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    accessibility of the Pell Grant and asking you to support the Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act. Many students seeking higher education struggle to pay their tuition. They cannot afford to be at school for more than four years and cannot handle the pressure of taking a more than the suggested course load to graduate on time. One way to make higher education more accessible is to expand the eligibility of the Federal Pell Grant to winter and summer semester. If the Federal Pell Grant is available year

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    Oscar Wilde wrote himself into history as a sharp and pungent writer and an exceptional personality with a suitable epigram at hand for every occasion. He is‚ though‚ perhaps most well-known for his infamous relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas‚ which resulted in Wilde being sentenced to two years of hard labor for homosexual offences. However‚ Wilde left to the world not only the fascinating story of his own life‚ but also a number of literary works in a variety of genres‚ both fictional and non-fictional

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    The Model Millionaire‚by Oscar Wilde I. Presentation of the story The short story The Model Millionaire is part of the book Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories‚ a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It is a third-person narrative‚ whose narrator starts the text expressing his opinions and judgments about the characters. Hughie‚ the main character‚ is described as a very handsome man‚ whose beauty is useless‚ because he is poor

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    An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde Themes The Rococo Tapestry Act I takes place against the backdrop of a Rococo tapestry‚ a representation of François Boucher’s "Triumph of Love" (1754). The "Triumph" allegorizes the victory of love over power: Venus points to Vulcan’s conquered heart‚ and the god gazes up at her like a love-sick boy. Though the most obvious reading might consider the tapestry as prefiguring the defeat of Mrs. Cheveley and reconciliation of the play’s

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    affirmation of common ideas: fidelity‚ duty‚ forgiveness‚ etc. Although ‘An Ideal Husband’ adopts these motifs‚ it also makes fun them through the exaggerated ideas of love and friendship each character represents. The play ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ by Oscar Wilde presents a window into the minds and manners of the upper class Victorian society of London. He satirizes the hypocrisy‚ which underlies the day-to-day behavior of the so-called aristocrats‚ and mocks at their shallow morals and beliefs‚ especially

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    Executive Summary Pell Grant Program This report is a response to the following questions: What is the purpose of the Pell grant program‚ and based on the performance of the program how should it be funded for the 2015 fiscal year? This report will answer questions regarding the Pell grant by first addressing the history and development of the grant program from when it was first implemented to now‚ and analyzing the achievements and goals of the program in order to make an informed decision

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    Case Study Example Oscar Mayer Case / MKT 300 / 2009 This is an example of an “A” case write-up from a past course. Notice the paper is clear‚ concise‚ and focuses on the author’s recommendation but also brief and to the point. – There is a short description of the case written in the author’s own words summarizing the situation and identifying the core issue. There is not regurgitation of the case meaning the author did not repeat the case word-for-word instead he/she chose to state the situation

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    meant to be created and viewed for nothing by the sake of art itself. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a proponent of his movement towards the end of his life. The first portion of this two-part essay will convey Oscar Wilde’s views of aestheticism and the value of art. The second part will compare Wilde’s assessment of what art should be to Henry James’s (1843-1916) The Turn of the Screw. I In his 1891 essay The Critic as Artist‚ Oscar Wilde debates that the criticism of art is an important and often

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    3 October 2012 Oscar Wilde‚ Victorian or Anti-Victorian? Oscar Wilde was a writer during the end of the Victorian era. This is one of the reasons that it is difficult‚ and still debated‚ whether he was a Victorian writer or not. His private life was far from the puritanical image of the Victorian era. The Victorian age was full of rigid sensibilities‚ while the anti-Victorian movement veered in the complete opposite direction. The anti-Victorians were much more adventurous with sex. There

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    Oscar Wilde And His Fairy Tales I. Introduction Wilde‚ Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) (b. Oct. 16‚ 1854‚ Dublin‚ Ire ?d. Nov. 30‚ 1900‚ Paris‚ Fr.) Irish wit‚ poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1899). He was a spokesman for Aestheticism‚ the late19th-century movement in England that advocated art for art’s sake. However‚ Oscar Wilde’s takeoff of his enterprise and‚ his shaping of his characteristic

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