Leopold Plumb our surgeon‚ Oran Underwood the Master Gunner‚ Abner Blair the Quartermaster‚ and Edwin Kipling is our Sailing Master.” concluded Hassett. “Ahoy John!” exclaimed the crew all together. “Well‚” I said‚ “When do I
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland General Information The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland known as the United Kingdom‚ the UK or Britain is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain‚ the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state - the Republic
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READER RESPONSE TO AUSTEN’S NOVELS Jane Austen is generally acknowledged to be one of the great English novelists‚ so it is no surprise that her novels have remained continuously in print from her day to the present. Contemporary reviewers found much to praise in them. Reviewing Emma for the Quarterly Review (1816)‚ Sir Walter Scott characterized its strengths and weaknesses: The author’s knowledge of the world‚ and the peculiar tact with which she presents characters that the reader
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I was born in the fires of an ancient forge in the hilss of the Hindu Kush. Amid the clatter of hammers and the chatter of Greek‚ I paused on a battered anvil for the final pangs of my creation. Beneath me lay a hardened die bearing the image of my king; atop me pressed another‚ etched with horsemen and some mirror-image words. Then the hammer struck‚ hard and heavy‚ ringing out the news of my nativity. With each belo the dies dug deeper into my flesh‚ stamping their images as father and mother of
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or measuring the shoe size of the footprints in the carbon. It’s a tragic romance—unleashed passions‚ titanic clashes‚ lost love and wild horses. Foremost are the horses. Cars can’t be comprehended without them. A hundred and some years ago Rudyard Kipling wrote “The Ballad of the King’s Jest‚” in which an Afghan tribesman avers: Four things greater than all things are‚—Women and Horses and Power and War. Insert another “power” after the horse and the verse was as true in the suburbs of my 1950s
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wildefirst published in May 1888. It contains five stories‚ "The Happy Prince"‚ "The Nightingale and the Rose"‚ "The Selfish Giant"‚ "The Devoted Friend"‚ and "The Remarkable Rocket". It is most famous for its title story‚ "The Happy Prince". Contents [hide] • 1 "The Happy Prince" o 1.1 Adaptations • 2 "The Nightingale and the Rose" o 2.1 Adaptations o
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this class‚ as opposed to the aristocrat forms were the focus of the novelists of this period. Charles Dickens emerged as a literary figure and wrote about London life and struggles of the poor in Oliver Twist. In the early twentieth century‚ Rudyard Kipling wrote highly versatile novels‚ short stories and poems‚ often based on his experience in British India. E.M.Forster also wrote A Passage to India which reflected challenges to imperialism. Novels from this era reflected great world events such
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Social Darwinism At the end of the 19th century‚ Social Darwinism was promoted and included the various ideologies based on a concept that competition among all individuals‚ groups‚ nations‚ or ideas was the framework of social evolution in human societies. In this view‚ society ’s advancement was dependent on the "survival of the fittest"‚ the term was in fact coined by Herbert Spencer and referred to in "The Gospel of Wealth" theory written by Andrew Carnegie. Childhood and Education Charles
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How far was American Foreign Policy inconsistent between 1890 and 1940? (45) The American Foreign Policy between 1890 and 1940 was fairly inconsistent‚ however did hold some consistencies in its core principles over the fifty years. These consistencies concerned US self-interest‚ trading rights and the economic policies within the Americas. The first twenty years of the century saw the U.S. leadership pursue interventionist strategies in dealing with other countries. However‚ the next fifteen years
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE & GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (General) BCSE/2010 Page 1 of 9 ROYAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION BHUTAN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION (BCSE) 2010 EXAMINATION CATEGORY: GENERAL PAPER II: ENGLISH LANGUAGE & GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Date : 23 November 2010 Total Marks : 100 Examination Time : 3 hours Reading Time : 15 Minutes (Prior to examination time) GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS • This paper is divided into two parts – Part I and Part II. Part I has two sections – A: Case Study and B: Topical Discussion
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