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    The English Renaissance the english renaissance is a time of great culture and writing. the renaissance means rebirth it started after the medieval ages in 1485 and led to our modern age in 1660. it had writers such as sir walter raleigh, John Donne, edmund spenser, and of course the greatest writer in history william shakespeare whose plays still to this day touch the lives of millions. after the english renaissance there was a period called the enlightenment where people such as John Locke, Francis

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    Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who was born November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was famous for his anchorman role for CBS Evening News, “his style [was] honesty, impartiality and level-headedness, and “And that's the way it is” was his jaunty nightly sign-off.” (Biography.com Editors) Cronkite reported several breaking news stories, especially during World War II bombings, Nuremberg trials, Vietnam War updates, Iran Hostage Crisis, and the assassination

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    Will the Roanoke Settlers existence be buried under new condominiums? In the article, “The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?” by Theo Emery, they mention that people are looking to settle where the archeologists and historians are in belief that the Roanoke Settlers once lived, before they vanished. Throughout the article, the author describes the story of the lost colony that settled in the outer banks of North Carolina during the 16th Century. In North Carolina, there is a law that “requires

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    “The noise were worse than ever, and everybody was shouting through the dark, and nobody seemed to be able to hear what anybody else said” (York, 1998). The movie Sergeant York was released in 1941 as a black and white film by MGM Home Videos. Directed by Howard Hawks, this film showed the life and struggles of the war hero Alvin C. York. The main character, York played by Gary Cooper, struggles with the thought of killing as World War 1 breaks out. The movie shows how Alvin came to know his

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    In my perspective, I’m going to be concentrating on the two poems The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd differences and similarities on a few things: Love, Nature, Time, and the Material World. What I've seen is that the two poems are complete polar opposites and offset each other. The Shepherd is a perfect dream where nothing ends or love dies. The Nymph is striking back at him with reality and with doubt about what the Shepherd is telling her. My first comparison

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    Stuntman Damien Walters became a household name and one of our favorite stunt performers when he tumbled out of his clothes and into his nickers in his 2009 Reel. Starting off as a power tumbler, Damien picked up many parkour and freerunning fundamentals and he blew the public away bringing in millions of views on the reel he published in 2009. Damien broke into the stunt business in 2008 when Stunt Coordinator Brad Allan hired himto work on Hellboy II. Since then has done stunt work for a variety

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    Today's media, digital media, are highly converged with each other and our lives. Old media are now the content of new media and they are immediate and responsive as they have never been before. Although people don't commonly correlate Bauhaus and Muriel Cooper, two design canons, with today's media, it's possible that they shaped our future, even long after they became inactive. At Bauhaus, knowledge of the medium was important. To achieve functional designs, one had to know the medium well. Before

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    Lost Colony Conspiracy

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    The Lost Colony There are many stories and events that occur and sometimes they are not recorded or there is no evidence behind to support them which is known as a conspiracy theory or as an urban legend. There are many conspiracies but the main ones are Area 51, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Lost Colony. Out of many great theories, the Lost Colony was the best because it is strange how people disappeared and that they were never found. There has been said that John White, the leader of this journey

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    In the poems "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh and "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" by Christopher Marlowe the reigning topic is love. Each poem has opposite views on love. The meter is very similar but not exactly the same in both "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh and "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" by Christopher Marlowe but similar. The meter of both poems is a very regular iambic 4 beats to the line, with the vast majority of the lines containing

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    President Lyndon Johnson once said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.” That is how much the American citizens trusted Walter Cronkite, selected as “The Most Trusted Man in America” proven by an Oliver Quayle poll in 1972. Born November 4, 1916 in Missouri, Walter Cronkite was an only child. When he was twelve years old, he was able to get his hands on the Boy’s Life magazine and read an article about the exciting lifestyle of reporters. This, although not much at that time, contributed

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