Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel on American history. He was living in the innocent season of his life‚ in those carefree years before the working age of twelve when a slave boy could romp and run about the plantation with uninhibited glee. Nat in his young years cavorted about the home place as slave children did generally in Virginia. He was first lived in Turner’s house‚ who owned a modest plantationin a remote neighborhood "down county" from Jerusalem. His daytime
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At Thermopylae‚ the allied Greek nations deployed a small force of between four and seven thousand Greek heavy infantry against the invading Persian army of two million. Leading the Greeks was a force of three hundred Spartans‚ chosen because they were all "sires" — men who had to have sons who could preserve their blood line‚ should they fall in battle. Thermopylae was the only way into Greece for the Persian army‚ and presented the perfect choke point — a narrow pass bordered by a sheer mountain
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the food on my table and a roof over my head‚ life was good. I was content with life until life wasn’t so peaceful and happy. Life became stressful and tiring when it met two things: my senior year and my drill sergeant parents. There has only been four times I’ve witnessed my parents become drill sergeants‚ is when each of my four older siblings started apply for college. It was ugly. “If you don’t go into the medical field you won’t have a stable income and you can’t afford anything!” my dad would
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CATCHING FIRE By Suzanne Collins Catching Fire is an action-fiction book by Suzanne Collins. It is 391 pages long and was published by Scholastic Press © 2009. Catching Fire begins a few months after Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss is recovering from the Hunger Games and getting ready for the Victory Tour‚ an event where the victor of the last Hunger Games tours each of the twelve districts and the Capitol‚ ending with their home district. Before they leave
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In the poems ‘Welfare baby’‚ written by Cheryl Albury and ‘Barefoot Baby’‚ written by J.L.Mayson the poets arouse sympathy for the characters in them. The use of many techniques depicts the sympathetic theme throughout the poems. Both poems are about young children and the titles of each portray a sense of negativity to the readers. In ‘Welfare baby’ albury starts off by describing the baby as ‘defenseless’‚ which shows how he is unable to help or defend himself. This may give the reader a sad
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Mt. Iriga or also known as Mt. Asog‚ a 1‚470 meters high volcano is one of the major mountains in the Bicol Region. Lying near the City of Iriga in Camarines Sur‚ this inactive volcano offers a breath-taking view of the southern mountains including Mt Isarog on the northern side of the mountain‚ Mt. Mayon ‚ Mt. Malinao and Mt. Masaraga on the southern side. And if the weather is clear‚ you can also see Catanduanes and the Lagonoy Gulf farther south. The well renowned Buhi Lake is also located at
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Prophet From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with Profit. For other senses of this word‚ see Prophet (disambiguation). In religion‚ a prophet is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine‚ and to speak for them‚ serving as an intermediary with humanity‚ delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people.[1][2] The message that the prophet conveys is called a prophecy. Claims of prophets have existed in
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His fear of humiliation drives Balram to imitate the appearance of Mr.Ashok‚ a wealthy man‚ although he does not appreciate the clothes’ aesthetic. In “The Fourth night‚” Balram has arrived at New Delhi and became the main driver for Mr.Ashok after Mukesh left to Dhanbad. Balram‚ who was a countryman‚ is amazed at all the things in the city like New Delhi. On a regular day‚ while waiting for Pinky Madam and Mr. Ashok to shop in the mall‚ Balram observes a servant who wants to enter the mall‚ “he
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An oil company must decide whether or not to drill an oil well in a particular area that they already own. The decision maker (DM) believes that the area could be dry ‚ reasonably good or a bonanza. See data in the table which shows the gross revenues for the oil well that is found. Decision Dry (D) Reasonably Bonanza(B) good(G) Drill $0 $85 $200 m Abandon $0 $0 $0 Probability 0.3 0.3 0.4 Drilling
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Lecture 8 Edmond Spenser (1552 – 1599) Edmund Spenser’s ‘‘Sonnet 75’’ was published in 1595 as part of the larger work‚ Amoretti and Epithalamion. Amoretti are small love poems‚ in this case‚ sonnets‚ and an epithalamion is a wedding song. The work as a whole was written by Spenser to his second wife‚ Elizabeth Boyle‚ whom he arried in 1594. In ‘‘Sonnet 75‚’’ the speaker is a poetic version of Spenser and the Lover to and about whom he is writing is Elizabeth. The subject of ‘‘Sonnet 75’’ is the
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