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The image is just a small excerpt explaining the difficulties of being a signalman. Apparently, I was very easy for a signalman to cause a collusion between two trains. This is because the signalman is trying to move one train from danger, but that…

For Spring Break 2019, I went to London for 5 days where I was able to go to the Tower of London which guards the Crown Jewels. In class, we briefly spoke about the Koh-I-Noor diamond when having to read The Illustrated London News (September, 8,…

An image of Queen Victoria wearing the Koh-I-Noor diamond as a broach

In his book, preventing violence, James Gilligan shows the reader what contributes to the offenders violent outbursts. He shows the readers the internal and socioeconomic reasons that someone is pushed to the edge and returns with violence.

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This note appears in within the first few pages of Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. He says he has compiled a dozen of his "minor novels" into this collection, so that readers may be able to access his stories easier. Being…

In the preface to James' first collection of ghost stories, he expresses his unmet desire to have had a greater amount of illustrations alongside his novel. The four that did make it to publication, none of which accompanied "The Mezzotint, "were…

Much of Hardy's oeuvre concerns the matter of marriage, and all of the complexities surrounding it; Though Hardy never explicitly mentions his own views on marriage within his works themselves, leaving his outlook to be implicitly discerned. However,…

This is an American patriotic song about the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II. It was written by Frank Loesser and published as sheet music in 1942. The song is based on stories of a military chaplain that…