Alfred the Great was born in the year of 849 and was the fourth or fifth child and he was also the youngest out of all his brothers and sisters. Aethelwulf the king of western Saxons their father Aethelwulf decided that it would be fair if they took turns in being king instead of having the youngest try rule in the age of the Vikings where they would attack any settlements. Alfred reigned as the Wessex king from 871 to 899. He died in October 899 and was also buried in Winchester in England. His
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Reading Response 1 My IAT Race Activity results said my automatic preference was European Americans opposed to African Americans. They used pictures of men and women and I was asked to distinguish them by looking at them. Afterwards I was asked to categorize good words like “joy” “happy” or “respectful” with the word “good” and bad words like “angry” “agony” “guilty” or “jealousy” with the word “bad”. In the end the word good was categorized with European Americans and the word bad was categorized
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Trade might have been a big part of the imperial goals. However social equality‚ religious equality‚ and freedom were a main goal. Therefore religion was the main imperial goal. Firstly the British‚ in 1620 sixty-seven immigrants sailed for what they wished to be religious freedom. Luckily they left then because in 1629 King Charles dissolved parliament and made himself divine ruler. This was particularly bad because he was seen as a Catholic sympathizer. Although they did get to practice their
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‘The outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 was due to an aggressive German foreign policy which had been waged since c.1900.’ How far do you agree with this opinion? Explain your answer using the evidence in Sources V‚ W and X and your own knowledge of the issues relating to the controversy. It’s debatable whether Germany’s foreign policy created long term tension which led to the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914. The argument commonly raised is whether this movement was aggressive or defensive
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Who knew an adults reality could be merged so flawlessly with childlike imaginations? In Lewis Carroll’s ‘nonsense’ poem‚ “Jabberwocky”‚ he creates a lyrical piece of whimsy. This poem is well known having the main character‚ the Jabberwock itself‚ in Alice’s World of Wonderland‚ where the first and last stanza is repeated throughout the book and movies. Usually brushed off as just another nonsense poem not meant to have full meaning‚ “Jabberwocky” is much deeper than its seemingly strange surface
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Strange Fruit The poem “Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol. The poem was published on April 20‚ 1937. The authors motivation to write the poem “Strange Fruit” was that he was very disturbed with the racism of the time and when he saw the photo of the two black teenagers that had been lynched it “‘put him over the edge.”’(Elizabeth Blair). My overall response to the poem is that it makes me sick to picture what Billie Holiday painted a clear picture of‚ and to see the picture of the teens
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Leonardo da Vinci painting “The Last Supper” is the famous magnum opus in “High Renaissance”. And different with the other “The Last Supper” he uses a brand new overall management which let the Jesus and his disciples sit together both in the face of the audience. The Jesus sit in the center of the table and his disciples separate on both side of him‚ the window behind the Jesus reflect the light on the Jesus which stand out him with other people. All his disciples were the symmetric distribution
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Gorgon was a play about young man named Lee who loses his best friend in a car crash and his journey about coping with his grief. The majority of the play is set 1 year after the crash‚ when his dead best friend’s twin sister comes to his apartment and tries to persuade him to go outside for her birthday. The story is portrayed through multiple theatrical elements such as set‚ lighting‚ costume and sound. This text response will be analysing two of the main theatrical elements used to directly appeal
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Comparison of the “1914 V: The Soldier” and “Soldier’s Farewell” We’ve come so far in terms of civilisation‚ yet war is still a concept that is prominent and even thriving in our world. The poems “1914 V: The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke‚ and “Soldier’s Farewell” by Mike Subritzky both counter the prospect of war but uses different viewpoints. Putting into mind that Brooke came from WW1 while Subritzky wrote the poem during WW2‚ their mindsets might differ. “1914 V: The Soldier” had a very patriotic
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How did Clausewitz influence the war planning before 1914? Partly because none of the major powers possessed anything comparable to the United States’ National Security Council‚ many of their war plans did not match strategy to particular political objectives. Russia pledged itself to a rapid advance into Germany in order to help its ally France‚ without forecasting where that advance might stop or how it might end. Austro-Hungarian leaders seem to have failed to grasp that they would have inadequate
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