Dickens had encountered that narrative trope in the stories written by the Lowell mill girls, who typically published either anonymously or under pseudonyms like “Dorothea” or “M.” In one anonymous story called “A Visit from Hope,” the narrator is “seated by the expiring embers of a wood fire” at midnight, when a ghost, an old man with “thin white locks,” appears before him. The ghost takes the narrator back to scenes from his youth, and afterward the narrator promises to “endeavor to profit by the advice he gave me.” Similarly, in “A Christmas Carol,” Scrooge is sitting beside “a very low fire indeed” when Marley’s ghost appears before him. And, later, after Scrooge has been visited by the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future, he promises, “The spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Poor Law - 11 views
Was Dickens's Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell's mill girls? - Ideas - The Boston G... - 0 views
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That’s not how the scholars see it. Literary borrowing, even quite detailed borrowing, was accepted practice at the time—“It was just a different way of looking at things back then,” says Archibald. (“American Notes,” for instance, includes many pages of writing by the famed 19th-century physician Samuel Gridley Howe, all without attribution, and apparently without any thought by Dickens that he was doing something improper.)
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This is a efficent infograph because its shows you the statistics of how many likes each mascot has for baseball. the illistrater is was making a point that the type of mascot is better than each other.
Deforestation Stats | Forest Data & Tables: Mongabay - 6 views
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A page that leads to many other deforestation resources-some with statistics about deforestation, others with an overview, photos, a deforestation blog and even waysto explain deforestation to children!
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A page that leads to many other deforestation resources-some with statistics about deforestation, others with an overview, photos, a deforestation blog and even waysto explain deforestation to children!
Uses of the Rainforest - 6 views
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This article was adapted from another article to turn the tables on the reader. At first, you think that the rainforest needs to be protected because it is one of the few places where this valuable wood can be found. Later on, you learn that certain valued products across the world are made from that wood, so deforestation must continue.
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This article was adapted from another article to turn the tables on the reader. At first, you think that the rainforest needs to be protected because it is one of the few places where this valuable wood can be found. Later on, you learn that certain valued products across the world are made from that wood, so deforestation must continue.
Study: Economic Boost of Deforestation Is Short-Lived - TIME - 19 views
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The argument for deforestation has always been that the economic benefits to local communities are too great to overlook, but now new research in the current issue of Science suggests that's not true.
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The argument for deforestation has always been that the economic benefits to local communities are too great to overlook, but now new research in the current issue of Science suggests that's not true.
Deforestation Facts, Deforestation Information, Effects of Deforestation - National Geo... - 17 views
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This article gives concise explanation of background and some of the various causes, including some of the more complex causes. It goes on to explain that the issue is multi-faceted and even begins to discuss the implications of deforestation policies.
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This article gives concise explanation of background and some of the various causes, including some of the more complex causes. It goes on to explain that the issue is multi-faceted and even begins to discuss the implications of deforestation policies.
Scholastic News: Rain Forest - 19 views
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The following is an excerpt from Grolier's The New Book of Knowledge and explains how human activities have taken a toll on the rain forest and how the effects of rain forest destruction are far reaching, and in most cases are impossible for scientists to assess and predict.
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The following is an excerpt from Grolier's The New Book of Knowledge and explains how human activities have taken a toll on the rain forest and how the effects of rain forest destruction are far reaching, and in most cases are impossible for scientists to assess and predict.
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Day of the Dead, El Dia de Muertos - 14 views
