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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman that can be best described under a countless amount of titles. She was a women’s rights activist, feminist, editor, writer, abolitionist, and the list continues. Living in a world in which women were made to feel inferior, Stanton utilized this oppression as a catalyst for permeating into male “territory”. Fortunately for her, particular opportunities came about naturally, being that she was raised in a privileged household. Her parents were of high respect in their

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    background. In his late twenties, Walter joined forces with some of the most powerful Norman figures in England, engaging a series of battles in which the throne of England was at stake. On one side was the claimant Stephen of Blois, and opposing him Matilda (called "Maud"), the daughter of recently deceased King Henry I. In these contests, Walter FitzAlan linked up with Scotland's King David and also with one of King Henry's sons named Reginald Dunstanville, a half-brother of Maud [10]. Although their

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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnston, New York on november 12,1815. She had 10 brothers and sisters, but only one brother. Her only brother died at the age of 22, she then had four siblings left. Her parents preferred boys over girls, so she tried to be the most like a boy that she could. She tried to be like a boy learning greek and horsemanship. All her father said was “Oh my daughter I wish you were a boy.” Her dad Daniel Cady was a very successful lawyer, and her

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    The authors Horace Walpole and Edgar Allan Poe use themes that keeps the reader enticed and wanting to know more. The Castle of Otranto and The Fall of The House of Usher” are two gothic tales that use the elements of surprise and fear. However one of these tales hold the key element of gothic literature where the reader can fantasize about the horror and suspense of the story. The Castle of Otranto is a story of death, darkness, and paranoia. The story begins with a prince name Manfred. He comes

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    The name of Australia comes from the Latin word Australis, which means southern. Since it lies entirely in the southern hemisphere, Australia is most commonly referred to as "down under". Australia, being a country, is also a continent. In land area it 's the sixth largest for a country and the smallest continent.<br><br>Australia is a very dry, thinly populated country. Very few coastal areas receive enough rainfall to support a large population. The largest group of Australian people live in two

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    What Is Otranto A Dynamic Character

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    characters are thoroughly superficial, shallow, and flat, almost to the point of being laughably so. A single character mold seems to have been applied to each character: Manfred is the incestuous tyrant, Hippolita is the helplessly devoted wife, Matilda is the picture of “tenderness and duty” (38), and Theodore is the chivalrous protector of delicate young ladies. As some critics have pointed out, each character is described heavy-handedly, and the author provides no keys into the inner minds of

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    “Women’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws and customs are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man” (Stanton) Believed to be one of the greatest and most influential feminists of not only her generation, but of all time, Elizabeth Cady Stanton paved the way for women and their rights in a time when they had none. Elizabeth, was one of the first feminist theorists in America and through her beliefs that women deserve equality and equal rights, she

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    debt for ten years, ruining them economically and socially. After finally paying off their debts ten years later, the wife admits to her friend what really happened, only to be informed that the woman 's original necklace was a fake. “Oh! My poor Matilda! Mine were false. They were not worth over five hundred francs!” (Daley 37). If she had valued her social standings less, the woman would not have created such a disaster for herself and her husband and the crisis would have been avoided. A similar

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    New York the city that never sleeps. The buildings are astonishingly tall, from couple thousands feet in the air you could see the New York skyline, with the world trade center towering over the rest of the building. North of the trade center from a distance you can see the previous tallest building in NY the Empire state building and around there is called midtown/times square. Little bit more north you’ll see a large green square and is the only green/plants places you see in on the island. The

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