13. How do Victorian attitudes to marriage and respectability underpin the comic elements of the importance of being Earnest? Plan: Jack and Algernons alter egos‚ Wilde and his social rebellion through his characters. Marriage is loveless‚ wealth and background takes priority over most things‚ Algernon supports this with a quote (once again hes the rebel) Marriage is the end of freedom‚ Cecily wants to break free‚ very curious woman who looks at society differently. takes a liking to
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Powerful‚ Pompous and Pontifical According to the Bible‚ “The love of money is the root of all evil.” There is fine line between loving the money or character of a person. The root of all evil starts when one doesn’t notice the difference. Lady Bracknell‚ an antagonist in The Importance of being Earnest‚ is a powerful‚ pompous and pontifical person who values money more than love and comprehends marriage like business deals in terms of allusions‚ connections and irony. Lady Bracknell’s character
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YEARS from and after the date of incorporation. Fifth: - That the names‚ nationalities‚ and the residence of the incorporators of the corporation are as follows: NAMES CITIZENSHIP ADDRESSES Gwendolyn Balo Filipino 14 Evangelista St.‚ Bahayang Pag-Asa‚ Catherine G. Cabag Filipino 20 J. R. Soriano Cpd.‚ Pand theututan‚ Merilor Gontiñas Filipino
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were more uniform with each other‚ which created a more homogeneous look in neighborhoods. They were also much more affordable home to Americans than previous homes‚ and promoted efficiency and progressivism. The word bungalow was described by Gwendolyn Wright as “usually referring to a relatively unpretentious small house... the term implies a one-story or story-and-a-half dwelling of between six hundred and eight hundred square feet.” Bedrooms were very small‚ and the kitchen was usually only
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time in Monterey with his friend Ed Ricketts at his Cannery Row laboratory. Spending time at Ed Ricketts’ laboratory inspired his popular novel‚ Cannery Row. In 1943‚ Steinbeck married his second wife‚ Gwendolyn Conger‚ with whom he had two children. In 1948 Steinbeck’s friend Ricketts died‚ and Gwendolyn left him. However‚ in 1950 he married Elaine Scott and moved to New York
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Abstract Oprah gave the 2008 Stanford University commencement speech focusing on the lessons she learn from her life experiences. The lessons Oprah wanted to share with the 2008 graduating class were be true to who you are‚ learning from your failures‚ and finding happiness. Oprah spoke about the importance of service and her life’s dedication to help less fortunate have some of the same opportunities as her and the Stanford graduates. Oprah also gave the graduates advice on how to move forward
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Baseball was one of the first institutions in the American history to be desegregated. Shortly after the end of the civil war‚ there was the first public baseball game held between all-blacks teams. Philadelphia Excelsiors and Brooklyn Uniques played. Twenty years later‚ there were over 200 black teams in the US that had been formed. Then‚ the Blacks were able to play in teams that were traditionally known to belong to Whites‚ and this was practical in North and Midwest where they were known to be
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Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ A Trivial Comedy For Serious People is a play about two friends Jack Worthing and Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff. In order to get away from their lives the two men invent fictitious characters to explain their absence (Jack invents Earnest while Algy invents Bunbury) from the country in Jack’s case and town in Algy’s. To complicate matters the two men then fall in love Jack with Gwendolen‚ Algy’s cousin and Algy with Jacks ward Cecily. Both women believe
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Phillis Wheatley‚ one of America’s most profound writers‚ has contributed greatly to American literature‚ not only as a writer‚ but as an African American woman‚ who has influenced many African Americans by enriching their knowledge of and exposure to their Negro heritage and Negro literature. As one of America’s most renown writers‚ Wheatley‚ said to be the mother of African American Literature‚ is best known for her sympathetic portrayals of African American thought. Wheatley’s literary contributions
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from Open Jurist: http://openjurist.org/law/am-i-protected-from-religious-discrimination constructive dismissal. (n.d.). Retrieved 02 01‚ 2014‚ from Business Dictionary.com: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/constructive-dismissal.html Gwendolyn I. Cooper v. Oak Rubber Company and John Doe‚ Supervisor‚ 92-4039 (United States Court of Appeals‚ Sixth Circuit 02 09‚ 1994). Hussein v. Raban Supply Co‚ 95-15914 (United States Court of Appeals‚ Ninth Circuit 03 04‚ 1996). Kenneth R. Yott v. NORTH
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