In Mrs. Miniver‚ a novel of about 300 pages‚ Jan Struther writes about the simple and fulfilling life of Kay Miniver and her family as they go through the struggles of WWII. Struther shows Mrs. Miniver’s optimism and vitality despite the effects of the war on her family. A narrator‚ who watches the family through dialogue between the family and other characters‚ tells the novel. Mrs. Miniver is often alone admiring something and commenting to herself. Her spirit and good will are shown in events
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Mrs. Birling Molly Caitlin Ellie Mrs. Birling is the wife of Arthur Birling and is the mother to Sheila and Eric. There are some important aspects to the character‚ which we will look into today. These are: What Mrs. Birling represents‚ the difference between the generations‚ her relationships with her husband and Inspector Goole‚ her presence on stage and our reaction to her as an audience. Mrs. Birling is a typical upper class woman‚ who behaves‚ as she would be expected to. Women were considered
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his wife Mrs Bixby) and 5 secondary characters (Colonel‚ Wilkins‚ the taxi-driver‚ the pawnbroker and miss Pulteney). Main characters Cyril Bixby was small‚ neat and bony‚ he had a narrow nose and a slightly prognathous jaw. He wore Edwardian jackets with high lapels and six buttons down the front and narrow stovepipe trousers‚ and his wife thought he looked ridiculous in this outfit. He was a dentist that lived in a smallish apartment somewhere in New York City with his wife Mrs. Bixby. At
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In Mrs. Dalloway‚ the modernist writer Virginia Woolf undermines the usual conventions of prior prose fiction by adopting an innovative approach to time. She contrasts the objective external time and subjective internal time that structure the plot of the one-day novel. In fact‚ the story takes place on a single day in June and‚ by the use of two important techniques‚ namely the stream of consciousness mode of narration and the interior mono-logue‚ the reader is constantly flowing from the present
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Sophia née von Scheidlin and Uncle Henry MacDonald Maugham (1828-1897)‚ the Vicar of All Saints‚ Whitstable‚ in Kent‚ England. William suffered from a stutter and his lack of proficiency in English and loss of his parents could not have helped matters when he was taunted and bullied by classmates. But his aunt and uncle did the best they could in raising such a young boy‚ themselves never having had children. Maugham attended King’s School in Canterbury before travelling to Germany at the age of sixteen
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discrimination and the creation of entry barriers. Alternatively economic theory justifies integration on the grounds of efficiency achieved through greater economies of scale and scope resulting from mergers. (Chandler 1966). Chandler (1966) maintains‚ “when economies of scope between successive stages due to technological organizational interrelationships are strong enough‚ these activities should be provided under joint ownership‚ vertical integration has also been used to avoid factor distortions in
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Mr. Bleaney Mr. Bleaney is a poem by Philip Larkin. It has seven stanzas split into two main themes. It is about the thoughts of Larkin as the landlady shows him around the room of the mysterious ‘Mr. Bleaney’. I think that ‘the Bodies’ was where he worked; it could be a colloquial reference to a particular part of a company. This would fit in with ‘They moved him’ as it could be a transfer. ‘Bodies’ is also quite relevant because the poem was written immediately after the Second World War.
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Anja gives a package to Mrs Stefanska which included papers that showed Anja was helping Communists translate them into German. Mrs Stefanska gets arrested Miss Stefanaska- Please! Hide this package for me- Don’t tell anyone about it!” * Vladek started a textiles factory in Bielsko * In October 1937 Vladek and Anja had their first child called Richieu * We learn that Art was very premature and the doctors didn’t think that he would survive “But you- After the war‚ when you were born‚ it was
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Mrs. J having all the sign and symptom with the history of having hypertension‚ chronic heart failure‚ sleep apnea‚ and smoke two pack of cigarettes a day‚ is not a thing to play with because she has expose herself to many things such as stroke‚ and brain death because the sleep apnea and the heart attach‚ will deprives the brain of oxygen since the cardiac muscle are not strong enough to be able to pump blood to her brain. Heart failure occurs when the cardiovascular system is unable to meet the
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written in 1955 and was included in his 1964 anthology ‘The Whitsun Weddings’. It tells the story of a man (arguably Larkin himself) who rents a room and discovers by looking at the apartment the monotonous life of the person who used to live there‚ Mr Bleaney. As the poem progresses‚ the man starts identifying himself to Bleaney and it is here where Larkin presents a central theme of the poem being interchange ability of lives and what constitutes individuality. Larkin’s use of punctuation is particularly
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