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    My Town

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    Belgrave was first settled in 1851. Belgrave was named after an 1840s chapel in Leeds‚ Yorkshire‚ England; the name carried by Mr and Mrs R.G. Benson when they came to Melbourne in 1856. Their sons‚ the Benson Brothers‚ settled in the Belgrave district in the 1870s. A Post Office opened in the area around 1904. Many men from Belgrave went to war‚ and there is a war memorial in Belgrave. Belgrave Lake was constructed in 1893 to supply water to Dandenong. Water flowed by pipeline to Heany Park

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    in Florida‚ she was long gone. I put the map on the wall and began to reassemble it and figure out where she was going. There was a hole right on this town called Algoe‚ New York. I had never even heard of the place before so of course I looked it up on Omnictionary. One page popped up and I clicked on it‚ it gave a little description about the town but no clues. I went down to the comments and I finally saw it. Margo had commented on the Omnictionary page‚ she was Algoe and I needed to go see her

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    River Town

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    River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter

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    Eco Towns

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    nEco town Case Study White Hill Bordon Whitehill Bordon is located in the south east of England – 46 miles from central London. The nearest big cities are Guildford to the north and Portsmouth to the south. The town has grown around the Ministry of Defence’s presence in the town. It is set in rolling countryside and it is about a 40 minute drive to the sea. A new national park is being established – the South Downs National Park – and Whitehill Bordon will serve as a gateway to it. Here is a

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    Our Town

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    The play “Our Town” explores the lives of people (primarily two families) living in a small and quiet American town in the 1900’s. In the first act entitled “Daily life”‚ the narrator did a good job of guiding the audience’s imagination to set up the ideas of a town in the early 1900’s. The lighting and sound cues made that very successful. The lighting was on cue and was very good at setting the scenes (i.e. brighter for morning sunrise). Realistic sets and props were minimal but‚ the performers

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    some time in Kurseong in 1885. Fazul Haque‚ the Prime Minister of undivided Bengal also stayed here. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was interned by the colonial Government for a couple of months in a house at Giddhapahar near Kurseong town in 1936. [pic] View of Kurseong town Where is Kurseong? Kurseong is in Darjeeling district of West Bengal in India. On the way of Darjeeling from Siliguri lies Kurseong. About Kurseong Though Kurseong lags behind in the race to become a preferred tourist destination

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    otherwise lost in the blink of an eye. British poet Dylan Thomas and American poet E.E. Cummings have both been noted for the recurring themes of passage of time in their poetry. In Thomas? "Fern Hill" and Cummings? "anyone lived in a pretty how town‚" both modern poets utilize a juxtaposition of paradoxes to express the irrevocable passage of time and the loss of innocence attributed to it. While Thomas projects his mature feelings into a nostalgic site of his childhood‚ Cummings takes a

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    question which plays with each of our minds once in a while‚ through his play‚ Our Town. In Our Town‚ he exemplified his view of life and what it truly means by not only reflecting upon life‚ but also‚ death. Through death‚ we learn what life really is‚ and what life has to offer us. It is not the grand and fine things in life‚ but the minor everyday things in life that truly make life worth living. When speaking of Our Town he said‚ “It is an attempt to find value above all price‚ for the smallest events

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    Our Town

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    The Life of Love and Choices I. Thesis Statement In Our Town‚ the play emphasizes quantities of life‚ which leads to appreciating everyday occurrences we go through. II. Overview 1. The name of the play is called‚ Our Town 2. The author is Thornton Wilder 3. SFSU Department of Theatre Arts 4. Little Theatre 5. Watched the play on March 17th‚ at 2:00pm 6. Ticket price cost $12.00‚ purchased through online website 7. Sat in Row D‚ Seat 2. Front right section of theatre 8. Shared experience with

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    Cape Town

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    Saturday was market day in Cape Town and the streets were crowded with shoppers looking for bargains‚ meeting friends and lovers. Boers and Frenchmen‚ soldiers in colorful uniforms and English ladies in flounced skirts and ruffled blouses mingled in front of the bazaars set up in the town squares at Braameonstein and Park Town and Burgersdorp. Everything was for sale: furniture‚ horses and carriages and fresh fruit. One could purchase dresses and chessboards‚ or meat or books in a dozen different

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