Name: ____________________________ Date: ________________ Block:______ Chapter 27: Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West I. Introduction A. Russia and Japan defied the pattern of growing Western domination during the19th century 1. By 1914‚ both launched significant______________________ and accomplished other changes that preserved their ___________________ 2. Both achieved economic autonomy and were able to join in ___________________________ B. Differences between the
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Character and Characterization Major Characters. a) Mathilde Loisel Character Analysis Mathilde Loisel wants to be a glamour girl. She’s obsessed with glamour – with fancy‚ beautiful‚ expensive things‚ and the life that accompanies them. Unfortunately for her‚ she wasn’t born into a family with the money to make her dream possible. Instead‚ she gets married to a "little clerk" husband and lives with him in an apartment so shabby it brings tears to her eyes . Cooped up all day in the house
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to America. Realism began in France‚ in the works of Balzac and‚ later‚ Flaubert‚ as a reaction against the libertarian excesses of romanticism in art and Napoleonic politics. From there‚ it quickly spread to Russia in the work of Tolstoy and Turgenev‚ and to England in the work of George Eliot and Trollope. There were four important tenets of French realism: 1. They rejected previous standards of art‚ especially standards of symmetry and harmony espoused by neo-classicism‚ and the glorification
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The Life of Peter Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‚ was born in Votkinsk‚ in the city of Vyatka‚ Russia‚ May 7‚ 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter‚ to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother started to drive to another city‚ he had to be held back while she got into the carriage‚ and the moment he was free ran and tried to hold the wheels. There is an anecdote
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A Summer Project On “REALISM IN MODERN DRAMA” In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in English Submitted by: BISMA IRFAN BA (Honors) English ll A0706110036 ENROLL. NO. Submitted to: DR DEEPANKAR SUKUL Asst. Professor AMITY INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AMITY
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Alle Knight English Composition II Ms. Bennett 7 Dec. 2011 Cruel Endings are Trending Countless Short stories are recognized throughout history‚ although the short story can sometimes be an underappreciated art form. Confined by the space of only a few pages‚ an author must create a story that is captivating‚ form characters the readers connect with and drive the story to its short lived conclusion. Although‚ some authors have mastered the art of short stories‚ turning compressed pieces of work
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dreams this way‚ Dostoyevsky is able to distort the reader’s perception of the story’s events and meaning. The “setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate...that the dreamer‚ were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even‚ could never have invented them in the waking state” (Dostoyevsky 45). Dostoyevsky makes the transition between dreams and the waking state seamless. This flawless change contributes to the effectiveness of the book by demonstrating the confusion
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The Short Story. Basic Literary Elements of The Short Story. 1.1.History of The Development of The Short Story. 1.1.1.Early Forms.Origins. The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose‚ usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction‚ such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or books. Short story definitions based upon length differ somewhat even among professional writers
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Before we are able to trace the motives that ushered in Romantic period‚ it is of paramount importance to point out the preceding period‚ which is known as Neo-classical era. The Neoclassical period spans 1600-1798 (the accession of Charles II to the publication by Wordsworth and Coleridge of Lyrical Ballad). It is called the neoclassical period because of reverence for the works of classical antiquity. The period is often called Age of reason‚ and science was used to glorify God and his creation
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Demented‚ Draconian Tyrant: Hamlet‚ the Antihero Annroopa Jacob Roll no: 131201 I Semester MA English St. Joseph’s College‚ Devagiri‚ Calicut-8 ABSTRACT The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark by Shakespeare has always been subjected to various interpretations by critics of all ages. Often Hamlet is hailed as the ‘tragic hero’ of the play. In this paper‚ I argue that Hamlet is not the hero‚ but the ‘antihero’ of the play. The concept of ‘tragic hero’ by Aristotle and the modern definitions of
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