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Middle French Word Gai French Word Gai Gay
458 wordsThe word gay originated from the Old High German word game, which means rapid and impetuous. In the twelfth century, the word game gave rise to the Middle French word gai, meaning merry and happily excited. The English word gay was borrowed from the Middle French word gai in the fourteenth century. The word gay greatly reflects the cultural changes in English speaking countries. In English, the word was used to indicate excessive heterosexual activity. However, today, the word gay is often appli...
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Place To Sleep Freight Trains Hobo
472 wordsAfter World War I, millions of veterans were rushing to get jobs. The war ended so abruptly that the government had to cut more than two billion dollars worth of war contracts. More than ten percent of the American population was unemployed. This sent many people out onto the rails looking for jobs. These people became known as hoboes. Hoboes traveled the country by train looking for work wherever they could. They would stop at houses along the way and exchange work for food and a place to sleep...
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Pastor Randy Clown Clowning
454 wordsI have been clowning since November of 1999, I have been a clown. I have realized that when I clown, another part of me is coming out. Eric isn't speaking, Nibblez is. Clowning is not stupid, It's an art. To be able to put your makeup right every time and perform takes a lot of skill. I thought it would be a piece of cake but realistically, it begins out tough. You have no idea what you are doing and you mess up where you think you wouldn't. My makeup was first applied by an English clown who ha...
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Friendship In Wordsworth Tintern Abbey
1,056 wordsOf all the topics Wordsworth covered in his poetic lifetime, friendship stands out as a key occupation. His own personal friendship with Coleridge led to the co-writing of Lyrical Ballads in 1789. The poem On Friendship, written to Keats after an argument in 1854, states, Would that we could make amends / And evermore be better friends. In Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, we find the purest expression of Wordsworth's fascination with friendship. Written on the banks of the Lye, thi...
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Carl Sandburg Pulitzer Prize
771 wordsAuthor-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878. The modest house reflects the typical living conditions of a late nineteenth century working-class family. Many of the furnishings once belonged to the Sandburg family are still in tact. Behind the house stands a small wooded park. Underneath Remembrance Rock, lie the ashes of Carl Sandburg, who died in 1967. Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish immigrants August and...
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20 Th Century 18 Th Century
1,055 wordsClown a performer, usually in a circus, who plays the fool, performs practical jokes, and does tricks to make people laugh. Other names for clowns are buffoon, jester, fool, conjurer, mirth maker, tumbler, gleeman, mime, actor, harlequin, merry counselor, comic, and puppeteer. Even though there are many types of clowns, each clown develops a face, meaning a personality. A clown s face, once created, becomes the clown s unique personal property. Whiteface The oldest type of clown is the whiteface...
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Teenage Boys First Impression
756 wordsThe First Impression Read my lips. No new taxes. The well groomed candidate shouted to his audience. The crowd erupted in cheers and for many Americans, this was their first long lasting impression of soon to be, President George Bush. He later went on to sign a bill implementing the second largest tax hike in history. The statement that won him one election lost him the next. The American public made a long term judgment based on the first impression of this presidential candidate. After the sp...
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Place To Sleep Freight Trains Hoboes
479 wordsAfter World War Hoboes Hoboes After World War I, millions of veterans were rushing to get jobs. The war ended so abruptly that the government had to cut more than two billion dollars worth of war contracts. More than ten percent of the American population was unemployed. This sent many people out onto the rails looking for jobs. These people became known as hoboes. Hoboes traveled the country by train looking for work wherever they could. They would stop at houses along the way and exchange work...
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Jack London Physical Ability
1,171 wordsI would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time Jack London Jack London fought his way up from a life of hard, factory labor in Oakland, California, to become the highest pai...
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