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Women's Emancipation

Changing British Society The suffragettes campaigned between 1903 and 1914 for the right of women to vote in parliamentary elections. Explain why the suffragette campaigns had failed by 1914 to gain women the national suffrage. In the Victorian age, women were classified as second-class ...

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Similarities and differences between Nathaniel’s and Poe’s writings

Nathaniel's writings and Poe’s writings are similar in some way. The themes mainly focus on human nature, and act as moral lessons to the society. The two authors have negative reactions towards transcendental as they do not support the ideas of transcendental movement. This paper analyzes the ...

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The English Patient: Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis: Post-Modernism Literature Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient tells a story of how four different individuals lives come together at the end of World War II. There is a sense of mystery as the four strangers lived together in an abandoned Italian villa, gradually revealing ...

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Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (July 13, 100 BC - March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader whose conquest of Gallia Comata extended the Roman world all the way to the Oceanus Atlanticus and introduced Roman influence into modern France, an accomplishment whose direct consequences are visible ...

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was born on November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Protestant Anglo-Irish parents: his ancestors had been Royalists, and all his life he would be a High-Churchman. His father, also Jonathan, died a few months before he was born, upon which his mother, Abigail, returned to ...

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Patriotism and War

Patriotism and War The three poems “Next to of course god America I”, “To Lucasta”, and “Beat! Beat! Drums!” written by Cummings, Lovelace and Whitman respectively all have a certain common theme. All three poems are about pride, patriotism, war and serving your country. In the poem, ...

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Barbara Strozzi: Her Life, Her Works, and Baroque Expressivity in Langrime Mie

Barbara Strozzi (1619-77) was a woman to be reckoned with in the early Baroque period. Raised by an aristocratic Italian poet, she was provided with an educational and musical background unlike that of most young females in the seventeenth century. She studied with some of the greatest men in ...

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Keats' Exploration of the Imagination

“How the poetry of Keats explores the Romantic conception of the Imagination as a means to illuminate and transform human experience.” Your speech must explore the ways in which the values of Romanticism in the late 18th century to the mid 19th century are inscribed in the set poems by ...

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Death And Emily Dickinson

Dipankar Dutta Barry L. Hall English 1102 March 17, 2011 Death and afterlife Emily Dickinson became a legendary figure in english literature through her preoccupation of death. Her poetic work contains different description of death which encompass emotional responses to body’s or soul’s ...

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Narrative Of The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

RICHARD F. PETERSON The key to the criticism of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has been the personality of Stephen Dedalus and Joyce's own attitude or from that personality. 1 While the title clearly claims a special genius for Stephen--that of the artist--and modifies that genius by ...

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Angelou's Universal Appeal

Maya Angelou has dedicated her life to end prejudices faced by many black females in the 20th century. As an author, poet, and entertainer, she is known best for her strong portrayal of African-American women, outstanding work of arts, and series of autobiographies. Her work has contributed ...

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Elegy Essay - Seamus Heaney

‘Casualty’ by famous Irish poet Seamus Heaney is a fiercely political, touchingly personal, and deeply religious elegy. It is part of his later work, published as part of his 5th collection – ‘Field Work’. The poem was written about and anonymous party originally, but a time after releasing ...

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Colonialism In Africa

Colonial Conquest in Africa The 19th century in Europe was a time of industrialization. Factories in Europe required raw materials to be manufactured into marketable products. As a result, Europeans sought both a source of raw materials, as well as, a market for manufactured goods in Africa. ...

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Porphyria's Lover

"Porphyria's Lover" is a poem by Robert Browning and it was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under the title "Madhouse Cells." According to (Browning ...

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The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath that tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant, talented woman who slowly sinks into the pain and hardship of depression. Her previous successfulness and positive attitude drains away, and she is left without any control over her ...

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Compare and Contrast London-Blake and Evolution-Alexie

Compare and Contrast London-Blake and Evolution-Alexie These two poems are eerily similar in several different ways especially being that they were written at drastically different eras. The topic of oppression expressed in each one of these poems is so profound that it becomes the focus of ...

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The Longest Memory

THE LONGEST MEMORY Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory is an award winning novel about slavery in America during the 1800's. The following pages are reviews on the novel taken from the web. ====================================================== The Longest Memory By Fred d'Aguiar ...

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Beowolf - Christianity Vs. Paganism

Beowulf - Christianity Vs. Paganism Beowulf-Christianity or Paganism Beowulf was written in England sometime in the 8th century. This provides us with an idea that the poem that was written during a time when the society was in the process of converted from paganism to Christianity. The ...

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Abstract Expressionism

Essay Title What would you judge to be the most significant decade or era in fine art or design in the 20th century and why? Abstract Expressionism - 1940 – 1950 Contents Page 1. Essay Title 2. Contents Page 3. List of Illustrations 4. Introduction (Beginning of essay) 5. The ...

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Reading Dictionaries

At the very sight of this title you would perhaps say to yourself, 'Only fools would do that. I know better.' But I've heard of several famous men who did read dictionaries. They gloried in dictionaries and and read them with the delight that some travellars find in guidebooks and ...

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