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    CTE 3512 Exam 2 Study Guide Chapter 13: The Crinoline Period: 1850-1869 1. Crinoline Period a. The Crinoline is a device that holds womens skirts b. Dress reform c. Invention of the sewing machine and photography 2. Levi’s a. Blue denim trousers and were popular as durable pants for men of the California Gold Rush. 3. Turkish trousers a. Full legs that were gathered to fit tightly at the ankle. 4. Bloomers a. Cut of trousers retained this name but women;s undergarments were nicknamed

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    The New Dress Woolf‚ Virginia Published: 1927 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Short Stories Source: http://gutenberg.net.au 1 About Woolf: Virginia Woolf (January 25‚ 1882 – March 28‚ 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period‚ Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925)‚ To the Lighthouse

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    Women in Victorian Novels The ideas and standards that are set with being a proper Victorian woman are starting to become questioned. Through these novels there are subtle hints portrayed throughout the book of women being able to make their own choices and finally have their own independence. Some women choose to take the opportunity and have a say while others still abide by the Victorian way.   Louis J Boyle Victorian Writers 30 April 2013

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    Cristobal Balenciaga Biography Balenciaga was born on January 21st‚ 1895 in Getaria a small fishing village located in the Basque region of Spain. During his early years he spent most of his time being an apprentice of his own mother who was a seamstress. During his teens the noblest woman of the region‚ the Marquesa of Casa Torres became his patron and his first client. Balenciaga was send by the noble woman to Madrid to receive formal training in tailoring; she proudly wore and showed off the

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    Hahn’s heart skipped a beat during the gearshift from fourth to fifth. His face sent through the back of his skull as Troy firmly planted his foot to the firewall. Gripping the seat with his sweaty palms‚ Hahn smiled uncontrollably underneath his helmet as he watched Troy thread the turns as if the car were glued to the circuit. As he walked up pit lane‚ Hahn’s nostrils were filled the familiar pungent scents of burnt tires and ethanol‚ his ears filled with the roar of Japanese tuner cars racing

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    CASE STUDY: ARMANI THE ULTIMATE FASHION BAND Timeline Giorgio Armani‚ 74‚ is Chief Executive Officer of the Armani Group and sole shareholder of Giorgio Armani S.p.A. (Armani)‚ one of the world’s leading fashion and lifestyle design houses‚ with 5‚000 direct employees‚ 13 factories‚ and a direct network of 500 exclusive retail stores in 46 countries worldwide. Under Mr. Armani’s direction‚ Giorgio Armani S.p.A. is one of the few remaining independent‚ privately-owned companies in its sector

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    I read Afred Kazin ’s "The Kitchen‚" it delighted me by what Kazin saw in the life of her mother. He focused on the kitchen room as the largest room and the center of the house. It was in the kitchen where his mother worked all day long as home dressmaker and where they ate all meals. He writes: "The kitchen gave a special character to our lives; my mother ’s character.

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    Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………...3 I. The theoretical aspect of concept………………………………………………….6 1.1. Concept as the basic term of the cognitive linguistics…………………………...6 1.2. The notion of theatre…………………………………………………………….17 II.THEATRE concept in the semantic space of W.S.Maugham’s “Theatre”…………………………………………………………………………….20 2.1. Theatre as it is viewed by W.S.Maugham………………………………………20 2.2. Theatre as people for W.S.Maugham’s…………………………………………23 2.3. The place of tropes in W.S.Maugham’s

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    RESTRAINT OF TRADE The doctrine of restraint of trade is a legal device to attempt to hold the balance between two competing factors - an employee’s freedom to take employment as and when he wishes‚ and an employer’s interest in preserving certain aspects of his business. Both factors are important‚ and indeed the law will protect the employer if necessary by the implication of the term fidelity in the contract of employment thereby restraining the employee inter alia from divulging confidential

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    Discuss the nature of the apprenticeship system in Mauritius between 1835 and 1839. The consequence is‚ a system will spring up‚ aristocratical or oligarchical against which the slave may struggle a century without attaining that equality he is vainly thought to possess (E. Baker‚ in J. Backhouse‚ Memoirs‚ 74)1 The apprenticeship system was inaugurated in Mauritius on 1 February 1835. It was initially designed to accustom ex-slaves to their new responsibilities as free citizens‚ following the Bill

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