Europe Day Celebrating the creation of the European Union. Europe Day commemorates 9 May 1950‚ when the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe‚ to help maintain peaceful relations between European countries. This proposal‚ known as the ’Schuman declaration’‚ is considered to be the act that created what is now the European Union. Today‚ the 9th of May has become a European symbol (Europe Day) which‚ along with the flag‚ the
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Easter 1916 : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats is a poem about an Irish immature revolutionary plan which became unsuccessful to overthrow the British reign in Ireland. About fifteen hundred people participated in this revolution to seize the government office building of Dublin on Easter morning‚ but three hundred of them were killed on the spot‚ and more than two hundred people were taken as prisoner and tortured. In Easter 1916‚ poet
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greater importance as a whole than would be due to each individually. For the most part they are attempts‚ arising out of actual work for the party‚ to clarify the theoretical problems of the revolutionary movement in the mind ‚of the author and his readers. The exceptions to this are the two essays Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat and Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation which were both written specially for this collection during a period of enforced leisure. They
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Roland. Elements of Semiology. London: Jonathan Cape‚ 1967. Barthes‚ Roland. “Rhetoric of the Image.” Working Papers in Cultural Studies. Birmingham: University of Birmingham‚ 1971. Bate‚ David. Photography: The Key Concepts. Oxford: Berg‚ 2009. Baudelaire‚ Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. Trans. Jonathan Mayne. Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd.‚ 1995. Belt‚ Angela Faris. The Elements of Photography. Burlington‚ MA: Elsevier Inc‚ 2008. Benjamin‚ Walter. “A Short History of Photography
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Romanticism Era In the European and American movement‚ Romanticism art‚ extended from about 1800 to 1850. The Romantic Movement first took root in Germany and then England in the 1780s. With the decline of Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment‚ and the American and French Revolutions‚ the movement shook the rest of Europe and lighted across the seas in the second wave to America. The ideals and tenets were the exact opposite of Neoclassicism‚ which emphasized order‚ logic‚ emotional restraint
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We are lucky to present you Short Summaries of the Books You Have to Read in the course of the English Literature by Stulov Thursday‚ April 3 2002 Contents 1. AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT FROM THE 17TH TO THE 20TH CENTURIES 2 2. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN 5 3. ALL THE KING’S MEN 13 4. CATCH-22 22 5. CATCHER IN THE RYE 31 6. FAREWELL TO ARMS 35 7. GRAPES OF WRATH 41 8. GREAT GATSBY 46 9. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT 49 10. MOBY DICK 53 11. SCARLET LETTER 63 12
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WIKIPEDIA: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24‚ 1919)[1] is an American poet‚ painter‚ liberal activist‚ and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry‚ translations‚ fiction‚ theatre‚ art criticism‚ and film narration‚ he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)‚ a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages‚ with sales of over one million copies. Contents 1 Early life 2 World War II 3 Columbia University & The Sorbonne 4
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Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Salman Rushdie ’s Fiction Daniela Rogobete Today everything that derives from history and from historical time must undergo a test. Neither cultures ’ nor the consciousness ’ of peoples‚ groups‚ or even individuals can escape the loss of identity that is now added to all other besetting terrors nothing and no one can avoid trial by space. (Lefebvre in Burgin‚ 1996: 23) Space and its recontextualisation‚ its metaphoric representations
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Nabokov Online Journal‚ Vol. VI (2012) _______________________________________________________________________ NABOKOV’S SHORT STORY “SIGNS AND SYMBOLS”: An interdisciplinary roundtable discussion♣ _______________________ Hal Ackerman‚ Screenwriter (UCLA) Murray Biggs‚ Theater scholar (Yale University) John N. Crossley‚ Mathematician (Monash University) Wayne Goodman‚ Psychiatrist (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Yuri Leving‚ Moderator (Dalhousie University) Frederick White‚ Literary scholar
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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West
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