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    your answers from the list below. |Fort Sumter Appomattox Courthouse Battle of Antietam Freedman’s Bureau | |Border states Siege of Vicksburg Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant | |Scalawags carpetbaggers Robert E. Lee Sharecropping | 1._____________ Bloodiest single-day battle in United States

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    Man’s inhumanity to man essay. The whole topic of this essay is the idea of mans inhumanity to man‚ how men are through time finding ways to destroy each other. Edwin Brook is the author of the poem five ways to kill a man‚ has written the poem with a very sarcastic and ironic view of death‚ this method is used to shock you. This poem is written like a recipe‚ it is a recipe for death and destruction and each verse you could say is an ingredient. The poem

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    Fashion was a very big subject in the Victorian Era. Fashion was truly some of the richest people’s worries on a day to day basis. They would always ask themselves‚ ‘What am I going to wear today?’ which could be easily answered...sometimes. In the Victorian Era it was always a dress for women and a suit for men. Nowadays it seems like our daily mission is to wear anything tight fitting but that’s otherwise. Starting here will be plenty of information on the Victorian Era‚ specifically the men dress.

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    Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti in Historical Context Victorian Era: Victorian Britain‚ 1837 - 1901 Christina Rossetti * Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic‚ devotional‚ and children’s poems * Family: Born in London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori. She had two brothers and

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    Change in the Victorian period. The role of women. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the country whose rich history covers many periods and eras. It saw its ups and downs‚ experienced both hardships and prosperity. It has been the leading power throughout centuries‚ with many countries looking up to it and kneeling before it. Still‚ the echo of its former majesty can be seen up to the present day. However‚ it is impossible to describe the periods all at once. It would

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    Characteristics of Victorian Literature The literature of the Victorian age (1837 – 1901‚ named for the reign of Queen Victoria) entered in a new period after the romantic revival. The literature of this era expressed the fusion of pure romance to gross realism. Though‚ the Victorian Age produced great poets‚ the age is also remarkable for the excellence of its prose. The discoveries of science have particular effects upon the literature of the age. If you study all the great writers of this

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    WOMEN AND VICTORIAN VALUES‚ 1837-1910 In our series Women and Victorian Values‚ 1837-1910 we offer a wide selection of materials concerning the many roles played by women in the Victorian period. During the Victorian and Edwardian periods society was underpinned by rigid moral and social values; with ideal forms of masculine and feminine behaviour. Moral respectability and domesticity were important ideologies of feminine behaviour. The ‘woman’s mission’ was that of supportive wife‚ dutiful

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    The Victorian Age was the time when men were gentlemen and women were ladies. Gentlemen wore waistcoats and top hats when ladies wore elegant hooped gowns and had corseted waists. Outer appearance was of the very utmost importance in the 19-th century Victorian society. There was much pressure on both men and women to keep and gain a high social class during this time. Therefore standards and expectations were high to keep to the strict and often conservative Victorian lifestyle and anything that

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    incorporated many of the same themes from the Victorian/Gothic literary period. In the Victorian England society‚ women were considered weak and inferior to men‚ which is why many believed they functioned best for society in the home taking care of the husbands and children. (Hughes‚ n.p.). Women were supposed to view marriage as a way to raise a family instead of using it to fill an emotional or sexual void. (Hughes‚ n.p.). The “ideal woman” in the Victorian era was one who was fully devoted to her

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    The Importance of Being Victorian: Oscar Wilde “The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either‚ and modern literature a complete impossibility” (Wilde 14). As a brilliant writer of the 1800’s‚ Oscar Wilde devoted the majority of his works towards unveiling the harsh truths of the Victorian society. Leading a life of deception himself‚ he chose to showcase his distastes for the social injustice he saw around him with unrestrained humor. Being the first

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