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University of Pennsylvania: Robert Hooke
A brief description of his scientific career and accomplishments.
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Upenn: Oral Traditions in Africa (Lesson Plan)
This website features a lesson plan that can be used by teachers K-12 on oral traditions found in Africa.
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Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
This site contains links to various reviews and criticisms on Ralph Ellison and his landmark book, "Invisible Man."
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University of Pennsylvania: Literature of the Holocaust: Battle of Stalingrad
A brief discussion of the Battle of Stalingrad. Focuses primarily on the siege that took place and the destruction of the German Sixth Army.
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University of Penn: Leonard Moss' "Arthur Miller"
As the title implies, this website from the University of Pennsylvania provides an excerpt from the preface of Moss' biography of Miller. The excerpt discusses Miller's position as a "social dramatist."
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University of Pennsylvania: African Literature Activity
Specific personal site from the University of Pennsylvania geared towards teachers and students, for it offers a lesson plan on Egyptian history and African literature. Brief summary of lesson plan.
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University of Pennsylvania: Personalizing Nazis' Homosexual Victims
This page has the story of a homosexual man, Josef Kohout, who survived the Holocaust. (Published June 26, 1995)
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University of Pennsylvania: Facts About the Oramo East Africa
Provides outline about Oromo of East Africa.
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University of Pennsylvania: Writers From Bolivia
Provides a brief list of well known women writers from Bolivia.
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University of Pennsylvania: Understanding Poetry
This site from the University of Pennsylvania offers the text to the prefatory letter to the teacher from the book UNDERSTANDING POETRY AND ANTHOLOGY FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS.
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War & Peace in Classical Antiquity
Several book titles useful for studying Classical Antiquity.
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Mary Harris Mother Jones
A short, easy-to-understand biography of Mother Jones (1837-1930 CE) who was active in union and labor movements.
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University of Pennsylvania: Quotations of John Cage
John Cage, the American minimalist composer, often made interesting commentaries on his music and culture in general. Here are some select examples of his remarks.
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University of Pennsylvania: "A" Apple Pie
Younger students discover letters A-Z in this colorful story-like tutorial.
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Penn Library: European New World Narratives
Brief analysis on the nature of European narratives about their explorations in the New World.
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Penn Library: Captivity Narratives
Provides a brief explanation of the role of captivity narratives in the pre-Colonial and Colonial periods in American history. Contains reproductions of primary source documents. RI.11-12.9 17,18.19th Cen Historic
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Mandala: Buddhist Tantric Diagrams
Mandalas are used in the rituals of tantric initiation in Tibetan Buddhism and they influence the design and decoration of Tibetan monasteries.
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Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Maintained by a group called "A Celebration of Women Writers," this site offers an online text version of Fisher's "Understood Betsy." The story can be linked by individual chapters, and includes illustrations.
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William Carlos Williams: The Barroness
Full text of a chapter from William Carlos Williams's autobiography, "The Baroness," which provides a personal view poetry and culture after World War I.
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Personal: Allan Ginsberg Article by Herbert Mitgang
This personal site offers an article written by Herbert Mitgang. The article was an overview on how the FBI and other agencies harassed and targeted Ginsburg and other authors it deemed "potentially dangerous".
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Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This is the full text of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1911 pamphlet that served to encourage women to rally to the cause of woman suffrage.
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Romanticism: Authors
This resource provides links to many authors of the Romantic era. Biographies, works, and portraits are displayed for each author.
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University of Pennsylvania: "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens
This is the text of the poem "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens.
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U Penn Library: Dreiser's Critical Reputation
A scholarly paper on Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and the problem of using words to communicate as opposed to tone and other non-verbal means.