... quickly grew bored. She entertained herself by simply torturing her servants and delving into witchcraft. B. She harshly beat her servants constantly and was taught by her new nurse, Darvulia, in the ways of torture and witchcraft. C. Her servants could say nothing about the battering (legally) because they were of lower class than their mistress. III. After years at the castle, she began to realize the one thing she counted on the most, her beauty, began to wane. A. One day as a servant was addressing her mistress’ headdress, she pulled the hair too hard and Elizabeth slapped her. Blood spurted onto her hand. As she wiped it away, wrinkles seemed to disa ...
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... highest military advisers decided to launch and offensive in 1944 against Hitler's Atlantic Wall. (pg. 4 ) Allied planners finally selected a 50 mile area of coastline in western Normandy, form the Vire Estuary to the Orne, as the assault area for securing a beachhead, which would be code named Utah (U.S.), Omaha (U.S.), Gold (British), Juno (Aus.), Sword (British) (pg. 5). This area was relatively close to undamaged ports in southern and southwestern England, and was in range of fighter planes as well. The French ports of Cherbourg and le Havre were within striking distance as well as the railways and river bridges thought to assist in isolating the assault area ...
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... started its Industrial Revolution at its peak by first having the proper tools available at the right time. One of the reasons England did so well before the Industrial Revolution was that it had a strong merchant marine which got the materials that didn't occur naturally on there island. This also allowed them to gain news of technological advances and soon machines replaced the gape where workers couldn't be because of the limited work force. And due to England's supremacy of the sea anything they couldn't make now they could trade for it. This led to a better economy, which fell into the time slot of the industrial revolution. Through out all of thi ...
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... Miss Sasaki's life happened when she converted to Catholicism. At first, she did not believe in it. However, one day after feeling a burst of joy, she converted herself. She knew that she wouldn't get married so she became a nun. Miss Sasaki noticed there was a big change in her strength which she attributed to all that had happened to her after the bombing. Because of her strength, she was assigned to be the director of a home for old people. She didn't like the job because she didn't know how to care for the elderly but she stayed because of her hard-earned doggedness. Her job was to also help people die in peace by talking with them. She wasn't afraid of ...
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... and enlarge the financial assets of the state for the benefit of the Sultan and the Empire. These leaders also ruled and defended the far-flung Ottoman Empire. While the Sultan invested wealth and the leaders protected it, the majority of commoners, the rayyahs, had the task of actually producing the wealth. The rayyahs had to pay part of their profits from industry, commerce, and farming to the state in the form of taxes. Townsfolk, villagers, and pastoral peoples made up the eclectic mix of the rayyah class. The word "rayyah" literally translates into "the protected flock of the Sultan". While Ottoman society was clearly divided into distinct social class ...
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... often considered a sex symbol. An image very different from the awkward, gawky character she portrayed in Halloween. The film opens with a long, single-shot introduction that takes place on Halloween night, 1963. A young Michael Myers watches as his older sister, Judith, sneaks upstairs for a quickie with a guy from school. After the boyfriend has departed, Michael takes a knife out of the kitchen drawer, ascends the staircase, and stabs Judith to death. The entire sequence employs the subjective point- of-view, an approach that writer/director John Carpenter returns to repeatedly throughout the movie. Only after the deed is done, do we learn that Michael i ...
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... leader. People wanted to be lead by him even though Gandhi held no real political office. At the beginning of his crusade to free India, he made his intentions completely known to the public. Not all people believed in the non-violence that he preached. To change that, Gandhi risked his own life fasting for long periods of time until all fighting and bloodshed stopped. It is selfless acts such as these that rang out to the population. Soon his ideas changed the characters of people around the world. This all could not have been accomplished if not for his great perseverance. Gandhi always believed in fighting, but not at the cost of violence. Rather he dies than ...
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... families and they would "‘not be coming back...not ever.'" 73 Michener This was done for many different reason. No one was going to get in the way of their dreams and ambitions. Generation X is a group, we're told, ‘numb and dumb,' lazy underachievers, apathetic ‘boomerangers' who slink home to the parental nest after graduating from college, as if being born into an era of reduced economic expectations. Abusive, neglectful, busy, absent, non-emotional and working parents have no time for relationships, because today's young people have been deprived of intimacy they value it more highly. They value relationships the most, even though they do not have the skill ...
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... Ophelia and advises her to be careful of Hamlet's love. Laertes also constantly reminds Ophelia that Hamlet will have probably have an arranged marriage and that Ophelia will be wasting time with Hamlet. Hamlet's strong love for Ophelia fades after she rejects his closeness. Hamlet's broad love for Ophelia caused Hamlet serious suffering after the affection toward Ophelia was rejected. Hamlet's appearance changes accordingly with this rejection of love from Ophelia, "Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loused out of hell.” (II, i, 82-84). When Laertes learns of the death of Ophelia, shock and ...
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... English colonizers in the New World found that the Indians reminded them of the Irish” (Takaki, 28). To the English the Irish represented a lower and uncivilized class of people, a group that the English considered to be beneath them. This association was the beginning of creating an “Indian Race.” The Indians were different then Irish in they had a reddish tint to their skin. This was important because this lead further to their separation by their color. The Indians were further looked at as savages based on their culture. “They were seen as incapable of becoming civilized because of their race” (Takaki, 36). This thinking lead to the belief that the I ...
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