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    Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following…

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    In 1921, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, allegedly murdered a payroll guard and a paymaster during a payroll heist in Braintree, MA. Sacco, a thirty two year old shoemaker, and Vanzetti, a twenty nine year old fish peddler, both with immigrant backgrounds. The accusation of these two men seemed rather racist on the court's behalf due to the lack of evidence. People believed the men received unfair bias from the court due to where Sacco and Vanzetti came from.…

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    Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an of totalitarian ¬¬– an ideology, a single party typically led by one man, a terroristic police, a communications monopoly, a weapons monopoly, and a centrally directed economy – repression unsurpassed in human history. He plunged his country into an alliance with Nazi Germany and a disastrous war, leaving it literally in ruins. Yet Italy’s relationship with and feeling towards the dictator were;…

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    king was the one to rule France but with the possibility of impeachment. Several of writers have even mention that Marat didn’t believe in a republican form of government in his early years and did not refer to it in his newspaper either (Gottschalk, 1921). Marat had pre-held conviction while entering the Revolution, ones that were developed along side his interest in government and society in England and France. Marat’s beliefs and opinions were also strengthened by studies that centered…

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    In the first position paper entitled “Odysseus’ Scar and the Question of Literary Form,” I concluded that wartime autobiographical writings—including letters, diaries, testimonies, oral histories, etc.—is a literary genre that successfully mediates the personal and the documentary, the contemporary immediacy and the broader history. This second position paper is an extension of the first one, looking into the tricky nature of autobiographical texts as a fragmentary literary genre. It argues that…

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    Massachusetts. I was an adventurous and curious little boy, I started off by drawing pictures and then my father inspired me to write poetry. Which led me to Springfield Central High School (1917-1921) Where I graduated, and did excellent in my art class as a Freshman. After I graduated from Springfield in 1921 I enrolled in Dartmouth College. I…

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    Arlington National Cemetery is a lot of different memorials into one location. Inside the Cemetery there is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, Amphitheater, Arlington House, John F Kennedy gravesight. Section 60 (Afghanistan Graves) and the Challenger and Columbia memorial. The Cemetery consists of about 400,000 are buried in the Cemetery alone. Within the 400,000 graves about 5,000 are unmarked do to unknown soldiers. About 14,000 are veterans that buried at the cemetery. In the Amphitheater…

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    Gramsci led a leftist walkout at the Socialist Congress at Livorno in January 1921 to establish the Italian Communist Party and then spent two years in the Soviet Union. He then returned to Italy, and became head of his party. In April 1924 he was elected to the country’s Chamber of Deputies. After his party was banned by Benito Mussolini’s fascists, Gramsci was arrested and imprisoned in 1926. At his trial the fascist prosecutor strongly affirmed, “We must stop his brain from working for 20…

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    The conflict between the government of Great Britain and the people of Ireland extend from the farthest reaches of the 12th Century when Norman invaders conquered the Ireland. The most recent iteration of this struggle began in the 20th Century with the rise of the most prominent Irish independent group to date, the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The origins of the IRA began as other smaller splinter groups had become inefficient at fighting for Irish independence. Former members of the Irish…

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    The Federal legislation that made illegal to speak out against the government, during World War I this would be infringing on free speech. This should be taught or reminded to us that the government cant be aloud to silence people no matter what they say. The Espionage Act enacted on June 15, 1917 the Espionage Act prohibited individuals from expressing or publishing opinions that would interfere with the U.S. military’s efforts to defeat Germany A year later, the U.S. Congress amended the law…

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