“Awoke with the cold. Dozed off a few times. About 6 o’clock awoke with tremendous heavy fire and big shells flying overhead…” – Arthur Linfoot’s diary entry on July 1st 1916‚ the start of the battle. [The Strategic Situation in 1916] The strategic situation at the beginning of 1916 was one of a strategic stalemate. 1915 had been a good year for the Germans and their allies. The Russians were battered on the eastern front‚ losing Warsaw and most of Poland to the Germans. Serbia was conquered by
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September 1913 and Easter 1916 Poem Throughout many of his poems‚ W.B Yeats portrayed important aspects of Ireland’s history especially around the 1900’s when Ireland was fighting for independence. During this time‚ Ireland was going through an agonizing time of struggle. The Employers’ Federation decided to lock out their workers in order to break their resistance. By the end of September‚ 25‚000 workers were said to have been affected. Although the employers’ actions were widely condemned‚ they
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Matisse: “The Window”‚ France 1916 Matisse is considered one of the most influential painters of the 20th century‚ and one of the leading Modernists. Known for his use of vibrant colors and simple forms‚ Matisse helped to usher in a new approach to art. He believed that the artist must be guided by instinct and intuition. Although he began his craft later in life than most artists‚ Matisse continued to create and innovate well into his eighties. The Window‚ 1916‚ is a very pretty piece of work
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If Yeats’ “Easter 1916” was valued and defined by only its political context it would speak powerfully to Irish Republicans and‚ perhaps‚ advocates of liberal democracy‚ but its context would stifle an awareness of transience and permanence Yeats commits in the heart of his poetry. Yeats reveals his consciousness to the idea of permanence through the eulogy of remembrance at the end of Easter 1916‚ where the vernacular is elevated to immortality in time and history. In striking difference is the
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Emily Sullivan EN 104 Story: “Family Treasures‚” 2015 Author: Shirley Jackson 1916-1965 (Shirley struggled to fit in her whole life‚ because she was overweight and did not meet the expectations of her family. This represents her life‚ because she did not fit in at her first college and she was unhappy.) Central character: Anne Waite is a shy‚ kept-to-herself‚ sophomore in college‚ whose mother passed away the previous semester and her father previously deceased. Everyone perceives her
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Easter 1916‚ Wild Swans at Coole and Second Coming The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry‚ influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry
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LEE DEFOREST AND THE EARLY AUDIONS In 1906 Lee DeForest announced the development of the first three-element vacuum-tube detector in The Audion: A New Receiver for Wireless Telegraphy‚ from the Scientific American Supplement. The original Audion was capable of slightly amplifying received signals‚ but at this stage could not be used for more advanced applications‚ such as radio transmitters. The inefficient design of the original Audion meant it was initially of little value to radio‚ and
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Women get the vote 1916-1919 Women’s suffrage groups had existed since the 1870s‚ but during the war it was hard to ignore their arguments. Women were serving in the war‚ taking over from the men in factories and offices‚ holding families together while the men were overseas‚ and working in voluntary organizations that supported the war effort. They couldn’t be kept out of political life any longer. Women got the federal vote in three stages: the Military Voters Act of 1917 allowed nurses and women
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Constance Gore-Booth was born in 1868 into a land-owning family of the Protestant Ascendancy in Co. Sligo. During her life she became heavily involved in nationalist movements and is most renowned for the role she took in the 1916 Easter Rising‚ as the most prominent female leader. She was arrested and put on trial like the other leaders of the Rising‚ but‚ because of her sex‚ she avoided execution by firing squad. Instead she served a prison sentence in Britain‚ separated from the surviving leaders
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Between 1916 and 1980 there was a significant increase in the rights of African Americans. These changes in de jure rights could be argued as revolutionary to a certain degree. To judge the success of change between 1918 and 1960 it is necessary to consider the social‚ political‚ and economic status of African Americans along with their black consciousness. Jim Crow laws were the main factor preventing African Americans from living freely in the Southern States. These laws existed solely in the
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