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    Noelle Albert 4 May 2015 APUSH Reagan Essay Outline Intro: The presidency of Ronald Reagan, from 1981 to 1989, as compared to that of Lyndon B. Johnson about two decades prior, was certainly a revolution. Reagan’s domestic policy allowed specifically for economic expansion which had been unachievable to LBJ. His successful foreign policy led to the end of the Cold War, which America had been involved in since 1947 and from which LBJ failed to remove the US. The public political legacy of Reagan…

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    robbers to thieves, but each case as important as the one before. Some detectives just glide by the police not doing anything, but some stand out. Of all detectives, fictional and real, the most famous of all by far is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, Sherlock Holmes. Who created Sherlock? This famous fictional detective started to spread in 1887, when the first book was published, A Study in Scarlet. The British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock, was inspired by Dr. Joseph…

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    Sherlock Holmes Hero

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    In making the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle created a hero modern to the times. Holmes, an independent detective, tackles many of his cases with his companion John H. Watson, who, in contrast to heros today, could be considered Holmes’ side kick. Though Holmes does not have the ability to fly or read minds, he has an extrodinary capability in solving crimes with evidence lost on others. In A Case of Identity, Watson states, “You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite…

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    Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories plus a Complete Novel. Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, 1978. Print. The Adventure of the Empty House is one of the short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes about Sherlock Holmes. This story tell how Holmes comes back from what everyone thought was his apparent death at the hands of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes (in disguise) surprises his faithful companion Dr. John H. Watson after bumping into him at as…

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    Comparing Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Boone Did Sherlock Holmes himself encounter any form of autism? Do you think Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Boone encounter differences instead of sharing similarities? Sherlock Holmes was known as a famous autistic detective in the 1800 's (Sherlock Holmes biography). It was unclear how he could solve crimes on such little knowledge of the information. Sherlock Holmes was not autistic. For a long time, everyone was sure he had a case of the…

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    Sherlock Holmes and the other is Gojeonbu(A classic club) which centers around a club that studies classics. More precisely, two characters of each series will be analyzed in terms of the double sidedness concept. Detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson are the characters from the first selection. In the Gojeonbu series, detective Oreki Hotarou and heroine Chitanda Eru will be analyzed. Not only the essay will deal with these individual characters` double sidedness,…

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    the stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes was written to get rid of guilty conscience the accident with the acid and the body, which we are getting told about in ‘The acid test’. The text “The engineer’s Thumb” is about Sherlock Holmes, who is the very intelligent and incredible detective, who can find the solution to almost any case. The way Sherlock Holmes is described is like a hero and an unnatural person. Arthur Conan Doyle described Sherlock Holmes the way, that he wanted to be as a…

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    while, I admired one peculiar detective named Sherlock Holmes. I was hooked. Needless to say, after reading all…

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