Citizen Kane Citizen Kane‚ a movie that was nominated for nine academy awards and won the Academy award for best writing is considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made. In order to understand why Citizen Kane has been so beloved in the world of film because of how realistic it felt although being a work of fiction or as the French call it a film à clef (French for Film with a Key) one must pick apart the all the parts that make a movie successful from its actors‚ lighting‚ plot‚ etc
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Pearson/Prentice Hall‚ 2011. 123-141. Print. Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. The Tech‚ n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. Smith‚ S.E. “Who is Shylock?” wiseGeek. Conjecture Corporation‚ 17 July 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on The Merchant of Venice.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC‚ 2003. Web. 20 Nov. 2012.
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Jennifer Drawdy Mrs.Marcano American Literature 3rd period February 21‚ 2012 "Is The Scarlet Letter a Proto Feminist Novel?" “Is The Scarlet Letter a Proto Feminist Novel?” The Scarlet Letter is a very well-known novel‚ between the scandals and lies. It starts off with a woman named Hester Prynne. Hester decides to leave her husband behind to migrate to Boston. A couple years later‚ Hester gives birth to a baby girl named Pearl in prison. Hester refused to reveal the father of Pearl. The
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ruled that state governments cannot be sued for violating rights established by federal law. Overall‚ the Supreme Court in the 1990s reduced the power of the federal government in important ways‚ particularly in relation to the commerce clause (SparkNotes Editors‚
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Now it’s probably clear by now that illiteracy is actually quite a big problem in the United States‚ if there clearly aren’t enough statistics to show for it‚ something is wrong. After a study done by the National Center for Education Statistics done in 2003‚ at that time‚ 44 million people over the age of sixteen could not read a children’s book‚ and also 50% of adults have never been able to read any book written over or at the eighth grade level (Adults in the US). There’s a reason why I am targeting
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statement here and through many others like it. It means nothing to Tom to lie to the people close to him. The literary experts at SparkNotes also came to this conclusion: “While Tom is forced to keep his affair with Myrtle relatively discreet in the valley of the ashes‚ in New York he can appear with her in public‚ even among his acquaintances‚ without causing a scandal” (SparkNotes Editors). Deceit and dishonesty is primarily portrayed through the character Tom in his dialogue and actions throughout The
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San Diego‚ California: Bridgepoint Education‚ Inc. Shmoop Editorial Team. (November 11‚ 2008). She Walks in Beauty Rhyme‚ Form & Meter. Retrieved May 16‚ 2011‚ from http://www.shmoop.com/she-walks-in-beauty/rhyme-form-meter.html SparkNotes Editors. (2002). SparkNote on The Taming of the Shrew. Retrieved May 16‚ 2011‚ from http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shrew/
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of Colligative Properties." Physical Chemistry. MCH Multimedia‚ 30 Aug. 2012. Web. 11 July 2013. "Colligative Properties." Colligative Properties. Chemistryland.com‚ 5 Dec. 2009. Web. 11 July 2013. "Colligative Properties of Solutions." SparkNotes. SparkNotes‚ 3 Aug. 2012. Web. 11 July 2013.
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together and fought as a collective whole. This was a much different type of war than any other before; it involved the whole world. At the time‚ it was solemnly referred to as the Great War‚ and brought about unprecedented death and destruction (Sparknotes). By the time World War I ended in 1918‚ it had claimed over nine million lives‚ and over twenty-one million had been wounded (A&E Television Networks). The world had never before seen this kind of total destruction. The History Channel states
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