Between 1450 and 1800 many women gained power as rulers‚ some as reigning queens‚ others as regents. Identify two such powerful women and discuss how issues of gender‚ such as marriage and reproduction‚ influenced their ability to obtain and exercise power. Two of the most powerful women of this era were Queen Elizabeth the first of England and Catherine the Great of Russia. These women had a difficult time gaining their power‚ and were faced with many adversaries‚ but‚ they overcame them and
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What was the political‚ social‚ and legal environment of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s? - The Soviet Union’s push to industrialize no matter the cost ultimately led to frequent shortages of food and other consumer good. Bread lines were a common site throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As can be seen‚ the divide between wealth of the Politburo and poverty of Soviet citizens created backlash and younger people refused to adopt the Communist Party ideology as the generations before them previously
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Edward W .Said Prof. S. Jayaraman. Edward W. Said was born in Palestine. He was educated in Palestine and Egypt. He later migrated to America. For the first time‚ it was Edward Said who challenged the established theory of the western orientalists. He brought together overwhelming material evidence to expose the dominant European imperialistic point of view‚ in his path - breaking book ‘Orientalism’. In that book‚ Said exposes the hidden agenda of imperialism to
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: George Bernard Shaw‚ “Arms and the Man: A Pleasant Play.” Introduction by Rodelle Wientraub. Edited by Dan H. Laurence. Penguin Books‚ 2006. Text Summary of Act One The scene is set in Bulgaria in November of 1885‚ during the Serbo-Bulgarian war. In a small town near the Dragoman Pass‚ a young lady loiters on the balcony off her bedchamber‚ looking out at the romantic night in the Balkan Mountains. Raina Petkoff is dressed in a nightgown but covered by a costly fur mantle. Her mother‚ Catherine
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example exists in the first act as Raina confesses to her mother. “It came into my head just as he [Sergius] was holding me in his arms and looking into my eyes‚ that perhaps we only had our heroic ideas because we are so fond of reading Byron and Pushkin‚ and because we were so delighted with the opera that season at Bucharest” (Shaw 7). This “ironic speech ... prepares the audience for her later self-discoveries in the play” (Gibbs 76-77). Likewise‚
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Lermontov’s perception of Russian society. It focuses around Pechorin‚ a member of the upper class. Prior to writing the novel‚ the author had some problems with the government of Russia (members of the upper class) regarding his hero‚ Alexander Pushkin. Since this‚ his respect for the upper class was diminished. Lermontov uses the attitudes of other characters towards Pechorin to display how the lower class unjustly perceives the upper class as heroes‚ while the middle class sees them for what they
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PRIMO LEVI Have you ever gone through any experience that was worse than the Holocaust? Well‚ I haven’t. Having researched Primo Levi’s life‚ I have learned that many people have experienced many horrors and with those experiences we as people have learned valuable lessons. This report is based on Primo Levi’s life. I hope you will gain some insight of what kind of a man he really was‚ and how he will never be forgotten. Primo Levi’s life was in Turin Italy. His family was of Jewish
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as an instrument of social debate. He believed that it was the duty of an artist to examine a problem‚ but not to provide a solution. Before starting his career as a writer‚ Galsworthy read widely the works of Kipling‚ Zola‚ Turgenev‚ Tolstoy‚ and Flaubert. The extract under the study begins with the description of the protagonist – Mr. Jolyon. He feels bad and stays at bed‚ hiding from the light. But when with lunch he gets the telegram from Irene saying that she comes back‚ he feels excited and
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a classic science fiction set in southeastern New York‚ New York City. The fictitious prose traces a man’s inner psychological journey within from a world of retardation to a world of great intelligence. Narrated through a series of empirical "Progress Reports"‚ Flowers for Algernon follows the intellectual and emotional rise and fall of Charlie Gordon‚ a young man born with an unusually low Intelligence Quotient (IQ)‚ as he becomes the first human pilot-study
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Joseph Conrad date of birth was December 3‚ 1857 (“Joseph” 1). This was the beginning of a wave that will never wash away. Conrad was just a polish child in a dangerous world. At this time‚ Poland was fighting Russia to gain back its land. Conrad escaped the reality by dreaming of traveling all over the seas (“Joseph” 1). Conrad was eight when he was first educated about the English language. His father read him Shakespeare and other English writers (“Joseph Conrad” 1). Conrad as passion for geography;
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