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    Anne Marbury Hutchinson was a puritan who came to an American colony following the puritan leader John Cotton. She was home-schooled and self taught herself. Her spouse was William Hutchinson‚ a chief magistrate of the colony of Portsmouth on the island of Aquidneck. She lived from 1591-1643 in a Massachusetts colony for a while until she was brought to court for being charged with sedition and contempt of the Government and was kicked out. Hutchinson challenged the authority of the Priests at the

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    William Carlos Williams wrote his most famous poem in 1934 entitled "This is To Say." He is credited with creating a writing style referred to as the minimalist set. His writings show the purpose of building real images. Williams set the tone of his poems with the use of simple words‚ short phrases‚ and plain talk‚ without the typical form or rhyming. So how then is it a poem? Was it just a note on the refrigerator door left for his wife? In today’s time‚ it would work nicely as a tweet. When asked

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    policeman‚ Doctors also step out of there comfort zone in order to save their patients. “The Use of Force” by William Carlos William ‚ examines when it is justifiable for doctors to use force against his patients in order to protect them from his/her own ‘Idiocy”‚ but in today’s society the use of force has changed dramatically. In the story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams the narrator describes the little girls rage for the doctor. “the child was fairly eating me up with her cold

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    The character of Roger Chillingworth has been presented to audiences as a spiteful and conniving old man through imagery by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne does not stop at just imagery either ‚ he uses his full literary Arsenal in chapter 10 to ensure the audience is aware of Chillingworth’s true and vile nature. At the beginning of the chapter Hawthorne uses a matter of fact tone when describing Chillingworth past. This description of Chillingworth gives the audience a basis of his past personality

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    around the “Fair Grounds‚” and they move their bottoms too‚ those lower parts must be full of energy to hold up so much enthusiastic dancing‚ so move as the dancers move in Brueghel’s notable painting called The Kermess. General Explication William Carlos Williams’s “The Dance” (1944) illustrates the joyous‚ lively atmosphere of a fair. It also uses textual patterns to represent the dance depicted in Brueghel’s great painting‚ The Kermess. The speaker‚ who is describing the painting‚ uses the

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    dedicated to the entirety of American forces in World War II while another could be dedicated to a single soldier. In the case of the George Rogers Clark National Historic Park‚ it serves as a historic site wherein a number of those involved with the Illinois campaign are memorialized in present day Vincennes‚ Indiana. George Rogers Clark (elder brother to William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition) was a military

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    The short story titled The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams‚ a doctor tries to treat a young girl who refuses the treatment he offers. Despite the fact that her parents and the doctor make and attempt to reason with the girl‚ she continues to defy them in their efforts to help her. The reason this short story has become a classic‚ is because it illustrates what makes a hero. The fact that the doctor is determined to help the young girl who makes every attempt to refuse help‚ may seem like

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    Roger led the way straight through the castles‚ kicking them over‚ burying the flowers‚ scattering the chosen stones...Percival began to whimper with an eyeful of sand” (Golding 60). In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Roger is a destructive‚ evil character. Throughout the novel‚ he continually increases to show his malicious nature. He is one of the many boys who crash-lands on a deserted island‚ and are forced to fend for themselves. Of all the boys on the island‚ while he may not be the craziest

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    depicting the game of baseball and its remarkable players‚ coming across a poem seeking thorough cross sectioning of the crowd is unusual‚ and rarely encountered. William Carlos Williams has created a poem which portrays the crowd as a quasi-organized mob bent on either cheering for their team‚ or in turn‚ booing them. The reason why Williams does this is because he is portraying‚ in a sense‚ simplicity versus chaos with simplicity being the game of baseball itself and chaos being the crowd. The game

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    Wordsworth William Blake and William Wordsworth were two of the most influential of all of the romantic writers‚ although neither was fully appreciated until years after his death. They grew up with very different lifestyles which greatly affected the way they as individuals viewed the world and wrote about it. Both play an important role in Literature today. Despite their differences‚ with their literature backgrounds they cannot help but have a few similarities. William Wordsworth was

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