IOC Annotations Kray Sisters Basic context: The only poem in the collection that is not a dramatic monologue‚ it is also one of the 3 poems based on real characters from the 20th century. The real Kray twins were brother Ronney and Reggie‚ famous around the East of London around the 50s and 60s. They ran protection rackets and had money in various clubs. Eventually they were imprisoned for the murder of jack the hat in 69 after evading police for years‚ they were recommended to serve at least 30
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Satire and irony have a long and storied history in European literature. This year‚ we briefly analyzed Voltaire‚ a French writer and poet who used these literary devices to criticize the unjust society in which he lived. The American heir to this European tradition is Mark Twain‚ who was one of the first American writers to be known and read all around the world. Twain uses the powerful tools of satire‚ situational irony‚ dramatic irony‚ and verbal irony to make incisive commentary on a variety
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The struggle to achieve equal rights for women is often thought to have begun‚ in the English-speaking world‚ with the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). During the 19th century‚ as male suffrage was gradually extended in many countries‚ women became increasingly active in the quest for their own suffrage. Not until 1893‚ however‚ in New Zealand‚ did women achieve suffrage on the national level. Australia followed in 1902‚ but American‚ British‚ and
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Women’s’ Suffrage • Were suffragettes and feminists perceived and treated positively or negatively in pre-WWI Europe? During the 19th century the European continent ruled almost all of Earth‚ it was a time of colonialism and great militant advancement. If there was ever a time to be a white man‚ pre-WW1 was it. In this very much ‘man’s world’‚ women sought to fight for themselves as well. However‚ for the most part‚ pre-1914 was a time of great suffering for feminists and suffragettes were they
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methods used varied from violence to peaceful protest. The predominantly middle class Suffragette movement was well known for its radicalism. The campaign for the female franchise had been slow in progress since the 1860s. However in 1903‚ when Emmeline Pankhurst set up the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union)‚ campaigners of women’s suffrage were offered an alternative method of protest- ‘Deeds not words’. The Suffragettes’ destructive behaviour was effective in achieving media attention and
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Throughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that Jim acts naive occurs halfway through the novel‚ when the Duke first comes into the scene "By right I am a duke! Jim’s eyes bugged out when he heard that..." In the novel‚ Huck Finn‚ one can legitimately
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states after connecting with the Ohio River. This plan is thwarted when a fog engulfs their raft‚ they float past the city of Cairo‚ and their raft is eventually ruined by a steamboat. Jim and Huck separate‚ but Huck finds his way to stay at the Grangerfords‚ who eventually die off during a feud with the Shepherdsons. Soon‚ Huck finds Jim‚ and they’re off on their journey again until they come across two rogues who go by the identities the duke and the dauphin. They rob innocent townspeople of their
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Mississippi’s Journey “We said there warn’t no home like a raft‚ after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery‚ but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (Twain 137)‚ said Huckleberry Finn‚ after escaping a family feud‚ in the novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. In this chapter‚ Huck‚ and his friend Jim‚ a runaway slave‚ flee to a raft they have been traveling on in the Mississippi river‚ to escape yet another incident that shows
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com/home/headlines/8712517.html> Claudio Sanchez and Linda Wertheimer. “School Dropout Rates Add To Fiscal Burden.” NPR. 24 July 2011. Web. 7 February 2012. <http://www.npr.org/2011/07/24/138653393/school-dropout-rates-adds-to-fiscal-burden> Zhao‚ Emmeline. “High School Dropout Rates For Minority and Poor Students Disproportionately High.” Huffington Post. 14 Feb. 2012. Web. 17 February 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/high-school-dropout-rates_n_1022221.html> Education Week. “Dropouts
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This is obvious through the episode of the two family feud; The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons’ family‚ in fact have been fighting for so long but over something so unnecessary that sometimes they forget what exactly they were fighting for. In the Civil War’s case‚ it was slavery. Twain is showing that the Civil War escalated
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