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    Estella Alternate Ending

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    Unrequited love is love that is not reciprocated. It is unlikely that the person being loved will ever return the love even if a large amount of time has passed. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip falls in love with Estella the first time he meets her, but she does not love Pip back. Throughout Pip’s life, he thinks about how beautiful Estella is and how she was meant for him. The novel ends with an original ending, where Pip finds out how Estella has remarried so he remains single, and

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    The first world war saw a lot of refusal towards the war effort by men which made the government afraid due to the futile and indiscriminate slaughter of the British army at the battle of the Somme in 1916 where General Haig's tactics failed to show success which resulted in Britain losing a vast majority of soldiers by 1916. Therefore the government feared that they might lose World War one as well because there a lot of casualties which needed to be replaced and many men were becoming antisocial

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    peace. The results of these recaps always lead to tears because it seems like every day I have failed to obtain the standards set for myself. As you sit here reading this half of my Texel flock loll without lambs; while at the least a quarter of the Shropshire flock lay dead. Plus, an Algebra 2 grade that represents that of a mentally misguided moron, a sick uncle, as well as, an additional plethora of pitiful and painful proceedings have led me to believe that the deluge of debacles

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    Blackhall Manor can be thought a cradle of kings, as the Stuart dynasty of Scotland and England find their beginnings in Walter FitzAlan at Blackhall. Also at Paisley, Walter endowed a Cluniac monastery in Paisley in Renfrewshire, importing monks from Shropshire, which monastery grew into Paisley Abbey in Walter's lifetime. In later years Walter would be buried

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    How life on Earth started is one of the most enigmatic subject discussed around the world. Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1909, he was from Shrewsbury, Shropshire England. He was the fifth child of six children, had a father who was a wealthy doctor and a mother who was a financier and although his family was Unitarian Darwin attended the Anglican Shrewsbury School. In 1825, Charles Darwin became an apprentice doctor at the University of Edinburgh Medical school, but sadly he did not like

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    things the Romans did for Britain was build roads. When the Romans established in Britain they built lots of high-quality straight roads. The main roads that the Romans built were from London to York (via Lincoln), London to Wroxeter (a village in Shropshire), London to Dover and Exeter to York via Bath, Cirencester and Lincoln. The new roads meant that it was much easier and simpler for the emperors to control their empire. This was because they could send messages and orders quickly. The roads helped

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    in 1792 in search of work. He found employment working on Somerset House in the capitol, but later moved to Portsmouth to work on the docks. A patron from Dumfries got him the post of Surveyor of Public Works for the County of Shropshire. In this capacity he was responsible for the construction of the Ellesmere Canal in 1793, and the Severn Suspension Bridge at Montford (1790). This bridge was an

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    Monsoon Wedding Essay

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    Monsoon wedding”(2007), an award winning movie, directed by mira nair. Features widely known Indian actors, such as Vasundhara Das, Naseeruddin Shah and Vijay Raaz. The film is based on the autobiographical account of Mira Nair's own family.( Manish Gajjar 2002) It is about a stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten events coordinator, and relatives from around the world who create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India (IMDB). The excellent exploitaation

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    Anglo Saxon Legal System

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    The two sources provide valuable perspectives into the legal system within the anglo saxon period. The Anglo Saxon legal system was based around the King who was the secular and spiritual leader of the country.The King first had to centralise his power and become the most influential person to then delegate to others in his kingdom; resulting in the creation of the earls, who ruled over their individual earldoms and carried out the King’s orders given to them through writs, enforcing justice and

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    Edward Thomas

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    battles, etc... but poets are another thing that some people find important about the war. There were 25 poets during World War one and three of them are Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke. Wilfred Owen was born on March 18, 1893 in Shropshire, England. In 1906 he went to school at Birkenhead Institute until his family moved to Shrewsbury where he continued to go to school at a Technical School. At the age 17 Owen started to experiment with poetry and attempted to attend the University

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