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    Catcher in the Right: Holden onto Childhood In The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, the main character Holden Caulfield is shown to be opposed to people who are less genuine or “phony,” and prefers the young because of their pure and innocent nature. (IN PROGRESS… need more intro) Salinger represents adulthood as inherently inferior to childhood, a time of innocence and a sense of wonder, expressing it through Holden’s opinions towards the individuals he comes across. One way Salinger…

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    My ideal career choice is to work for the FBI as a criminal profiler. Being a criminal profiler appeals to me because they are able to analyze a crime scene for any evidence and they must get into the mindset of a criminal or a serial killer to solve it. They must put little pieces of a puzzle together to see the finished picture. Since I was young, I was always fascinated by the detective or crime shows on T.V., as well as the Sherlock Holmes movies, which is why this career choice has always…

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    Triangle Fire Analysis

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    After watching the Triangle Fire documentary (PBS, American Experience, 2011), respond to the following questions. Most answers should be around 3-4 sentences long. Remember to submit your completed quiz to the Quiz 1 dropbox on BeachBoard. 1. In general, who worked in the garment factories in the early 1900s? The workers in the garment factories were women in their teenage years. Some girls were as young as ten years old. Many of the workers were immigrants who had escaped their own…

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    stop when asked, which shows how immature he is. When out with Sally, Holden proposes the idea of running away to Colorado and starts with “Here’s my idea. How would you like to get the hell out of here? Here’s my idea. I know this guy down in Greenwich Village that we can borrow his car for a couple of weeks. He used to go to the same school I did and he still owes me ten bucks” (171). Holden believes that since this guy owes him ten bucks, that his car is equivalent to that debt. He has…

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    Arguably, the three most important documents in American history--the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and The Declaration of Independence--can be found at The Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.. In 1776, America’s Founding Fathers signed The Declaration of Independence, explaining their desire for separation from Great Britain. Among other privileges, The Declaration of Independence guarantees Americans “certain unalienable rights” such as “life, liberty and the…

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    1930’s he studied with Thomas Benton in New York at the Art students league (Artstory.org). Abstract expressionism was a post WWII art movement in America that developed in New York in the 1940’s (Wilkes 200). He lived with his older brothers in Greenwich Village where they were so poor that they barely had food to eat, and he worked as a custodian and he would steal to maintain per the art foundation. Throughout most of his adult life Pollock was an alcoholic and he would go in and out of…

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    sufficient. Millay got a scholarship to Vassar for her poem “Renascence” where she wrote even more poetry. The same year she graduated, 1917, she published her first book, Renascence and Other Poems. After she graduated she moved to New York City’s Greenwich Village where she lived in a nine-foot-wide attic and would take every opportunity to write and edit possible. Similarly to many of the other writers in her area, they were all very poor but…

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    Dark Romantics focus on themes of sin and evil, and believe that pain and temptations are great forces, which are meant to be dealt with and experienced. Dark Romantics are drawn to the strong images of the picturesque past through symbolism and tend to write with an ambiguity of manner on the complexities and ironies of life, qualities which Hawthorne successfully incorporated in “Young Goodman Brown”. Notwithstanding Hawthorne’s Dark Romantic qualities, he does appear to embody some of the…

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    The definition of a Ponzi scheme is, "an investment swindle in which some early investors are paid off with money put up by later ones in order to encourage more and bigger risks". What started out as a small, legitimate trading firm created by one man transformed into a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Investors who bought into the scheme varied from Hollywood celebrities, banks and hedge funds, to universities, charities, and ordinary people. The investors never knew their money was actually…

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    Snapple Case Study

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    Snapple was launched in 1972 in the Greenwich Village area of New York City with its founding product being an all-natural apple juice targeted to health conscious consumers. Over the next 15 years, Snapple grew slowly yet still managed to established markets on both the east and west coasts of the U.S. In the late 1980’s, with revenues reaching about $8 million in 1986, Snapple engaged a beverage industry sales and marketing veteran to professionally manage its next growth trajectory. By…

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