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Shows The Reader Early 1900
1,168 wordsThe Jungle is perhaps the most brutal novel ever written in America. It is one long scream of pain and tragedy (Cook 117). The novel shows the reader how hard being an immigrant was in the early 1900 s. Immigrants had to take any job they could, even if that meant working in the packing plants, which Upton Sinclair shows in the novel. Jurgis Radix is the main character. Jurgis and his family move to America searching for a better life. Jurgis works in a packing plant and is continuously loosing ...
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Miles From Rome 312 B C Appia
826 wordsFirst conceived in 312 B. C. by Appia Claudius the Appian Way was known as the Queen of roads. She was Romes first military highway, in a time when most didnt consider building roads. Let alone one that would last millenniums. The Appian Way or Appia begins at the foot of the colosseum. Not far afterwards is the ruins of the Milliarium Aureum, which was built in 20 B. C. by Augustus. The Milliarium Aureum or the Golden Milestone listed the miles / distance from one place to another along the App...
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Drowned In Barbecue Sauce Piles Of Rib Tips Pier
348 wordsOn a crowded Friday night, I found a lively spot with sweet smells and even sweeter sounds. Joe's Be-Bop Caf, located on Navy Pier at 600 E. Grande, is a Cajun, jazz-inspired restaurant whose atmosphere separated itself from the noisy shuffle of the pier. Upon entering the restaurant, I saw murals and collages on the walls that had a ' 50 s and ' 60 s style, and pictures of every jazz musician you can think of. The Skinny Williams Band was belting out fabulous music, while he crossed the room, g...
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Creation Of The Universe Enuma Elish
760 wordsMyths, according to most of today's society were made up for many different causes. Some of these reasons include entertainment, tradition, legends, and to teach write from wrong. Although that is correct in some cases, myths are primarily used to explain the unexplained. They explain natural phenomena that cannot be explained in other ways and with concrete facts. A long time ago there was no such thing as scientists and technology. Ancient civilization could not give logical reasons for things...
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Parley With Thorin Magic Door Bilbo
1,062 words... things and send them down the forest river to Esgaroth or lake-town on the long lake. On the night of a big feast, Bilbo wearily played out his plans, he got each of the dwarves out of their cells and packed each of them away into barrels and they are pushed into the river by elves. Finally they arrive at Esgaroth and Bilbo unpacks them, most are in a most very bad mood from being tossed about by the river. They are welcomed by the folk of Lake-town and given food and stores for the rest of ...
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Art Theory Leading Into The 18th Century
1,356 wordsThe argument of color verses design originated in the Baroque, but extended much further into the eighteenth century in terms of theory. Roger de Piles was the father of this argument based on colori's versus diego and the Poussinists versus the Rubenists and so on. He joined the Academy in 1699, right on the verge of the Rococo and basically formed the argument for color, rather than classical design in his Cours de Peinture par Principes in 1708. Up until Rubens artwork, the classical style of...
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Art Theory Leading Into The 18th Century
1,358 words... would be the outline and such that defines each individual element of the painting. This is the only definition that de Piles excepted because he felt that the other definition was too broad and all the elements that went into a painting couldnt go under one huge label. This left him with the second definition of design and when one takes the second definition of design it is impossible to see this as the defining element of a painting without the use of color. Design, to de Piles, was as in...
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Walt Whitman This Compost
1,363 wordsWalt Whitman's This Compost Walt Whitman's This Compost, similar to most of his poetry, is written is free verse; therefore, instead of using rhyme and meter to create an underlying rhythm, he creates a rhythm with his gradual flow of thoughts and abundant use of repetition. Also similar to many of Whitman's poems, This Compost emphasizes nature, the physical body, sexuality, and the phenomenon of common, ordinary things. The poem is written in first person and is merely the thought process of t...
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Charlie Grandmother
1,033 wordsGuy The Watcher The Watcher Guy Vanderhaeghe This incredible short story is about a little boy named Charlie Bradley, who isn? t like all the other kids his age. He was a very sick boy. Charlie had a loving mother who cared for him when he was sick. They seemed to have both one terrible thing in common, a bad chest. The Bradley's did not own a television set, so Charlie had to find different means of entertainment on his long sick days at home. He learned that if he kept quiet and still, the adu...
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Due To The Fact Vivid Imagery
625 wordsEpithalamion is an Epithalamion Epithalamion Epithalamion is an interesting mixture of negatives and positives for me. I found parts of it interesting and well written. However, I found other parts that I am less enthusiastic about. Spenser used many different devices in this poem that make it stand out from many other similar poems from the same time period. Epithalamion is a wedding song, traditionally sung on the threshold of the bedchamber. It was usually narrated by a sort of emcee, but Spe...
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Play A Role Chemical Reactions
1,867 wordsPROBLEM: BATTERIES TEND TO FAIL AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES. TESTABLE QUESTION: HOW AND WHY DO DIFFERENT BATTERY TYPES FAIL AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES? ELECTRO CHEMISTY BATTERY FAILURE HONORS CHEMISTY RESEARCH PROJECT HISTORY OF THE BATTERY The battery s origins may be followed back to very ancient times. We know that many of the wise men could have been exploring and testing electricity. For example, a clay vase, thought to be several thousand years old, was discovered in 1932 near Baghdad. It contain...
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