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    Throughout the 19th history saw a boom in industry‚ and not just products that were begin made. History saw a boom in the way products were made‚ the way people lived their lives. There were innovations in machinery such as trains and tools in manufacturing‚ but there were also innovations in the way people thought. During the Industrial Revolution we saw minds such as Marx and Darwin begin to set their thoughts onto the people of the world. Having said that‚ there was also unrest in the world‚ this

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    time. Many concepts of theater - including plots‚ dialogue‚ and characters – were renovated in order to make theater more useful to society’s goals back then. During 1859 to 1900 ’s‚ before the rise of Realism‚ theatre was mainly composed of melodramas‚ spectacle plays‚ comic operas‚ and vaudevilles. The stories displayed did have moral value for the most part‚ but they were performed with a stronger sense of Romanticism. The main characters usually had elevated positions in society‚ meaning they

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    Russian Revolution. The Communist Manifesto‚ the combined work of Fredrick Engels and Karl Marx formed the basic of modern international communism. Charles Dickens exposed the evils of capitalism in his works like David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of life was based on the teachings of the Gita. David Thoreau’s The Civil Disobedience inspired Gandhiji for Satyagraha during the freedom struggle in India. In the Vietnam war‚ journalists and photographers

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    century poetry. Comprised of Holmes‚ Longfellow‚ Bryant‚ Lowell‚ and Whittier‚ each of these writers brought their own unique twist to the genre. They all focus on morality and address the matter of defining its principles. However‚ Holmes and Longfellow emphasize legacy and man’s duty to uphold it‚ while Bryant‚ Lowell‚ and Whittier hone in on abolitionism and anti-slavery. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a driving force for individuals valuing their history and preserving it. In his poem‚ “Old Ironsides‚”

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    OrphanageOrphanage is the name to describe a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable to care for them. Parents‚ and sometimes grandparents‚ are legally responsible for supporting children‚ but in the absence of these or other relatives willing to care for the children‚ they become a ward of the state‚ and orphanages are a way of providing for their care and housing. Children are educated within or outside of the orphanage.

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    DRAMA >.a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character‚ especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play. >.the branch of literature having such compositions as its subject; dramatic art or representation. >.the art dealing with the writing and production of plays. >.any situation or series of events having vivid‚ emotional‚ conflicting‚ or striking interest or results: the drama of a murder trial . 1. a

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    The themes poverty/children/orphans Introduction 19th century English literature is dominated by people like Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens‚ who raised concerns about the great indifference of many Victorians towards the plight of poor orphaned children. Dickens had a personal insight to poverty‚ his father was unable to pay off the family debt. Dickens was sent to work in a factory‚ he was left without a proper education and so spent his childhood and most of his youth in poverty

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    understanding of the genre contribute to meaning in All About My Mother? I am going to discuss the ways in which All About My Mother demonstrates the genre of the melodrama and how it contributes to our emotional response during the film. First of all to look at how Manuela’s character changes throughout different parts of the film. In the melodrama‚ the focus of the film is a family‚ which contains many archetypes for the characters to fall into. In the exposition we see her as the devoted mother to Esteban

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    allowed readers to relish the suspense. 4 Leo Tolstoy War and peace Russian novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community. 5 Charles Dickens Hard Times About the terrible effects of industrialisation 6 Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (1838) Tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars in industrial city. 7 Emile Zola Germinal (1885) Life of a young miner in France in grim condition 8 Thomas Hardy (Britain) Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)

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    graduating from high school. I discovered that I wanted to be a lawyer because I enjoyed working in groups and had a strong sense of justice. Almost a decade later‚ my intentions have not changed. I have pored over books like “Lincoln lawyer”‚ “Oliver twist” and articles about the most high-profile cases to figure out what it takes to be a successful lawyer. And I often put what I had learned into practice by defending my friends who got in trouble. The most interesting story‚ regarding this was when

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