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    Victorian England‚ especially London had a severe problem with poverty. Many people in London lived in poverty.  Eliza is one of these many people that lived in poverty during the Victorian era in London. In the play Pygmalion and musical My Fair Lady‚ the main character‚ Eliza‚ is shown to be poor and living in poverty. Both the play and musical show how she lived in poverty and how her poorness hindered her from attaining a job. Since she cannot speak well she can’t get a job as a lady in a flower

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    EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF UK (ENGLAND) BRIEF INTRO: England is a country that is part of the UK. Education in the UK is a devolved matter with each of the countries having separate systems under separate governments in which the UK government is responsible for England. Basically‚ there are two systems: one covering England‚ Wales and Northern Ireland and one covering Scotland. The two education systems have different emphases. Traditionally the English‚ Welsh‚ and Northern Irish system has emphasized

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    on the wall is not comparable in this respect for in the original the silence and stillness permeate the actual material‚ the paint‚ in which one follows the traces of the painter’s immediate gestures. This has the effect of closing the distance in time between the painting of the picture and one’s own act of looking at it. ... What we make of that painted moment when it is before our eyes depends upon what we expect of art‚ and that in turn depends today upon how we have already experienced the meaning

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    In Elizabethan times‚ living conditions of an everyday townsman was quite indecent. Elizabethan ’s lived in houses that were extremely close to one another‚ which made it quite easy to disregard such a necessity to keep the streets and living surroundings clean. People threw all of the waste outside of their windows‚ which included‚ their feces‚ dead cats and dogs‚ and also kitchen waste. Eventually‚ when it would rain‚ the rain would wash all of the rancid waste into local waters. There were

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    In John Berger’s essay titled “Ways of Seeing‚” he shines a light on the way we collectively and individually see the world. Mr. Berger has conjured the fact that everyone has experienced their own view of the world‚ throughout time. This has‚ in turn‚ revealed our history‚ through visual communication. Mr. Berger is sharing his view on how the reproductions of art‚ and through reproducing historical and contemporary art‚ that it is mystifying our direct correlation to the past. John Berger states

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    UIA In this essay I will focus on three Renaissance rulers of England and how they contributed to the changes in England towards the modern Britain. Moreover‚ there were other factors outside the courts that changes peoples lives‚ therefore I will emphasize some inventions that had impact on the Renaissance period‚ and also religious and political decisions. I have chosen to use the three most important rulers of Renaissance England as a back-cloth to the events that occurred. To be able to understand

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    The Picaresque tradition and its development in England Questions the following questions may help you draw up a logical scheme for the essay: What is the origin of the word picaresque? What is the earliest picaresque work in Spain? What other Spanish novels followed? What are the general characteristics of the picaro What is considered by many to be the first picaresque novel in England Could Nashe and Defoe have known about the Spanish picaresque novels? Which of Defoe’s novels contain picaresque

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    Joyce‚ William C Williams‚ Jamaica Kincaid‚ and Frank O’Connor are the four authors of the short stories I read. James Joyce wrote “Araby”‚ which is a story about a little boy who has a crush on his friend’s older sister and he figures out that she has manipulated him. William C. Williams wrote “The Use of Force”‚ which was about a doctor who paid a visit to a younger girl who was sick and he has to battle her in order to find out what’s wrong with her. Jamaica Kincaid is the author of “Girl”‚ which

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    In Mark Twain’s “Two Ways of Seeing a River” and Charles Yale Harrison’s “In the Trenches‚” the authors use sensory imagery to enhance the reader’s visualization on the plot. In addition‚ both authors effectively demonstrate the use of imagery. In Twain’s “Two ways of seeing a River‚” he uses sensory imagery to describe his change of view on his once great river; however‚ in Harrison’s “In the Trenches‚” he effectively uses multiple types of sensory imagery to show the wartime life of the narrator

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    Analysis Paper #1 Throughout time mother/daughter relationships have been tattered as woman ’s liberation has taken place. Many mothers have the "old fashioned" opinion about what a woman should be. The short story "Girl"‚ by Jamaica Kincaid‚ is a prime example of this relationship. The theme in "Girl" strongly suggests that a woman should be domestic and there is a certain way that she should act. Many elder women feel that a woman ’s role in life is to be domesticated. The theme of girl reinforces

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