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    the great plague

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    Paper # 2: The Great Plague “An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not‚ as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18‚ disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust‚” stated by Barbara W. Tuchman‚ A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. The Great Plague was the worst outbreak in England since the black death of 1348. The Great Plague began in 1665 until 1666 that lead to 68‚596

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    The Great Gatsby

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    undeserved fate and a punishment exceeding the crime.  Jay Gatsby encompasses all of these characteristics of a tragic hero.  Although‚ the author tries to portray Gatsby as a perfect person‚ there are still some flaws that are noticeable.  Gatsby’s great life unwinds with the death of the tragic hero.    We know that Jay Gatsby was esteemed by the way others spoke of him.  Nick describes him as a very well mannered person and everyone who knew him looked up to him (53-54).  He wasn’t one of the rubbish

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    undeserved fate and a punishment exceeding the crime. Jay Gatsby encompasses all of these characteristics of a tragic hero. Although‚ the author tries to portray Gatsby as a perfect person‚ there are still some flaws that are noticeable. Gatsby’s great life unwinds with the death of the tragic hero. ​We know that Jay Gatsby was esteemed by the way others spoke of him. Nick describes him as a very well mannered person and everyone who knew him looked up to him (53-54). He wasn’t one of the rubbish

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    Great Gatsby

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    born on September 24th‚1896 in St. Paul‚ Minnesota (“F. Scott”). He was an American novelist and is remembered for his boisterous personal life and the world renowned novel The Great Gatsby. Aspects of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s personal life‚ along with the culture of the roaring twenties‚ inspired the famous novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born the son of Mary McQuillian and Edward Fitzgerald (“F. Scott”). Fitzgerald started his writing career in high school and continued it at Princeton

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    The Great Depression

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    Adam Cummings 1/28/13 English- Research Project The Great Depression The daily life of men and women during the great depression was very challenging‚ as everyone felt indifferent for the struggle and reality of it all. The roles of the men and women were very different as well. The relationships of families conformed to the current conditions of work and hard times that the depression brought. Throughout the Great Depression‚ people seemed to change how they thought about themselves

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    Alexander the Great

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    fourth wife of the king Philip II of Macedon‚ the mother of Alexander the Great and queen consort of Macedon *Philip II of Macedon - king of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336. He was the father of Alexander the Great‚ Philip III and possibly Ptolemy I‚ the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. *Hephaestion - son of Amyntor‚ was a Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. He was "... by far the dearest of all the king’s friends. *Darius III - was

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    The Great Migration

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    Protest and the Great Migration: An Interpretation The term exodus is an emotive one. It conjures striking biblical imagery of the Israelites fleeing their ancestral lands in search of religious freedom and a distinct identity. In many ways this mirrors the plight of the African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century as well as the early 20th century‚ as they left the south for the north in search of opportunity and sovereignty. Arnesen’s book Black Protest and the Great Migration attempts

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    the great gatsby

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    really nothing more than a man desperate for love. Overview: The Great Gatsby The novel’s events are filtered through the consciousness of its narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ a young Yale graduate‚ who is both a part of and separate from the world he describes. Upon moving to New York‚ he rents a house next door to the mansion of an eccentric millionaire (Jay Gatsby). Every Saturday‚ Gatsby throws a party at his mansion and all the great and the good of the young fashionable world come to marvel at his

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    The Great Communicator

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    Great Communicator When people think of a great communicator they often think only of famous people or ones who have made an impact in our society. When you look at the emergency services field people would think twice on picking them for a great communicator‚ but however when one is a Paramedic for three counties‚ a volunteer Firefighter for his town and was honorably discharged from the Navy that’s when you take a second glance. The qualities that make up the mold of a great communicator is personality

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    Peter the Great

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    not need to use all of the sources but just some of them)‚ the textbook and lecture notes‚ address the following questions: 1. Peter the Great sought to Europeanize Russia‚ but what aspects of European civilization did he admire and desire to import? 2. What aspects of European civilization did Peter ignore‚ and why? 3. Did the reign of Peter the Great bring a "revolution from above" in Russian life‚ or were these only "reforms‚" continuing earlier trends and preserving the fundamental Russianness

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