Summer Reading 2012 Sophomores Sophomores are required to read two books for English this summer: 1) Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities We will give you a multiple-choice test on both books during the second English class next fall; therefore‚ please 1) read these books with care this summer; 2) bring your copies of them with you when you arrive in the fall and review the books before the test
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under Creative Commons to advocate the re-use and sharing of his works. He has won Locus and Sunburst awards and been nominated for Nebula‚ British Science Fiction‚ and Hugo awards. Cory is married to Alice Doctorow and they have a daughter‚ Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor
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African American Segregation in the 1930’s During the 1930’s African Americans faced segregation and discrimination in nearly every area of their lives. In addition to the poverty that the rest of the country also faced‚ the colored people had to follow strict rules‚ and were not treated well. We can see some examples of the discrimination in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition‚ we can also see that there is still a lot of segregation in America today. Racial Discrimination is a huge
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Does it matter if democracy is still expanding in Great Britain or anywhere else in the world? Democracy‚ a form of government by the people‚ expanded somewhat dramatically in Great Britain between 1830 and 1914. Examples of democratic expansion in Great Britain include the increase of male suffrage and the regulation of working conditions. This expansion wasn’t dramatic because women still couldn’t vote during that time period. The increase of male suffrage helped the expansion of democracy
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To what extent did the First World War change the role of women in British society? INTRO In the lead up to the First World War‚ the suffrage movement was making significant advances towards the enfranchisement of British women. By 1914‚ the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) had 52‚000 members and attracted annual donations totalling £37‚000. Furthermore‚ the increasingly militant actions of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)‚ attracted greater public attention to
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Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ by Mary Wollstonecraft in Britain. Militant political action among women began in Britain in 1903 with the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) for the right to vote‚ under the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst. Women of all ages and classes demonstrated on a massive scale; the demonstrators were jailed‚ locked out of their meeting places‚ and thrown down the steps of Parliament. National divisiveness ended in a truce at the outbreak of World
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without any reason‚ she did this on purpose to scare the government and also to make them pay for the decisions they had made. To conclude about the kind of the actions‚ which were done by Lytton‚ we can add what Janet Lyon remembers in her essay “As Temma Kaplan writes‚ “the street became the stage for this conflict”.” (Lyon‚ 1994-1995). This quotation shows that jail and streets were the places used by the Suffragettes to fight. They both had equal importance. But what is surprising about all of
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over the former United States and settled in Central Bridge‚ New York where he had George Westinghouse II. Born into a family of ten (which would become twelve later on) on October 16‚ 1846‚ George Westinghouse Jr. (son of George Westinghouse and Emmeline Vedder) was born into an agricultural family. George Jr.’s father moved the family to Schenectady to sell farming tools. After serving the Union Army for three years at the age of fifteen‚ George II (later to be referred to as just George) attended
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often considered Twain’s greatest masterpiece. Combining his raw humor and startlingly mature material‚ Twain developed a novel that directly attacked many of the traditions the South held dear at the time of its publication. Huckleberry Finn is the main character‚ and through his eyes‚ the reader sees and judges the South‚ its faults‚ and its redeeming qualities. Huck’s companion Jim‚ a runaway slave‚ provides friendship and protection while the two journey
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August 1914‚ Britain declared war on Germany. After that the NUWSS (national union of suffrage societies) decided that all political activity would be suspended until the war was over. Some leaders of the women’s social and political union such as Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter‚ Christabel Pankhurst‚ played a big role on recruiting young men into the army. When men left their jobs to go to fight overseas‚ they were replaced by women‚ women such as Octavia Wilberforce and Louisa Martindale from
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