something. It raises questions about the identity of the viewer‚ the genre and the authority behind what you looking at. Thomas Gainsborough – Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748)‚ oil on canvas‚ 68‚9x119‚4 cm He is 22 and she is 16 and she belongs to the landed gentry. Eye catching character of the painting because of the color of her dress (light blue and reflected in the sky). Gainsborough was influenced by Dutch painters‚ naturalistic paiting. It is a landscape painting and a portrait painting. At the time‚
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terms of numbers alone. But labor as a factor of production refers not so much to body count as to whether the persons have the knowledge and skills to produce the product. A number of the colonists who went to Jamestown were sons of landed English gentry. At that particular time‚ England had little to offer later-born sons of nobles‚ who would inherit neither titles nor lands. These gentlemen brought household servants with them as though they were going to be able to re-establish the lifestyles
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communists‚ who by now numbered in the tens of thousands across China. Ignoring the orders of the Wuhan-based KMT government‚ he marched on Shanghai‚ a city controlled by communist militias. Although the communists welcomed Chiang’s arrival‚ he turned on them‚ massacring 5000 with the aid of the Green Gang. [79][82] Chiang’s army then marched on Wuhan‚ but was prevented from taking the city by communist General Ye Ting and his troops. [83] Chiang’s allies also attacked communists; in Peking‚ 19 leading
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This was foreshadowed by the disastrous results of the maiden settlements of the British‚ which all ended with a horrible and disappointing conclusion of failure. These conditions made women keep away from the area‚ only attracting the young gentry searching for fertile land to cultivate and profit off of. Also‚ the condition of the women that embarked on the journey there was poor‚ the average life span of the person being below 50‚ a sharp and dismal contrast to their New England neighbors
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History Essay “Considering the difficulties he inherited‚ Alexander II of Russia should be praised not criticised for his reforms.” To what extent do you agree with this judgement? After the death of Nicolas I‚ the Tsar’s heir‚ Alexander II‚ rose to power in 1855 and led Russia to an era of changes. Considering the difficulties he inherited‚ Alexander II should be praised and not criticised for his social‚ judiciary‚ and military reforms as he successfully abolished serfdom overnight‚ implemented
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Charles Dickens distributed the initial segments of his novel Oliver Twist‚ an account of a vagrant and his battle with destitution in the early piece of the century. As the Industrial Revolution surged on‚ the class distinction between the customary gentry and the white collar class was slowly getting diminished and with the death of the Reform Act‚ the working class got the privilege to vote and be politically occupied with the issues of the country. While the nobility condemned the work that the bourgeoisie
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Jyoti Rana Research Scholar Dept. of English B.P.S.M.V‚ Khanpur RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS The Victorian Era is named after the Queen of England‚ Queen Victoria. She ruled from 1837 to 1901 when she died. That era‚ which followed the Regency time period‚ is characterized by reforms in the government‚ industrialization in the factories‚ economic prosperity‚ and moral decline. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century
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The Great Gatsby- Gatsby´s Reasons to Become Rich CONTENTS I Introduction II Wealth and Power – Jay Gatsby III Conclusion I Introduction The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about wealth‚ power‚ love‚ intrigues and crime‚ showing the lives of a group of people‚ all members of the social upper class. One of the stories main themes is wealth and power. This topic concerns all the characters in the book but especially interesting is the relationship
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the Parliament’s existence Crisis of the 1920s: * Some historians saw 1624-29 as a crisis * Under strain of raising troops and money for war with Spain and later France‚ Charles uses methods that many though illegal to force the country gentry to co-operate in raising troops that the countries paid for‚ while failing to gain victory in Europe * Relationship between the Crown and the House of commons suffered so much that by 1629‚ Charles was fed up with Parliament and Parliament were
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different time periods. In Diary of a Madman (1918)‚ Lu Xun’s “madman” mentioned the bitter experiences of the ordinary people around him—“some have worn the cangue on the district magistrate’s order‚ some have had their faces slapped by the gentry‚ some have had their wives ravished by yamen clerks‚ some have had their dads and moms dunned to death by creditors”1. In Dragonboat Festival (1922)‚ Lu Xun referred a street demonstration of college faculties aimed to get their delayed salaries from
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