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    Did you know Camden, New Jersey was once a wealthy city. Yes, that is right. The city that is now known as one of the most dangerous cities on the planet was once wealthy. Who would have thought, Camden of all places, to be at one point wealthy. You probably want to know a lot of things, like how did Camden become broke and how it became so dangerous. Before we get into the things you really want to know, we have to first know certain moments that occurred in early Camden days. In…

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    The grant supported the Youth Leading Youth project which enhanced the organization’s mission, “to cultivate young leaders through the discipline of music training. The project included weekly leadership sessions, music training, and performance at two major concerts sponsored by the organization and various concerts invitations. Participants applied leadership through teaching beginner students and were given various leadership opportunities. The project was completed in two phases with the…

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    Hadley v. Baxendale demonstrates an example of a buyer denied relief due to special circumstances. The plaintiffs, Hadley, operated as millers in Gloucester Assizes. On May 11th, production halted due to a break in the crank shaft. The plaintiffs hired the defendants, Baxendale, to deliver the broken shaft to the engineers in Greenwich whom had originally manufactured the machinery. The broken shaft was to act as a pattern for the construction of a new shaft. The defendants agreed to collect the…

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    Imperial Rome. Rev. ed. New York: Gloucester Press, 1985. Print. 1 18 a flow of water going into a town ^ ^ above ground arches of brick or stone topic # pg# Ancient rome James, Simon. Ancient Rome. New York: Knopf :, 1990. Print. 5 27 people go to public fountains to get water in buckets…

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    of York. The two houses would engage in conflict so draining that Britain lost its remaining territories on the continent and that foreign trade nearly ground to a halt. Civil war breads destruction and death, feelings conveyed when the blinded Gloucester says “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport” (Shakespeare 110). The cruelty and loss of humanity that accompanies any type of civil war is what Shakespeare feared the most. As a man of literature and the arts,…

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    “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” This famous quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt, accurately describes FDR’s presidency and life. In Jonathan Alter’s book The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Alter describes how FDR reinvigorated a country at a vital time. Alter tells how FDR overcame obstacle after obstacle, from being diagnosed with polio in 1921 to a near assassination attempt in 1933, to enliven and revitalize a nation that was in desperation. The…

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    This is true for both Morrie Schwartz and King Lear. In Tuesdays with Morrie firstly we see that Morrie gains wisdom through his physical suffering of ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which slowly takes over his body, eventually not allowing doing anything except blink or clucking his tongue. Slowly as the disease takes over his body we see that he begins to come to terms that he is becoming more and more dependent on people. “I’m an independent person, so my inclination was to fight all of this -…

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    In Shakespeare’s King Lear there are many themes and motifs that are intrinsically related. Specifically, the motif of clothing in the play reflects the theme of identity, for clothes are often used as a key element in disguises, altering the perception of the wearer’s identity, even to those that know them well. Clothing first reflects a change in identity in Act 1, wherein Kent dons different clothes to assume a disguise. After King Lear orders him from the kingdom, it is necessary for him to…

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    In the fifth stanza, she states, “That October day we went / to Gloucester the red hills/ reminded me of the dry red fur fox / coat I played in as a child; stock still / like a bear or a tent, / like a great cave laughing or a red fur fox.” (lines 27-30). By bringing up the fur fox, and the coat, it is evident that Sexton…

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    ANALYSIS OF OTHELLO FROM OUTSIDER STANDPOINT IN THE COGNOMINAL PLAY BY SHAKESPEARE As much as any character, Othello exemplifies how polarizing reactions to an outsider can be in Shakespeare, with the play`s great interest-and indeed Othello was from the beginning one of the most frequently performed and written about-resulting from strong and often opposite emotions. Critics have focused on his blackness or, recently, his condition as a Moor , and the particular associations of these…

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