administration and customs emanated into the surrounding area fostering cultural diffusion even though only around twenty percent of the population lived in cities. The cities were managed by local officials from the middle class‚ the equites in Rome and the gentry in Han China‚ who were delegated a great deal of autonomy. Their duties were to make the government more effective and alert‚ and included
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Q) Compare and contrast Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village”. Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village” and Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” were published within a gap of two years in the final decade of eighteenth century‚ i.e. 1740 and 1742 respectively. Both the poems were written in the Pastoral form‚ by which they portrayed as well as challenged the socio-political and economic developments in the eighteenth century
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The los Angeles Dodgers will win the world series in 2013 because of a few reasons: yasiel Puig‚ number 66 Clayton Kershaw‚ number 22‚ Era at 1.83‚ lead the national league in strikeouts and era‚ will win Cy Young Amazing Fielders Orioles rock because of Weiters‚ davis‚ Hardy‚ jones‚ machado‚ markakis‚ and mclouth‚ and Roberts and Valencia. George Washington (1732-99) was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the
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In 1836‚ the Chinese government undertook a major policy review of the opium trade. Lin Zexu volunteered to take on the task of suppressing opium. In March 1839‚ he became Special Imperial Commissioner in Canton‚ where he ordered the foreign traders to surrender their opium stock. He confined the British to the Canton Factories and cut off their supplies. Chief Superintendent of Trade‚ Charles Elliot‚ complied with Lin’s demands in order to secure a safe exit for the British‚ with the costs involved
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indeed so fine an artist and credited with having brought the English novel to its maturity. Born on December 16‚ 1775‚ the seventh of eight children-six boys and two girls‚ she had more than common varied contact with the limited world of provincial gentry because her father was a rector of Steventon in the county of Hampshire in South-central England. She lived with her family at Steventon until 1801‚ when her father retired. After his death in 1805‚ she moved around with her mother‚ and settled in
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Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull‚ eds. Jackson‚ Mississippi :University Press of Mississippi‚ 1990 Carver‚ Raymond. Cathedral. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1989. ---. No Heroics Please. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1992. ---. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York: Vintage Books‚ 1989. Gardner‚ John. On Moral Fiction. New York: Basic Books‚ Inc.‚ Publishers‚ 1978. Smith‚ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publishing‚ 1991. 51-84 Sexton‚ David Raymond Carver. Marshall Bruce Gentry and William
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Britannica on Puritan Revolution: Puritanism under the Stuarts (1603-49) Events under James I. Puritan hopes were raised when James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth as James I of England in 1603. James was known to be Calvinist in theology‚ and he had once signed the Negative Confession of 1581 favouring the Puritan position. In 1603 the Millenary Petition (with a claimed thousand signatures) presented Puritan grievances to the King‚ and in 1604 the Hampton Court Conference was held
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Discussion board http://www.slideshare.net/PA302/hius-221-discussion-board-forums-1-4-15142038 Chapter 8 1 What event on August 24‚ 1814 was a British attempt at retaliation for the destruction of the Canadian capital at York? Burning of Washington‚ DC 2 What battle of the war of 1812 made Andrew Jackson a national hero? The Battle Of New Orleans 3 The Capture of what fort on Lake Champlain gave the patriots control of the northern approach to the colonies and needed artillery
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the occupation of the head of the household according to National Readership Survey[5] is for 2008. The upper middle class (category A - high managerial‚ administrative or professional‚ 4%) in Britain is very small and consists mostly of peerage‚ gentry
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Jane Austen’s novels at first glance tell a story of romance set primarily within the landowning society amidst country estates‚ and their cultivation of tea parties‚ social outings‚ and extravagant balls; ladies sashaying in flowing gowns through precisely decorated rooms‚ and men deliberating over their game of whist. The storybook romance usually unfolds in these familiar settings‚ and inevitably involves the conflict of two lovers separated by differences in social class‚ and the resulting influence
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