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    A physical journey consists of the movement from one place to another‚ whereby the individual undergoes a process of change and development‚ becomes endowed with experiences‚ goals are achieved culminating in an overall transformation. Journeys often contain elements such as a lack of choice‚ uncertainty‚ danger‚ and obstacles. Such journeys are explored in Peter Skrzynecki’s poems Immigrants at Central station and ’Crossing the Red Sea’‚ Alan Moir’s political cartoon MV Cormo Express (SMH 28/10/03)

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    Explain the key features of ‘The Terror’ The Terror was a phase during the French Revolution when many people of France were executed for supposedly being ‘Enemies of the Revolution’. The Committee of Public Safety were behind most of the deaths and they were lead mainly by Maximilien de Robespierre. The greatest factors of the Terror were the revolution itself‚ internal political rivalry‚ social and economic problems‚ wars‚ leadership‚ violence and the Thermidorian reaction. These can be broadly

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    Old Regime- Polittical and social system of France before the French Revolution. Under the regime‚ everyone was a subject of the king of France as well as a member of an estate and province- a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires. First Estate- the clergy‚ who were people‚ including priests‚ the Catholic church and some aspects of the country. In addition to keeping registers of births‚ deaths and marriages‚ the clergy also had the power to levy a 10% tax known as

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    Jennifer Rider Professor Elenor TA 430 December 12th‚ 2012 The Italian Renaissance Fashion An age of artistic endeavors‚ inventive innovations‚ and of some of the most premier fashions in clothing‚ the Italian Renaissance was a birth of art‚ knowledge and of course‚ style. “Toward the end of the 14th century AD‚ a handful of Italian thinkers declared that they were living in a new age. The barbarous‚ unenlightened “Middle Ages” were over‚ they said; the new age would be a “rinascità” (“rebirth”)

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    Olympe De Gouges: Hero or Liability for the French Revolution? “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights”. Prior to 1789‚ the year the French Revolution began‚ women including Olympe De Gouges‚ were thought to have had few purposes. One being to “please” their husbands and two they were responsible for the upbringing of their children. However‚ because of women like Olympe De Gouges this was about to change. During the last decades of the eighteenth century‚ two parts of French society

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    The most popular reaction to Albert Camus’ The Stranger is to say the trial is inequitable and Meursault did not deserve a punishment as severe as death. When I started the novel I did not agree with that statement at all‚ it was understood that Meursault had shot the Arabian man‚ five times at that‚ how could one find this as an “unfair retribution”? As I kept reading though‚ I was almost mortified by the conduct and the overall atmosphere of the trial. There is no way to deny that the lawyers

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    The graveyard was dark and shadowed; tulips lined the cobblestone pathway that led to the mausoleum‚ looming darkly against the feeble moon. I strode through the graveyard‚ glancing nervously around at the shadows that lay thick upon the graves like a shroud. Tulips‚ protruding like withered stakes from the ground‚ lined the pathway‚ and I could smell their sickly-sweet odor as I approached the mausoleum‚ looming above me like a forbidding monument to the feeble moon above. “Rachel!” I cried out

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    Nursery Rhymes- The Origin What do I say about nursery rhymes? We have grown up reciting them. They were and are an important part of our childhood. We sung them during class‚ at home‚ in front of guests‚ in the playground and a lot of us sing them even today. Nursery rhymes were like the first form of music that we learnt and to a 3 year old‚ I bet they are like the Beatles or ABBA or even Taylor Swift! But‚ recently‚ I have been wondering whether or rather WHAT these rhymes mean because‚ to

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    Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff I once heard that if you get executed with a guillotine you feel‚ see and hear when your head hits the ground. I don’t know if it’s true. A friend of mine told me that he once killed a hen. He held it tightly to the woodblock‚ he was intended use‚ and when he brutally separated its head from its body he led go of the hen and it ran headless around for several seconds. I know that’s true. I read that when you get shot in the head and the bullet smash into your

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    Characters Many of Dickens’ characters are "flat"‚ not "round"‚ in the novelist E. M. Forster’s famous terms‚ meaning roughly that they have only one mood.[33] In Tale‚ for example‚ the Marquis is unremittingly wicked and relishes being so; Lucie is perfectly loving and supportive. (As a corollary‚ Dickens often gives these characters verbal tics or visual quirks that he mentions over and over‚ such as the dints in the nose of the Marquis.) Forster believed that Dickens never truly created rounded

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