most daunting questions posed to graduate students (or any student for that matter) is the one inquiring about their focus. When asked about this project‚ I have told friends and family that I study the use of Americanness in British comedy as a means to reassert a sense of British identity. This is the easiest and most concise way I have found to answer the question. It is also a sentence constructed in such a way as to impress those unfamiliar with television studies. For some reason‚ when people hear
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CHAPTER ONE THE POETIC ART OF NARRATION 1.1 A Historical Perspective Narrative‚ as a generally conceived term‚ is the type of literary composition which recounts a single event‚ a tale‚ or a story constituting a series of events usually told in chronological order. However‚ in some types of narrative works‚ the focus is on the nature of the plot itself regardless of the criterion of ordering the events according to a preconceived plan based on chronological structure (Abrams and Harpham
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Introduction: The struggle for Indian independence was more than just an effort to break free of British colonial rule. It was part of a broader conflict that took place‚ and is in many ways ongoing‚ within Indian society. In order to organize resistance‚ upper-caste Indian activists needed to frame Indian identity as united against British colonialism. This was not in of itself difficult‚ but they wanted to maintain an upper-caste dominance over Indian society. This required upholding "classical"
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THE MAGNIFICIENT ’S POETRY. THE WORK OF A PERFECT RULER. Suleiman the Magnificient (Kanuni - the Lawgiver) provided a new spirit for the poets‚ scientists and authors. This ruler poet of the XVI century sponsored an army of artists‚ religious thinkers and philosophers that outshone the most educated courts of Europe. Suleiman himself actively participated in the development of Ottoman poetry by writing poems under the name Muhibbi (the lover‚ true friend) and his love poetry is among the best in
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when I read T.S. Elliot’s poetry is that the wants people to use their brains and think about things‚ to learn constantly. When I read " The Hollow Men‚" a part of me wanted to prove him wrong‚ that I am not going to end my life with a whimper‚ but a bang. Perhaps this was the effect he was looking for.
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Heart of a riddle: metaphor ( linking 2 unrelated images both found in riddles) - Relationship = VISION / A WAY OF SEEING - TALINGHAGA = METAPHOR Proverb/ Salawikain (rhyme & wisdom) Added = Performed through poems (poetry form) Tanaga – Proverbs with monorhyming – strength/ pain Ambahan – Chanted & Written by mangyans (songs about Nature‚ Childhood‚ woman relationships‚ hospitality) The Mangyans inscribe their songs on bamboo tubes Songs – Active Literature
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I. Identification 1. The Issue The British Museum‚ located in London‚ England‚ purchased the Parthenon Marbles‚ also known as the Elgin Marbles‚ from Lord Elgin on July 11‚ 1816 through an Act of Parliament (1). The Parthenon marbles consist of 115 panels of frieze and 92 mesotopes of which the British Museum owns 56 panels of the frieze and 15 mesotopes. The museum also owns 17 pedimental figures‚ and thus houses about half of surviving sculptures of the Parthenon while the other half is in Athens
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The British Economic Miracle: New Labour and the economy Andrew Gamble Abstract For much of the last forty years Britain was perceived to be in decline and the UK model of capitalism to be failing. The unsuccessful modernisation programmes in the 1960s and 1970s led to a different turn of policy in the 1980s under the Thatcher Government‚ which sought to reconstruct the older UK liberal model‚ drawing inspiration from the US rather than from Europe. The Thatcher Government helped
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Cures: Representations of South Eastern Europe in British Fiction and Drama of the 1990s. In: Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures‚ Fatima Festic (ed.)‚ Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing‚ 2009‚ pp. 35 -65. VICTIMIZATION AND ITS “CURES”: REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE IN BRITISH FICTION AND DRAMA OF THE 1990s LUDMILLA KOSTOVA In his extended reflection on twentieth-century history Hope and Memory (2000; English translation 2003)
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Native American Poetry Native American written poetry has common qualities. A common recurring theme in their writing is nature. These people view nature as a beautiful thing even at the ugliest level there exists. They appreciate all forms of life and have a great deal of respect towards it as well. Native Americans respect nature because they view it as a spiritual thing. Somehow the animals have a certain innocence which the people cannot reach making the animals a sacred part of their
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