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    program and the servitude; however she did like the sewing classes and needlework that the school offered as part of the domestic training. She learned how to sew quilts and pillowcases for members of her own family. One of her grandmother’s fondest memories was of the other students at the school-many of them Sioux who spoke the Dakota language. Although the assimilationists were committed to the repression of trial languages and culture, the Indian students learned each other’s tribal languages

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    Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy - Little Hans Chronological Summary of Events 1903 Hans born. (April) 1906 3 to 3 ¾ First reports. 3 ¼ to 3 ½ First visit to Gmunden. (Summer) 3 ½ Castration threat. 3 ½ Hanna born. (October) 1907 3 ¾ First dream. 4 Removal to new flat. 4 ¼ to 4 ½ Second visit to Gmunden. Episode of biting horse. (Summer) 1908 4 ¾ Episode of falling horse. Outbreak of phobia. (January) 5 End of analysis. (May) Background Little Hans (Herbert Graf)

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    Chapter 9: A Multiplicity of Heroes and the Civil War (1849 – 1869) Transcendentalism—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau While the exploration or exploitation—take your pick—of the American west was just beginning to flourish, two more of our Past Environmental Heroes—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—were sitting, thinking, and writing in the newly-formed Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As the original transcendentalists, Emerson and Thoreau believed that there was much more to

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    During Ronald Reagan’s rise to power, California was a hub of cultural change and ethnic diversity. Nevertheless, California embodied the American ideals of opportunity that proliferated during the era- the opportunity for prosperity and success and upward social mobility through hard work. The economic output of the “nation’s state” was spectacular, rivaling even some of the largest nations of the time, surpassed only by six other nations. (Governor Reagan) This unmatched economic dominance was

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    BookRags Literature Study Guide Ask the Dust by John Fante For the online version of BookRags' Ask the Dust Literature Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-ask-the-dust/ Copyright Information ©2000-2012 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction

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    Biography of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places during their wandering careers, are to be plainly traced in the play bills of the time. Paternal Ancestry The father of

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