First written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must
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Samuel Slater Samuel Slater was born in Belper‚ Derbyshire‚ England on June 9‚ 1768. He became involved in the textile industry at the age 14. Samuel Slater worked in the industry for 8 years‚ which is why he is an English-American industrialist. Mr. Slater is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution”‚ a phrase brought up by Andrew Jackson. He also was known as “Father of the American Factory System” and “Slater the Traitor” (In the UK) because he brought the British textile
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Labor leader and advocate of legislative labor reform‚ Samuel Gompers was globally recognized for being a cornerstone in the sustaining legacy that is the American Federation of Labor. Gompers was born to a Jewish working class couple in London on the 27th of January in 1850. His childhood was short lived‚ for he was forced to mature early on. After only four years of receiving an elementary school education‚ Gompers was taken in and apprenticed to a shoemaker at the age of ten. He would quickly
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Is Morte d’ Arthur just a pointless story not worth reading? What lesson can someone learn from it to apply to their lives? This novel gives more than someone would expect. It is not just an old legend people read in literature books and see plays on. What Arthur teaches today’s generation and generations to come are qualities and concepts many in society lack: chivalry‚ the concept of showing decency to those underneath the wealth‚ and humility. In Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur Beaumin
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SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689 – 1761) [pic] Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761) was a self-educated tradesman who had little formal literary training‚ yet he made an impact on English literature which is nothing the less remarkable. He expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel through an inventive use of the letter form (thus contributing to the emergence of the so-called “epistolary novel”) and was the promoter of sentimentalism[1]. Together with Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding‚ he is credited
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Portrait photography What is portrait photography? Portrait photography is photographs of a person or a group of people that shows the expression‚ personality‚ and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture‚ the focus of the photograph is usually the person’s face however‚ the background and setting may be included to make the image more effective and meaningful. What portrait photographers main aims are to focus on the person’s face. They aim to give emphasis on the face of the person
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Astrid Agerskov Pedersen - 3.b - Skive Gymnasium og HF! Engelsk A - Aflevering 1 (fiction) - The Oval Portrait d. 6/9-2012 The Oval Portrait‚ by Edgar Allan Poe The short story “The Oval Portrait” is written by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a gothic novel because of particular elements of gothic reference. It describes the two different passions of a married couple. The husband requests that the wife let him paint her‚ and in obeying him she loses her love. As the painting finishes‚ both her health
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Human consciousness in Isabel Archer Isabel Archer‚ the heroine of the novel ‘The Portrait of a lady’‚ is a young American woman who must choose between her independent spirit and the demands of mid-nineteenth century European social conventions. She unexpectedly inherits a fortune‚ which in the beginning of the novel‚ seems to have freed her from the need to marry. After propagating her quest for independence‚ she rejects two suitors‚ Casper Goodwood and Lord Warburton
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Analysis As one of the shortest of Poe’s stories‚ "The Oval Portrait" consists of a brief one-paragraph story framed within a larger vignette whose main purpose is to establish the romantic Gothic mood in which the story occurs. The setting and basis of the plot are shrouded in mystery; the narrator does not explain how or where he is wounded‚ and with his servant‚ he enters an abandoned‚ decaying chateau that offers no more answers than the narrator. The dark gloom of a deserted house is a classic
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12 April 2010 GDP and Beyond Measuring Economic Progress and Sustainability By J. Steven Landefeld‚ Brent R. Moulton‚ Joel D. Platt‚ and Shaunda M. Villones T HE United States provides some of the most highly developed sets of gross domestic product (GDP) accounts in the world. These accounts—which are collectively known as the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) or national accounts—have been regularly updated over the years and have well served researchers‚ the business community
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