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    “The greatest unsolved mystery in the Americas.”-Fred Willard, the director of The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research. In 1587 John White, an artist from England, and pronounced governor of the Roanoke expedition, was sent with approximately one hundred and fifteen men, women, and children to stabilize a colony on the Island of Roanoke, in the Outer Banks. Promptly after settling in Roanoke the colonists were in need of supplies; John White left for England for materials in 1587 and returned

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    A miracle on ice happened during the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. These Olympic games were being held in the midst of the Cold War and ironically the finalists in men’s hockey were hosting a war of their own. A battle for the gold medal was taking place and the two teams battling for glory were the underdog USA team and the best team in the world, the Soviets/Team Russia. This specific game is one of legend because it really was a “miracle on ice” watching the underdog USA team defeat the untouchable

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    Imagine, a small colony of about 110 people peacefully getting settled into their new lives in North America only to vanish three years later without a trace. This was a reality for John White as the only thing he came back to in the colony of Roanoke was the word “CROATOAN” and the mystery of their disappearance. In 1587, John White and a small band of people set foot on Roanoke Island and formed a colony. This colony was made up of about 110 English men, women and children, and although small

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    Roanoke Colony

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    The Roanoke colony was established in the late 16th century. It was established by Queen Elizabeth 1 to settle the English in American. The land that was colonized in present day Dare County, North Carolina. This colony is famous because colonists disappeared during the Anglo - Spanish war, three years after the last shipment from England. No one knows what ever happened the colonist. The Roanoke voyage first started on April 27 1584 when they left England to go sail to America they arrived July

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    Dbq Roanoke Colony

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    disappeared over 400 years ago we never found out what happened to them or where they went, but the downfall of the first attempt at making a colony on Roanoke Island does offer some clues as to what might have happened. In 1584, Queen Elizabeth allowed Sir Walter Ralegh to establish a colony on Roanoke Island and he did begin to do so, but after some time things went south with the Roanoke Indians who already lived there and the English retreated back to England. Against common sense, Ralegh decided to launch

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    “The Passionate to His Love”, “The Nymph’s Reply”, and “Raleigh Was Right” were all written by 3 authors. The authors who wrote “Passionate Shepard” are Marlowe which is the first poem. “The nymph’s Reply” was written by Raleigh, the last poem Raleigh was right” was written Williams. Williams transformed Marlowe and Raleigh’s central ideas by focusing on flowers, love and nature. Williams transformed the central idea of flowers because in Marlowe’s poem the shepherd says, “A cap of flower and a

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    The poems “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, “The Nymph’s Reply to The Shepherd”, and “Raleigh Was Right” by Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Carlos Williams, respectively, all share and develop a commentary of the ephemeral nature of the world around us, revealing what they believe serves as impermanent pleasures in an impermanent life. While Marlowe’s poem has a different view than the other two poems, it is here the theme of experiencing the good parts of life, and more

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    Walter Ruttman

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    A secondary important figure in defining and examining the absolute film movement within Germany during the 1920s is Walter Ruttman. Unlike Richter he began as a student of architecture and graphic design, which shaped his identity as an experimental filmmaker and accounts for the prominence of shapes and lines within his films. He began his career as filmmaker directly after his release from a hospital in Berlin for treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his experiences in WW1. His

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    The English Renaissance the english renaissance is a time of great culture and writing. the renaissance means rebirth it started after the medieval ages in 1485 and led to our modern age in 1660. it had writers such as sir walter raleigh, John Donne, edmund spenser, and of course the greatest writer in history william shakespeare whose plays still to this day touch the lives of millions. after the english renaissance there was a period called the enlightenment where people such as John Locke, Francis

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    Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who was born November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was famous for his anchorman role for CBS Evening News, “his style [was] honesty, impartiality and level-headedness, and “And that's the way it is” was his jaunty nightly sign-off.” (Biography.com Editors) Cronkite reported several breaking news stories, especially during World War II bombings, Nuremberg trials, Vietnam War updates, Iran Hostage Crisis, and the assassination

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