was forced to back down by Germany. Also‚ as a result of the annexing and rising political tensions between both countries‚ a Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia‚ Duchess of Hohenberg. This shows that Nationalism was the cause as it spread through Serbia as Bosnia and Herzegovina contained around 3 million Serbians‚ but was refused control over the country by Austria-Hungary. Also‚ Serbia was denied
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artist when he won commissions from many in Royal circles. They loved his work because they were so full of detail. He also managed to capture the tiniest elements of faces and clothes even if they were barely noticeable. His piece “The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children” was the most famous. He was known for his masterpieces‚ “The Naked Maja” and “The Clothed Maja.” He also painted the family of King Charles IV‚ which remains one of his most famous
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Causes of World War One The First World War was one of the most immense conflicts of European History. As Woodrow Wilson said‚ World War 1 would be "the war to end all wars." "Between 1914 - 1918‚ over 100 countries from Africa‚ America‚ Asia‚ Australasia and Europe were part of the conflict." (Wilde) The reasons for the declaration of war were varied and related back to the uprising of different ideologies before 1914. Some historians‚ like Joachim Remak‚ say that WW1 was simply "the Third Balkan
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Drama I Unit 1 : Explanations with reference to the contexts from the starred texts Unit 2 : Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson Shakespeare : Doctor Faustus* : Volpone : Henry IV‚ Part I Hamlet* : Antony and Cleopatra The Tempest* : The Duchess of Malfi* : The Changeling Unit 3 : Unit 4 : Shakespeare Unit 5 : John Webster Thomas Middleton Paper IV : Criticism I Unit 1 Unit 2 : : Aristotle John Dryden Samuel Johnson : Poetics : “Of Dramatic Poesie: An Essay” : “Preface
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Lear and Comedy.... Lear and Comedy. Strangely enough‚ it is G. Wilson Knight‚ a critic famous (not to say notorious) for a vehemently Christian interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays‚ who notes in The Wheel of Fire some of the comedic aspects of King Lear[1]. Whether or not the harsh moral ecology of King Lear fits comfortably with the Christian ethos of forgiveness‚ structural elements of comedy are plainly present in King Lear‚ quite apart from the sardonic humour of the Fool. Indeed‚ a ‘happy
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Chapter 1. Down the rabbit hole Alice sits impatiently by her sister who’s reading a book. She is distracted by a white rabbit taking out a watch out of his coat pocket and runs down into a rabbit hole after him‚ falls for some time into a deep well‚ wakes up later in a small room. She finds doors‚ but the key is too small. She finds a small door‚ unlocks it with the key‚ but she’s too large to fit in it. If only she could shot up like a telescope. She turns and finds a bottle on which is says Drink
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"The Duchess" and "Mother Shipton"‚ both of which were prostitutes‚ and "Uncle Billy" who was a gambler and a drunk and the most opposite character in the story from Oakhurst. On the way to Sandy Beach‚ the group exiled from Poker Flat stopped at a mountain campsite. Here they came across two people making their way to Poker Flat from Sandy Bar. The two people were Tom Simson‚ "The Innocent‚" and Piney Woods. Oakhurst knew Tom because they had played cards a few months back. The encounter was a
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Supernatural Elements in English Literature: The Werewolves A werewolf‚ also known as a lycanthrope‚ is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to transform into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature‚ either purposely or after being placed under a curse and/or lycanthropic affliction through a bite or scratch from a werewolf‚ or some other means. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon‚ as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase
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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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