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    In the episode “Babylon” from the television show Mad Men, the power dynamic between Joan and Roger is unusual in that while Roger, a stereotypical white entitled male in the sixties, owns the ad agency and objectifies Joan, his desire for her, and her ability to manipulate his desire, allows her to take the power in the relationship and remain independent. America has had a historically dominant patriarchal system with a particular type of man in charge: the white, heterosexual, male, who until

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    Over time jewelry can lose its right-out-of the box sparkle. Tarnishing and scratches can occur from every day contact with objects and chemicals. When looking online there are many articles about cleaning jewelry and some can actually harm your jewelry. We can restore this shine and remove light scratches be using easily available items to make your jewelry shine like brand new. Before getting started with jewelry cleaning, here are a few tips: • Never use or allow your jewelry to come in contact

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    Donald Sterling Racist Comments There is a question floating around in the NBA (aka the National Basketball Association) community right now. Should Donald Sterling be banned for his racist comments? Yes, I think he should. What he said was not excusable even though he comes from a generation where saying those things is okay. He attempted to get his girlfriend to take pictures off Instagram because “she was publicizing the fact she was walking with a black man.” In his interview on CNN he

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    The Battle Of Pea Ridge

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    men and 44 guns. He chased down the Confederates in Springfield, Missouri. However, the Confederates, seeing that they were outnumbered, fled to Arkansas to consolidate with reinforcements. The Confederate Army (Army of the West) Major General Sterling Price commanded about 8,500 Confederates. Following the Confederate victory at Wilson 's Creek, Price 's men awaited orders in Springfield, Missouri when they heard that Curtis was leading 10,500 Union soldiers against them.

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    Mia Hebib- Bosnian Artist

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    Mia Hebib is a Bosnian born artist based out of New York, who works primarily in jewelry design and sculptural forms. She was in a show called “Islam Contemporary” at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts on August 2, 2013. Mia Hebib started her education as a jewler at the School for Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2001, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metals and Jewelry from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Mia moved to New York City to continue her exploration in metal

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    instructed the men to start destroying boats that could be used to cross the wide Missouri River. He also commanded the soldiers to collect any resources they found. Surprisingly they collected six cannons and 200 kegs of powder. Confederate General Sterling Price began fighting at Lexington on September 12 when two federal companies commenced firing upon them in the middle of their Cavalry advance. Price retreated to allow for his sluggish artillery to meet them in order that they might aid advancement

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    The Waste Land By Eliot

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    ‘It is obvious that we hear many voices in The Waste Land, less clear that what we hear is the voice of someone.’ Discuss. In this essay, I am going to argue that in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, we do hear many voices, but they are not the voice of an identifiable person, and that is entirely clear. Furthermore, it is not problematic that the reader is unable to identify a single speaker, as the distance that is created between the poem and the reader is a stylistic choice made by the poet. One

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    Cubism and Multiplicity of Narration in The Waste Land Abstract The aim of this essay is to consider the multiplicity of narration in The Waste Land and its relationship in enrichment of content and meaning in the poem. There is an attempt to convey the Cubist traits and find concrete examples in the poem. This study will try to specify evidences for conformity of cubism and multiplicity of narration in the poem. While Eliot juxtaposed so many perspectives in seemingly set of disjointed images,

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    Doolittle in 1886 to Helen and Charles Doolittle, her education was fostered by the intellectual curiosity of her parents (an artist and an astronomer, respectively) and the proximity of The University of Pennsylvania. Closely associated with poet Ezra Pound, she spent much of her adult and professional life surrounded by literary contemporaries. Doolittle was a woman whose work was not limited

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    playwrights of his time and his works are said to have promoted to "reshape modern literature". He was born in 1888 in St. Louis Missouri and studied at Harvard and Oxford. It was at Harvard where he met his guide Ezra Pound, and under the encouragement of Pound, Eliot expands his writing abilities and publish his first poem: the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot became an Englandcitizen in 1925 and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. In 1965, he died in London

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