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Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and is characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on an individual’s expression of emotion and imagination, a departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. Romantic writers usually involve one…

By Mason ForandoAll the colonial houses are alike. From the least important placeslike farms to places like Monticello all the houses were built in thefederal style. The federal style just means that the house would bebilaterally symmetrical. If there was five windows on the top half, thenthere would be five on the lower half (same…

One effective strategy to promote desired behaviors can be to use a point-of-decision prompt: this involves priming people at the time they are making a decision. Point-of-decision prompts have been used in promoting pro-environmental behaviors, such as signs that remind one to turn off the lights when exiting a room. However, previous research has dealt…

HermaphroditismHermaphroditism, in biology, is the union of the two sexes in the same individual,or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual. 1 Ahermaphrodite individual is sexually unfinished or partly male and partly female. Due to the similarities between male and female sex organs, it may be difficult to tell whether…

According to an article in Public Health News titled “Number of Smoke-Free’ Restaurants Soars”, and published March 9, 1999, cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals and exposure to environmental smoke or secondhand smoke is responsible for 1,000 non-smoker deaths in Washington state each year. Listed below are some ideas that will help eliminate the problem…

Well goree island Was used to keep slaves from the mid 1500’s to the Mid 1800’s it was thought that this island was used to keep slaves in storage sort of like a where house and kept there a lot of people died before they were even sold into slavery do diseases women and children…

Of the five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address Essay, the Library of Congress has two. President Lincoln gave one of these to each of his two private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. The copy on exhibit, which belonged to Nicolay, is often called the first draft because it is believed to be…

In the post-Civil War era, published news was accessible to the citizens of the United States more than it had ever been before, allowing stories to travel across the nation at a rapid pace. In the South during this time period, the Ku Klux Klan was committing horrid acts of violence against Republicans and African…

There is practically nothing that computers do not influence in one manner or another, which has caused society to render itself dependent upon its constant application. Through Brian Winston’s model for technological innovations, the student can readily understand how society has had – and continues to have – a love/hate relationship with the computer. There…

A monologue from the play by Maurice Donnay NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Three Modern Plays from the French. Ed. Barrett H. Clark. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1914. CLAIRE: Ah! You would not speak that way if you had seen her; if, like me, you had held her in your arms a…