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intelligent, educated, and had a iron will. He felt that people should focus on Christ and the truth from the bible. He saw the Catholic Church as being corrupt, because they tried to scare people into paying money in order to go to heaven. That
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from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality"
-T.S. Eliot
Being an expatriate T.S. Eliot was extremely affected by World War I and as a
result his writings were blatantly dominated by his cynical
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century, science had found its way into the advancement of humankind in the realm of medicine. Men believed they could cure and save all creatures on earth from their flaws and defects. Aylmer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" is one such
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is an extremely debated subject. Jane Austen has a clear picture of a woman's power and her ability to use that power. She feels that power is a necessary part of a male society. Emma written by Jane Austen shows her understanding of the roles of
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though Alexander Graham Bell worked in Boston he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was born he did not have a middle name, he was Alexander Bell. Aleck, as he was called did not attend, did not attend school as a child, he was taught home by
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begins as a naive six-year-old who does not
understand everything, then she becomes an eight-year-old who is wise beyond her years.
In the beginning, Scout was in the moment and was somewhat naive. Being a six-year-
old, she loved to play
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who is sometimes called the "prince of mathematics."
He was a prodigious child, at the age of three informing his father of an arithmetical error in a complicated payroll calculation and stating the correct answer. In school, when his teacher
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long after that person has gone away. In the two modernist novels, A Lost Lady and Passing, the authors were both concerned with that indispensable property that characterizes a person rather than their reality. Larsen and Cather tell the story of
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she had no idea what she truly wanted to do with her life, until she stumbled into the career of a fire fighter. Fighting Fire is an autobiography written by Caroline Paul. It tells the stories of her struggles and accomplishments in becoming
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be built over the River Kwai, connecting Bangkok to Rangoon along the Burma-Siam Railway. The task needed to be accomplished in 1943 by a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma. This camp was run by Colonel Saito. The prisoners of war at this camp were
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