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Working at E.J. Pratt Library (located at 71 Queen’s Park Crescent E) with archivist Roma Kail and her team, I examined the critique génétique (primary sources) of Canadian writer and poet Raymond Knister for my archives project. I focused on the manuscript and research material of Knister’s novel, My Star Predominant: Portrait of John Keats, as well as his correspondence and newspaper clippings about his death. In doing so, I was able to write the history of the research and writing process of My

Note by Dr. Omar Shakespear Pound of Princeton University who during two visits to London (1988 and 1990) gave freely of his valuable time to the classification and filing of the Society's Shakespear papers. SIR RICHMOND CAMPBELL SHAKESPEAR was born in India on 11 May, 1812. His father was John Talbot Shakespear (1783-1825) of the Bengal Civil Service; his mother, Emily Thackeray, eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, also of the B.C.S. and father of the novelist. The Shakespears had

In Rebecca Skloot’s pioneering non-fiction book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the complex story about the revolutionary HeLa cancer cells is told through the lives of the Lacks family and the multiple scientists and doctors that were part of one of the greatest breakthroughs of medical research in the twentieth century. The tale of the infamous and immortal HeLa cells was not just a scientific one, but one that involved struggle, confusion, ethical transgressions, and legal issues. Skloot

sets, etc. were hand built for the film by these masters, utilizing native woods, plants, leaves, metals, fabrics, etc. and working from historical writings and drawings, and with the assistance of an advisory board consisting of more than a dozen archivists, librarians, professors and others. The important recreation of Fort James was accomplished with wood chopped out of growth in the actual Jamestown area, just as the English would have in 1607. All other elements - clothing, makeup, hair designs

7. The Canal - The Canal is a bone-chilling, dread invoking Irish horror thriller, which is reminiscent of Sinister, but still manages to hold it 's own as a uniquely terrifying cinematic creation. This film tells the story of David, a film archivist, and a film he has received from a co-worker, who wants to prove to him by exhibiting evidence that his house was once a murder scene. To make things worse, his wife is engaged in an affair and as he finds out the truth,

Jan & Antonina Zabinski: A Family That Defied the Nazis Corie Rosen California State University Channel Islands Summer 2017 Early Life and Education Antonina Zabinski was a Russian-born Pole born in 1908. Her father, Antoni Erdman, was an engineer who based his operations in St. Petersburg and “…travelled throughout Russia following his trade” (Ackerman 18). When Antonina was nine-years-old, her father and stepmother were shot by Bolshevik soldiers in the early days of the

Sydney Robinson Mrs. Ball English 12 24 February 2016 ICRC Effect Introductory Paragraph My opener: In a situation of life or death would you stay quiet or speak out? Thesis statement: Six million is a number that could have been stopped, as a humanitarian organization The Red Cross failed miserably. Background: “WASHINGTON, Dec. 18— The International Committee of the Red Cross today released copies of its World War II files, some of which provided verification that it knew of the persecution

Abstract This paper is on the terrorist group Al-Qaeda and the US Patriot Act. This paper will discuss the history, ideology, structure, targets and tactics of Al-Qaeda. I will discuss the history and goals of the US Patriot Act as well as the controversy that surrounds it. Finally I will discuss how the US Patriot Act serves as a deterrent to Al-Qaeda by enhancing domestic security against terrorism, enhancing surveillance procedures and removing obstacles to investigate terrorism. I hope

Comparing and Contrasting the Texas and U.S Constitutions The Texas Constitution (1876) as well as the United States Constitution (1791) have a plethora of similarities conceptually, as they are both rooted with the same ideologies of democracy. However, what sets these two documents apart is that the Texas constitution goes into more depth on laws and how its government works. In contrast, the US Constitution is more vague allowing it to be a far more timeless and living document. This

Kodak’s top management never fully grasped how the world around them was changing. They hung on to now obsolete assumptions about who took pictures, why and when. Kodak always thought that people would never part with hard prints and that people valued film-based photos for their high quality. In other words, they saw digital as a direct substitute for film based photography. It was interesting to see how little this mindset had shifted even 20 years later. In the end, digital cameras came to dominate