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    Alex Jenny told me about Ms.Stiles, and how she suspects she knows something. I really did not think that was true. I told Jenny that Ms.Stiles has been a big mythical creatures nerd and she has a bunch of books about them, too. We decided to follow Ms.Stiles to see if Jenny could hear her thought. Jenny was not very good at staying hidden and accidentally bumps into her. Something happened to her when Ms.Stiles caught her from hitting the concrete. Jenny did not talk for fifteen seconds and her…

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    Verification Reflection

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    Jenny must have subconsciously picked up on my complaints of verification because she tasked me with the duty of writing dining guides. One part of me was excited to write because I am an English major and spent the last three years writing every type of paper under the sun. On the other hand, I was nervous because I am not familiar with writing for a magazine and after three years of writing, not super confident in my ability to write. However, I kept positive thoughts, and as an intern, there…

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    clarification on his motives. Using the letters he wrote for this essay, Saxon may very well be trying to ensure that anyone else who looks into Barnum’s life sees information that Saxon found with time a little easier; such things as his true thoughts of Jenny Lind, the true motives behind his attempts at getting rid of Jumbo, and the media potential behind “Champ”. While never explicitly telling this, Saxon wishes for his reader to truly grasp the magnitude of the things Barnum did in his life…

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    Lind was a very well known Swedish opera singer whom Andersen was infatuated by. With little surprise and to Andersen’s dismay, Lind felt platonically about their relationship as demonstrated in this letter she wrote him, “Farewell. God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister, Jenny” (dean). Lind was trying to make it clear to Andersen that she viewed him solely as a brother and…

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    A Compare and Contrast of the Life of P.T .Barnum and the Movie, The Greatest Showman by Shelby Butler The movie, The Greatest Showman, came out in December of 2017. The movie was about Phineas Taylor Barnum, who most people know as P.T. Barnum. P.T. Barnum was famous for starting the Barnum & Bailey Circus. After watching The Greatest Showman, it was clear that many parts of the movie were about true events in P.T. Barnum’s life, but some were false. Differences in his family life, his…

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    was 14, to try to become famous in Copenhagen. He was a singer, a dancer, and an actor; these careers all failed and he became a writer (Wolkstein, 2005). In addition, although he fell in love many times, his affections, notably the opera singer Jenny Lind,were never returned, and he was a bachelor for all his life (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2005). Therefore, Andersen proves that anyone can become famous if they are determined…

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    Phineas Taylor Barnum was Born on July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut and was a natural salesman, peddling lottery tickets and Cherry rum to Soldiers as a young boy around the age of 12. As a young man Barnum moved to New York City and got into a variety of businesses including newspaper publishing and running a boarding house and much more.. Barnum hated working with his hands so instead he made his fortune using his mind and using the gullibility of the public in his favor by almost tricking…

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    In the movie and real life, there was a dwarf, a giant, a lady with a beard, different races, and Jenny Lind. In the movie The Greatest Showman, the character James Gordon Bennett said: “Putting folks of all kinds on stage with you, All colors, shapes, sizes; Presenting them as equal; Why another critic might say it's ‘A celebration of humanity’,”. The…

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    charity’s loyalty to P.T. and how much she and their daughters missed him. Honesty, I was a little bit sad to see that she lived for a while without the one she had been sharing her life so far. “Never enough reprise” is the exactly moment when Jenny realizes P.T. would never love her back the same way she did. She had fame and fortune, but it would never be enough for her without his love. “From now on” is the last song from “The greatest showman”. We can see that P.T. finally understood…

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    Known as the “father of haute couture” and “the first couturier”, Charles Frederick Worth’s renown in the fashion industry remains consistent from the establishment of his fashion salon in 1858. Many garments made by Worth are housed by numbers of institutions, including the Costume Institute, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as evidences of Worth’s success in the fashion industry. Worth designed dress from prominent figures from all around the world, who would…

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