Summarise Edward Said’s argument in his essay ‘Jane Austen and Empire’ and then show whether you support or refute it. Edward Said’s analysis of Jane Austen’s narrative in her 3rd novel ‘Mansfield Park’ (1814) is based on his own studies of ‘orientalism’. This term is defined by Said as a variety of false assumptions /depictions of Eastern people within Western attitudes. This is achieved‚ he argues‚ through the literary discourse provided by post-enlightenment‚ post-colonial American/European
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This text is an excerpt from Social‚ Educational‚ And Religious State of the Manufacturing Districts‚ written by Sir Edward Baines and published in 1843. The text can be expected to learn about the role and the place of religion‚ education and social in the districts were the manufacture is more developed. The text can also be expected to deal with the factory workers’ life conditions. The tone in this text is sarcastic and polemic. The sources used by the author for this document are the Lord Ashley’s
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Edward Kienholz‚ described his own work as that of a trail-maker and the viewer as the hunter‚ "At one point I as the trail-maker disappear. The viewer is then confronted with a dilemma of ideas and direction. The possibilities are then to push on further by questions and answers to a new place that I can ’t even imagine or turn back to an old safe place. But even on the decision is direction." (Hopps‚ p.147) Edward Kienholz first began his socially critical environments in the early sixties
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Violin Concerto in B minor‚ Op.61 is one of the most well-known concerto works which composited by Edward Elgar. Elgar first composited this masterpiece and dedicated to Fritz Kreisler‚ a famous violinist and composer of early 20th century. On the 10 November 1910‚ Kreisler played this violin concerto as the first violin player on the premiere with Elgar conducted the concert. This concerto brought Elgar to another but last peak of his composition career. Also‚ this is one of his most popular and
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Although Edward II’s sexuality is disputed‚ his outrageous fondness for men was not necessarily a problem. In the fourteenth century‚ God’s anointed was free to make love to whomever they wished. But not only was he incapable of recognising a brazen charlatan and incapable of learning from past mistakes‚ he was their willing accomplice. His first favourite had been Piers Gaveston. The nobility chopped the head off Edward’s first favourite‚ but a couple of others followed before Hugh de Spenser‚ son
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W. Edwards Deming- A Total Quality Pioneer Bernadette Candelario Mgt/449 February 19‚ 2010 Prof. Lindsay W. Edwards Deming- A Total Quality Pioneer Deming was a quality pioneer in the United States. He created a business philosophy and used 14 points to summarize it. He was the father of quality evolution. This paper will show the following: • Quality and its elements • How
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How successful was Edward Heath as leader of the Conservative Party between 1965 and 1974? Edward Heath led the conservative party through a difficult and revolutionary period in British politics from the years 1965 to 1974‚ punctuated by the joining of the ECC in 1973‚ prolonged damaging strikes‚ high levels of inflation‚ and many monumental U-turns through the period of his office. The concept of change is most notably seen right from the offset of his leadership as he was the first conservative
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which can either have the consequential results of drawing in the reader’s interest by making it easier for him to feel reasons to get attached to the play or simply drive off far even the little initial interest he started off with. Marlowe in Edward II attempts to make quite the adept use of its first scene which serves the efficient use as an expository scene with all that it has to give out to add up to the reader’s knowledge to help in his better understanding of future events. His exposition
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Explain why the death of Edward IV caused a political crisis in England 1483. Edward IV‚ king of England‚ died suddenly and prematurely without an obvious cause in April 1483 aged only 40 years. Edward IV had been a strong king after 1471‚ and very much able to control the rival factions between the Yorks & the Lancaster’s‚ but his death opened up a Yorkist family feud. After the sudden kings death the throne should have passed smoothly to his son of Elizabeth Woodville; Edward V‚ who was aged twelve
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Hannah Griffiths Why was Edward IV able to defeat challenges to his rule in 1470-71‚ but Richard III was unable to do so in 1485? One of the key reasons why Edward IV was able to defeat challenges to his rule in 1470-71‚ whereas Richard III was not in 1485‚ is the position of the opposition to the monarch at that time. If the opposition were not supported and in a disadvantageous situation then the threat that they posed would be significantly smaller than if they were supported and had an advantage
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