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    What’s in a name? As you stroll around the streets of Nelson, do we ever look up at the blue signs, wondering the stories behind these names that roll off your tongue so everyday? Do you stop to picture Nelson, 170 years ago, imagining the people that walk the same path to work as you everyday, down Trafalgar Street? These steps that the first settlers of Nelson made, have shaped our city, creating the perfect base for following generations to make change upon. As generations have occupied Nelson

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    and should be cultivated within the classroom. He argues “that those who command the largest educational advantages control those of inferior opportunities”. By examining the works of other authors Sumner’s law of evolution has proven to be false. Horatio Alger Jr. tells the story about a young boy named Ragged Dick. Dick was a shoe shiner in the bustling city of New York. Like all the other shoe shiner Dick was poor. He

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    “The Dark Eagle'; refers to the hero of Saratoga, Benedict Arnold, who went from highly regarded hero, to the most hated man in the Colonies in a matter of days. In the book: Benedict Arnold: The Dark Eagle, Brian Richard Boylan, analyzes the historical figure not critically, but objectively. He examines the forces that possibly could have driven Benedict Arnold to turn his back on the country that he fought for so dearly. Boylan also points out that the man who Arnold did most of his negotiations

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    For this assignment I chose Double Jeopardy from CSI Miami, season four episode eighteen. In this episode a husband is found innocent of his wife's murder just as her missing body is being pulled from the ocean by a fisherman. March 26 Mr. Rowe discovered his wife’s racial status and she disappeared on October 5th but the husband waited 3 days to report her death. During this time he practiced killing Terisa Matherdy. Losing four twenty lb weight set in the process. The CSI team must try to find

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    Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. This story follows a young boy, who through hard work, determination, self-reliance, honesty and good character went from a homeless black-boot to a respectable, high paying job.  This story is filled with examples of what life was like in New York City, telling the us what he would find and experience in it. In Ragged Dick, This was a time of progress, change and falsehood in American History. This is when people really started to chase the illusive American dream,

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    Horatio, The One True Friend      William Shakespeare wrote about a distraught prince trying to avenge the wrongful death of his father while all his faith in honesty and the good of man was nearly destroyed. In his play Hamlet, Hamlet is the prince and he is the one who would have lost all his faith in the good of man had it not been for his loyal friend Horatio. Many critics say that Horatio did not play such an important role in the tragedy, that he merely was the informant

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    Hamlet is one of the most iconic plays in the world because of its great technical, symbolical, and theatrical effect to the readers. Even now, it is adapted in movies and plays—whether professional or amateur—proving that William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is still a remarkable play. A majority of literary readers and critics are aware of its plot, which is focused on Prince Hamlet’s search for vengeance after the death of King Hamlet—and seeing his father’s ghost makes the notion of revenge deeper. However

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    This type of friendship is hard to come by. In the world renowned play written by Shakespeare entitled, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark this exact friendship is demonstrated throughout the play. The play is about a prince that returns to the castle to attend his father’s funeral only to discover his mother has remarried to the king’s brother in a very short time. The ghost of Hamlet’s father led to Hamlet

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    works for centuries. They especially read Shakespeare for his tragedies. Hamlet may be shakespeare’s most popular tragedies.For many readers, revenge is the dominant theme. The characters of hamlet Laertes and Fortinbras demonstrate the theme of revenge. Shakespeare uses revenge as a major theme present throughout the work. Hamlet was grieving over the death of his father but seeing his mother already moved on makes Hamlet upset. His mother is already married to his uncle Claudius taking the throne

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    Horatio's Homosexuality

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    the play Hamlet, it’s often said that the character Horatio shows homosexual tendencies, especially for the title character. Considering this perspective it can be argued that the outcome of the play would have been different without this relationship. Interest in Horatio’s sexuality has been a growing topic throughout the past couple

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