every spare penny out of household expenses‚ and still there was not enough for the wonderful present she dreamed of getting for Jim. Times are tough. Jim’s salary‚ formerly $30 a week‚ is now only $20 a week. .......Suddenly‚ Della gets an idea. Whirling about the room‚ she lets down her hair. It is one of two prized possessions between her and Jim‚ the other being the gold pocket watch handed down to him from his father. A moment later‚ Della goes down the street to Madame Sofronie’s shop‚ where
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Context Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was first performed in New York City in 1962. The play stunned and pleased American audiences‚ seemed to provide a vital insight into American life. The country was coming out of the 1950s‚ when Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower was a conservative‚ well-loved president and television shows like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best were popular. The importance of a happy family was emphasized by both politicians and popular culture. Many Americans considered success
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Six Rules for Effective Forecasting People at cocktail parties are always asking me for stock tips‚ and then they want to know how my predictions have turned out. Their requests reveal the common but fundamentally erroneous perception that forecasters make predictions. We don’t‚ of course: Prediction is possible only in a world in which events are preordained and no amount of action in the present can influence future outcomes. That world is the stuff of myth and superstition. The one we inhabit
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Could a Black Hole Destroy Earth? Black holes do not wander around the universe‚ randomly swallowing worlds. They follow the laws of gravity just like other objects in space. The orbit of a black hole would have to be very close to the solar system to affect Earth‚ which is not likely. If a black hole with the same mass as the sun were to replace the sun‚ Earth would not fall in. The black hole with the same mass as the sun would keep the same gravity as the sun. The planets would still orbit
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The Principle of Recompense in "Twelfth Night" Author(s): Camille Slights Reviewed work(s): Source: The Modern Language Review‚ Vol. 77‚ No. 3 (Jul.‚ 1982)‚ pp. 537-546 Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3728062 . Accessed: 07/04/2012 13:43 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps
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Matriarchy and Patriarchy Prepared by Paul A. MacAry and Greg D. Petersen Patriarchy is simply "rule of the father‚" matriarchy the "rule of the mother." In a true patriarchal or matriarchal society‚ this applies only to the family or an extended family or tribe. Unfortunately‚ there is much this ambiguity and miss-use of the two words. Perhaps the best way to address these two is to look specifically into the animal kingdom. We have already compared the Common and Bonobo Chimpanzees‚ and both
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BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON by Stephen Vincent Benét BEFORE READING: This story requires a lot of inference because the narrator is from a different culture than our own. As you read‚ notice their laws‚ customs and values to help you see the importance of one man’s coming-of-age journey. The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground‚ but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must
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Marmaduke Pickthall a brief biography ‘Action is the Life of all and if thou dost not Act‚ thou dost Nothing.’ (Gerrard Winstanley) Before we consider the life-story of the British Muslim and Koranic translator‚ Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall‚ it is as well to recall that aspect of the practice of every believer without which there are only ashes: holiness of life. In the case of Pickthall‚ this was a luminous‚ steadily progressing reality which impressed all who came into contact with him. Even
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Barron模考综合写作部分文本 Directions: You have 20 minutes to plan‚ write‚ and revise your response to a reading passage and a lecture on the same topic. First‚ read the passage and take notes. Then‚ listen to the lecture and take notes. Finally‚ write your response to the writing question. Typically‚ a good response will require that you write 150-225 words. 文本 Test1 Historically‚ schools in the United States have borrowed the European system of school organization‚ a system that separates students
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Historiographic metafiction is a term originally coined by literary theorist Linda Hutcheon. The term “historiographic metafiction” was coined by Linda Hutcheon in her essay “Beginning to Theorize the Postmodern” in 1987 and then further developed in her seminal study A Poetics of Postmodernism ( 1988 ) to describe “those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages.” According to Hutcheon‚ in "A Poetics
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