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    Most animals and plants live on water as well, and can be easily affected by it as human beings will. They are susceptible to the chemicals in the water, which can either drastically change their lifestyles due to changing food supplies and the like to such dire consequences such as death. On the Office of Response and Restoration’s website, they state that light oils display two hazards. Some can ignite and explode, but are mainly toxic. It can kill animals and plants upon touch, even…

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    Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, also known as “Bricktop,” was an African-American woman living during the Harlem Renaissance. Bricktop’s first job was as a singer in a nightclub called the Barron’s Exclusive Club. Bricktop sang along side Duke Ellington, a popular African-American jazz musician, among others. Bricktop lived in France for big part of her life. One of the many of the things she did there was she replaced the lead singer at a club called Le Grand Duc. Becoming a…

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    Overcoming one’s evils is no easy feat, and this is made especially clear as the reader is given a tour through hell, in which the main character has to face his sins and overcome them. Dante’s Inferno by Dante is widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, detailing Dante’s journey through the nine circles of hell. Each circle in this depiction of hell acts as an inescapable prison (in most cases) where sinners are judged and placed into, having to be punished for their…

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    without it we wouldn’t have learned about Elie Wiesel and everything he has accomplished. Eliezer Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 (“Elie”). His parents were Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel (“Elie”). He grew up in Sighet, Romania, with his three sisters, Beatrice, Hilda, and Tzipora (“Elie”). Elie was highly influenced by how his father,…

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    James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. New York. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 1989.Print. The Black Jacobins (1938), by African -Trinidadian writer C.L.R James is the history of the 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution also known as the French colony of San Domingo. The text centers on an ex-slave named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who became the leader and an advocate of the French Revolution ideals. James emphasizes that Toussaint “presence had that electrifying effect characteristic of great men of…

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    poem Meeting At Night it describes the journey to seek love and to be with the loved one. Comparing Sonnet XIV and Much Ado About Nothing there may be some connections to make between Beatrice and Elizabeth as the both have criteria set for their perfect partners, but the difference between the two is that Beatrice does not care whether it is eternal love or love by appearance where on the other hand Elizabeth is demanding of eternal love and does not seek anything other than that. Despite this,…

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    Showing that this play is also a tragedy, and at times can be more of a tragedy than a comedy. There are three major love components in the play. The romantic love between the characters Claudio and Hero, along with Beatrice and Benedick. The familial love between Leonardo, Beatrice, and Hero, and lastly the fraternal love between Benedick and Don Pedro. Out of those pairs, the one that holds the most amount of tragedy is that of the main characters, the lovers Hero and Claudio. Although these…

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    Dante frequently mentioned a woman named Beatrice in his works who many suspect was his true love, although he married a different woman in respect to his father. As a result, he uses Beatrice as an important role in many of his famous works, due to the fact that he was in love with her, but he could not marry her. Dante was also in love with the city of Florence, and…

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    Divergent is hands down the best book I have read in about 6 years! Beatrice was a character people of many different ages- and even genders could connect with. Each faction also imitated apart of society we all live in today which I found not only exciting but a book that could be used to teach many different lessons to a classroom a children. This book being told in first person makes readers feel apart of the action and throughout the story I found a dislike for the Erudites ( with exception…

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    in the play may have more or less sexual undertones, heightening the tension gradually, with each intimate encounter between the two. Eddie pays great attention to Catherine, which often corresponds with his impotence in his own relationship with Beatrice; in scene one she confronts him asking ‘When am I going to be a wife again, Eddie?’, which can either be interpreted as a delicate way to address the sensitive subject of their non-existent sex life, or as a way of subtly and bitterly trying to…

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