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    his study about the human voice he opened a workshop. He also did important work in communication for the deaf. Throughout his life he held more than 18 patents. Bell was one of the primary inventors of the telephone. Through many years of experimentation with sound waves he created the telephone. Bell got the idea from the phonautograph version that he created. The phonautograph worked by drawing sound waves so this made him think that it was possible to create electrical currents that correlated

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    An Inspector Calls John Priestly was born in Bradford in 1894. Priestly had grown up into his father’s circle of socialist friends; he saw women and men‚ rich and poor‚ all working together. After the First World War women returned to being housewives‚ the typical life that the perfect woman was expected to lead. This greatly influenced Priestly’s writing because he didn’t agree with that way

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    An Inspector Calls Essay How does Priestley build the drama and tension in this extract? The extract is from page 47 starting ’MRS B: I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for this at all’ In this extract‚ JB Priestley builds drama and tension through the use of dramatic irony. Mrs Birling does not realise until the very end of the scene that her own son is responsible for Eva Smith’s pregnancy. However‚ Sheila and the audience begin to realise this

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    In play ’Inspector Calls’ written by J B Priestley‚ Mr Arthur Birling is a prosperous manufacturer as well as father of Eric and Sheila. He is married to Mrs Birling and lives a stable social life. But does this explain everything? We do not know his character‚ his appearance or any deeper information about his habits. And yet at the end of the play everything is clear. So the question is how did the author let us know about Mr Birling’s inside? At the beginning of the play Mr Birling seems to be

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    ‘Inspector Goole merely functions as a mouthpiece for Priestley’s ideas.’ What do you think is the Inspector’s function in the play and how does Priestley present him? ‘An Inspector Calls’ written by J.B Priestly is a play with hidden political morals within it. As Priestly believes in Socialism (treating everybody fairly and equally) he uses the Inspector to convey his ideas to the audience to try and encourage them to see his way of thinking by using a family that is Capitalist (that believe

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    Shelia Birling – An Inspector Calls Sheila Birling is the character who changes most in the play. She begins as a naïve‚ self-centered and privileged young woman but soon develops into a perceptive and increasingly mature and wise character‚ who displays the attitudes of responsibility that form J. B. Priestley’s message in the play. Set in 1910‚ the author attempts to show how Capitalism led to the world wars‚ revolutions and economic disasters. Our first impressions of Sheila Birling are

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    the option investment strategies‚ please perform the following analyses for call and put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s common stock;

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    What is the role of the Inspector in “An Inspector Calls”? Set at the close of the Edwardian Era‚ J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” is a detective story like no other. Premiered in 1945‚ the play explores the class divide and social hierarchy of early 20th Century Britain‚ warns of the evils of Capitalism and expresses Priestley’s own Socialist message. As a rich‚ middle-class family celebrate an engagement‚ their idyllic world is shattered by the arrival of a police Inspector‚ investigating

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    "An Inspector Calls": Issues and Priestly’s Viewpoint 22nd March 1997 Martin Howitt 11W Discuss some of the issues raised in "An Inspector Calls" and show how Priestly expresses his own viewpoint in the play. The play is set in the 1912 on an English street scene in the evening. The plot of "An Inspector Calls" is about a police inspector who interrupts an elegant engagement dinner party to question the family and their guests about an unsuspected suicide of a young working-class girl

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    do then you should Read call of the Wild by Jack London. They took about gold rush‚ sled dog team’s and a dog that lived in California. “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London was about a dog named Buck. Buck lived in califon. The gordiner sold Buck and shipt him off to the yukon to pall sleds he went therow 4 masters the 5 one was john thornton buck like him in tell the indians killed him then buck whose free. The theme power of primitive instincts is in the story call of the wild. There are many

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