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    A retrieved reformation analysis Set in the American Midwest during the early 1900s‚ “A Retrieved Reformation” concerns the surprising fate of Jimmy Valentine‚ a skilled young safecracker who returns to society after he is paroled from prison. The story begins at the prison shortly before Jimmy Valentine if set free; the majority of the narrative occurs in Elmore‚ a small backwoods town in Arkansas where he settles. Major characters include Jimmy Valentine; Mike Dolan‚ his partner in crime; detective

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    OLE MAS IN TRINIDAD The festival dates back to the 18th century‚ and the influx of French Catholic planters – both white and free coloured – their slaves‚ and free blacks in the 1780s. The white and free coloured both staged elaborate masquerade balls at Christmas and as a “farewell to the flesh” before the Catholic Lenten season‚ with each group mimicking the other in their masking and entertainment. The West African slaves of these planters as well as free coloureds had their own masking traditions

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    Robert Browning

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    Robert Browning is very well known for his exploration of the psychology of people through his use of the dramatic monologue. Many of his pieces deal with individuals who possess seemingly uncommon morals and sometimes appear irrational‚ misguided‚ or even deranged. The various behaviours Browning’s characters express serve to personify many common outlooks among his contemporaries as well as provide a framework within which he could express his opinions about Victorian ideals in an effective and

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    What Is Literature?

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    What is Literature? What is Literature? Literature is the voice of the times. Literature is something to look back and stay as the voice of the generation. What is literature? That is a question you can ask a thousand times and get back a thousand different answers and opinions in which all could be seen as correct. Literature can only be defined by the people with above average intellect‚ who grasp the writing concept‚ and understand literature work. What is literature? Literature is defined‚ has

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    Racism in Literature

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    Bill Frino English 101-K Writing I Dr. J. Showler Research Paper 03/27/07 Racism in Literature “The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law‚ but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.” - “A Far Cry from Africa” In these lines from Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa‚” the speaker emphasizes the natural human tendencies to “inflict pain.” Similarly‚ in his poem‚ “Sympathy‚” Paul Dunbar explores pain from the point of view of a bird

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    Robert Frost

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    Robert Frost was an American Poet highly regarded for his realistic depiction and use of imagery involved in conceptualizing rural life. His work commonly used the monstrous theme of death and nature‚ using the setting of each piece to examine complex philosophical and social subject matters. The poems I chose to analyze are “The Vanishing Red”‚ “Home Burial”‚ and “Death of a Hired Man.” Each poem exhibits the theme of “death” in their own way as a result of the differences in setting and through

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    Chinese Literature

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    INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS 9 ISBN 17-253-3313Sb -2 11 1 111 90000 ol 2 336 69 Chinese Literature‚ Ancient and Classical by Andre Levy translated by William H. Nienhauser‚ Jr. Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington‚ Indiana 47404-3797 USA www.indiana.edu/–iupress Telephone orders 800 842 6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e mail iuporder@indiana.edu - 2000

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    First Twelve 1. COLONIAL ENGLISH AMERICA 1. In 1606‚ the Virginia Company received a charter from King James I to make a settlement in the New World. 2. On May 24‚ 1607‚ about 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown. 3. Problems emerged including (a) the swampy site of Jamestown meant poor drinking water and mosquitoes causing malaria and yellow fever. (b) men wasted time looking for gold rather than doing useful tasks (digging wells‚ building shelter‚ planting

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    Create the following new accounts 1-0030 Office Equipment (Header account) 1-0031 Office Equipment at Cost (Detail account) 1-0032 Acc Dep - Office Equipment (Detail account) Account Number Account Names 1-1000 Current Asset (Header) 1-1050 Cash on Hand (Header) 1-2100 General Cheque Account 1-2140 Petty Cash 1-0021 Furniture and Fittings at Cost 1-0022 Acc Dep - Furniture and Fittings at Cost 6-3100 Telephone 6-3200 Utilities 6-3300 Local Transport 6-3400 Rent

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    1. Examining a work of art in its historical‚ social‚ and political __________ enables you to better understand it. A. design B. context C. element D. genre E. ideology 2. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for her extremely realistic and often anguished __________. A. genre scenes B. self-portraits C. landscapes D. still lifes E. assemblages 3. Until modern times‚ art works have been primarily devoted to __________ themes. A. war B. religious C. secular D. rural E. political 4. An anti-commercial

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