Square dancing was first developed by lonely farmers as a means of entertaining and wooing their livestock (or at least that’s the rumor I’m choosing to believe/spread). But honestly‚ how drunk on moonshine and bored with wife-beating did people used to be to develop this jig of humiliation? More importantly‚ how—I reiterate HOW is it still around today? I mean wasn’t Bugs Bunny mocking this like 60+ years ago? Barnfolk during a hootenanny. Personally‚ I’m for jettisoning into the sun everyone
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Why did Prohibition fail? Prohibition took place in January 1920 with the 18th amendment and ended in December 1933 with the 21st amendment. Prohibition was the period of time in the USA where making‚ transporting‚ distributing or selling alcohol was illegal. Prohibition failed because the crime rates went up‚ the authorities were corrupted‚ there was a lack of public support‚ there was problems with enforcing it‚ big businesses started booming when bootleggers came in and the profits that the
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Adam Stansell Intro to Fiction Dr. Archer Rip Van Winkle and Young Goodman Brown: A story of runaway husbands and there similarities and differences. These two stories by Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne respectively‚ illustrate different examples of men wandering away from home‚ for somewhat different reasons‚ with somewhat the same results with the exception of the overall outcome upon the men. Careful analysis of the two stories can reveal both the similarities and the differences between
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declared? According to the final paragraph‚ what will a person "whose heart is firm" pursue "unto death"? What opinion of offensive wars does Paine express in the final paragraph? What does Paine mean when he refers to "the summer soldier" and "the sunshine patriot"? What is the point of Paine’s story about the tavern keeper at Amboy? Name two emotions to which Paine appeals in his essay. How might a colonist who had remained loyal to the British react to Paine’s argument? Paine uses the aphorism
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1. According to the first paragraph‚ who will "shrink from the service of his country"?The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will “shrink from the service of his country” 2. What will the people who do not shrink from service deserve?The people who do not shrink deserve the love and thanks of man and woman. 3. According to the first paragraph‚ what has Britain declared?Britain has declared the right to tax and also "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER". 4. According to the final paragraph
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letter "A" outweighs every other symbolism. The forest is symbolic of Nature‚ both in its darker and lighter aspects. The rays of sunshine fall on Pearl but do not reach Hester‚ which symbolize her inability to find happiness or warmth. The darkness in forest is suggestive of the dull gloom in her life. "All at once‚ as with a sudden smile of heaven‚ forth burst the sunshine‚ pouring a very flood into the obscure forest‚ gladdening each green leaf‚ transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold‚ and gleaming
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adulteress by the Puritan community‚ a sin that ostracises her and her daughter. Pearl is able to recognize that Hester is often physically shadowed‚ while she herself is able to have the sunshine on her. Pearl and Hester are playing in the forest‚ and as Pearl tries to catch the sunlight‚ she tells her mom‚ " The sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself‚ because it is afraid of something on your bosom" ( Hawthorne 162). The letter A attached to Hester’s dress causes her to remain in darkness
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of the short stories. Two short stories composed by Henry Lawson that employ techniques and word choice to portray distinctively visuals is ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In a Dry Season’; these two texts are strongly opposite to the visual “Little Miss Sunshine”‚ a picture book by Roger Hargreaves. Lawson and Hargreaves give their audience a feeling of the distinctly visual. Both authors convey distinctive experiences through different ways. Lawson uses many evocative and powerful language techniques to
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light‚ day‚ and sunshine it represents good‚ happiness‚ and truth. When Dimmesdale and Hester meet in the forest‚ they are in a shadow which shows their guilt. But when Hester lets her hair down the sun finally shines on her. The sun symbolizes being untroubled and truthful. Another example of the sunshine in the woods‚ it’s said that Pearl runs and grabs the sunshine. But when Hester tries‚ the sunshine goes away. Pearl says the sunshine does not love her. Since the sunshine means happiness
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Setting "The Sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the Offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas‚ sharply peaked with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness" (3). "The air was dark above Gravesend‚ and farther back still seemed
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