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    and the Steel Industry all helped contribute to the American Industrial Revolution.The American Industrial Revolution was the rapid development of industry that took place in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The Revolution was categorized by the use of steam power‚ the growth of factories‚ and the mass production of manufactured goods. Between 1860 and 1910 the urban population went from 6 million to over 44 million. Rural Americans left their farms to work in a factory in the city.

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    American Flamingo

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    Blue Eyed American Flamingo Who ever thought there could be so much emotion and so many qualities in a flamingo? After reading this poem author Pape expresses his feelings and the beauty in a flamingo by using analogies describing the features and the distinct details to such a simple bird. The first sentence in this poem is one of the most important. The first sentence says “I know he shot them to know them.” (line 1) This may seem like a very simple statement‚ but Greg Pape makes it very bold

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    Artz (2002)‚ “ Seven of the top ten selling movies in the world are Disney animations including Aladdin‚ Tarzan‚ and Beauty and the Beast.” With an expediently growing broadband network worldwide‚ Disney hopes to use the Internet to further market American culture all over the world. Disney has struggled in the past

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    Name: Glen Velderrain Date: 1/25/17 Teacher: White The Colonial Era Let’s start begin with‚ What is Colonialism? Colonialism is the establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory‚ and the subsequent maintenance‚ expansion‚ and exploitation of that colony. The term is also used to describe a set of unequal relationships between the colonial power

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    American Romanticism

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    decided to choose was American Romanticism‚ and “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. American Romanticism is a literary period in American Literature that lasted from 1800s to 1850s. The movement itself started off as an offshoot of the European Romanticism artistic movement‚ “It arose as a reaction to the formal orthodoxy and Neoclassicism of the preceding period. It is marked by a freedom from the authority‚ forms‚ and conventions typical in Neoclassical literature. It replaced the neoclassic

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    The European Background to American Literary Realism Three of the great literary movements of nineteenth-century America were romanticism (approximately 1820-1865)‚ realism (1865-1890)‚ and naturalism (1890 into the twentieth century). All three of these movements (also known as historical genres) originated in Europe roughly thirty years before they came to America. Realism began in France‚ in the works of Balzac and‚ later‚ Flaubert‚ as a reaction against the libertarian excesses of romanticism

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    English. They were the pioneers in short story writing.  They were then groping their way into imitating American and British models which resulted in a stilted‚ artificial and unnatural style‚ lacking vitality and spontaneity. Their models included Longfellow and Hawthorne‚ Emerson and Thoreau‚ Wordsworth and Tennyson‚ Thackeray and Macaulay‚ Longfellow‚ Allan Poe‚ Irving and other American writers of the Romantic School. Writers of this folio included Fernando Maramag (the best editorial writer

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    The American Dream

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    the Wants and Needs of American Minds     Throughout one’s life‚ a person will strive to reach a certain level of success. Each individual determines what he wants in life‚ and to what extent he will go to reach it. However‚ as The United States of America has risen so have these standards‚ resulting in many people determined to obtain items they do not need in order to achieve the temporary bliss of being better off than others. In 1931‚ James Adams coined the term “American dream‚” stating that

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    Scott Fitzgerald is known for his outstanding work in American Literature. With that comes horrible criticism but also great praise. Some believe that his works has shaped literature as it is today and others obviously think the complete opposite. His book‚ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has received both sides of the spectrum and will continue as long as it is recognized for American Literature. F Scott Fitzgerald has identified the American Dream with downfalls and misconceptions in The Curious

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    11 AP Unit 3:The American Dream 11 AP English Unit Essential Questions: “What is the American Dream?” “What contrast is there between the American dream and American reality?” “To what extent has the American Dream been realized?” Overarching Question: “How do authors use the resources of language to impact an audience?” Essential Question: “How is our understanding of culture and society constructed through and by language?” Culminating

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