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    The Men Who Built America Episode 1 starts 5 Days after the Civil War, which was known as the bloodiest conflict with 6,000 deaths adding one of the greatest, Abraham Lincoln. This episode was about how the railroads had come together. The railroads started with Cornelius Vanderbilt. He began his journey starting with a single ferry that had later on become many ships. His ships were used to transport goods. Vanderbilt later on in life then decided to sell all of ships and invest in railroads.…

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    share many similarities and differences. More specifically, the structure of these two poems can be compared and contrasted when looking at the rhyme scheme, word choice, and repetition. By doing so, the meaning of each poem is enhanced. To start off, both poems have a rhyme scheme, but each poem’s is unique. For example, Annabel Lee has the rhyme scheme: A,B,A,B,C,B, for the first stanza. Then, as the poem progresses, every other line is a “B.” That is until Edgar Allan Poe mentions Annabel’s…

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    The Dutch and His Control In the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, Browning uses a particular imagery to create an image in the readers mind, to create a more imaginative and mysterious read. His style makes this poem easy to read and understand, but he also doesn’t come straight out with things so that you have room to think and create your own scene. Throughout the poem, Browning uses diction to support imagery. For example, when Browning writes, “I gave commands; Then all smiles…

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    The three poets, Longfellow, Dickinson, and Whitman, were all Romantic writers. During their time, they main focused on creativity, impossibility, nature, beauty, individualism, and the common man. Despite the three writers having different subjects for their poems and have their own unique style, they also shared similarities within their writings. Between the three writers, they shared similarities such as their poetic structure, literary devices, and mood as well. The first two writers,…

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    business was an elaborate Ponzi scheme held to satisfy his lust for riches. How may you ask? It involved all forms of cruel acts including fraud and money laundering, with billed accounts as high as 65 Billion US dollars. Like Macbeth once believed, “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” This is a prime example of such an atrocity as the quote described deceit. As of today, Madoff faced an undesirable outcome similar to Macbeth for orchestrating his schemes- a 150-year prison…

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    Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme We have all heard of a Ponzi scheme and may know of someone who has fallen victim to this type of fraud but we may not all be familiar with the definition of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud in which funds from a new investor are taken to pay an existing investor an alleged return on their investments. New investors are recruited by being guaranteed high return rates with little to no risk for loss. The organizer of the Ponzi scheme is…

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    Craig Newmark launched the website that bears his name in 1995. Since then, Craigslist has turned the classified ad market upside down, draining billions of dollars from newspaper coffers while saving consumers a mint. However, consumers have also lost plenty of money through Craigslist, typically falling for one scam or another that has extracted hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars from them. Here’s a sample of the Craigslist car scams that have been perpetuated and how best to avoid each…

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    synonymous with scrupulous honesty and nobility, innovation and, of course, success. This has helped him for decades to deceive his clients. The irony is that the reputation of an honest, noble innovator was well deserved. And to create a large-scale scheme of deception of all — from their own…

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    At the beginning of the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker introduces cold and uncomfortable images to relay the tone of the poem: Regret for not respecting his father. Hayden uses “blueback cold” in the second line, presenting a tone of sadness and loneliness throughout the house that the speaker and his family like in. The word “blueblack” is such an uncommon word that it carries an extremely negative feeling, exemplifying the cold feeling of distance throughout the…

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    The rhyme pattern in T.S. Eliot’s poem, “Preludes,” is a sophisticated and modern variation on an old form. The poem, “Preludes,” has an uneven rhyme scheme and concentrates on the dim experience of life in the city. The poem is separated into four parts related to the phases of the day and night, starting with the evening in part I, the morning in part II, the middle of the night and into the morning in part III, and back to evening in part IV. The first stanza is composed of thirteen,…

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