William Somerset Maugham. Stylistic pecularities. Maugham became a witty satirist of the post-colonial world and wrote over thirty plays‚ mainly light satiric comedies. At one time he had four dramas running simultaneously; only Bernard Shaw has had more plays on at the same time in London. The British Library holds many of Maugham’s published plays‚ and the Library’s Lord Chamberlain’s collection contains a considerable number of typescripts. Though Maugham doesn’t denounce the contemprorary
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Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni has evolved as writer; naturalist and a modernist later. Naturalism was a literary movement that was taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions‚ heredity‚ and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Giovanni shows naturalism in her works "Poem (No Name No. 2)"‚ and “[Untitled] (For Margaret Danner)”. Just to give a little background on modernism‚ Modernism is when writers proclaimed a new
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writer’s life and creativity: William Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris on 25th January‚ 1874. William’s father‚ Robert Ormond Maugham‚ a wealthy solicitor‚ worked for the Embassy in France. By the time he was ten‚ both William’s parents were dead and he was sent to live with his uncle‚ the Rev. Henry Maugham‚ in Whitstable‚ Kent. After an education at King’s School‚ Canterbury‚ and Heildelberg University in Germany‚ Maugham became a medical student at St. Thomas Hospital
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animal fables have at least in part descended from the Pancatantra. Among the most renowned Western fables are those attributed to Aesop‚ a (probably fictitious) slave from ancient Greece. One of the best-known of Aesop’s stories is "The Ant and the Grasshopper‚" which teaches the need to be industrious and save for the future during times of plenty. Stories that point out lessons are called fables. Nearly everyone knows the fable about the three little pigs. They leave home and go out into the
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William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)‚ English playwright and author wrote Of Human Bondage (1915); William Somerset Maugham was born on 25 December 1874 at the British Embassy in Paris‚ France‚ the fourth son (of seven children total‚ but only four that survived infancy) born to socialite and writer Edith Mary née Snell (1840-1882) and Robert Ormond Maugham (1823-1884)‚ a lawyer for the British Embassy. Living in the suburbs of Paris‚ Williams’ older brothers Charles‚ Frederick‚ and Henry already
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Ganga Prasad Memorial public school – gumthal ANNUAL examINATION 2012-13 subject – MATH class iii Note: Attempt all the sections – Section “A” 1- Choose the correct number - (a) Eight thousands one hundred one i- 8011 ii- 8111 iii- 8101 (b) Ten Thousand four i- 104 ii- 10004 iii- 1004 (c) Two lakh two hundred two i- 20022 ii- 20202 iii- 101001 2- The Table of 1 2 Section “B” 1- Add the following - i- Rs. P ii- Rs. P 8 37 122 35 + 5 35 + 101
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In his foreword of Of Human Bondage‚ William Somerset Maugham narrated how the novel came to be. He explained that one day he was assaulted by the memories of his past. He grew restless and he knew he had to do something about it. And he just thought that the only way to be free from the past was to write it. He quit the theatre for two years and put the story that would not let him rest on paper. He wrote about Philip Carey‚ a club-foot boy that was orphaned at the early age of nine. He stated that
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with shrubby vegetation like hedges‚ fruiting bushes‚ and thickets(All About Birds). They mainly live in hedges in suburban gardens and orchard margins with an abundance of available fruit(Janssen). Mockingbirds forage on the ground for beetles‚ ants‚
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Factors affecting the role that the relationships between biotic and abiotic factors contribute to the relationship between foliage and ground coverBy Effie LucasIntroduction:A functioning ecosystem is totally reliant on the way in which factors such as biotic and abiotic interrelate and create a balance of living and non-living. Biotic factors are those features of the environments of organisms arising from the activities of the other living organisms‚ relating to‚ produced by‚ or caused by living
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“Heads up‚” he says to the grasshoppers that whir away at the impact. Then he goes to the other side of the tree‚ well away from his customary urinal‚ and rummages around in the cache he’s improvised from a few slabs of concrete‚ lining it with wire mesh to keep out the rats and mice
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