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    Facebook doesn’t make us lonely The cyber media privileged us connect to in every corner of world profoundly; the drastically arising of social loneliness become a public issue .The ongoing studies doesn’t still show where the booming problem arose from but the miss using of this technology may disturbs our routine of norms and contribute the strength of loneliness. Before‚ in village you hear everybody’s business around but more people now living in big urban cities

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    Book Report: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston In October of l989‚ Macaque monkeys‚ housed at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston‚ Virginia‚ began dying from a mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys‚ imported from the Philippines‚ were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died within a month. Dan Dalgard‚ the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys‚ feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever‚ a disease lethal to monkeys but harmless

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    King Richard

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    RicThrough the comparison of different texts‚ the audience gains deeper understanding of a composer’s contextual values. Shakespeare’s historical tragedy ‘King Richard III’ reflects a theocentric world view of Elizabethan England. This melodrama has been reshaped by Pacino’s 1996 doco-drama Looking for Richard exploring the relevance of Elizabethan beliefs after the influence of postmodern ethics on humanitarian ideas. Both Shakespeare and Pacino utilize the dominant media of their time to portray

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    Richard Strauss

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    Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss was born in Munich‚ Germany on June 11‚ 1864. He was an accomplished conductor and composer who began composing in the late Romantic era. Richard Strauss received his musical education from his father‚ Franz‚ who was also an accomplished musician and composer. Franz played several instruments but primarily the French horn. Richard wrote his first music at the age of six. As a child he attended Munich Court Orchestra rehearsals and also got private lessons

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    Richard III

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    In Richard III‚ Richard has very close relationships with everyone he plans to get rid of to gain power. He is wicked with his ways‚ but his clever wordplay is such a powerful tool. He started off with his brothers Edward and George. He starts off with his brother George‚ who is the next in line for the throne. He convinces King Edward that a member of the family with a name “G” plans on killing the family so he can take over the throne and become king. So King Edward acts on this lie that Richard

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    Nixon: His Cover-up Who would have knew a U.S. President would have done a crime? Unless it was a good reason that is. This incident is called the Watergate scandal. At the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. was where this all started. This led to even more complications. In this paper I hope to prove that even though Nixon had a cover-up plan it failed to succeed. In order to accomplish this several questions come to mind: Was Nixon trying to hide anything? Where there any evidence that Nixon had

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    Andu Nguyen Photojournalism Richard Avedon Images are known to replace words. They are what we use to define beauty. We use photographs to document the changing eras of fashion. Fashion has a short life. Once it is expired there isn’t an afterlife for fashion. It doesn’t just mature or evolve into something else. Richard Avedon was a titan in the photo art world. Richard Avedon challenged himself as he went from a commercial photographer to an art photographer. Avedon dominated

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    “The Gay Nineties” (Drew) and produced some of the most decadent writings‚ art‚ music‚ and play-writes of the time. Two authors to come out of this were Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edwin Arlington Robinson‚ authors of the poems “We Wear the Mask” and “Richard Cory” respectively. Both poems have a somber tone through the stanzas and neither suggest a happy outcome. The struggle differs in each poem as one alludes to the African American struggle through the Reconstructive Period and Progressive Era‚ and

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    they wrote during and about different time periods‚ in the English history‚ one might say that both Philips and Selvon tackled a similar theme in their books A Distant Shore and The Lonely Londoners. That theme being the phenomenon of the ‘outsider’ in the community. This essay will discuss this theme in relation to the previous mentioned books by comparing and contrasting the main protagonistswhile also looking at social and political issues during their respective time periods. In the 1950’s

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    Arthur Schlesinger‚ author of many authoritative histories‚ writes “What Good Books Do For Children.” In the article‚ he explains how television has replaced the books in the life of the young‚ and how his generation may have been the last to grow up in a print culture. Schlesinger also believes that most people have read all they are going to read by the age of twenty-five. He believes with a passion that children should read books that face reality rather than fantasy. The author makes a decent argument

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