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    sure I incorporated as much purple as I possibly could into the session. Along with purple‚ there’s a soft riot of colors in her nursery including turquiose‚ orange and green. The set that influenced the room was called bohemian nights. Patrick and Sidney have such an adorable meeting

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    Descartes

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    enrolled at Jesuit College of La Fleche in 1606-1614. In 1614‚ he went to Poitiers and took a law degree two years later. When he was 18 years old he already completed the Le Fleche college and spent years refining noble skills-fencing‚ dancing and horsemanship. In Netherlands he spend more than one year to study military architecture and mathematics. After graduation in 1616 of December‚ he studied at University of Poitiers. Descartes has been described as an example of genius. Descartes was travelling

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    My First Conk

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    you’ll see on heads of the black so called "middle class" and "upper class‚" who ought to know better‚ or the one you’ll see on the heads of the poorest‚ most downtrodden‚ ignorant black men. He also said that he admired Lionel Hampton and Sydney Poitier‚ because they had kept their hair natural and fought to the top. Malcolm X’s‚ "The Conk" really fascinated me. He started out being one of those guys trying to look white‚ to realizing that he has to be himself. He had a lot of insight to change

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    Man’s Mark‚ the author Phillip Sidney uses poetic devices such as irony and alliteration to convey his derision with his own desires. Right from the beginning‚ Sidney uses strong ironic phrases to convey to the readers his disdain for desire. With the line‚ “Thou blind man’s mark‚” the author uses irony to show how he feels. Clearly‚ a blind man would not be able to have a ‘mark‚’ or target because he is blind‚ he would not be able to hit a target at all. Sidney again uses irony with the line

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    History has never halted for want of peasants. But crucial as they may have been to Europe’s agricultural well-being‚ they weren’t exactly well loved by nobility. Barbara Tuchman‚ in A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous Fourteenth Century‚ tells us they were considered aggressive‚ insolent‚ greedy‚ sullen‚ suspicious‚ tricky‚ unshaved‚ unwashed‚ ugly‚ stupid and credulous... in satiric tales it was said the [peasant’s] soul would find no place in Paradise or anywhere else because the demons refused

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    Charles V

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    integration of the Dauphiné into the crown lands of France. From then on‚ all heirs apparent of France used the title of Dauphin until their coronation. Charles became regent of France when his father John II was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. To pay the ransom‚ Charles had to raise taxes and deal with the hostility of the nobility‚ led by Charles the Bad‚ King of Navarre; the opposition of the French bourgeoisie‚ which was channeled through the Estates-General led by Etienne

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    English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious literatures (for example of Italy and France). The courtly lyric/ Petrarchan love sonnet introduced to English by Sir Thomas Wyatt

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    Aaron Majors is yet another ladies’ man around Spellman. Can you blame him? He’s the kind of guy who knows he looks good. He’s a total flirt and knows just what to say to get a girl weak at the knees. He leaves them as soon as he gets what he wants‚ though. Even when girls know his rep‚ they still fall for him. He can be a total jerk‚ he never seems to care how he treats the girls he’s with‚ but deep down there’s good in him. He’s a loyal friend‚ as his best friends and band mates know. Aaron

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    The Middle Ages is considered from about 500 to 1500 CE. The Middle Ages begin with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and to the Renaissance period. After the death of Augustus‚ the Roman Empire would begin to fall. With plenty of monarchs seeking success and failing‚ Rome began to lose their ideals like the Roman religion and family. As the Roman Empire began to crumble with civil war‚ plagues‚ and a bad economy‚ Christianity was beginning to emerge. It had great success because of the many differences

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    Astrophil and Stella Sonnets

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    compose a love sonnet. With this in mind‚ he warns the reader that the emotions expressed in the entire sonnet sequence stem directly from the heart-thus‚ he cannot be held rationally responsible. The statements in this first sonnet make clear that Sidney (who already can be identified with the author of the love sonnets) is conflicted in his role as a zealous lover and a self-critical poet. This sonnet demonstrates the first of many clashes between reason and passion that appear in the sonnet sequence

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