PRIFYSGOL BANGOR: BANGOR UNIVERSITY DEGREE EXAMINATIONS 2008-09‚ semester 2 ARHOLIADAU GRADD 2008-09‚ semester 2 SCHOOL of ENGLISH Pre-released question paper QXE2005: Victorian Literature Time allowed: three hours Answer THREE questions. Each response should refer substantially to at least TWO writers studied on this course. You should not use material in answering one question which you have used in answering another. 1. Discuss the mechanisms of characterisation used by
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Victorian Era Have you ever wondered how the Victorian Era was like? The Victorian Era started with the reign of queen Victoria which began in 1837-1901 and wasn’t a good period in history. The laws were very lenient‚ therefore causing the Victorian Era to have bad conditions like working struggles‚ making young children work‚ children not getting educated‚ rapid population growth‚ and dirty living conditions which brought lots of illnesses. To begin with‚ One of the reasons the Victorian Era was
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Victorian Influences on Literature In 1904 J.M. Barrie published the book Peter Pan. The novel first started as a play‚ and since then been reproduced into many different version. It published a few short years after Queen Elizabeth passed away and the Victorian Era had come to an end. The characters have specific characteristics that represent the time period. The Darlings represent the way Barrie saw the Victorian Era. We see this through the characterization of Mr. Darling‚ Nana‚ and Mrs. Darling
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Child Labor in Victorian England "The report described the children as Chained‚ belted‚ harnessed like dogs black‚ saturated with wet‚ and more than half-naked‚ crawling upon their hands and knees‚ and dragging their heavy loads behind them’" (Yancey 34). This quote from Ivor Brown probably best describes the strenuous work preformed by a child laborer during the Victorian Era. Child laborers played an important part in developing the country’s economy. Children‚ one of the main sources of
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SOCIAL FACTS - AGENCY/STRUCTURE - SOCIAL TYPES Social facts should be considered as things - in Durkheim’s view‚ they are things‚ meaning they are "sui generis‚" peculiar in their characteristics: they are the effect or creation of human activities‚ actions or agency but they are not intended; they are not the product of conscious intentions - they are the unanticipated consequence of human behavior/agency. Social facts are things because they are outside us‚ they are not a product or creation
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Judith Walkowitz’s book Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women‚ Class‚ and the State‚ deals with the social and economic impact that prostitution had on English society in the mid to late 19th century. Throughout her piece Walkowitz illustrates the plight of women who are in the prostitution field and that are working the streets throughout England. She starts with the background of most of the prostitutes in Victorian England then talks about the Contagious Disease Act in 1864 that attempted
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Reaction Time: Does it Decrease with Higher Levels of Athleticism? Abstract Reaction times have been shown to vary based on a variety of variables. Existing research revealed positive overall benefits and inverse relationships between reaction times and athleticism; however‚ limitations exist regarding the volume of research concerning reaction times and athleticism‚ homogeneous and small sample sizes‚ and a restricted range of sports examined. The current study sought
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Fancy Lego Car Assembly In order to begin assembling the fancy lego car with a driver‚ open the box and lay out all the pieces. There are thirty-seven blocks in all‚ not including the girl. Once all of the pieces are laid out begin assembly. The first step in building the car is assembling the base. Find both of the black two-by-two squares with axles‚ a one-by-four white block‚ and a two-by-eight white block. Place the one-by-four white block beneath the two-by-eight on one end. Next‚ place one
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economy. Another popular way to control a child’s behavior is putting them in time-out. Is punishment better than reinforcements? A psychologist has a lot to say about time-out. Reinforcements might be more effective for parents. Depending on their child and what they believe in a parent might use punishment and reinforcements. Putting a child in time-out is worse than the token economy. When a child is put in time-out‚ they are losing three things. According to Vanessa Lapointe‚ a psychologist
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The Victorian Laissez-Faire system of social reform relied on voluntary contribution of the wealthy and the charitable to relieve poverty‚ rather than the now standard system of using money from universal taxes to pay for universal services such as public health and housing. The founding laws of this welfare state we now live in today where known as the liberal reforms‚ a series of legislation that encouraged a far more collectivist attitude to social reform that verged on socialism‚ dreaded by the
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