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    Walsh‚ John Evangelist‚ Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe‚ New Brunswick‚ NJ: Rutgers University Press‚ 1998. (Although it claims to “definitively untangle more than a century of speculation” about Poe’s death‚ this book is little more than a rehashing of the usual information. After rebuking others for speculation‚ Mr. Walsh proceeds to unleash a wild flurry of his own‚ boldly stating‚ in the

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    <p> “Shades of Earth” is the third book in sci-fi trilogy “Across the Universe”‚ written by American author Beth Revis. The story amazes you with the futuristic setting when the protagonist of the story‚ a seventeen years old teenager named Amy‚ is aboard the spaceship Godspeed along with her parents and hundreds of other travelers. The ships course is set to a distant earth like planet and is travelling around 250 years in the future. Amy and her parents are frozen into a cryogenic sleep along with

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    After January

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    After January” is predominantly an Australian play. It is adapted by Philip Dean from Nick Earls’ award-winning novel and it provides a traditional view of life in Australia. Therefore‚ this play would be a wonderful introduction to the Australian content for the Queensland Theatre Company 2014 program. This presentation will explain how Australian customs and values have been represented through the following four elements: characters‚ setting‚ themes and language choices in the script. These four

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    University of Puget Sound School of Business and Leadership Principles of Financial Management Professor Alva Wright Butcher BUS 315A McIntyre 107 Tue-Thurs 11:00-12:20 BUS 315B McIntyre 107 Tue-Thurs 9:30-10:50 Fall Semester 2012 Office: McIntyre 111 I Phone: 253-879-3349 FAX: 253-879-3156 Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 1:30 -2:30 Wed 9:30-10:30 And by appointment Note that I am always willing to schedule additional office hours by appointment

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    American Literature1900-1945 Innovative Techniques in The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury has been seen as an "example par excellence of modernist American fiction" (Cohen). Its publication represented a watershed in American literature as it introduced several modernist techniques among which: the destruction of chronological order‚ the division of the perspectives‚ the increased number of narrators‚ the free association technique‚ the stream of consciousness. I have selected

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    Trend of Street Dancing

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    Street dance refers to a dancing style‚ which was born at the street‚ following the hip hop culture in 1970s. It is basically improvisational‚ street dancers do not need a studio to dance‚ they can express at any available open spaces such as streets‚ dance parties‚ parks or school yards. It was once considered as inappropriate stuff for youngsters by adults because it is not a formal kind of dancing style. But lately‚ it is getting popular and accepted by majority of the adults and it has become

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    lions. Not soon after‚ they would be killed towards the end of the story‚ because of technology. Next let’s look at the story "A Sound of Thunder"‚ this story proves that technology may get so advanced we could change the history and the future. "Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years‚ all out of proportion." (The Sound of Thunder) and "We don’t want to change the future. We don’t belong here in the Past" (The Sound of Thunder)

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    a film that has both visible and invisible sounds. The different sounds are used to portray different emotions in the film. In the beginning of the film we see Gogol’s father on a train when all of a sudden we hear the train screech but we do not see the actual action of the train getting into a wreck. This is what we call invisible sound‚ when you can hear a sound but not see the origin of where the sound is coming from. We also hear invisible sounds of people biking‚ and we can significantly

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    Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Philosophische Fakultät Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Proseminar: “Really I must buy a Pencil” – London and the Works of Virginia Woolf Dozentin: M.A. Rebecca Hahn Sommersemester 14 Session: 17 May 14 Isil Senel‚ Anna Schäfer Virginia Woolf: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf‚ which were published in 1924 at the Hogarth Press Tavistock Square London. about the characters in novels deals

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    Illlegal Street Racing

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    Race the Strip‚ Not the Street. One of the fastest growing worldwide sports right now is racing. There are numerous forms of racing but Street Racing is one that is mainly performed by teenagers. Street racing originated from Drag Racing‚ on a quarter-mile strip. As the sport of street racing began to spread around the early ‘90s‚ people couldn’t really afford to go to a legal track and race‚ and soon enough teens began racing on public streets and highways. Street racing is an adrenaline rush

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