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    connected to the other passengers on the ferry in his poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. “It avails not‚ time nor place – distance avails not‚ I am with you‚ you men and women of a generation‚ or ever so many generations hence‚ Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky‚ so I felt‚ Just as any of you is one of a living crowd‚ I was once of a crowd” (p. 1070). He feels connected to the other people that have in the past and will in the future ride the ferry on their commute home from work. It

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    Jules Ferry: On French Colonial Expansion (1884) 1 According to Ferry‚ what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? Jules Ferry states that France is in need of outlets to be able to export. He incorporates the fact that they do have major industries such as textile but that they are in urgent need of what he explains as outlets. He goes on by saying that Germany who is their neighbor have set up trade barriers and across the ocean the United States

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    Regarding the color‚ this is also portrayed differently in the two different parts of the painting‚ where in the city landscape more cool colors are found‚ meanwhile in the ferry‚ more warm colors are found. This was done based on present events‚ so most likely the reason why Estes painted the ferry red was because in real life the ferry is red. Although these can still be slightly altered in order to give a higher impact to the painting’s meaning‚ this could be by adding or taking away value and intensity

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    Australian poet attempts to explore these concepts in two of his poems ”Late Ferry” and “The North Coast” and a related text “The Relative Advantages of

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    First Battle of Bull Run (428) Since the Battle of Fort Sumpter‚ three months later‚ the first major battle during the civil war began on July 21‚ 1861 which was called The First Battle of Bull Run in Manassas. During this major battle‚ General Irvin McDowell commanded the large Union army while General Pierre G.T. Beauregard commanded the Confederate army. The Union perceived that they would make a quick and swift victory with very little loss‚ but it was the opposite. At the time both sides

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    Windshield Survey and Reflection Windshield Survey and Reflection A windshield survey was conducted in the community of Staten Island‚ New York to obtain a detailed assessment through visual observations within the surroundings of the community. There are many variations of the definition of community one coming from the World Health Organization defining community as “A group of people‚ often living in a defined geographical area‚ who may share a common culture‚ values and norms‚ and are arranged

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    finish his program which later became Facebook without worrying about the burdens of school. Mark Zuckerberg is the son of Karen and Edward Zuckerberg. He was born and raised in New York‚ But he was born in White Plains New York and raised in Dobbs Ferry New York. When Mark Zuckerberg began classes at Harvard he was already considered a programming prodigy. During his sophomore year he wrote a program called CourseMatch which was a big help and assisted his classmates. Zuckerberg created a program

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    Sarah Phillips  Michael Christian  Anna Whitney  Cornelius Vanderbilt    How he acquired his wealth ­   ● Through shrewd competition in the shipping industry when he owned several  steamship lines  ● Owned many powerful railroads that helped make cross­country transportation  cheaper and more efficient  ● First investment was a loan of $100 from his parents when he was 16‚ so he  could buy a boat to transport people from Staten Island to Manhattan; repaid the  loan and shared $1‚000 of the profit with his parents within a year 

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    ’Poetic Language is used to Capture Human Experiences; `In Robert Gray’s poems‚ he uses language to capture human experiences. In two of his poems; old house and late ferry‚ gray has effectively captured human experiences by his varies poetic languages and through insight and feeling. Throughout both texts late ferry and old house‚ gray’s main message in the poems‚ with his critical analysis‚ is the destruction of nature by mankind. In old house‚ gray has captured the human experience

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    James Wright’s poem “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry‚ Ohio” was published in 1963‚ and like many of his other works‚ points focus toward the nature of human life in the Rust Belt region of America. The open form poem follows a narrator’s thoughts of his immediate and regional surroundings while watching a high school football game. Within the Rust Belt‚ poverty was common due to the after effects of the Great Depression and the decline in mining‚ and sports were one of the ways that children of impoverished

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