(Elmo Martians) English 10H Ms. Boyderman 4B Friday Night Excerpt 1: The origins of “Frankenstein” “How I‚ then a young girl‚ came to think of‚ and to dilate upon‚ so very hideous an idea” 1.) During the rainy summer of 1816‚ the "Year Without a Summer"‚ the world was locked in a long cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. Mary Shelley‚ aged 18‚ and her lover (and later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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Chapter 9 Section 1: The Beginnings of Industrialization A. Perceiving Cause and Effect: As you read this section‚ make notes in the chart to explain how each factor listed contributed to an Industrial Revolution in Great Britain Factor Contribution to the Industrial Revolution 1. Agricultural Revolution- boosted demand for products and provided labor led to an increase of population increased Food supplies. 2. Abundant Natural Resources- Surplus of natural resources such as coal
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Agriculture The beginning of agriculture with the domestication and farming of wild plants of wide success and earliest prominence occurred in the Mediterranean habitat of the Fertile Crescent. Early crops of the Fertile Crescent included barley‚ emmer wheat‚ einkorn wheat‚ peas‚ lentil‚ chickpeas‚ flax‚ and muskmelon. This change from hunter-gatherer to farmer was subtle at first and experimental‚ as the outcome was unknown and unforeseen to early farmers. To-be farmers would pick wild plants
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George and Lennie in particular at the beginning and the end The relationship between Lennie and George is very close throughout the book. ’Of Mice and Men ’ is set in the 1930s depression years in America. This means that their relationship was under a lot of strain. It was unusual in those times to be able to sustain friendships because life was all about living for the moment after America ’s great depression. They are in a place called the Salinas River near Soledad. John Steinbeck begins
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HALF-CASTE and PARADE’S END M-meaning Half-Caste is a poem written by John Agard‚ and is a protest about the way he is treated because of his mixed parentage. He believes that humour is an effective way of challenging people’s opinions. He mocks the idea of mixed race people being ‘incomplete’; he is baffled and amused at the idea of being a half a person; he is angry that people are prejudiced and narrow-minded. He speaks with his native accent in English and this along with his anger makes his
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In “The Marvels of Spain and America” section of “Beginnings to 1700‚” Wayne Franklin describes the remarkable changes that occurred to both Europe and the Americas as voyages began to take place. Americas like Europe:“complete with fortresses‚ churches‚ horses‚ new foods… and much else that Colón in 1493 could have found only in Europe” (Franklin 4). The natives and Europeans both used their own traditions and borrowed from each other to endure or outwit the opposing side‚ causing the earliest records
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The beginning of Rome Outline: I. Greece (Before Romulus and Remus) A. When and what happened B. What changed II. The Founders of Rome (Romulus and Remus) A. How they were raised B. Who raised them III. After Romulus and Remus’s birth A. Remus’s death B. Romulus’s life and disappearance THE BEGINNING OF ROME In 6000 BC Alexander the Great gathered several cities in Italy together and created Greece. The Greece Alexander created reached from
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with various different methods. Within Poem 1 and Poem 2 of “Preludes”‚ Eliot comments on the state of the setting‚ early 20th century London or Paris. Poem 1 is overflowing with adjectives with negative connotations such as “grimy”‚ “lonely”‚ “withered” and “burnt-out” in its description of the setting. With this description‚ combined with the dreary weather that can be heard throughout‚ “The showers beat/ on broken blinds”‚ Eliot has chosen to position his readers to feel uncomfortable regarding this
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One of the most important things that people can’t live without is music. Friedrich Nietzsche - a German philosopher‚ once said : ’Without music‚ life would be a mistake.’ First of all‚ we must know the definition of music. According to Wikipedia‚ music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. The common elements of music are pitch‚ rhythm‚ dynamics and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. No one knows exactly when music existed. Some people even
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