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- 11: The Scarlet Letter: Letters from the Heart
- The Scarlet Letter: Letters from the Heart I'm lonely. Being alone makes me feel like I'm lost, an outcast that doesn't deserve to stay here with the ones I love. They all ignore me now, they ...
- 12: Lesbian Poetry
- ... seen but when people did catch a glimpse of her, she was wearing white (Cody 30). Although she hardly ever got out she did not withdraw from society on a mental level. Dickinson wrote many letters to correspond with many friends and relatives. The letters which survived her death proved that her letter writing skills were comparable to her talent as a poet (Cody 38). In her writings she is "enigmatic and abstract, sometimes fragmented, and often forcefully sudden in emotion." She often included her poetry in these letters and was often encouraged to publish her work. After a failed attempt, though, she did not try again (Cody 42). Between seven and eleven of her poems were published during her lifetime but they ...
- 13: Cryptography
- ... algorithms ever used was the one called the Caesar cipher, that was used by Julius Caesar to send messages to his generals. It consisted simply of switching each letter with the letter that was 3 letters further down the alphabet. For example "Stephen" would become "Vwhskhq". To decrypt the message, the receivers would simply subtract 3 letters from each letter. This algorithm was later improved and called ROT13, where the letters could be shifted to any number between 1 and 25, and the number of letters shifted was the secret key. This very simple algorithm has been used on Usenet successfully to prevent people from ...
- 14: Who Was The Bard
- ... schooling cannot be proven, and it is known that he did not attend a university. A popular candidate for authorship is de Vere, Earl of Oxford. There are many verbal parallels between the plays and letters written by Oxford. William Plumer Fowler gave numerous examples in his book, Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Poetry. The plays also reflect Oxford's background and events in his life. The plays include political intrigue ... follows: S S R D T N Y G D T T M Y A F I O E E R F E G S R So far, they are still a meaningless bunch of letters. That is because Bacon had ciphered this too, this time using a substitution cipher invented by Julius Caesar. (Leary, Chpt 9) That is, shifting the whole sequence of a plain text alphabet to match a cipher text alphabet, for example: matching "a" with "b", "b" with "c" and so on. The question is, which letters do you match? Cryptographers often leave clues in their cryptograms. Notice the first words of the Dedication are, "TO THE ONLIE" and the last word is "FORTH". "There were no standards [for spelling]
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- 15: ... he feels that considering the few they kept then, we have enough. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, another candidate for authorship, was born April 23, 1550, Shakespeare's birthday. He was attached to letters and the theater. He also had an intimate relationship with Queen Elizabeth. Edward de Vere studied law, knew the people of court, war, and Italy. He had appropriate knowledge to write the plays. He may ...
- 16: ... also several examples of acoustic patterns found in Shakespeares sonnets. For example, in the sonnets 37 through 42, there are twenty-one signatures spelling out de Vere. These signatures are arranged to form six letters: O X F O R D, in consecutive order (Huston 161). Considering each sonnet is fourteen lines long, and there are six sonnets, and assuming there are 43 characters per line, the probability that these ...
- 17: ... hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy half vital motion" (Bleiler 6) The story starts with several letters written by Captain Walton to his sister. Walton has been navigating the Arctic ocean when he observes a sledge being pushed by a gigantic body. The day after the crew saves Victor Frankenstein from Geneva ...
- 18: ... French-Swiss border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of reason, and an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. Voltaire returned to a hero's welcome in Paris at age 83. The excitement of the trip was too much ...
- 19: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... Life and Her Works Emily Dickinson made a large influence on poetry, she is known as one of America's most famous poets. With close to two thousand different poems and one thousand of her letters to her friends that survived her death Emily Dickinson showed that she was a truly dedicated writer. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10,1830 to a prominent family, her father Edward ... when Susan became engaged to Austin Dickinson, Emily's brother. For two years their friendship ended completely. When Austin and Susan moved next door their relationship started over and Emily began to write her love letters to Susan again. Feminist scholars who have examined Emily Dickinson's letters and poems to Susan from a lesbian viewpoint think that her letters and poems to Susan move beyond a romantic friendship to a blatantly passionate relationship. No one knows how Susan responded to Emily' ...
- 20: Dyslexia
- ... learning disability that will be discussed in the pages that follow. Dyslexia, however, is much more than just the distortion of words. It includes several ways in which an individual may be handicapped, from reversing letters, and not being able to spell correctly to not being able to do simple math problems. It is estimated that 2.625 to 5 percent of the population suffers from dyslexia making it the most ... read where attempts to teach the child by traditional methods had failed. Hinselwood suggested that this disorder was not an organic defect and that it resulted from abnormal brain development in visual memory of words, letters, or figures. Again it was found that normal intelligence was normal or above normal. He also found that dyslexia occurred mostly in boys. Hinshelwood also suggested that one should use the phonetic teaching approach, which ... psychiatrist and neurologist, Samuel Orton, observed reading and writing disorders in intelligent children. He observed mixed handedness and difficulty in using language. He also found that most of these children had a tendency to reverse letters and transpose the order of letters (Copper 2). Dyslexia is a language disability, not a reading disability, so not only does it affect the ability to learn to read, write, and spell, it affects ...
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