Competitive MCQ-Exams/Tests and English Studies: Musings on NET (December 30‚ 2012) of English. Thank you University Grants Commission‚ also known as ‘You Get Cash’‚ for making me nearly mad during the last National ‘Eligibility’ Test and thereby revealing to me in an epiphanic moment about paper. Before I go on to my paper‚ let me make clear in the very outset itself that here we will not discuss the recent lawsuits between UGC and the students. I will not address the issues such as the validity
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* Transcendentalists- followers of a belief which stressed living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination; believer in one’s self ability to penetrate the inner essence of things; promoted the belief of individualism; influenced social/humanitarian reforms; * Early-mid 19th century education- previously most common with wealthy; 1830s‚ demands for tax-supported public schools; Horace Mann‚ education public; slow increase in women’s educational
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Summary of Evidence Source A – Picture of Britain and France slicing up the Earth • The man who is tall and skinny dressed in a red outfit with a black hat is represented by Britain and the short man with the blue outfit and the enormous hat is Napoleon. • In between the two country leaders is planet Earth and it emphasizes the tension and how they want supremacy over of the Earth. Britain occupies the West which includes America and France has control of the European countries. • An overview is
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By the time the American colonists had reached the point of a revolution‚ there was a good sense of identity and unity between them. It took a great deal of time and effort by the men leading the country to get the colonists to attain colonial unity and suspicion and envy slowed colonial unity. These road blocks were removed when the colonies were forced to fight and work alongside each other for their rights. The struggle for colonial unity was a battle of great importance for the survival of American
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“From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government.” This statement is quite bold considering that the Articles lasted only eight years. In some ways this form of government was effective and in some ways it was not. It did provide the newly formed American colonies with the means to govern themselves in the manner that they wished to be governed and set the rules for operations of the United States government. On the other hand‚ it was ineffective
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915‚ assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed. In reference to the years between 1877 and 1915‚ I assessed that‚ based on between each of
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The three colonial regions of British North America had differences economically and socially. Massachusetts Bay in New England struggled with farming due to the rocky land. However Virginia‚ a southern colony‚ and middle colonies had fertile land and had warmer weather. Despite the fact that all three regions were settled by English Colonists‚ all regions had different religious points of view. Farming and religion are differences economically and socially that separated the three colonial regions
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Industrial Essay The Industrial Revolution refers to the process of developing product in factories through machines. In other word‚ it is the transition from handmade production to machine. And began in england in the middle 1700s and eventually spread to rest of the world. In addition‚ England’s Agricultural Revolution‚ the time that new farming techniques and method to grow and harvest food more quickly and efficiently was developed‚ helped increase food supplies. As food supplies increased‚
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During the Industrial Revolution‚ the health of the English textile factory workers was put at risk due to harsh working conditions‚ resulting in harmful accidents and deadly pollution. The factory workers faced long working hours‚ usually from “five in the morning to nine or ten at night” (Doc C). In addition to this long hours‚ workers only received one small breakfast break‚ only consisting of water-porridge‚ oatcakes‚ and onions. This lead to an unstable health in the workers and caused problems
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The American Revolution shocked the world; no one had ever expected a small group of colonies to fight for and win their own independence from the seemingly greatest and most omnipresent country on earth. Americans had worked for and thought about the moment of their freedom for years‚ and their sense of individuality ran deep. By the eve of the American Revolution‚ colonists in America had developed a strong sense of identity as Americans‚ but only somewhat of unity as a single country. In events
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