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    1930’s Fashion When the stock market crashed‚ most people did not continue to buy the fabulous 20s style clothes‚ people instead saved their money and also stopped buying accessories they continuously wore in the “Flapper” era. This devastating turn of events was called The Great Depression. Women’s skirts were altered and only went to the knee‚ not any lower. Plaid and striped clothing became a popular trend amongst men. The 1930s was more of a survival era other than a new fashionable

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    Throughout A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens‚ Charles Dickens uses foreshadowing to further the plot of the novel. Dickens foreshadows the plot in a number of ways. In Chapter Five of Book One‚ Dickens the wine that spills into the streets as a metaphor for the blood spilled in the revolution. Outside of a wine-shop‚ a wine cask is broken in the street. Many people rush around the puddle on the ground trying to scoop it up and drink as much as they can. Dickens describes this by saying "All

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    us with his “There will be blood”‚ Leonardo DiCaprio leave empty handed and Daniel Day Lewis screech his way to win third best actor. It has been developing more and more in to a sideshow of ‘most Oscar-worthy’ winners of late; The Kings Speech‚ a tale about a monarch over coming disability‚ won Best Picture over the much more people pleasing‚ stylish and entertaining The Social Network. Animated films‚ especially Pixar films have long been signalled as best films of the year (Toy Story 1 and 2

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    One example of juxtaposition is in the beginning of the book where Charles Dickens says “It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times…” (8). This an example represents juxtaposition because it is showing two words together and letting the reader compare them. The example is also highlighting the differences in the French and English society. It’s helping the readers understand and imagine how things were even before the revolution and why it needed to come. Another example of juxtaposition

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    Segregation in the 1930’s Segregation has always been around for many years and been a huge issue. Segregation means the "practice or policy of keeping people of different races and religions separate from each other" (Google.com). To some people‚ segregation was a good and a correct thing to do but for some it’s bad and just wrong. For example‚ Martin Luther King Jr. he was against segregation but didn’t use violence. On the other hand‚ we have Malcolm X he was also was against segregation

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    in America‚ but in the 1950’s there was more to be concerned about. There were laws for African Americans that would make them not as equal as whites. African Americans were only allowed to use their own bathrooms‚ school’s‚ water fountains‚ hospitals and busses. Racism in the 1950s was far aggressive with segregation and violence from today. Many African Americans lost family members during this time period. Many were adults but there were still children. For example‚ Emmett Till was a fourteen

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    By: JulietteTishberg A TALE OF TWO CITIES Through the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens‚ the author displays many different themes. I am going to focus on the Changing Views in a A Tale Of Two Cities.. All through the book‚ Charles Dicken’s portrayal of France‚ England‚ the revollution and the poele undergo many changes. The reader’s view of the characters changes as the plot develops. During the "Book the first"‚ the reader sympathises with the common people of France and despises

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    Irony in “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” offers an almost classic study of irony of situation: the reader expects a celebration; she gets a stoning. Such a reversal is the work of careful planning by the author. The reader expects the lottery to be a celebration of some sort because Jackson describes the setting‚ details the activities of the townspeople‚ and refers to the lottery itself in terms that belie the outcome of the event. First‚ Jackson establishes a setting which suggests

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    with rules and expectations. It’s a fast paced society that seems to have a mind of it’s own with many different opinions. Today’s literature for example is written differently of course it has to attract the reader’s generation‚ but some classics might do that as well‚ but differently. Lady Chatterley’s Lover had a tremendous impact during the 1920’s it was a time when no one was ready for a book like this. Shocking many older people‚ but attracting the younger generation of the time and mostly

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    Avarice: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Time Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of poetry‚ he has written many poems as well as various stories in his time. Moreover‚ in his literary masterpiece‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer has recounts tales about a pilgrimage to Canterbury. However‚ certain stories in the novel illustrate a universal truth about the corruption‚ greed and the hypocrisy of the English Church. The author uses a variety of techniques and in this case‚ short stories to develop this universal

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