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    Memo 7 The Rhodesian Bush War lasted approximately 15 years, from July 1964 to December 1979. It is one of the longer civil wars of the 20th century, especially when the years of political unrest leading up to open conflict are taken into account. Its length was due to a variety of factors that fit within the existing theories of civil war length. While the war was an anti-colonial civil war, which are often brief, it was fought predominately as a peripheral insurgency, with insurgent forces maintaining

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    Robert Frost is a poet who is known for writing simple stories that contains deeper meanings about life. In “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both depict measuring life's decisions as a piece of the account. These poems signify a journey, where one must choose between two paths in life. In both poems, the speakers reach a point of uncertainty in their journeys. Although both stories have similar aspects in life decisions, there are some differences. These differences

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    Robert Frost is the writer of the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, and he wrote it in 1923 for more political reasons instead of anything else. It was first published in a Yale review then later published in the state of New Hampshire. The style of the poem is more of a narrative, it paints a picture in my head of what is happening in it. It is not too long, but in the short length it spills a lot about the ideal of it. Frost is the main person speaking to us in this he is telling about his experience

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    The works of poet Robert Frost are in fact famous for his time, because they impacted the world of poetry. Though his poems bring the theme of nature, there is more to his rich poetry. His poems shape an image of life and how life interacts with the surrounding environment. Robert Frost’s two poems "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "After Apple Picking," talk about the reality of life by telling the story of a person in their early life compared to a person at the end of life. Some

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    Robert Frost wrote this poem during the a time where people believed the end of the world was approaching, this may have had some influence on his poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". He wrote it in 1923 , which was shortly after WW2 and there was much speculation of the end. Growing up his life was dreadful, mental illness ran in his family and his wife even experianced depression. Although hard to tell without the full poem, the poem Nothing Gold can stay is probably a narrative. The poem tells about

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    Robert Frost wrot "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Roberts life suggest about his Golden Age which is his childhood and his point of view is his self. The problem of this poem is that gold can not stay forever because your childhood is a once only deal and once you've past your childhood you aren't gold any longer. This poem was created in 1923 in New Hampshire. This poem belongs to everybodies childhood because we are gold when we are young. Roberts poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a Narrative telling a

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    most popular stories, “Big Blonde,” won the O. Henry Award in 1929. In addition to her writing, Dorothy Parker was a noted member of the New York literary scene in 1920s. She formed a group called the Algonquin Round Table with writer Robert Benchley and playwright Robert Sherwood. This artistic crowd also included such members as The New Yorker founder Harold Ross, comedian Harpo Marx, and playwright Edna Ferber among others. The group took its name from its hangout—the Algonquin Hotel, but also known

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    “False Hearts” written by Laura Lam is a sci-fi thriller novel which takes place in a near-future San Francisco, which focuses on two twins that were once conjoined named Taema and Tila. Their ethnicity is part Samoan, in addition, their sexual preference is bisexual. Taema and Tila use to once live in The Hearth, run by a cult leader named “Mana-ma.” People from The Hearth have very limited knowledge of modern technology as well as being kept away from modern society. The twins shared a heart for

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    collaborative multimedia performance’s. He created and performed this piece while he was still teaching at Black Mountain College. "The Event" included art such as poetry readings, music, dance, photographic slide projections, film, and the four panels of Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings. Reading more about John cage has help me get a better understanding that art comes in many forms and sounds. John Cage was the most influential composer of chance music. This is where he would choose the pitches, rhythms

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    Professor Marston and the Wonder Women tells a bold and provocative story about psychologist and college professor William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), and the behind-the-scenes realities which led to his conceiving of, and authoring an initial run of comic books, introducing his creation of Wonder Woman to readers of all ages in the 1940s.  Prior to that, years before, Marston claimed to be the inventor, along with wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), of the first-ever legitimate polygraph, or lie detector

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