Part A: Plan of Investigation After France’s surrender to Germany on June 22nd 1940‚ Germany turned to Britain as the only country stopping them from total control of Europe. When a political solution could not be met‚ Hitler devised a plan to invade Britain‚ codenamed Operation Sealion. It involved a seaborne attack across the English Channel but because the Royal Navy (RN) was vastly superior to the Kriegsmarine‚ Hitler decided to only go forward with the attack if the Luftwaffe had air superiority
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Topic Proposal Kurt Vonnegut "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" Kurt Vonnegut wrote many short stories on war and peace‚ a series of which was compiled into "Armageddon In Retrospect‚" by his son Mark Vonnegut. The short "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" portrays the aftermath of cultural devastation and its effects on the generation raised amidst such upheaval. A young boy and an old man struggle for survival surrounded by a city in rubble. (Let’s suppose the city is Dresden‚ Kurt Vonnegut loved to write about the
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In the short story Apocalypse‚ D.H Lawrence writes‚ "We cannot bear connection… We must break away‚ and be isolate. We call that being free‚ being individual." Lawrence puts forward the idea that people are afraid of emotional connection: Maintaining a distance will promote growth. Whereas emotional or personal affection will handicap one’s existence and freedom. In the short story "The Blind Man‚" Lawrence reiterates these themes in the climatic scene at the end of the story. Lawrence illustrates
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Homework Use Sources 1‚ 2 and 3 and your own knowledge. Do you agree with the view that the 1950s can be seen as a period of great prosperity for the people of Britain? Explain your answers using Sources 1‚ 2 and 3 and your own knowledge. (40 marks) In my opinion‚ the 1950s cannot be seen as a period of prosperity for the people of Britain for a number of reasons which I will explain further on. I believe that source 1 mainly agrees with the above statement‚ however‚ there are some areas in the
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Waterside Dispute 1951 Hayley Ross 13SA 1951 was post war and the country was booming economically‚ for this reason the cost of living was rising substantially. The federation of Labour took out a general wage order through the Arbitration Court and promised everyone in the unions covered by this court to a 15% pay rise. This was meant to include the watersiders‚ but the Waterfront Industry Commission was in control of the watersider’s wages‚ they broke this promise of a pay rise and said that
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Happy Birthday‚ 1951 Summary: The text is about an old man and a young boy‚ who live in a ruin‚ in a former warzone. The city is still full of soldiers and tanks. The man got the baby boy about six years ago from a refugee woman. The story begins with the man wanting the boy to choose a birthday. The boy chooses the following day. The old man puts together a cart for the boy‚ but he also wants the boy to experience a world without war. Next day the boy gets the cart and pretends it’s a tank‚ because
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An Analysis of “Happy Birthday‚ 1951” “Happy Birthday‚ 1951” is a 20th century short story by American author Kurt Vonnegut. In this short‚ but moving tale‚ we see the efforts of an old man to raise a young boy on the tail end of the Second World War. Contrast and characterization are used in this story to illustrate how people are products of their environment Characterization plays a large part in “Happy Birthday‚ 1951”. With the aid of this literary device‚ we are able to understand what
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with this statement concerning Britain 1951 to 1964 – ‘Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role’ [45] From 1951 to 1964 there was a period of change for Britain. The government came to reality that Britain didn’t have the necessary resources to maintain their empire. Military demands on events such as Korea (1950-53) and Malaya (1948-60) placed major stress on Britain’s manpower and the prideful Navy was in decline driven by financial expediency. Now Britain was no longer an imperial power
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society in 1975 was different in every way to the one seen in 1951’ Discuss. The British society in 1975 was ‘certainly’ different from its own self in 1951. But‚ as radically the society changed‚ we cannot say that it was a total departure from the preceding ‘conformist’ state. The early 1970s British society is more or less a more ‘mature’ version of the gradually growing incoherent one that came into existence in the 1950s. Britain in 1951‚ though conservative‚ did acknowledge a new modern world
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To what extent was the period between 1951 and 1964 a ‘Golden Age’ for the economy? Howard Macmillan’s words ‘… most of our people have never had it so good’ became an important symbol of the time when Britain seemed to be in a Golden Age. The British people were optimistic and there was affluence within society. There were however examples of the underlying problems which include how Britain was performing compared to other European competitors‚ how the government failed to control public spending
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