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East India Company 18 Th And 19
1,796 words
For more than 200 years before the Indian Mutiny
of 1857, there had been a British presence in
India. They began as merchant ventures and their
holdings on the land were relatively small. Over
the years they had expanded, creating forts for
protection and larger trading stations.
Eventually, to make certain that there would be
stability and a successful trade business, Britain
deployed many of its armed forces there and also
raised forces of natives, thus becoming an active
power in 18 th Centur...
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Lady Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth
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... analysis of the imagery of Macbeth Macbeth is
a story based on death and jealousy. Shakespeare
was a talented writer who made his main ideas
constant throughout the play by using images to
emphasise this in a different way. I have found
that the main images in Macbeth are ambition,
clothing, chaos, dark and light blood and sleep.
These all help to create an atmosphere and make
the main idea of the story stronger. The main
theme that runs constantly through the play is
chaos. You can see this...
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Santa Clause Christmas Christmas In Canada Students
776 words
Students: 14 adult ESL students at an advanced
level in the English language. They all have high
levels of literacy in their L 1 and are learning
English for academic purposes. The students are
seem to be very interested in the Canadian culture
and have been asking many questions about the
upcoming holiday, Christmas. Many of the students
have been living in Canada for close to one year
and have not experienced the "Canadian Christmas."
Context: It is the early month of December and the
students...
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Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
968 words
John Steinbeck John Steinbeck was a famous
American author who wrote from the 1920 to the
1940. Steinbeck was constantly moving across the
country trying to succeed as a writer. John
Steinbeck lived a life of constant up and downs,
successes and failures before he landed on his
feet and became a famous author. John Steinbeck
was born in Salinas, California on February 27,
1902. He was the only son and the third child of
John Ernst Steinbeck and Olive Hamilton.
Steinbeck's father owned comfortabl...
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Lord Of The Flies Setting
675 words
In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
the setting had a very strong influence in the
actions and attitudes of the characters. Setting
is the defined in literature as where the story
takes place. In Lord of the Flies, the setting is
on a deserted tropical island in the middle of the
ocean, where a microcosm is able to be
established. Three specific examples of how
setting influenced the actions and attitudes of
the characters are: The isolation from a civilized
world, the mysteries o...
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Truths Of The World Jonas
787 words
Jonas, the main character in The Giver by Lois
Lowry, is a very strong person, which allows him
to go farther in life then the people that
surround him. Throughout Jonas's life he has known
nothing but 'sameness'. He lives in a Utopian
community where there are no choices and everyone
in his world has their lives laid out for them.
But, Jonas is given the job of 'Receiver of
Memory'. He alone knows the truths of the world, a
world with colors, pain, and choices. What he does
with these truths wi...
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Referred To As The Orient Textual Attitude Orientalism
702 words
Said describes Orientalism as, ... the generic
term that I have been employing to describe the
Western approach to the Orient; Orientalism is the
discipline by which the Orient was (and is)
approached systematically, as a topic of learning,
discovery and practice. (Said, p. 77) By this,
Said is saying because we treated the East like a
school subject, we have learned to treat the East
as an inferior. Which has developed into something
called Orientalism. The poets, authors and
statesmen of the n...
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James Joyce Move Forward
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The Theme of Paralysis in Eveline by James Joyce
Eveline is a short story in James Joyce's series
Dubliners. When the author thought about writing
several stories, he had quite a specific idea in
his mind. He made his intent clear in his letter
addressed to Grant Richards: My intention was to
write a chapter of the moral history of my country
and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city
seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I tried to
present it to the indifferent public under four of
its ...
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Captain John Smith Believes That God
860 words
How do Primary Source Documents Mirror the Ideals
of a Society? The attitudes and beliefs of a
particular time period are reflected in first hand
documents, purposely and inadvertently through the
biases and ideals of the authors of the pieces.
The arrogant self-serving attitude of the first
colony is reflected in Captain John Smith? s, ?
The General History of Virginia. ? The Puritans
holier-than-thou ideals are reflected in the essay
by William Bradford, ? Of Plymouth Plantation. ?
Finally the...
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21 St Century End Of The World
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The word future in the dictionary means: The
indefinite period of time still yet to be; time
that is to come. The future in other words is what
will happen next year, month, tomorrow, the next
minute, or even the next second after you read
this essay. The future is all that is unknown.
Since the future is relatively unknown, every
prediction or hypothesis in the following is
merely a guess and nothing more. The future holds
much in store for Americans, From that of the pair
of shoes you will wea...
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Horror Genre Horror Films
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Morbid Fascinations: Carroll on Horror The
Philosophy of Horror; or Paradoxes of the Heart by
Noel Carroll is an in depth look at the reasons
why so many people are intrinsically drawn to
images of horror and gore and death in film, art,
and life. Carroll discuss the many avenues that
people have taken in the past to explain this
phenomenon, this apparent paradox of how artistic
presentation of normally averse events and objects
can give rise to pleasure. (Carroll, p 161) This
paradox is a parti...
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Endangered Manatee Manatee Population Problem
229 words
New Endangered Manatee Endangered Manatee New York
Times April 11, 1996 The manatee population has
suffered a devastating blow so far this year.
About 221 manatees have been found dead already.
Out of those 221, 128 have no obvious cause of
death. Marine biologists have been unable to find
the cause of these deaths. They suspect that the
Red Tide off of the coast of southwest Florida has
some connection with these mysterious deaths. A
red tide is a bloom of flagellates which are
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Crime And Punishment Jack The Ripper
999 words
Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them,
Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And
Different Punishments Crime and Punishment:
Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments
Our topic for this paper is Crime and Punishment.
There are several different issues on this
subject. We chose three main points to talk about:
The Crimes, the People who solved them, and the
different types of punishments. These are the
topics we chose for our report. Crime in the
nineteenth century was r...
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Boca Raton Degrees Celsius
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What is cryonics? Cryonics Cryonics What is
cryonics? If you ask that question to most people,
they would not have a clue. Cryonics is not very
popular yet, but interest in cryonics has
increased since the process was pioneered in 1967
by James H. Bedford. To be specific, cryonics is
the controversial practice of freezing the remains
of people whom doctors and the rest of the world
consider dead, in the hopes of reviving them when
medical technology can cure what ails them. The
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Child Is Born Mixed Race
502 words
Desiree's Baby, by Kate Chopin, takes place in
Louisiana during the time of slavery. The story
involves Desiree, a woman of an unknown past, and
her husband Armand, a man from a powerful and
wealthy family. At first, they seem to be a happy
and loving family, but when their first child is
born, things change. When their child is born, its
skin is darker and Armand believes it to be of
mixed race. Immediately he blames his wife
Desiree, and being that she was adopted at a young
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Author Unknown Bushido Code
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9; During Miyamoto Musashi I. Introduction
9; During the ancient period of Japan there
existed a time of war and power struggles. There
were many people who followed the Bushido code or
way of the warrior. These people were called
samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their
lives to the Bushido code there were none greater
than Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was one of if not
the most famous samurai to ever walk the lands of
medieval Japan. He was a legend in his own time.
II. The Life and ...
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Browning Dramatic Monologue
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Robert Browning, an English poet, was born May 7,
1812, to Robert browning Sr. , Sarah Anna Wiedmann
Browning. Sarah Browning, from German-Scottish
descent, was a musician, a lover of nature, and a
devout evangelical Christian. She was the stronger
of the two parents, and also guided Robert through
his developmental stages. Mrs. Browning was a
woman of common sense and stability. Browning? s
sister Sarianna, who was born in 1814, inherited
his mothers? qualities. Browning? s father was
employed ...
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Cezanne Color Years
617 words
Paul Cezanne was born in 1839 in the southern
French town of Aix-en-Provence. He was the son of
a wealthy banker. He became interested in art at
an early age, which did not please his father.
Cezanne was educated at the College Bourbon at
Aix, where he befriended Emile Zola. Both Cezanne
and Zola decided they would like to devote
themselves to art. Zola settled down to a literary
career in Paris, but Cezanne, after a short period
as a law student, decided to go with his father s
wishes that he s...
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Tom Hanks Robin Williams
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Penny Marshall has directed six films in her
career: The Preachers Wife (1996), Renaissance Man
(1994), A League of Their Own (1992), Awakenings
(1990), Big (1998), and Jumpin Jack Flash (1986).
We know Penny best from her stint in Laverne and
Shirley (1976 - 1983) as the hilarious Laverne De
Fazio. After the series was cancelled Laverne
appeared in some pictures until her directorial
debut in Jumpin Jack Flash. This film was pretty
much a bomb and Penny gained credibility as a
director in Big. ...
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Hester And Pearl God And Man
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The Transformation of the Reverend Master
Dimmesdale The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, is a classic novel that tells the story
of two adulterers, except in this account, only
one is punished publicly. The other, although just
as guilty, is not exposed and therefore remains
held in high esteem by the public eye. As the
unknown guilty party, the Reverend Dimmesdale not
only becomes a hypocrite, but on the inside, he is
torn apart. As Dimmesdale becomes more and more
distraught over his p...
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