Windsor seemed a kind of purgatory to me‚ a temporary stop between whatever hell my parents had left behind in Italy and the vague promise of the skyline that opened up beyond the Detroit River. In winter that skyline’s tall buildings stood unnaturally still and crisp in the cold air‚ on the verge‚ it seemed‚ of singing; in summer they shimmered and burned in the heat and smog. But always they had a strange‚ unreal quality‚ at once both toy-like and profound‚ as if my eyes could not believe their
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Jose Garcia Villa Jose Garcia Villa (5 August 1908 – 12 June 1973) is a Filipino poet and a National Artist for Literature. He is known for introducing the "reversed consonance rime scheme‚" as well as for "comma poems" that made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative way. Villa is also a short story writer‚ critic‚ and painter. Written Works: Philippine Short Stories: Best 25 Short Stories of 1928; Philippine Love Stories; Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others;
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Chap 14-The Territorial expansion of the United States A. Community: Texans&TEJAOS “Remember the Alamo.” 1. 1836‚ Santa Anna(President of Mexico) came to subdue Texas-1‚500 Mexican died‚& Texas defenders(failed)- “remember the Alamo” eventually forced Santa Anna to recognize Texas independence. 2. Tejanos(S. Texans)-favored A. Settlers for their economic plan-authorized A. Colonies w/in Texas(central/ east)-attracted ppl from Miss. Valley-introduced slavery&cotton-Tejanos‚ both wealthy rancheros&poor
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Privacy‚ Secrecy‚ Intimacy‚ Human Bonds and Other Collateral Casualties of Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman Alain Ehrenberg‚ a uniquely insightful analyst of the modern individual’s short yet dramatic history‚ attempted to pinpoint the birthdate of the late-modern cultural revolution (at least of its French branch) that ushered in the liquid-modern world we continue to inhabit‚ to design‚ as well as to overhaul and refurbish day in day out. Ehrenberg chose an autumnal Wednesday evening in the 1980s
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"The Victorian elements in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё" The Victorian Era‚ in which Brontё composed Wuthering Heights‚ receives its name from the reign of Queen Victoria of England. The era was a great age of the English novel‚ which was the ideal form to descibe contemporary life and to entertain the middle class. Emily‚ born in 1818‚ lived in a household in the countryside in Yorkshire‚ locates her fiction in the worlds she knows personally. In addition‚ she makes the novel even more personal
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Nicholas Gangone Ms. Sottas Double Entry Journal Prompts March 20‚ 2013 “But men remembered little of all that‚ though some still sang old songs of the dwarf-kings of the Mountain‚ Thror and Dragon‚ and the fall of the lords of Dale.” (Tolkien 176) “I hope I never smell the smell of apples again.” (Tolkien 179) “But the Master was not sorry at all to let them go. They were expensive to keep‚ and their arrival had turned things into a long holiday in which business was a standstill.” (Tolkien
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Combined Kaplan GRE Study Guide: Top GRE Words and Baron High-Frequency Vocabulary Word List antipathy* apartheid 515 Total Words Word Definition * denotes word appeared on both Baron and Kaplan lists abate* to reduce in amount‚ degree or severity abdicate to renounce or relinquish a throne aberrant abnormal or deviant abeyance suspended action abject utterly hopeless‚ humiliating or wretched abjure to renounce on oath ablution act of cleansing abrogate to abolish by formal
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The Inca Empire‚ was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative‚ political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru in the early 13th century. From 1438 to 1533‚ the Incas used a variety of methods‚ from conquest to peaceful assimilation‚ to incorporate a large portion of western South America‚ centered on the Andean mountain ranges‚ besides Peru‚ large parts of modern Ecuador‚ western and
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The Haitian Revolution An essay by FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT The Haitian Revolution represents the most thorough case study of revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world.1 In ten years of sustained internal and international warfare‚ a colony populated predominantly by plantation slaves overthrew both its colonial status and its economic system and established a new political state of entirely free individuals—with some ex-slaves constituting the new political authority. As
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To what extent did Egypt benefit from Cleopatra’s relationship with the Romans? http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/cleop7.html After the removal of Persian rule in 332 B.C.‚ the Ptolemaic Dynasty would begin its rule in Egypt which would last over 300 years‚ ending with the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 B.C.. At one time Ptolemaic Egypt was one of the great powers of the world and expanded its rule without difficulties‚ but the inclusion of the Roman Empire into the Ptolemy dynasty’s affairs
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