I. Catherine‚ Called Birdy is a historical fiction novel‚ structured as a diary. Narrated by protagonist Catherine. Written by Karen Cushman. II. The novel itself takes place in 1290’s Stonebridge‚ London. Catherine‚ Called Birdy is based in a village ruled by Lord Rollo. The work of literature states‚ “The chamber is pleasant‚ large and sunny‚ with my mother and father’s big bed on one side and‚ on the other‚ a window that looks out on the world I could be enjoying were I not in here sewing”(Cushman
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Catherine‚ Called Birdy by Karen Cushman was about a girl in medieval England named Catherine. Catherine is a young girl in her mid-teens‚ the normal age for girls to get married in her era. But Catherine doesn’t want to get married. She wants to be a monk‚ a writer‚ a painter‚ a saint‚ a crusader‚ a street performer‚ anything but the wife to a man who bought her from her father. Catherine manages to send over three suitors running‚ but when an old‚ rich drunk comes to take her away to his castle
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tranquil than Wuthering Heights‚ which is overwhelmed by emotions and tumultuous events. This is proved by Catherine‚ who acts like two different people at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Catherine lives at both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange during her life‚ and when at Wuthering Heights‚ she is bold‚ unmanageable and untamed. Nelly describes the unruly young Catherine saying‚ ". . . I never saw a child take up before; and she put all of us past our patience fifty times and
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Catherine of Aragon born 1485 died 1536 Catherine was born into a family of royalty‚ of Kings and Queens. She was destined to be a Queen herself but it wasn’t her choice that she got to marry that was up to her father King Ferdinand and her mother Queen Isabel of Aragon‚ Spain. They talked to King Henry VII of England. A treaty was made‚ despite the age being a faithless one and Ferdinand he never kept an oath an hour longer than it suited him; but mutual interests by kinship might hold sovereigns
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Catherine the Great was known as an "Enlightened Despot‚" because she reigned during the Age of the Enlightenment along with other monarchs such as Frederick the Great and Joseph II‚ began to understand the concepts of reason‚ natural law and other ideas being developed at the time by various philosophers. An enlightened despot realized that even though she or he had absolute powers‚ they had an obligation to use those powers for the good of their subjects rather than just for themselves.
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Catherine of Aragon is the daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile and Leon and descended maternally and paternally from English kings. Her marriage to Prince Arthur Tudor of Wales aims at sealing a diplomatic alliance between Spain recently unified and England‚ that both have the French for enemies. Arthur is destined to succeed to his father Henry VII in the royal functions. However‚ in 1502‚ only a year after his marriage to Catherine of Aragon‚ Arthur dies of an illness
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Hist 030 | Catherine the Great | Women Empowerment | | Jose Fletes | 3/11/2013 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Today‚ women have come a long way in society. Comparing different times‚ female gender had little or no participation in the economic‚ social or political‚ rather merely
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Catherine Smith was miss-treated in this situation as she had been to the police numerous times and never was there once a charge laied against Kevin smith. The one time Catherine retaliated she was put on trial and was almost sentenced to 25 years jail for only one offence when Kevin had committed 17 offences which were 3 attempted murders and several sexual assaults. The police did nothing even know Catherine had gone to them and they did nothing at all‚ that was not fair on Catherine or her family
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Catherine Earnshaw Catherine Earnshaw is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and his wife; Catherine falls powerfully in love with Heathcliff‚ the orphan Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool. She was born at Wuthering Heights and was raised with her brother Hindley. Catherine loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person but does not marry him because Hindley has degraded him after their father’s death so her desire for social advancement motivates her to marry Edgar Linton
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History and horror‚ crime and conflict‚ sci-fi and sexual transgression. Thus begins the attempt to define the art of Norman Catherine. The lexicon broadens: comic‚ violent‚ whimsical‚ playful‚ sly‚ satirical‚ brutish‚ anxious‚ at times even idealistic. And so it continues: vivid‚ brilliant‚ psychologically disconcerting‚ emotionally unforgiving‚ visually unforgettable. Yet the words themselves provide an incomplete collage of the thematic variIt is within the moral desolation of a jagged socio-political
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