ROBERT DARNTON’S ASSIGNMENT 1. What does Darnton make of a police inspector’s interest in Enlightenment philosophers? Robert Darnton’s book deals with the Enlightenment France and the particular process of historiography‚ in his search to find out the way French lived in the 18th century. He takes particular incidents and primary documents in French history and exercises them duly to place them in the deeper themes of how the French people lived their lives. However‚ his book also concentrates
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Biography - John Graunt John Graunt was born April 24th1620 and died April 18th 1674 of jaundice. He was the oldest of seven or eight children. His father Henry was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire and his mother was named Mary. In February 1641 he married Mary Scott‚ they had one son and three daughters. He was educated in English‚ then he learned his father ’s profession at age 16.He taught himself Latin and French by studying in the morning before work. He did well in
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Biography of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in 1564‚ supposedly on 22 or 23 April‚ in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father‚ John‚ who was a prosperous glover there‚ preparing and selling soft leather‚ became alderman and later high bailiff. Shakespeare was educated at Stratford Grammar School. When he was eighteen‚ he married Anne Hathaway - eight years older than he and already‚ she was pregnant. Six months later their daughter Susanna was born. They had twins‚ a boy Hamnet and
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> KS4 Reading - Prose HEROES (ROBERT CORMIER) Heroes (Robert Cormier) Teaching Resources includes a 127 slide PowerPoint‚ 35 worksheets and a scheme of work overview. Heroes (Robert Cormier) is a detailed unit of work featuring a series of 15 lessons designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the novel Heroes by Robert Cormier at GCSE. Our Heroes teaching resource includes a range of activities for pupils of all abilities: -A brief biography of Robert Cormier and the historical context
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Assignment - Interview with a Theorist by Kerone Barnett Table of Contents 16 Section I - Introduction Introduction – Dr. Robert Rosenthal‚ Self-Fulfilling Prophecy "When teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth‚ they do; when teachers do not have such expectations‚ performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways." "How we believe the world is and what we honestly think it can
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Biography of Thomas hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet who set much of his work in Wessex‚ his name for the counties of southwestern England. He initially pursued architecture‚ his father’s work‚ but after finding success in his novel Far from the Madding Crowd(1874)‚ he gave it up and wrote with abandon. His works ultimately question the Victorian status quo and asks what else would make more sense. Thomas Hardy’s life can be divided into three phases. The first phase (1840-1870)
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LESSING’S BIOGRAPHY Doris Lessing‚ a British writer‚ was born in 1919 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her father‚ who had lost a leg during his service in World War I‚ moved his family to Persia (now Iran)‚ in order to take up a job as a clerk. Doris was born there. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm. Her mother‚ obsessed with raising a proper daughter‚ enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home‚ then she sent
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Biography of Michio Kaku Michio Kaku (born January 24‚ 1947) is an American theoretical physicist. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque‚ N.M.‚ he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller‚ who took Kaku as a protégé‚ awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku received a B.S. degree summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 where he placed first in his physics class. He went on to attend the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California‚ Berkeley and
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sumaya bt mohamad(MSU) Compare and contrast these poems. Firstly‚ I want to talk about the differences between the two poems. The first poem (Robert Frost) is easier to understand compared to the second poem (Emily Dickinson. The first poem is shorter in lines and has 4 stanzas while the other poem is quite long and has 6 stanzas. The other difference is the first poem is about a men talking about his journey and his pony‚ and the second poem is about this lady and her death story alone. The first
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Robert Allen Zimmerman‚ who is later known as Bob Dylan‚ was born in May 24‚ 1941 in Duluth‚ Minnesota to Abram and Beatty Zimmerman. Fun fact is that he shares his birthday with the american rapper G-Eazy‚ who was born May 24‚ 1989. Bob Dylan’s hometown is Hibbing‚ Minnesota and he was born into Judaism but then later converted to Christianity. He plays a wide variety of music such as folk‚ blues‚ rock‚ and country. He also uses different instruments such as the guitar‚ keyboards‚ harmonica‚ and
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