caesar to "beware the ides of March." Later in Act I‚ Cassius persuades the frightened Casca to join the conspiracy during a violent storm. They both plan to visit Brutus later with fake petitions to help persuade Brutus to join the conspiracy. Act II opens with Brutus
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foreign countries around the world. Conrad ’s literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work as British literature. "His prose style‚ varying from eloquently sensuous to bare and astringent‚ keeps the reader in constant touch with a mature‚ truth-seeking‚ creative mind" (Hutchinson 1). Conrad ’s novels are basically based on having both a psychological and sociological plot within them. This is why Conrad ’s work carries its own uniqueness
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	Society in the 1959 was full of racial discrimination. White and blacks were still living in their own "areas"‚ the public as a whole was very slow to accept the concept of mixed neighborhoods blacks and white living together. This book‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry‚ tells the story of a lower-class black family’s struggle to gain middle class acceptance in the Southside of Chicago. The Younger family of five‚ four adults and one child live in a cramped apartment
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