UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Wife of Bath’s Character Analysis. The Canterbury Tales was written in the late 1380’s. The Wife of Bath was a strange woman for her time period. Most women in this time frame had no say in marriage‚ and mostly stayed with one man. The Wife of Bath wasa woman who was on the pilgrimage to Canterbury and a woman who told her story. The Wife of Bath’s apperance say a lot about her personality‚ and her sexuality. In Chaucer’s days gapped teeth were looked at as a sign of being promiscous. She has
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In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚” the knight received a punishment and was rewarded as well for violently raping an innocent girl just because he could not control himself. In the beginning of the tale‚ the knight was selfish and masochistic and clearly wanted to show his power and dominance over the girl by raping her‚ to prove that women could not have control over men. Chaucer states‚ “Hadde in his hous a lusty bacheler‚ that on a day cam rydinge fro river; and happed that‚ allone as she was born
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How far do you agree with the view that ‘The World’s wife’ is ‘nothing but feminist propaganda’? Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright; frequently dealing with issues of gender‚ oppression and violence. In ‘The Worlds Wife’ Carol Ann Duffy explores the portrayal of women in literature‚ and many of the poems seem to smite men; viewing them as being subordinate instead of women. She explores these ideas through monologues of different historical and mythical events from a female perspective
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Sails of Scampia Scampia’s " Le Vele " ("The Sails") worked between the mid 60’s and mid 70’s‚ epitomized the idea of “residential machine”; they comprise of megastructures where singular spaces were a piece of an immense arrangement of public and shared zones‚ demonstrating social experimentation mainstream in the earlier century. The architect Francesco Di Salvo was first entrusted
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there has been a controversy over which company produces a better guitar. More specifically‚ if the Fender Stratocaster or the Gibson Les Paul is better. Fender’s Stratocaster and Gibson’s Les Paul are the most iconic and well known guitars but are unique in their own way. This paper will discuss the unique characteristics of a Stratocaster‚ the charming features of a Les Paul‚ and the differences between them. Starting with the Fender Stratocaster‚ the strat is made up of wood from the ash and alder
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THEME 1# Genesis In Mark McWatt’s anthology "The Journey to Le Repentir" McWatt examine various aspects of beginnings. McWatt skillfully uses a poetic device called imagery to emphasize the beginning of new life and sublime genesis. McWatt also makes use of a particular structure which is patterned by poets who dominated the early modern English period of poetry‚ called blank verses. However‚ by gracefully imbed images to illustrated diverse aspects of birth and creation of infinite potential
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EQUINOX GYMS EQUINOX GYMS Evaluation of Equinox Gyms compared to Les Mills Evaluation of Equinox Gyms compared to Les Mills --------------------------------- Table of Contents Table of Contents ii Table of Figures ii 1. Benchmark brand for Les Mills 1 2. Brand Safari Analysis 3 2.1 Society and Market environment: Environmental Awareness and Sustainability 3 2.2 Wooing: Technology 5 2.3 Enculturation: XXX 7 2.4 Internal Brand Ambience: XX 8 3. Additional areas to add value
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A female narrator tells the Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ and it focuses on how women should be of equal power as men. There is the Wife who is equal to the King because they both have multiple spouses. The Wife also has power over all her husbands; making her superior to them. That is surprising considering that in 1300’s men were always superior then women‚ and were never at the same level as them. This tale is used to represent how society should have been in that era‚ women and men are the same‚ both
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alvinayingh... Student High School - 10th Grade eNoter Up 3 Down Steinbeck uses Curley’s wife to present the theme of loneliness in Of Mice and Men. Her real name is never revealed in the story‚ showing that she has never been considered as a real person with an identity of her own. In fact‚ Steinbeck depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad- Curley’s bad temper has only worsen since their marriage. Her purpose in the book is rather simple- she is a ‘tramp’‚
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