COURSE 5: The Issue of Bad Writing in Swift and Pope The eighteenth century witnessed a major revolution‚ in some ways more profound than the Civil War‚ the Printing Trade. It was a state of anarchy within which struggling writers‚ who came from the lower strata‚ were writing in journals‚ newspapers‚ magazines etc. Great consumption of these kinds of writings led to the formation of the Grub Street (a London Street inhabited by literary hacks such as writers of small histories‚ dictionaries and
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Book VII of The Republic Book VII of The Republic says that Socrates says to imagine‚ humans living in a cave‚ their entrance is above them and open to the world. They have been there since they were children‚ their necks and legs are chained so that they can only see in front of them. There is a fire‚ behind them‚ which provides light. There is also a path behind them‚ a little higher than they are. Along the path there is a wall‚ like a puppeteer’s screen. People move along the
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Henry VII was born in 1457 to Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort. His father died two months before he was born‚ leaving his 13-year-old mother as his only parent. After Henry’s birth‚ he spent a lot of time with his uncle Jasper Tudor. Jasper took Henry to France‚ where he spent most of his youth. Henry had a claim to the throne of England‚ but it was not a very good one‚ and he had to wait a long time for a chance to take the throne. In 1483‚ a new king came to the throne in England‚ called Richard
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Things not Seen by Andrew Clements is an extraordinary book showing the struggle of independence between a boy and his family. The genre is the popular scientific fiction and was published in 2002. It was inspired off of a bible verse‚ Hebrews 11:1‚"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for‚ the evidence of things not seen." Things not Seen is one of Andrew Clements most prized book‚ but he is most famous for his book‚ Frindle which won a Christopher Award. Plot/Character Summary: The setting
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William Henry Pope William Henry Pope was born in Bedeque‚ P.E.I on May 29‚1825. The elder son of James Pope and Lucy Colledge. He was educated on P.E.I and later in England‚ he was studing Law. He was called to the bar in 1847‚ In addition to practicing Law‚ he acted as a land agent. Through the 1850’s he became very involved with the Concervative Party. He began his official political career in 1859. He was not elected that year‚ but was appointed colonial secretary new policy of "nondepartmentalism"
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Can Art be Limited to Single Categories What is Clement Greenberg’s definition of “modernism”? I do not agree with Clement Greenberg definitions of modernism‚ in his essay ‘Modernist Painting’. Because it is wrong to place artistic limits on artistic expression‚ whether that is painting‚ sculpture or any other artistic work. As Manet’s sad “art for art sack”. Single person cannot be permitted to make decision on what good art is. In doing so he took away the freedom to explore‚ and once needed‚ push
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Alexander Pope uses this to his benefit when he depicts the crime in The Rape of the Lock. By alluding to Milton’s work‚ Pope is able to comically refer to the cutting of a lock of hair as a tragic and epic event. In doing this‚ he paradoxically assumes that the crime is not one of personal fault‚ but one fated to happen by God‚ just as in Paradise Lost. “What dire offence from amorous causes springs‚ / What mighty contests rise from trivial things‚” (Pope‚ ll. 1-2). These
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Cleopatra Vll was born in 69 BC‚ in Alexandria‚ Egypt. Despite what people say today‚ that she was glamorous and beautiful‚ she was far from it. She is shown on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and masculine features. Although she was not beautiful she was clearly a very seductive woman‚ and she used this to further Egypt politically. She had a beautiful musical voice. It is also said that she was highly intelligent. She spoke nine different languages‚ and she was the first Ptolemy pharaoh who
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Accel Partners VII by Steven N. Kaplan1 Graduate School of Business‚ University of Chicago As the summer of 1999 began‚ Julie Robins‚ the chief investment officer of the Angel Foundation‚ was considering whether to invest in Accel Partners’ latest venture capital fund – Accel Partners VII. Accel was seeking to raise $500 million. The Angel Foundation had been a limited partner (investor) in Accel’ previous three funds – Accel Partners IV‚ V‚ and VI. Those s funds had generated returns
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Swift said that he wrote Gulliver’s Travels to ’vex the world ’. Discuss the purpose of Augustan satire‚ with reference to works by Swift and Pope. This essay will strive to prove that the ‘Augustan Age’ was the first example of a literary community using satire to directly challenge cultural‚ social‚ political and challenging intellectual issues. It is quite usual to find in satiric works of the 18th century an unusually direct assault from the writers against contemporary government officials
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