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    The Blue Hotel

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    In ¡°The Blue Hotel‚¡± Stephen Crane uses various provocative techniques to ensure that the setting adds to the richness of the story. ¡°The Blue Hotel¡± is set in a cold Nebraska town at the Palace Hotel in the late 1800¡¯s‚ but there is more to setting than just when and where a story takes place. In a written work‚ it is the author¡¯s job to vividly depict events in order to keep the reader¡¯s attention and to create colorful mental images of places‚ objects‚ or situations. The story is superbly

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    book‚ poverty‚ and drunk Spokane Indians. When Junior decides to leave the reservation‚ a new experience of life is ahead of him. Junior starts attending a new school‚ Rearden. At his new school away from the reservation‚ he is different from the rest of the kids. Leaving the reservation made Junior more insecure about himself because of his surroundings but‚ he ends up being more confident in himself. Leaving the reservation‚ came from Mr. P idea because of what happened in Geometry class. In the

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    Chapter I INTRODUCTION Project Context The presence of Online Registration and Reservation system of Dalton Academy help the students as well as the school to fasten their system of enrollment as well as reservation. At present‚ the Dalton Academy has three sections of each year level. The enrollment and reservation process is done in a first come per serve basis‚ thus if you are early to enroll even you are belong in the first section however if you are late enrollee then you are

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    The Blue Bouquet

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    The Blue Bouquet I woke covered with sweat. Hot steam rose from the newly sprayed‚ redbrick pavement.  A gray-winged butterfly‚ dazzled‚ circled the yellow light.  I jumped from my hammock and crossed the room barefoot‚ careful not to step on some scorpion leaving his hideout for a bit of fresh air.  I went to the little window and inhaled the country air.  One could hear the breathing of the night‚ feminine‚ enormous.  I returned to the center of the room‚ emptied water from a jar into a pewter

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    |Abstract | |The project entitled “Air-Line Reservation” is to provide the online Reservation of Domestic and International Flights and also provides the| |time schedule of all the flights. | |The function booking ticket will accept the requirements of the customers

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    The Blue Laws

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    The Blue Laws The Blue Laws were laws that were designed to enforce religious standards‚ especially those days that were designated as a day of worship or rest. The name was rumored to have come from the supposedly blue paper the laws were printed on‚ but since that was most likely false‚ historians have found that the name came the 17th century use of the word blue‚ which was a reference to the strict moral codes and those who observed them‚ as in blue-stocking. The blue laws were favored by

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    Refugee Blues

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    Refugee Blues W. H. Auden’s poem of despair‚ misery‚ and isolation‚ “Refugee Blues”‚ describes the hardships faced by two German Jewish refugees attempting to escape Hitler’s Germany. Published in autumn‚ 1939‚ Auden is surrounded by the anti-Sematic hatred that is growing in Germany six months prior to the outbreak of World War II. Auden utilizes this environment and the experiences of German Jews to express the abuse of human rights and the sentiments of refugees. For the near two thousand

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    blue brain

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    The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. The aim of the project‚ founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland‚ is to study the brain’s architectural and functional principles. The project is headed by the founding director Henry Markram and co-directed by Felix Schürmann and Sean Hill. Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running

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    Rhapsody in Blue

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    composed his first published song entitled “When You Want ’Em You Can’t Get ’Em”. From 1920 to 1924‚ he composed for an annual production put on by George White. Legend has it that he actually composed what most say is his greatest work‚ Rhapsody in Blue‚ in a rush because he had forgotten about the performance. About ten years later‚ he wrote one of the most famous American operas called Porgy and Bess. Many people say it is “considered to not only be Gershwin’s most complex and best-known works

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    The Facebook Sonnet” clearly shows that the smallest thing can become the biggest part of life. The first stanza introduces you to Sherman Alexie’s description of Facebook in “The Facebook Sonnet.” It talks about reuniting with old high school friends and how it keeps you connected to them for as long you all shall live in the "endless high-school/Reunion" (lines 1-2). The middle of the first stanza says‚ "Welcome to past friends / And lovers‚ however kind or cruel" (lines 2-3)‚ this shows that

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