On November 11th‚ will take place the Remembrance Day to remember soldiers who have fallen on battlefield. This date also mark the end of World war One‚ one of the bloodiest war of XX th century. Numerous causes have trained country to this horrifying war as the competition between European powers‚ the alliances and the rise of nationalism. Before WW1‚ the competition between the main European powers increased with the militarism’s and imperialism’s factors. The imperialism trained countries
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“Remembrances of Calcutta” The smell grows dank‚ as the streets become narrower. Walls are replaced by trickling streams running along the side of the road. Children dart around the rickshaws‚ bicycles‚ and the occasional car as garbage piles rise high in the streets. The piles steadily grow higher‚ mocking their patrons in doing the impossible: rising from the streets where they began their lives. In a day to day struggle‚ children grow up quickly‚ too quickly‚ though the rapid ascent is
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Only then did people become aware of the author of these popular works of literature- all the novels published during her lifetime had been published anonymously. Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was born in Yorkshire‚ England (where Wuthering Heights is set)‚ the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. The isolation of the Bronte children seems to have generated a rich life of the imagination. She and her sisters Anne and Charlotte began writing poetry at an early age‚ and actually published
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To whom this may concern‚ Being a part of the Cultural Committee that is in charge of putting on an event for Holocaust Remembrance Day‚ I believe we should not put on the production of Albert Hackett’s The Diary of Anne Frank. Although it may be the most well known Holocaust story‚ it does not exemplify the severity of the Holocaust and concentration camp experiences are not mentioned. We should put on a production that portrays the horrors of World War II and the terror of what it meant to be
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end of year showcase‚ Brontë: The life and the literature. The plays performed within the showcase will be Brontë and Jane Eyre. The two plays were chosen because Brontë explores the lives of the Brontë sisters and mentions their literally achievements and Jane Eyre‚ written by Charlotte Brontë (adapted by Polly Teale)‚ explores the struggle of a woman choosing between her head and heart‚ a pressure felt by all the Brontë sisters. I play the character of Anne Brontë in Brontë by Polly Teale. Polly
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How and why are selected canonical texts re-written by female authors? Answer with close reference to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea is a relatively still sea‚ lying within the south-west zone of the North Atlantic Ocean‚ at the centre of a swirl of warm ocean currents. Metaphorically‚ for Jean Rhys‚ it represented an area of calm‚ within the wide division between England and the West Indies. Within such an area‚ a sense of stability
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Changing World: A Comparison of Victorian Authors Charlotte Bronte and Thomas Hardy Change is an inevitable force that sweeps through every continent without so much as a hello. Change has destroyed entire countries‚ while initiating a famine throughout the next. Change is seen by many as a dangerous entity that only seeks to destroy all of mankind. Charlotte Bronte‚ a Victorian poet‚ was different. Bronte was advocate for change‚ and a secretive one too. Thomas Hardy‚ also a Victorian poet‚ was
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In the novel‚ “Shirley‚” written by Charlotte Bronte‚ the author describes the milestone of turning eighteen. She describes the time before‚ during‚ and after turning eighteen‚ and the joys and evils that come with each point in time. She does this by using diction and comparisons throughout the excerpt to depict the changing of time and the change in age that is occurring. First‚ Bronte uses word choice to show a passing of time and to make clear the difference of life from when you are young
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society. Tribulations such as these come with the soul purpose of molding one’s spiritual life. Jane relied on her faith alone for support‚ and survived triumphantly. This small hope was the enrichment of her alienation. Through Jane Eyre‚ Charlotte Bronte uses this character’s experiences to contribute to the development of the entire work. Raised in an atmosphere that was overwhelmed with animosity seldom not directed towards her‚ Jane experienced the cold world without having to leave home.
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Debra Arnold January 14‚ 2011 Emily Grierson “A Rose for Emily” is a horror story by Faulkner. Emily Grierson‚ whose life story is told by an anonymous narrator‚ who represents the attitudes and ideas of the community. When suppressed by her father until his death‚ she takes up with a Northern laborer‚ Homer Barron. When she is faced with desertion from Homer‚ she turns to murdering him by arsenic. It was later discovered after Emily’s death that Homer’s rotting corpse was in the upstairs
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