yes-or-no answer that can be teased out by studying the text. This work must be judged in the context in which it was written; in turn‚ cultural history can be revealed by studying the work — especially‚ say New Historicists‚ by studying the use and dispersion of power and the marginalization of social classes within the work. Studying the history reveals more about the text; studying the text reveals more about the history.The New Historicist also acknowledges that his examination of literature is "tainted"
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The Modern Mind is a very compelling‚ complex and versatile subject to the world around us and our cultures. It offers so much insight into how it shaped the Humanities. The most well-known man for contributing to the importance of the modern mind is Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Freud was known for his theories of psychoanalysis and his study of the unconscious mind. Freud “theorized that human consciousness was in a constant struggle with repressed‚ unconscious desires”. One of the ways Freud was
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A good example of existentialism in a modern-day text is Michael Cunningham’s 1998 novel The Hours‚ which acts as an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway. The Hours follows a day in the life of three different women who each face distinctive circumstances‚ but who’s stories are connected by a shared thread. Although the plots of Sartre’s The Flies and Cunningham’s The Hours appear to be vastly different
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lamp. The Fabry-Perot etalon of Free Spectral Range 0.010 cm-1 was used to resolve the fringes of the Hg 546.0731nm spectral line‚ and the 594.4834nm‚ 614.3063nm‚ 640.2246nm and 650.6528nm spectral lines of the Ne lamp‚ and study them at very high dispersion. Using the method of exact fractions‚ an extremely accurate value for the etalon spacing of d=15.077582±0.0000006mm was obtained. The spectral line widths (their full widths at half maximum intensity) of afore mentioned lines were examined‚ and
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In a novel like Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolff‚ the timespan of the story is only one day‚ but it plays with multiple streams of consciousness during the same events. I wrote an alternate version of the party scene in Mrs. Dalloway from the Sally Seton’s stream of consciousness. I didn’t change any part of the plot that was already known to the readers‚ but switched to Sally’s
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are illustrated graphically in an organizational chart (see Figures 1a and 1b). The best organizational structure for any organization depends on many factors including the work it does; its size in terms of employees‚ revenue‚ and the geographic dispersion of its facilities; and the range of its businesses (the degree to which it is diversified across markets). There are multiple structural variations that organizations can take on‚ but there are a few basic principles that apply and a small number
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Communication comes in many forms. Things such as windows‚ curtains‚ and doors can act as tools‚ in which can enable people to control the amount of privacy and communication in their everyday lives. In the novel Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf‚ Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith‚ two very different characters‚ are both struggling to achieve the
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The clash of cultures and races in "A Passage to India" A Passage to India‚ published in 1924‚ was E. M. Forster’s first novel in fourteen years‚ and the last novel he wrote. Forster began writing A Passage to India in 1913‚ just after his first visit to India. The novel was not revised and completed‚ until the end of his second stay in India‚ in 1921‚ when he served as secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas State Senior. Novel examines the racial misunderstandings and cultural hypocrisies that characterized
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protagonist Mrs Clarissa and the ‘insane’ World War veteran Septimus Warren Smith and the ‘societal oppression’ confronted by the both in the form of brutality‚ meaninglessness and loneliness of the modern British society. The sanity of Mrs Clarissa Dalloway and other characters is as much open to question as the overt insanity of Septimus and they are frequently shown to exchange places as far as normalcy and mental illness is concerned. Having herself experienced the periodic and recurrent bouts
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Introduction: Now we are in the twenty first century‚ the era of ‘Information technology’. There is no doubt that information technology has had an exponential growth through the modern telecommunication systems. Particularly‚ optical fiber communication plays a vital role in the development of high quality and high-speed telecommunication systems. Today‚ optical fibers are not only used in telecommunication links but also used in the Internet and Local area networks (LAN) to achieve high signaling
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