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    ENGL101 Final May 15, 2012 Invention Conan O’Brien gave his commencement speech at Dartmouth in 2011, congratulating the graduating class and imparting a few words of wisdom.During his speech, he appealed mostly to pathos and ethos, being as this was a commencement speech, there wasn’t very much need to appeal to logos using stats or facts. He used pathos to appeal to the graduating students by telling about his falling out with NBC and how he came back to fame with his talk show on TBS. He

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    I. Name of Experience: Project Preservation Organization (if applicable): Dartmouth Hillel Location: 10-week study at Dartmouth, 2.5 week service trip to Poland and Greece Dates: Spring 2016 Description of activities: Studied the Holocaust; visited Auschwitz; reconstructed a Jewish cemetery What you learned: I learned that genocide is a highly-organized, step-by-step social and political downward spiral into the depths of human evil. While visiting Auschwitz, I saw people taking selfies throughout

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    graduated from Lawrence High School. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in the autumn of 1892. After leaving school, Frost did various jobs, including worker, teacher and journalist. His first professional poem, “My Butterfly. An Elegy” was published on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent. He proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam

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    People have different types of lifestyle, personality, thoughts, careers, and choices, but in the world, there are only a few people who have similar thoughts, ideas, and a passion for writing such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. These poets express their emotions and feelings, in their poems. In this paper I will compare two poems by Dickinson “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “A Bird came down the Walk,” and two poems by Frost, “Acquainted with the Night” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy

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    Frost, By Robert Frost

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    Prior to Frost’s pursuit of poetry, he had worked on a farm. Having done that, he had many hours on the land, with time to appreciate the green colors and natural sounds and beauty. Robert Frost had educational background, including the renowned Dartmouth College and Harvard University, left his

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    Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Dartmouth College is a private charter school. It was founded in 1769 in the state that would become New Hampshire in 1776. Because of the creation of the state, Woodward, who was representing New Hampshire, wanted to declare the school as public. The Supreme Court ruling upheld Dartmouth as private. This was an important case because it meant that the state could not overrule private institutions/ organizations. It created the American free enterprise system and allowed

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    (published in the November 8, 1894 edition of the New York Independent) for fifteen dollars. Proud of this accomplishment he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White. But sadly he was turned down by a lame excuse. The excuse was that she wanted to finish college before marriage. This made Robert really sad it did change his writing for awhile. For example he sometimes wrote about love and loving the same person throughout his life for over 10

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    8bac3398-8f30-44a6-a378-8c43deb38d02 The Business Ventures of Tracy, California’s Danny Olmstead A former NASCAR driver and experienced real estate professional, Danny Olmstead holds an associate of arts from Delta Junior College in Stockton, California, and a bachelor of science in finance from Stockton’s University of the Pacific (UOP). He attended UOP on a dean’s scholarship and finished his senior year with a 3.5 grade point average. Since 2008, Danny Olmstead has owned two residential property

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    Externalities…what are they, and why should I even care? According to Charlie Whelan at Dartmouth College, an externality is “any private behavior that has a spillover effect on somebody else who is not involved in the transaction. This behavior can be either positive or negative.” Positive externalities benefit those who are not involved while the opposite is true for negative externalities. Almost all companies around the world have chosen to externalise costs in order to boost their bottom

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    Scholars of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science and E. Mavis Hetherington, author of For Better or For Worse: Divorce Reconsidered, agree that “approximately 75-80 percent of children develop into well-adjusted adults with no lasting psychological or behavioral problems” (Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science). The Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science openly criticizes studies performed on children of divorce

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