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    Charles Dickens

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    Coketown By Charles Dickens Dickens is using figures of speech to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping people imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how awful and terrible Coketown is. “Coketown was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the

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    A tale of two cities is a book about the French Revolution and the characters who get caught up in it. It takes place over about 17 years. From 1775-1772 with flashbacks that go back further than that. It shows all the injustices leading up to the ultimate revolution. It is also in various ways a Christian allegory about sacrifice and redemption. The book begins in 1775 where a man named Jarvis lorry is on his way to Dover England. He works for a bank and is leaving for France. A man named Jerry

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    Notes on Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times Outstanding Writer Course: Dr Z. Ramin Sara Khazai ‚ 2014 Historical Background: 1950s-1960s In The Sixties‚ Arthur Marwick describes the Fifties as “rigid”: [R]igid social hierarchy; subordination of women to men and children to parents; repressed attitudes toward sex; racism; unquestioning respect for the authority in the family‚ education‚ government‚ the law‚ and religion‚ and for the nation-state‚ the national flag‚ the national anthem; Cold War

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    Realism

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    AMERICAN REALIST SCHOOL OF JURISPRUDENCE The realism is the anti-thesis of idealism. Some jurists refuse to accept the realist school as a separate school of jurisprudence. American realism is a combination of the analytical positivism and sociological approaches. It is positivist in that it first considers the law as it is. On the other hand‚ the law as it stands is the product of many factors. In as much as the realists are interested in sociological and other factors that influence the law

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    The novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens offers a glimpse into the life and times during the industrial revolution in England during the nineteenth century. Dickens offers a wide range of characters from the upper class factory owner to the lowest class factory workers. He creates characters in this range of social classes and crafts this story that intertwines each person and their transformations throughout the novel. Almost every character in this story is complex and has characteristics that

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    Case Study One The following case study covers LO1 Surviving Greenscape’s Hard Times In ten years‚ Greenscape had grown from a one-person venture into the largest nursery and landscaping business in its area. Its founder‚ Lita Ong‚ combined a lifelong interest in plants with a botany degree to provide a unique customer service. Ong had managed the company’s growth so that even with twenty full-time employees working in six to eight crews‚ the organization culture was still as open‚

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    Hard Times Women's Plight

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    2014 The Plight of English Women Hard Times by Charles Dickens‚ and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe illustrate the role of women in British society from the 16th to 19th century. Specifically‚ the female characters from Moll Flanders and Hard Times contrast one another through the hardships they encounter as a direct consequence of their gender and social standing. The books indicate a slow progression and expansion of women’s roles in Britain over time. However‚ the progression of women in British

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    Realism is one of the key theories in international relations. Realism can be simply understood as a political point of view‚ which emphasizes on competition among countries in terms of power‚ with the aim of reinforcing their national security. For some scholars‚ realism is already obsolete as it only makes sense in the time of war. However‚ with regard to many issues arising‚ its premises and tenets still stand the test of the time‚ proving their reasonability. When it comes to realism‚ classical

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    Marriage and Divorce in Dickens’ Hard Times: A Statement on the Religious Morals of 19th Century British Society The Victorian era in England gave birth to the first real industrial society the world had ever seen. With the rise of industry came large cities‚ an expanded working class population and the rapid rise of imperialism. Although England was progressing towards a more powerful place in the world‚ its citizens seemed to be drifting in the opposite direction. Oppressive laws and working conditions

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    Sissy of Hard Times had an important role in Gradgrind’ s opinion‚ couldn’t simplified to a rational. Her capability of description may be easily specified low figure and her mathematic information was very low. Also she was innumerate person. Contrary to emotionlessness of Gradgrind’ s child‚ her imaginary was progressed by her father. (a circus clown) (406) I think there was some resemblances between Sissy and Dickens. Dickens’s father had debts that’s why he was jailed. Then Dickens began to work

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