really be told and remembered? There is a lot of dark twisted violent meanings behind some of these simple nursery rhymes. “Ring around the Rosy”‚ “Humpty Dumpty”‚ “Rock-a-Bye‚ Baby”‚ “London Bridge”‚ “Jack be Nimble “ and “Mary‚ Mary‚ Quite Contrary” are some of the rhymes I can vividly remember from my childhood. They have some very dark meanings about what you would not want to tell your children when they’re so young. “Humpty Dumpty” is also a well known nursery rhyme around the world. This
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Nursery Rhymes- The Origin What do I say about nursery rhymes? We have grown up reciting them. They were and are an important part of our childhood. We sung them during class‚ at home‚ in front of guests‚ in the playground and a lot of us sing them even today. Nursery rhymes were like the first form of music that we learnt and to a 3 year old‚ I bet they are like the Beatles or ABBA or even Taylor Swift! But‚ recently‚ I have been wondering whether or rather WHAT these rhymes mean because‚ to
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Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8‚ 1911 in Worcester‚ Massachusetts. Bishop barely knew her parents because her father died of Bright’s disease only eight months after she was born. Her mother was never able to cope with the death of her husband‚ and had a nervous breakdown‚ eventually going insane. She was removed to a sanatorium when Bishop was just five years old (David). Most of her early years were spent with relatives‚ who she said took care of her because they felt sorry for her. Later
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Canute was the son of Sweyn I Forkbeard‚ the king of Denmark‚ and grandson of the Polish ruler Mieszko. As a young man‚ Canute was left in charge of the fleet at Gainsborough‚ Lincolnshire. There it is said that he met Aelfgifu‚ daughter of an ealdorman of Northumbria‚ who bore him his two sons‚ Sweyn and Harold. By the end of 1013‚ Sweyn I Forkbeard was accepted as king of England‚ but died in February 1014. Canute and the men of Lindsey planned an expedition‚ but Canute deserted his allies at Easter
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family met for Christmas and the king was too ill to walk (Lacey 51). The king was only becoming more ill over time and the family knew this. One winter‚ while Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were playing in the snow their grandmother‚ Queen Mary‚ went outside to visit them. She explained to the girls that their grandfather was very sick and it was time to say goodbye (Lacey 51). On January 20‚ 1936 King George V passed away when Elizabeth was nine (Norton 181). After the death of the king
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Church and his radical changes to the England Constitution. King Henry ruled England for 36 years. King Henry was born on June 1491 Greenwich‚ United Kingdom. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502‚ Henry became heir to the English throne. Henry was crowned at the age of 17 as king of England. Henry married Catherine of Aragon six weeks after becoming King. Henry had six siblings. His mother was Elizabeth of York and his father was Henry VI of England‚ Henry was the third child of the family
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also to be a generally more popular king. We know that this would have been one of Henry’s main aims as in the first year of his reign he executed Empson and Dudley. These two people were corrupt and unfair leaders and were very unpopular within England; they were very much associated with Henry’s father. By Henry executing them publically in 1510‚ by way of a big public ceremony illustrated two things to the people; firstly that he is a perhaps fairer king and that their desires were what were to
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this point already impressed Henry VIII with the way he organised the successful expeditions and invasions of France and Scotland in 1513. He had also been promoted to the Archbishop of York and Tournai‚ and arranged the marriage of King Louis XII Mary Tudor in Étaples. This gave Wolsey a lot of grounding and credentials pre-1515‚ already making him a fairly influential figure. However‚ between 1515 and 1529‚ he definitely was the main source of all authority; whist acknowledging the fact that he
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It can be argued that Mary’s rightful claim to the throne was on some levels a more important factor to religion‚ in determining whether people supported her or Lady Jane as their future queen‚ because of the sense of continuity‚ between the conflict which triggered the start of recent war of the roses‚ and the situation of the succession crisis in 1553. This similarity means that the memory of the brutal civil war would not only be very present during the decision-making process‚ but also the ‘solution’
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But what they didn’t know‚ she would matter more than anyone else. “After the early death of her brother Edward 6‚ her sister Mary inherited the throne” (Woods). Mary was not well liked by anybody. “She would become known as “Bloody Mary” was a roman catholic and her reign saw the persecution of Mary Protestants” (Woods). But “On November 17‚ 1558 Elizabeth learned of her sister’s death‚ and acceded to the throne” (Weems and Taylor). Elizabeth applauded all the
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