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    Paris is a beautiful city during the day, but at night, it changes. The first thing that is seen are all the lights from the shops, buildings and streetlights. These lights brighten up Paris and give it a different but just as beautiful perspective at night. The Eiffel Tower, one of the top attractions in Paris that tourists come to see can be described as an iron, lace work of art, and the most recognized structure in the world, and at night with the glow of its lights, it stands out like a guiding

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    things. You will say, “I love Paris.” but why? Why do you love Paris? The answer is: You love Paris because you went there with your love, you visited all tourist spots with him, you took photos and stuck them onto your wall when you were young. You don’t love the Paris’ place on the map. You love the memories. So we love people, places and items due to memories but sometimes we can hate, irritate or dislike. Reverse the sentence to “I hate Paris.” Again you don’t hate Paris’ place in the map, you hate

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    upcoming events with the use of night. To start, the play opens up with the scene of Paris accusing Abigail of being in the woods late in the night, [ find quote] This use of darkness symbolizes the sinister act of witchcraft. The effect of these actions results in Betty lying in bed, sick. She supposedly cannot move and is despondent. She's been like this since midnight, “Then why can she not move herself since midnight?” (pg.10) It’s almost as if the bleeding darkness is also at fault for Betty’s illness

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    visitor in 2010. It is also the tallest tower in Paris, standing at 1063 feet tall. The tower is made of iron, which is known as an iron lattice tower. If you didn’t know where the Eiffel Tower got its name, it came from the engineer of the tower. It was named after Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, he and his company designed and built the tower. This is a tower where a lot of tourists paid to tour. The location of the Eiffel Tower is on Champ de Mars of Paris. The hours of the location is 9 a.m. to 12 a.m

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    name.” Juliet substantially knew what she was getting herself into. Juliet also didn't listen when the nurse was trying to help her. “I am the drudge and toil in your delight, but you shall bear, the burden soon at midnight.” The nurse was trying to reassure Juliet, that marrying Paris is the better option, and that everything will be alright. Lastly Juliet is to blame because she kissed Romeo's poisonous lips. “ I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,To make me die with a restorative

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    Events: French and Indian War French and the indians attacked the colonies and started a war.The british expected the colonist to help repay the debt britain had for the expense war and the colonist thought this was unfair. Treaty of Paris 1763:The treaty of Paris declared that France lost all of its North american. The british thought the colonists were beneath them and the the colonists thought the british were snobs. Proclamation of

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    The changes that occurred in gender relations at the turn of the twentieth century were a factor in the emergence of modernism. The first wave of the Feminist Movement began during this period with the New Woman as its protagonist. The New Woman was a figure that was independent, relatively sexually liberated and educated. Many women no longer lived their lives according to the Victorian ideal required for them and it became more acceptable for women to be seen unaccompanied outdoors and working

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    The "People's Princess"            Diana Frances Spencer was born July 1, 1961, at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk. She was the youngest daughter of three (Sarah b. 1955 and Jane b. 1957), and she had a younger brother Charles (born 1964). Her parents were Viscount and Viscountess Althorp, now the late (8th) Earl Spencer, and the Honorable Mrs. Shand-Kydd, daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy. Earl Spencer was Equerry to George VI from

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    Perrot in 1833. In 1841, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet and danced the lead in Giselle. She became a prominent romantic era ballerina. She retired in 1853 and she was known to wear the first blocked slipper to dance on pointe. Pas de Quatre dancer. The third dancer of this time was Lucille Grahn (1819- 1907) Danish dancer that studied with August Bournonville and danced the title role in his first production of La Sylphide. In 1839, she joined the Paris Opera ballet for three years. She often

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    Prussia: a country so forgotten Crayola even renamed its Prussian blue crayon midnight blue back in 1958 after deeming Prussia irrelevant to modern times. Located in central Europe and legally dissolved in 1947 as a part of the political reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War, Prussia quickly faded from memory. However, Prussia is not irrelevant. From Prussia came Frederick the Great, who redesigned eighteenth-century Europe; the Baron de Steuben, who helped America become a country;

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