is used by Wilde as an advantage to portray the upperclass. Upon hearing Jack and Gwendolen’s engagement‚ Lady Bracknell asks him‚ “[…] Do you smoke?” It is quite peculiar that her first thought was to inquire whether or not Jack smokes. In the Victorian times‚ true aristocrats had the reputation of not having to work often‚ meaning they had an extensive amount of free time. Her demeanour and management of the situation revealed that she is serious about intermingling between the social classes.
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Historia de la Lengua Inglesa – Año: 2011 Segundo parcial: domiciliario NIGERIAN ENGLISH Berardi‚ Lucía Introduction As Jennifer Jenkins states in her resource book World Englishes “... there are approximately seventy-five territories where English is spoken either as a first language (L1)‚ or as an official (i.e institutionalised) second language (L2) in fields such as government‚ law and education.”[1] There were two dispersals or diasporas of English that contributed
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government of Oceania‚ in the novel 1984‚ is an example of totalitarian society. Germany‚ under Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism is another example of totalitarianism. Orwell’s Oceania has both similarities and differences to the totalitarian states of the twentieth century. The government of Oceania is clearly a totalitarian state‚ which compares and contrasts with Hitler’s National Socialism. The state‚ society‚ and daily life in Oceania present obvious characteristics of a totalitarian state
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The Victorian Era: A Prison for a Woman’s Individuality As Victorian writer‚ George Meredith once dictated: “Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing‚ as we say‚ to die for the other‚ yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.” In the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ the main character Edna Montpellier is a Victorian woman awakened from a stagnant life of a typical turn-of-the-century marriage. She looks for a life outside of her family that she desires to branch
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Trapped By the Past I sat on the teacher’s dais‚ alone and unprotected. As floods of small schoolboys flowed into the room in unrelenting waves‚ I began to realise the full extent of my vulnerability. Standing at the highest point in the room‚ I was an obvious target. Any of the malevolent children below me could easily hit me with a heavy object or swarm on me like a crowd of ants‚ overwhelming me with sheer force of numbers and sending me tumbling to the ground. During the war‚ I had been far
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CMT3321 – Week 19 – Sample Exam Question Question (a) Describe the key features of Tangible User Interfaces‚ comparing and contrasting them with multi-touch interactive surfaces. [ 10 marks ] (b) Consider the following scenario: The Tangible Disaster Simulation System is a collaborative tool for planning disaster measures based on simulations of disasters and responses such as evacuation and the actions of emergency services. Users can define parameters of a disaster (such as its scale
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French Revolution‚ the Victorian era‚ and the Holocaust. Before the French Revolution there was a lot of gruesome violence‚ particularly surrounding executions. In Renaissance Venice‚ the worst crimes committed by low-class criminals often had punishments of public humiliation‚ mutilation and execution. They would often be taken to the
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens‚ set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold‚ it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.[2] The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution‚ the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
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Thomas Schlereth’s Victorian America is an informative book based on the social life and cultural history of America from 1876 to 1915. Schlereth’s book does not focus on the wars or political leaders during the era but instead emphasizes on the everyday life of the ordinary American at the time. Schlereth also goes into great detail about the dramatic change that occurred in the workplace‚ housing‚ and communication. Schlereth manages to explain why the changes in the Victorian era also affected
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Research Question: The government should not engage in the surveillance of their citizens in the interests of national security. After the occurrence of the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001‚ President George W. Bush signed a law‚ the PATRIOT Act. The PATRIOT Act made it easier for the law enforcement officials to use certain techniques such as wiretapping and other surveillance technologies to aid in the war against terrorism. The reason why this topic needs to be addressed is located
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