Exeter

to someplace, but we leave that place or get dislocated we often become very sad. When we lose the place where we belong it hurts our heart. We feel it in our soul because of how strongly we felt when we were at home. From the three passages of the Exeter Book, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife’s Lament, there are three specific messages about dislocation and being away from your home. To start off, in The Seafarer, the narrator tells us that we should think of our home when in…

George Bancroft, born in 1800, quickly excelled in school while attending the Phillips Exeter Academy, and then entered into Harvard College at the age of thirteen. Harvard President, John Kirkland, encouraged Bancroft to study abroad, so he left for Germany to obtain his Doctorate degree in Philogy. After earning his doctorate, he helped found a private school for boys in Northampton, Massachusetts. When he married a wealthy woman, Sarah Dwight, he gained more time to pursue his intellectual…

Some of the earliest double entendres are found in the Exeter Book, or Codex exoniensis, at Exeter Cathedral in England. The book was copied around 975 AD. In addition to the various poems and stories found in the book, there are also numerous riddles. The Anglo-Saxons did not reveal the answers to the riddles, but they have been answered by scholars over the years. Some riddles were double-entendres, such as Riddle 25 ("I am a wondrous creature: to women a thing of joyful expectation, to…

years Walton has moves to three towns; Boston, Exeter, and Dover What all three towns had in common was that they had religious conflict going in the present time. Religious reasons have been the reason for Waltons movement and reason to join the Quakers. The most reasonable reason for his change of religion was because of meeting a women. George met his wife Alice in his years in Exeter and Dover. He was in his mid twenties when moved to Exeter in 1639. Mid twenties was the typical age for a…

1. The two major causes of WW2 starts on September 1st, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, resulting in France and Great Britain declaring war on Germany. The second cause being Japan’s desire to expand their lands by conquering foreign territory. This first begins with the invasion of China in 1937. Japan will then launch many attacks on several different countries including the United States, throughout the war. 2. The United States became involved with WW2 when the Japanese army launched a…

A key challenge for researchers is to identify and understand how managerially controlled antecedent variables influence important relationship marketing outcomes (e.g., customer loyalty and word-of-mouth communication). Relational benefits, which have a focus on the benefits consumers receive apart from the core service, and relationship quality, which focuses on the overall nature of the relationship, represent two approaches to understanding customer loyalty and word of mouth.This integrates…

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Saratoga Investment Corp., a publicly traded business development company, Chris Oberbeck brings over 25 years of experience in leveraged finance, from distressed debt to private equity, to the position. Mr. Oberbeck’s wealth of experience stems from originating, structuring, negotiating, consummating, managing and monitoring investments in a wide variety of middle-market businesses. In addition to his aforementioned roles, Mr. Oberbeck is the…

One section that stood out to me is in the first sections of the personal account. Chang describes, vividly, his mother cooking in the kitchen. He describes that his mother “scored it diagonally”, “sifted sugar into the crevices with her pinched fingers” and “adding a few splashes of soy sauce.” Chang’s mother was positive of herself in the kitchen. She had a process for how she went about cooking. Chang’s mother goes on to explain that, “The meat needs the bone nearby...to borrow its richness.”…

J.K. Rowling is a world renowned writer with a great sense of Aristotelian appeals. She is the writer of the Harry Potter series and a graduate of the University of Exeter. In June of 2008, she was asked to write the commencement speech at Harvard University. She titled the speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” As the title explains, she decides to speak about the benefits of failure and her personal failures. As she talks about failure, she tells the…

Nicholas Gilman, the second son in a family of eight was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in the year of 1755.Nicholas Gilman learned at the local schools in his town, working at his father’s general store. When the Revolutionary War began, he quickly enlisted in the Continental army. Gilman soon became a Captain of the New Hampshire line where he served until the end of the war. When Gilman returned home, he continued to work at his father’s store, but he took an interest in politics. Nicholas…