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    Essay On Tenements

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    Tenements are what workers stayed in when they were working in the mines during the industrial revolution. A tenement is a large. A tenement is a large building divided into many rooms. The word "tenement" originally referred to tenancy and therefore to any rented accommodation. Tenements make up a large percentage of the housing stock. Tenements were originally made for a lot of immigrants‚ immigrating to the city. Tenements have very poor conditions and often people got sick or got diseases due

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    Salome Review

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    e“Salomé” commentary -- The pathetic SalomeSalomé” by Lourdes Ortiz is a rewritten biblical story of John the Baptist’s martyrdom‚ which focuses on the daughter of Herodias‚ Salome. In this story‚ Salome is given a subjective position. John’s pure‚ firm eyes‚ different from all others that Salome used to see‚ causing her crazy fascination with John the Baptist. However‚ John spurned her affection‚ which converted Salome’s desperate love into crazy desire of possessiveness. Thus‚ the pathetic character

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    The Tenement Museum

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    The Tenement Museum The Tenement Museum is prestigious for its fine architecture and history that continues to relive itself. The tours of the museum show the lives of the people who once lived inside the tenements. The tours educate the visitors on historical events and display a museum unlike any other. The following essay will incorporate my experience at the museum along with the stories of the families that once dwelled in these tenements and lived during a time of economic struggle. In

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    Herod Antipas and Salome

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    Salome talks about that on the terrace of Herod’s palace‚ people are staring at and talking about the Salome who is the daughter of the queen‚ Herodias. Salome finds many people are talking about her and she leaves the feast for the outside. Salome talks to the prophet‚ Iokanaan‚ and Salome says she will kiss Iokanaan’s mouth. The King‚ Herod and the Queen‚ Herodias go to find Salome. When they find Salome‚ Herod commands Salome to dance for him and he will give everything Salome wants to her. Salome

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    Salome And Hitcher

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    Compare how Duffy and Armitage write about violence in ‘Salome’ and ‘Hitcher’ ‘Salome’ and ‘Hitcher’ both use a first person persona and with that‚ give us insight into their feelings and the theme of violence throughout both poems. In ‘Salome’‚ Duffy’s character uses a nonchalant tone with no remorse when depicting her actions‚ which is also present in ‘Hitcher’ too. Salome had ‘done it before’ and will ‘doubtless do it again’ but is oblivious of the repercussions of what she has just stated

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    Salome Coursework 1

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    portrayed? Salome is a poem which has been reinvented by the use of a well-known biblical story which the women are portrayed to be ‘immoral and dangerous’’. Duffy has modernised this story and placed Salome as the narrator‚ whilst also fulfilling the expectations of a feminist text by challenging stereotypical ideas of conventional gender roles. It is interesting‚ however‚ that unlike other poems in the “Worlds Wife” ‘Salome’ has been received negatively as stated by Janet Lewison “Salome by Carol

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    New York City Tenements

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    What exactly are tenements? The term “tenement” was defined in 1867 to describe the urban poor’s housing situation. As mentioned before‚ tenements were often very crowded due to the large wave of immigrants coming from Europe. These immigrants were stuffed into buildings that were inadequately made. In 1914‚ the streets below fourteenth street‚ which was one eighty-second of New York State’s total land area‚ had one sixth of the city’s population (Urban Castles). Showing how in a relatively small

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    Northern Yeelirrie Uranium Tenements Introduction The Cabral Resources Northern Yeelirrie Uranium Project is located approximately 40 km south of Wiluna (Figure 1)‚ where Cabral are targeting paleochannels calcrete hosted uranium. Figure 1 Yeerlirrie North Location The project is within close proximity to the large BHP Yeelirrie Project (35 MT @.15 % U308 – non JORC)‚ and other smaller deposits held by Toro‚ Mega Uranium‚ and Uranex (see Table 1). Table 1 Midwest Uranium Projects Resource

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    19th Century Tenements

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    invest in tenements. “A tenement is a substandard multi-family dwelling in the urban core‚ usually old and occupied by the poor.” As New York became more and more crowded with immigrant’s tenements started popping up through the city. There was approximately more than 80‚000 tenements build by 19th century. It is said that they housed approximately 2.3 million immigrants. Tenements featured small cramped apartments with poor ventilation and lack of indoor plumbing. “A typical tenement building

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    immigrants-fearful‚ submissive‚ and confused. Presenting the readers with the horrific tenement settings that the laborers were forced to live in makes the readers empathize with them. The tenement was a large building in which thousands of immigrants were housed in after they arrived to America. They lived a major part of their life under miserable conditions. Di Donato portrays the declining quality of life through accounts of tenement living laborer. One example that very accurately and vividly displays the

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