of millions upon millions of children who are waiting to be brought under the influence education depends upon it...” The above words are the part of the resolution which Gopal Krishna Gokhale moved in Imperial Legislative Council on 18th march‚ 1910 for seeking provision of ‘Free and Compulsory Primary Education” in India. Irony is that one hundred years have passed but the right to education still remains a distant dream. Gopal Krishna Gokhale in fact represents many of our freedom fighters
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American Literature: Colonial Beginnings to the Early Twentieth Century Group 1: Colonial and Revolutionary Writers -Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca‚ La Relación on the Spanish explorations born in 1490‚ died in 1558 in 1527 sailed from Spain on expedition to occupy North America and in 1528 landed in Tampa Bay Summary Cabeza de Vaca’s ship is caught in a storm. Once it runs around on an island‚ the sailors encounter Native Americans. They are afraid the Indians will sacrifice them‚ however
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Abstract In this essay I will discuss and analyze the social forces that influenced American women writers of the period of 1865 to 1912. I will describe the specific roles female authors played in this period and explain how the perspectives of female authors differed from their male contemporaries. INTRODUCTION As the United States was continuing recovering from the Civil War and embracing the expansion of the West‚ industrialization‚ immigration and the growth of cities‚ women’s roles in
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Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830: The Romantic Period 1832-1901: The Victorian Period 1848-1860: The Pre-Raphaelites 1880-1901: Aestheticism and Decadence 1901-1914: The Edwardian Period 1910-1936: The Georgian Period 1914-1945: The Modern Period 1945-present: Postmodern Period The Old English Period or the Anglo-Saxon Period refers to the literature produced from the invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes in the first half of
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Absalom‚ Absalom! SETTING The primary settings of Absalom ‚ Absalom! alternate between two days(one‚ in September 1909 in Jefferson‚ Mississippi‚ and the other in January 1910 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts) and much of the nineteenth century‚ centered on Jefferson in the 1860s‚ the years before‚ during and after the Civil War. This dual framework of time and place sets up a contrast between the elusive historical past and a present-day vantage (1909-10) from which to interpret it. Furthermore‚ the
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words (Winter‚ 1997) Unlike Britain and Germany‚ French economy was not focused on industrialisation. Only 0.98% of the population of France in 1910 lived within the three main industrial cities of France. (table 1.1‚ p20) Within the economy it can be seen that Britain and Germany are more alike. Britain and German out-put of steel and pig iron in 1910 was 16.7 million tonnes and 28.5 million tonnes compared to frances 7.4 million tonnes. (table 1.4‚ 2013‚ p23) Both Britain and Germany seemed
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technology that was introduced in World War One was like nothing the world had ever seen before. The cause of this being that the second industrial revolution had just ended‚ which made way for many new inventions. The second industrial revolution (1870-1914) had just ended which meant the whole world was adjusting to new machinery and they had created or bought from other countries new vehicles and guns as well as bombs and battleships were developed and created and were very eagerly waiting to be
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Telegraph Company’s main office in Boston and receives support from local entrepreneurs for his electrical inventions. 1869 (Boston) Edison earned his first patent‚ for an electrical vote recorder designed for the Massachusetts State Legislature 1870 Establishes two telegraph manufacturing shops in Newark‚ New Jersey‚ and works on inventions for printing and automatic telegraphy. 1871 Marries Mary Stilwell. 1873 Edison’s first daughter‚ Marion Estelle ("Dot")‚ is born in Newark. 1874 April 10
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Thomas Dibble Dr. Martha Griffin English 1020 C07 1140 October 8‚ 2013 A Frog’s Gamble “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation(Mark Twain).” This is the main idea of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ or more commonly known by his pen name Mark Twain. Just like the quote‚ the Narrator learns about the character of Jim Smiley through a conversation with an old man named Simon Wheeler. The
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Comparison of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald are two widely known American authors who wrote great novels‚ but differ in many ways. They both wrote stories on life journeys‚ however; Twain used pre-adolescent characters to show how an individual should behave in society. Whereas‚ Fitzgerald uses adult characters to show how an individual is harmed by society. Mark Twain’s characters have many dreams in all Twain’s stories. On the other hand
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