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"Jack the Ripper" is the popular name given to a serial killer who killed a number of prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888. (Ryder, n.pg.). The Ripper may have been a sexual serial killer of a type all too common in the 1880s, but he was also bent on terrifying a city and making the whole ....

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One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones� Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animals�inspired by his philosophy of Animalism�p....

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