Class 1 (Relentless change pp. 1-14) Laying the foundations‚ 1805-1905 Introduction - Mid 19th century (1850’s) British north America was made up of ;United province of Canada ( modern day Quebec and Ontario)Nova scotia New Brunswick PEI Newfoundland Vancouver island - The interior contained 3 territories; 1)Ruperts land ( much of the north‚ all the area around the Hudson bay). 2)North west territories. 3) New Caledonia - The British north America act; * The act‚ also known as
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning focuses on Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) who would rather spend his time drinking and womanising than being “ground down” in a domestic lifestyle. It has been argued that British New Wave films are very focussed on this nature of the male identity. The film is regarded as a “kitchen sink drama” due to its blunt realist portrayal of England’s working class. Screenplay writer Arthur Sillitoe was regarded as an “angry young man” and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning clearly
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Other sketches done on-the-spot from life and datable to circa 1905‚ ones describing more of the surrounding environment‚ include The Street Vendor‚ 1905 [fig. 55] and East Side Study‚ undated [fig. 56]. In the first of these‚ crowds of shoppers clog the streets and a vendor stands on the sidewalk beneath a roofed structure with tenements visible in the distance. Rapidly drawn while standing amid the throng‚ Jerome’s sketch conveys a feel for the density of the neighborhood‚ dark hatched lines
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Was Tsar Nicholas II mainly to blame for the 1905 Revolution? In 1905‚ the social and economic tensions building up within Russia boiled over into Revolution. It was described by Lenin as the “Great Dress Rehearsal” for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and may give us clues as to why the 1917 revolution started. The suggestion that Tsar Nicholas II and his actions were to blame for this revolution is debatable and there are many factors such as the repressive Tsarist system‚ the growth of opposition
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The 1905 Russian Revolution was the first of the revolutions that took place in attempt to overthrow Russia ’s Tsarist (or Imperial Autocracy) regime. The revolution broke out in 1905 because of the public unrest and economic depression caused by the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5; and because of the "Bloody Sunday" of January 9th‚ 1905. The significance of the 1905 Revolution was determined by the October Manifesto‚ which was the Tsar ’s response to the revolution‚ and by the Tsarist-opposing parties
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TPS-FASTT “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden Title: Perhaps the poem is a description of the coziness and the joy of Sundays during winter; a time for indoors‚ family‚ hot chocolate‚ etc. I expect much imagery pertaining to cold weather‚ togetherness‚ and other winter wonderland type visuals. The word “those” is used to describe the winter Sundays‚ so therefore it is looked at as a common topic. Paraphrase: Both the son and his father got up early on Sundays‚ his father put his clothes
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Early Sunday Morning Early Sunday Morning is a quintessential Edward Hopper painting. Looking at the painting you see a stretch of street with no street signs and completely void of any human activity‚ nothing is happening.The point of view of the painting is from across the street‚ looking at the two story properties. The shadows‚ pavement‚ and the building create an interesting series of horizontal lines. The only objects to break the horizontal line of the buildings are a barber’s shop pole
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“Unto Him that loved us‚ and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Revelations 1:5)‚ quote from the bible which has a direct resemblance towards Geers work Bloody Hell. This clearly shows Geers appropriation towards the christian religion as he cleanses himself of the wrong doing of his family‚ country and ancestors‚ the “sins”. Geers describes this work as the “beginning of the journey” (Kendell Geers‚ 20
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Billy Sunday once said “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.” This wasn’t Billy Sunday’s mindset his whole life‚ he wasn’t even a christian until his older adult life. Billy Sunday is an extraordinary muckraker and christian evangelists‚ even best know as one of the best evangelists of all time. Before Billy Sunday turned into an evangelist he was an even greater baseball player. It may not seem like Billy Sunday did much to greater the world but he actually
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The poem “Those Winter Sundays” was written by Robert Hayden. The poem ’s theme is centralized around the love and commitment of Hayden’s father. The poem expresses how Hayden seen his father as a strict‚ responsible‚ and sometimes angered man. Although his father was strict in his ways‚ he did show his love in his own ways. Hayden wrote this poem in open form. This form allowed his poem to come to life as it moves along. The poem contains fourteen lines and there is no rhythm or rhyming pattern
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