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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Matilda Gathering Flowers

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The First Canzone of the ConvitoFragment: Adapted from the Vit...Matilda Gathering Flowers From the Purgatorio Of Dante, Canto 28, Lines 1-51. Published in part (…

Brewer's: Blow

(To). As the wind blows; or to blow with the breath. (Anglo-Saxon, blawan, to blow or breathe.) It will soon blow over. It will soon be no longer talked about; it will soon come to an end…

Transitions

  Applicants often ignore transitions to their own detriment. A good essay must use transitions within paragraphs--and especially between paragraphs--to preserve the logical flow…

Yoshiro Mori, 2000 News

Japanese politician, was elected prime minister by Parliament in April, succeeding Keizo Obuchi, who died in May after a debilitating stroke. A 30-year member of Parliament, Mori had most…

Entertainment News from May 1999

1Oscar-nominated actor Greg Kinnear marries longtime girlfriend, model-writer Helen Labdon in Sussex, England.4Bryant Gumbel will be back in the morning anchor seat come fall. CBS announces…

Robert Tools, 2001 News

received the first self-contained artificial heart in July. The device, the AbioCor, was surgically implanted by doctors at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky. Tools was near death from end-…

Abdurraham Wahid, 2001 News

Indonesian president, was forced from power by Parliament in July because of incompetence and corruption. He was replaced by Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Wahid's downfall was long…

Ehud Olmert, 2006 News

Israeli politician, was named Acting Prime Minister in January, after Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke. His party, Kadima, fared the best in March's parliamentary elections, and he…