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    painted by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted in the Tate Britain and completed in 1852 (Lewis par. 2). The painting shows a fictional actor from Shakespeare’s theatre piece the Hamlet. William Shakespeare’s work was a great inspiration for Sir John Everett (Lewis par. 2). The fictional character is called Ophelia. This painting by Sir John has since been celebrated for its uniqueness and attention to detail particularly nature. Ophelia has a value of £30 million. John Everett Millais and his

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    1. Nicole Everett is a twenty-two year old female born and raised in Higganum, Connecticut, a very small village of 1,671 that resides within the town of Haddam along the Connecticut River. Her father, Jeff, is an electrician that acquired his own practice at the age of twenty-three. He has always supported Nicole and pushed her to create her own dreams and accomplish them. Jeff raised Nicole with the confidence to belief in herself and not to succumb to doubt from other people or within. Her mother

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    Ernest Everett Just, born August 14, 1884 in Charleston, South Carolina passed away in Washington, D.C. on October 27, 1941. Ernest Just was an African –American biologist, scientist, and educator. He spent most of his adult life collecting, classifying, and caring for his marine specimens. He is a Dartmouth alumnus. He has faced racial discrimination all through his life that caused him many opportunities. Ernest study at Kimball Hall Academy in New Hampshire before he enrolled into Dartmouth College

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    Ulysses Everett McGill from “O Brother Where Art Thou” is a man of action whereas Odysseus from “The Odyssey” is a man of morality. Judging primarily on these statements, whom appears to be a man that one should follow? Many are attempting to justify how can two such great leaders be compared to one another? Everett is a worthy representation of Odysseus because of their similar attributes such as boasting and dishonesty. Yet at times both can be braver than any other, sharing not only attributes

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    Ernest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization. Ernest Everett just Born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, Ernest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator who pioneered many areas on the physiology of development, including fertilization, experimental parthenogenesis, hydration, cell division, dehydration in living cells and ultraviolet carcinogenic

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    Everett Ruess and Chris McCandless were two very different men, with two very different backgrounds. However, these two had the same dream; they wanted to tramp around in Alaska. When looking at Everett Ruess’s story and Chris McCandless’s story, many similarities and differences are present. But no matter what their stories are presented as the main point is that they always followed their own desires. Everett Ruess and Chris McCandless were similar in a number of ways. To begin, they both attended

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    Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives by Louise Lockwood is a film showing us how Mark Everett a rockstar from a band named Eels, soon began to understand who his father Hugh Everett really was after he had passed away. Mark had plenty of reactions when he began to puzzle everything he knew about his father together. Mark takes us through his journey with him, as he began to travel the world, and found his father’s old friends to get a better understanding of his father Hugh. While on his journey Mark

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    Professor Wallace Everett Caldwell was a professor of history at the University of North Carolina during 1922-1961. During his time at the University of North Carolina, he wrote a number of books and articles on ancient history. One of the books he wrote is The Ancient World, originally published in 1937. A revised edition was published in 1949. Caldwell’s The Ancient World revision include a rewrite of the first chapter, “Preliterary History,” to correlate the information with studies of the current

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    a much larger effect on me than I had anticipated. It taught me responsibility, independence, and strengthened my work ethic considerably. I was an assistant at Everett Vacuum, which meant cleaning, organizing, and restocking shelves. It was a great experience for me, and I believe it was a big help to my grandpa. While I was in Everett, I worked from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every weekday. For the first half of my stay, I tore out and reorganized the back rooms. Which ranged from sweeping, to taking out

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    USA Today article, written by Everett Rosenfeld on January 2014, proves different. “ A new study shows that a majority of Americans are living the American Dream, even if they largely don’t realize it.” This article explains that we may be living the American Dream, but based on our own perspective, we may not believe it. A senior fellow at Cato Institute, Daniel J. Mitchell, explains that he believes the American Dream will be continuous as long as the government keeps its boundaries: “Keeping

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