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Contains 28 Results:

Sprowl, Susan W. - A paper that rebuts Carl Sandburg's beloved, well-known poem, "Fog," by contending that his cat metaphor is inadequate to describe ocean fog, Feb. 26, 2020

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Paper description As a small boat sailor along the coast of Maine, Susan insists that ocean fog needs a comparison more muscular than a domestic cat metaphor. She writes that a stronger metaphor is necessary to depict the fearsome beauty, power, and challenge of fog at sea. After teaching herself to sail in fog by employing her own sensory sailing techniques, she shares some of her boating stories about ocean fog off the coast of Maine. She believes that Sandburg would choose a different metaphor to write...
Dates: Feb. 26, 2020

Morris, Cathy - Left or Right, Who Knows?, Dec. 11, 2019

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After many years of driving an automobile, how does a person of "a certain age" go about renewing a driver's license? The following memoir explains the process, as well as goes back to the initial learning of how to drive a car. Included is some information on when states first began requiring individuals to pay for licenses and when testing of driving skills was instituted.

Dates: Dec. 11, 2019

Webster, Lucia - A New Progressive Era?, Feb. 12, 2020

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Paper description This paper is divided into five sections in addition to a conclusion. These five sections are: What was the Progressive Era? What was America like at the dawn of the Progressive Era? Were there early Predecessors of the Progressive Era? The Two Great Progressive Presidents and Chicago's Place in the Progressive Era. I define the Progressive Era as the time period in US history between roughly 1820 and 1920. I give a detailed explanation of the effect of the industrial revolution in America...
Dates: Feb. 12, 2020