The Saxon King‚ Edward the Confessor‚ last of the ancient House of Wessex‚ died childless on on the stormy night of 4th -5th January‚ in the momentous year of 1066. On his deathbed Edward was said to have willed his throne to his brother-in-law‚ Harold Godwineson‚ Earl of Wessex‚ having made a previous promise to his maternal cousin‚ William‚ Duke of Normandy‚ that he should inherit the English throne if he died without producing an heir. The Witangemot or Saxon council of wise men‚ duly elected
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Task: Choose a poem strongly linked to a specific location. Explain how the poet creates an impression of what life is like in that place. Norman MacCaig’s poem‚ ‘Hotel Room‚ 12th Floor’‚ presents a view from a high window in a hotel in the largest city in the most powerful nation in the world. It is morning and the poet is looking out over the city. As night falls the poet begins to feel uneasy. Down below on the streets chaos and violence seem to take over. From his hotel room the poet
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Assess the claim that Edward the Confessor gave too much influence to the Normans. In my answer I will explain how each point‚ argument and source etc. affects how Edwards influence upon the Normans reached or maintained a high or low point within this time period. I will also say how these pieces of information are for and against the Influence towards the Normans. We firstly know that Edward Was born in England but raised in Normandy thus meaning that Normandy could have first acquired a taste
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1.What problem of motivation did Archie Norman discover at ASDA? ASDA was one of the most successful retail businesses in the United Kingdom. It had a competitive advantage due to its unique superstore structure and its low price leadership in the market. Everything changed all of a sudden as ASDA found itself with demoralized employees‚ slow growth in sales‚ and declining profits in 1991 due to many years of lack of interest from previous managers. It had been a 1 billion pounds cash surplus supermarket
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acceptable. Given that said principle revolves around the idea of what is “intrinsically good or bad‚” the surgeons did what they thought was best for the patient. However‚ if one were to implement the “Three-Step Ethical Decision-Making Model” from Norman Vincent Peale for solving an ethical dilemma one would have realized that this course of action is illegal thus being immoral. The surgeons could have talked her into contacting her family‚ or close friends‚ for them to discuss the issue within
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Marsha Norman’s night‚ Mother illustrates a central point about the nature of what creates drama in a play: the anticipation of an outcome. In this case‚ that means that Mama‚ and the story’s audience‚ learns early on of Jessie’s plans. And because of learning Jessie’s plans‚ both Mama and the story’s audience are thrust deep into the heart of this story’s question: Will Jessie really kill herself‚ or can Mama find a way to stop her? What’s at stake in this story is also made very clear: Jessie’s
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Assisi The poem ‘Assisi’ written by Norman MacCraig in which the poet’s feelings are revealed. The poem tells of a deformed dwarf who sits on the steps of a church that was built in the honour of St Francis. The poet describes the suffering of the dwarf then he describes how hypocritical the priest is being by taking tourists round the church rather than helping the dwarf. Paragraph 2. The dwarf “The dwarf with his hands on backwards” The poet uses this metaphor to describe how twister
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Robert Bloch. Psycho is the story of a charming boy Norman Bates (Antony Perkins) obsessively devoted to his mother. It is founded on the marital trauma of Mrs Bates’ and the frustrated romance of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and her lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin). Bloch’s novel begins with Norman but screen play writer Joseph Stephano wanted to open the film with the female character showing why she steals money and how she ends up at the Bates Motel and thus the first part of the film tells the
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identity disorder named Norman Bates. Norman decides to get rid of his possessive mother‚ but ‘spare’ the mother’s corpse and mummifies it. The corpse of the mother gives him the illusion that she is still alive‚ causing him to continue communicating with his ‘mother’ even when she is dead. Another way to manage the fact that his mother is dead is to completely take over her persona. That is where the split personality disorder comes in. In Hitchcock’s film ‘Psycho’‚ Norman Bates‚ who is the film’s antagonist
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quality [of the Bates Motel] contributes immensely to the emotional atmosphere of the film… [and] the characterization of Norman Bates” (87). Hitchcock hooks his audience into the film by placing a close-up shot of the action to give the appearance that they are actually involved (Hitchcock). Literary devices scattered throughout the plot serve to enhance the violent and mysterious nature of the film. Behaving suspiciously‚ Marion Crane‚ the protagonist of the movie‚ visits the Bates Motel after driving
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