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University Of Ingolstadt Professor At The University Victor
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the captain of a voyage to the North Pole Walton's
sister and confidante to whom he writes his
letters a student of Ingolstadt who becomes
obsessed with his studies and creates the
"monster" Victor's kind-hearted mother who dies of
scarlet fever when Victor is seventeen Victor's
youngest brother who is strangled to death by the
"monster" A close friend of the Frankenstein's who
is accused and executed for the murder of William
Frankenstein Victor's closest friend and traveling
companion who is s...
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Jack London Pacific Ocean
554 words
John (Jack) Griffith London (1876 - 1916) was born
in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora
Wellman, came from a wealthy family. As an infant,
Virginia Prentiss, a major mother figure, raised
Jack in Jacks childhood, an ex-slave. She was
obligated to care for Jack because Jacks mother
was ill. In his teenage years, Jack worked very
hard jobs he served on a fish patrol catching
poachers; he pirated oysters on the San Francisco
Bay; he sailed the Pacific Ocean on a sealing
ship; and he join...
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Third Class Class Passengers
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The R. M. S. Titanic was called the ship of
dreams, and some called her the unsinkable ship.
It was the largest steam engine ever built in the
world. She was the most beautiful and biggest ship
ever to set sail to the sea. In the summer of
1907, Lord Pierre, Harland & Wolf, J. Blue Islam,
and White Star Line planned to build three giant
ships (Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic). They were
to be designed as the most luxurious ships in the
world, and to be built with the finest woods and
furnishings...
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Grand Inquisitor Eighteenth Century
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Europe and frontier South America; mid-eighteenth
century Pangloss, Candide's tutor and philosopher
friend Cunegonde, the beautiful daughter of a
baron Cacambo, Candide's servant and companion
Martin, a later traveling companion Candide, the
illegitimate son of a Baron's sister, was sent to
live with the Baron at his beautiful castle in
Westphalia. The Baroness weighed about three
hundred and fifty pounds, as therefore greatly
respected, and did the honors of the house it had
dignity which rende...
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H G Wells Back In Time
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the novel The Time Machine, H. G. Wells shows the
reader a pessimistic glimpse of what he perceives
to be the future of the industrial world. The way
the writer tells the story, he tries to get the
reader to believe what he believes in the fourth
dimension, the time machine, and his pessimistic
future. For the writer of fantastic stories to
help the reader play the game properly, he must
help him in every possible unobtrusive way to
domesticate the impossible hypothesis. He must
trick him into a...
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The Great White Whale And Its Many Meanings
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The Great White Whale and its Many Meanings Herman
Melville, in his epic novel Moby-Dick, utilizes
the symbolism of the color of the Great White
Whale to demonstrate his theme of duality.
However, Captain Ahab tragically had a single mind
set towards Moby Dick, as he believed that the
whale was the symbol of the worlds evil and had to
be destroyed. On the other hand, Ishmael sees that
the color white can mean many various and opposing
things. It would be dangerous to settle upon any
one single m...
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Queen Elizabeth Francis Drake
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Queen Elizabeth & Her Explorers (1558 - 1603)
Princess Elizabeth, a slender, athletic, extremely
intelligent young woman, recieved an ideal
Rennaissance education in Latin, Greek and modern
languages, in history and Scripture. As Henry
VIII's second eldest child, shunted back to third
in line for the throne by the complex politics of
the period, she also had a very practical
education in political intrigue - and the fine art
of political survival. She came in 1558 to the
royal throne shaken by a...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor War With Germany
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The United States had been warned in advance that
there would be a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
They had also broken all Japanese codes and were
aware of all the details needed to prevent the
attack on Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt had made a
campaign promise to not get involved in a war with
Germany unless the United States was attacked
first; so, he made strategic use of Japan's plans
as a way to go to war with Germany. The FBI was
warned by one of Britain's top agents, Duskov
Popov, about a pla...
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Crossing The Bar Crossing The Bar Tennyson Journey
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Life is considered, by some, to be a journey
towards death and the great reward of afterlife.
This traveling process is held in many different
views and is expressed in numerous manners in
literature. Two prominent Victorian poets who
wrote on this topic were Alfred Lord Tennyson with
Crossing the Bar and Christina Rossetti with
Up-Hill. Through their in-depth and unique use of
imagery, tone and theme, the authors individual
ideals are conveyed in poetic In Crossing the Bar,
Tennyson employs des...
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Arne Peterson Ellis Island Immigrants
704 words
An immigrant is commonly defined as a person who
leaves one country to settle permanently in
another (The American... ). Over the years
Americans have looked with suspicion on the
arrival of immigrants. Many permanent citizens
feel that they take from the country rather than
offer them new ideas and culture. For centuries,
people have come to America as they choose (A
nation of... ). Today the number of immigrants are
causing many problems in America (Branigin). "The
number of illegal immigrants...
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Tous Les Le Monde
526 words
Je suis alle en Europe dans avril. Ctait excellent
et je me suis trs amuse. Dabord nous sommes alls
Madrid, Espagne. La meilleur e chose Madrid tait
level. Ctait grand et girl! Dans ma chambre, ctait
Jessica, Lindsay, Sydney, et moi reston's. Nous
tions dans la premier tage avec une chambre comme
une suite. Il y a deux chambres, avec une salle de
bains et une toilette, quatre lit's, une
television, deux grands mirrors, et un grand
cabinet. Aussi, dans le rez-de-cause, il y a une
barre o nous avo...
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Balboa A Spanish Conqueror And Explorer
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Vasco Nuez de Balboa, a Spanish conqueror and
explorer, was the first to see the coast of the
Pacific Ocean. He saw the ocean in September of
1513, from the top of a mountain of what is now
Panama. On September 29, 1523, Balboa claimed it
and all its shores for Spain. His findings opened
Spanish explorations and conquests along the
western coast of South America began. The Spanish
called the ocean the South Sea because it lay
south of the isthmus of Panama. In 1520 a
Portuguese explorer named Fe...
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A Feminist Approach On Jonathan Swift Gulliver Travels
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The purpose of this essay is to analyse Jonathan
Swift's Gulliver's Travels from feminist
perspective. To fully understand the views that
Swift exhibited, with respect to feminist
approach, it is important to have some background
on Swift himself and womens role in society in the
eighteenth century. In the time of Swift, women
were considered the legal responsibility of their
fathers or husbands. Whatever a woman said in
public was a reflection of the ideas of her father
or husband. The ideal wi...
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Quilting Bee Parties 30 Day Voyage People
871 words
My trip started off with the 30 day voyage across
the mighty Atlantic. Not knowing that I would be
sent to the well established colony of Jamestown.
I would be staying with the average family. They
are to let me stay on account of rent from my
publisher in England. My renter, a well developed
man. He runs a silversmith shop. He is also an
artist. I am sure he will show me pieces of his
work. His wife, a very friendly lady from the
reports. She is half Indian. They have 2 sons.
Both well built an...
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A Letter To Kurtz From Heart Of Darkness
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I am writing this letter to you, to a shrouded
unknowing ness, a deep scar left upon my soul --
that, which seems to have been an obscurity and
the only reason for traveling through this maze of
green walls. Before I ever realized it, I had
become so engrossed and drawn to this enigma of
the darkness. I am now arriving at the inner
station. This has been a captivating and
intriguing experience thus far, and to realize it
is not yet over, utterly exhausts me. I have only
eight miles to meet you, ...
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Prove A Theory Sailed Across The Pacific Ocean Raft
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KON-TIKI 1. The Kon-Tiki TYLER GANT KON-TIKI 1.
The authors purpose of the book was to tell about
his voyage across the Pacific ocean on a raft to
prove a now theory that he thought of. 2. I read
about sixty pages before I really became
interested in the story. 3. The book has many
moods in it. For the most part, it is an
informative book. The book is also a little bit
humorous. Most of the time the author will give
information about his story, but he will throw
some humor in with it. The author...
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Jersey Prentice Hall H G Wells
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It is often said that science fiction is the
literature of change. When a culture is undergoing
a lot of changes due to scientific advances and
technological developments, and expects to undergo
more (Treitel 1). A large part of science fiction
appeal lies in its ability to convince the
audience of the believability of the world it
portrays (Fuller 1). Science fiction looks
backward as much as forward and its usefulness
lays not so much in predicting the actual future
as in exploring our reactio...
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Blue Riband X Blue Riband Ship
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The Sinking of the Lusitania In the early part of
the twentieth century there was one and only main
way to travel through the Atlantic Ocean. The
Lusitania was built to challenge some german
vessels that had the |blue riband X. At this time
the passengers of these vessels were not only
looking for fast means of travels but stylish
means of traveling. They were looking for luxury,
from the food to the sleeping accomodations. The
Lusitania weighed 31, 550 tons and was 785 feet
long. In only its se...
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Queen Of England Queen Elizabeth
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The Golden Age of England Queen Elizabeth was the
queen of England. She was born at Greenwich Palace
on September 7, 1533 near London. Her father,
Henry VIII had annulled his marriage with
Catherine of Aragon and had broken with Rome to
marry Anne Boleyn. Their daughter Elizabeth was to
be the child of Reformation. She was a clever girl
and was carefully educated by Cambridge tutors and
moderate Protestant inclinations. She was
brilliant at languages. Elizabeth became a good
classical scholar an...
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Gulliver Travels Jonathan Swift
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he Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed During the
eighteenth century there was an incredible
upheaval of commercialization in London, England.
As a result, English society underwent
significant, changes in attitude and thought, in
an attempt to obtain the dignity and splendor of
royalty and the upper class (McKendrick, 2). As a
result, English society held themselves in very
high regards, feeling that they were the elite
society of mankind. In his novel, Gulliver's
Travels, Jonathan Swift satirize...
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