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    Carley McGlothlin Lori Shaw British Literature April 16‚ 2013 Lord Alfred Tennyson Research Lord Alfred Tennyson was a famous writer during the Victorian Era. He is one of the well-loved poets. He was born on August 6‚ 1809. His birth place was Somersby‚ Lincolnshire‚ England. Tennyson was the fourth child out of twelve children. He displayed an early talent for writing. At twelve years old he wrote his 6‚000 line poem. He was tutored by his father‚ Reverend George Tennyson‚ in classical and modern

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    Chen Liu HNRS2013 Dr. Marin Alfred Sloan: An American Icon From his book My Year with General Motors‚ Sloan can hardly be considered as a typically American Icon at first. Sloan was different from the typical characteristically American figures: He believed in “decentralization”; he was more rational than emotionally orientated; he contributed the General Motors’s success to adaptation of American Market. However Sloan was quite confident with the

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    between the English settlers and Indians‚ but really it was much more than that. Throughout history‚ the Pequot War has been characterized as the first serious conflict between the Indigenous people and the New England settlers. In 1996‚ a man named Alfred Cave published a novel titled “The Pequot War‚” in which he describes the war as being “a small-scale conflict of short duration” (Cave 168) that “casted a long shadow” (Cave 168). Cave’s novel discusses the many defining aspects of the relationship

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    those of the Pre-Columbian Era seem to have successfully applied mathematical concepts‚ mainly geometry and algebra‚ in a somewhat uncanny manner. One cannot all but question how engineers of today’s time‚ men and women with almost limitless resources‚ suffer periodic setbacks‚ while structures of the primitive Pre-Columbians have remained largely intact up until the present day. Clearly no one can compare the Golden Gate Bridge‚ Lincoln Tunnel‚ and Empire State building to Pre-Columbian structures‚ yet

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    Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist Author(s): Dan Flory Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 67-79 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700493 . Accessed: 10/01/2012 20:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www

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    he decided to end his life and commit suicide. 2. “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us‚ and we drown.” The last stanza of the poem “The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” indicates that the narrator was just dreaming. By referencing sea-girl it could show Prufrock’s romantic idea of mermaids and beautiful ocean views. The last stanza of the poem could refer to the character waiting on his love to come‚ and

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    Alfred Wegener started a proposal of continental drift that simply stated that there was once a supercontinent called Pangaea. He believed that 200 million years ago the continent began breaking into smaller continents which began the layout of where they lie now. Many people and geologists rejected Wegener?s idea especially the North American geologists due to most of his evidence to back his proposal up had been gathered from Southern continents. Evidence that Wegener had listed to support his

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    “The Homecomer‚” by Alfred Schuetz‚ examines the varying point of views of the man left behind and the man who is absent from his homeland. Schuetz identifies obstacles individuals and society face when an individual attempts to reintegrate into a community they once belonged to‚ which has since built various systems of pseudo-types that can never be eliminated entirely. Schuetz uses the example of the United States veteran returning from war to highlight the differences between each the homecomer

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    Alfred Green uses many rhetorical strategies to convince free African Americans to join the Union forces. Green uses allusion‚ pathos‚ and repetition to persuade them to join in the fight. Green alludes to Thomas Paine‚ Washington‚ and Jackson. In lines 21-22‚ he uses the expression “days that tried men’s souls” as a direct allusion to Paine’s inspiring writings at the time of the American Revolution. He mentions the “brave deeds of our fathers” (line 9) Washington and Jackson as people who fought

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s film‚ Psycho‚ was released on September 8th‚ 1960. This film is a horror‚ mystery‚ thriller that features: Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates)‚ Vera Miles (Lila Crane)‚ John Gavin (Sam Loomis)‚ and Janet Leigh (Marion Crane). This was Hitchcock’s most successful film‚ it made approximately $32 million at the North American box office when it was first released. This film defied a lot of the social norms at the time‚ “Psycho was a black-and-white film made at a time when Hitchcock

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