Ages by William Chester Jordan This work explores the phenomenon of England’s use of exile during the 12th-14th centuries‚ which was employed as an alternative to proper trial and/or the death penalty in cases of criminal conviction. The book begins with a discussion of abjuration‚ which is the act of renouncing citizenship and allowing oneself to be expelled from the country. Jordan argues that abjuration into perpetual exile was not a punishment following trial but rather a mitigation of punishment;
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RIkki-Tikki-Tavi The story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is taking place in a bungalow in India in the late 1800s. the characters in the story are Rikki-Tikki‚ a young mongoose‚ Teddy‚ a young boy‚ Alice‚ the mother‚ and the father‚ his name is unknown. Some other characters are are Nag and Nagaina‚ a pair of cobras‚ Karait a small venomous snake‚ Darzee and his wife‚ two birds‚ and Chuchundra‚ the muskrat. In the story a young boy named Teddy‚ and his parents take in a half drowned mongoose that they find on
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byproducts; however‚ when a machine develops a problem‚ there is inevitably someone trained‚ or at least thinks they are trained‚ to fix it. If not fix it‚ then provide ideas for those with better means to do the job they cannot‚ for whatever reason. In William Graham Sumner’s The Forgotten Man‚ Sumner attempts to act as both the proverbial repairman and
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In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily‚” the main character Emily Grierson is a woman completely isolated from her town. She has grown up her whole life in the same house‚ with the same butler‚ and primarily the company of only her father. In the eyes of the townspeople she is depicted as a “fallen monument” (526). She is a lonely woman who has fallen privy to her father’s and “crazy” relative’s skewed perceptions of society. For reasons anonymous to me‚ her father had driven away all the available
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William Ashworth wrote the Late‚ Great Lakes – An Environmental history with the sole purpose of informing all and any who would read it. He wrote it with pure hope in changing how we might see or treat this world. Ashworth gives cold hard facts of the dwindling of the Great Lakes. He gives blame to where it deserved- to us. “Despite the fact they have long been called lakes‚ they have also long been treated as they were infinite.” (Page 4) Ashworth begins talking about Jen Nicolet‚ 17th century
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Complete destruction is a short poem written by William Carlos Williams. Williams is a famous poet known for his imagism and modernism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems in 1963. Williams originally went to college to become a family doctor‚ later he obviously switched his career path to become a writer. William Carlos Williams often wrote uncanny poems. If I were to ask him a question‚ I would ask him what situations in his life inspired him to write some of his weirder poems. One can
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by all accounts‚ he seems to have been a rather insignificant figure. Plato ’s portrayal of him‚ both in The Apology and in The Euthyphro (see 2b) is far from sympathetic. Socrates ’ cross-examination of him in The Apology puts Meletus to shame. Summary-Plato ’s The Apology is an account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state‚ inventing new deities‚ and corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates ’ speech‚ however‚ is by
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Wordsworth William Blake and William Wordsworth were two of the most influential of all of the romantic writers‚ although neither was fully appreciated until years after his death. They grew up with very different lifestyles which greatly affected the way they as individuals viewed the world and wrote about it. Both play an important role in Literature today. Despite their differences‚ with their literature backgrounds they cannot help but have a few similarities. William Wordsworth was
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John Williams has composed over one-hundred film scores of which he has received forty-five Academy Award nominations. He has become a household name through his memorable music motifs. These themes capture the essence of the film and as one fan summarized: "John Williams has composed some of the best known themes and scores ever. You can’t deny that the Star Wars scores‚ for all the movies‚ especially the Imperial March‚ are incredible. He invented the famous Jaws theme‚ which is a standard
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William Cronon is an environmental historian who was born on September 11th‚ 1954 in New Haven‚ Connecticut. Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time. One of his most successful books‚ Changes in the Land‚ was first published in 1983 by Hill and Wang publishing press. The version that was assigned for this class is the 2003 first revised edition‚ which was also published by the same publishing press. This version contains a three-page foreword by John
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