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What does MLA regulate? MLA standarizes: Document Format In-text citations Works Cited (a list of all sources used in the paper) This slide presents three basic areas regulated by MLA students need to be aware of?document format, in-text citations, and Works Cited. The following slides provide detailed explanations regarding each area. 1 Format: General Guidelines Type and print on white 8.5? x 11? paper. Double-space everything. Use 12 pt. Times New Roman (or similar) font. Leave only one space after end punctuation. Set all margins to 1 inch on all sides. Indent the first line of paragraphs one half-inch (tab key). ?Type your paper on a computer and print it out on standard, white 8.5 x 11-inch paper

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What does MLA regulate? MLA standarizes: Document Format In-text citations Works Cited (a list of all sources used in the paper) This slide presents three basic areas regulated by MLA students need to be aware of?document format, in-text citations, and Works Cited. The following slides provide detailed explanations regarding each area. 1 Format: General Guidelines Type and print on white 8.5? x 11? paper. Double-space everything. Use 12 pt. Times New Roman (or similar) font. Leave only one space after end punctuation. Set all margins to 1 inch on all sides. Indent the first line of paragraphs one half-inch (tab key). ?Type your paper on a computer and print it out on standard, white 8.5 x 11-inch paper

Heian Period Notes

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Notes: Heian Period: 782 and 1167 CE. Achievements were within art and literature Heian culture is the high culture of the upper-upper-class Chart of class: Upper-upper-class includes for ex.: Queen Elizabeth Upper-class ex.: Bill Gates Lower-class ex.: Us The elite wrote about themselves, very selfish The first great novel in Japan is called, ?The Tale of the Genji? by Lady Murasaki The aristocracy was dominated by a craze for everything Chinese. Japanese blended Chinese traditions into their culture such as religion, ?Buddhism?, and writing. The aristocracy was characterized by color, grandeur, and lots of ceremonies and rituals The center of court life is in the capital of Heian called, Heian Jyo 100,000 people in the capital Most of the city was destroyed

Geoffrey Chaucer Research

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Father of English poetry Fluent in both Greek and Latin Life Experiences: Page Messenger boy to royalty Customs officer Justice of the peace Clerk of the king Member of Parliament Canterbury Tales: Written in 1387 in Middle English Representational of all social classes in Medieval English Society Travel on a Pilgrimage to Canterbury Canterbury is a city in SE England and site of a shrine to the archbishop - St. Thomas A. Becket (childhood friend of King Henry) Each pilgrim to tell two stories on the way and 2 stories on the way back Thomas A. Becket: Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162-1170 Murdered in 1170 by followers of King Henry VII He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Community

Research on Daniel Boone

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Research for Daniel Boone Boone was of English and Welsh ancestry. He was a ?Quaker?, and was persecuted for his dissenting beliefs. Because of this Boone and his family moved to Pennsylvania in 1713 to join William Penn and his colony of dissenters. Daniel Boone was the sixth of eleven children. Learned to shoot a rifle at the age of 12. Dramatized story about Daniel Boone and the panther. ?Daniel and some boys were hunting in the woods one day, when they heard the roar of a panther. All but Boone scattered. He valiantly raised his rifle and shot the beast just as the panther made the jump for him.? Shot his first bear at a young age. I?m related to him. (Direct descendant of Daniel?s brother) Born on November 2, 1734 in Pennsylvania.

Tanka Poetry Notes

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Notes: 1,000 years old Brief and lyrical poems Exactly thirty-one syllables divided among five lines Three have seven syllables and the other two have five Compress world of beauty and emotion Developed into haiku, a three line poem of seventeen syllables Earliest tanka appeared in a collection of poems written in 8th century called Manyoshu, or Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves Earliest poems written in Chinese. Japanese developed, adapting Chinese characters to describe Japanese sounds; phonetic characters came to be known as kana, meaning ?borrowed names?. Many tanka describe nature, the impermanence of life, solitude, and love, loneliness or quiet reflection themes Thrived throughout medieval period Heian period - common ritual of court life

Oedipus Rex Notes

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Oedipus Rex Notes: Prologue: The palace of Oedipus in Thebes People are sitting around him Cadmus: in Greek mythology, a prince who killed a dragon and sowed its teeth, which turned into an army of men who fought one another; with the five survivors of the battle, Cadmus founded Thebes. Oedipus asks what the priests are praying for. The priest is answering that there is a plague in the city of Thebes, and that Thebes needs help. The priest says that Oedipus saved them, and asks for help once more. Oedipus says that no one?s pain is more than his own for he feels sympathy. Oedipus sends Creon to Delphi, the oracle. Oedipus promises that when Creon comes back, he will do everything physically possible to help. Creon asks if he can say the news in public.

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