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    want to be reminded of all the things that he could have been visiting. But now he has to stay in hiding. “Meip’s afraid the Nazis will ship him off the Germany to work in one of their war plants. That’s what they’re doing with some of the young Dutchman . . . They pick them up off the streets-” (p. 36 Anne frank) Even though Anne was safe for a while, her friends were suffering some very unfair things just because they were Jews. A lot of people suffered just because they were

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    people have struggled with the sea flooding their lands and taking tens of thousands from the population. Faced with an on-going threat that repeated itself many times of the course of the country’s history, the Dutch developed ways to combat this. Dutchman built raised farmlands and villages with polders and countless amounts of windmills to try to remove water from the areas below sea level. In the nineteen thirties, the Dutch built a dike, the Afsluitdiijk, to aid in warding off the sea from flooding

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    The character does opposite of the society and tries to do there own things. They make their own rule and make their own story. Jack Sparrow is reminded he owes a debt to Davy Jones, who captains the Flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship with a crew from hell. Facing the "locker", Jack must find the heart of Davy Jones, but to save himself he must get the help of quick-witted Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. Will and Elizabeth are sentenced to hang unless Will can get Lord Cutler Beckett Jack's compass

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    African-Americans throughout the United States. Through their two protagonist's interactions with a representation of the white race of that time, Walter Lee's handling Mr. Lindner in A Raisin In the Sun, and the oppression of Clay caused by Lula in The Dutchman, the very the

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    Dr. John Seward plays a major role in helping defeat the vampires in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. However, he refrains from engaging in superstitious and religious means, he relies more on the sciences and facts in order to understand their nature and weakness. John Seward the former apprentice of Van Helsing is one of the main characters that are introduced to us by his journal entry. Seward is a talented young doctor, who now works at an insane asylum with his new patient Renfield. Throughout the

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    When looking at the origins of African-American Dramas specifically in Mulatto, Native Son, A Raisin in the Sun, Funnyhouse of a Negro, Great Goodness of Life, and Dutchman, the emotions of all these characters created the sense that everyone in this time were still searching for their identity. Each character in the plays had to overcome difficulties relating to their skin color, thus causing either confusion or confidence in their search for what defines them as their self. It created internal

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    Revolutionary Theatre Revolutionary Theatre opted for self-select segregation, violence, and community involment as tools for survival and teaching theatre during The Black Arts Movement. The founder of this undertaking was LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) a poet, political activist, playwright, author, and musician with a strong passion for the Black Aesthetic, a new art that gave life to the black experience in America at the pinnacle of the Civil Rights movement. Jones was the first person that followed

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    Our society has made excellent breakthroughs in the field of science and technology. From launching a rocket to the moon to creating the microscope. These breakthroughs began during the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution emerged towards the end of the Renaissance period and continued through the late 18th century. It marked the emergence of modern science. There were amazing scholars coming up with new philosophies during that century leading to new ideas and inventions. Many of the

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    driving through an oven, the hot wind all but scorching your face with every blast.... and it was just about to get the best of them. "Again?", his wife Shirley complained. It was enough to shake him from his thoughts about the tales of the Old Dutchman and his long lost gold mine that had cost so many people their lives when they looked for it. Fred glanced at his wife. "She looks so harmless", he thought to himself as he scanned ahead for an open patch on the side of the road where he could

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    up in the century of the Midwest, I was Irish decent. My father was an irish-American shoe salesman, and my mother was Scottish-irish descent. I was given a nickname, Dutch, I got that nickname because my dad thought that I looked like a little dutchman. I went to Silas Willard Elementary school for first grade, then Monmouth Central school for second and third grade ( I was promoted to third grade early.), then Tampico Grade school for fourth and fifth grade, once I finished fifth grade, I went

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