HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL END OF TERM III 2010 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TEST G11 TIME: 2Hrs Date: 25th November 2010 INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Answer a total of five questions. 2. Answer not more than two questions on any one book. Orwell: Animal Farm 1. The song ‘Beasts of England’ clearly outlines the aspirations and vision of the animals on Animal Farm. What are these aspirations that the song reveals? Say why the animals fail to realize them
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No. of Printed Pages : 5 MEG-2 MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH Term-End Examination June‚ 2012 MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA Time : 3 hours Note : Maximum Marks : 100 09931 Answer Question no. 1‚ which is compulsory and any four from the remaining questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Annotate any four of the following passages with reference to the context in not more than 150 words each : 4x5=20 (a) Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years‚ A hundred thousand and at last
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CONCEPTUALIZING CULTURALHYBRIDITY‚ LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POST COLONIAL LITERATURE: Hybridity‚ Culture and Language are the major issues in the post colonial theory. My assignment will deal with these three factors in terms of colonial perspectives. The post colonialism mainly explores the ideas such as cultural diversity‚ geographical dimensions‚ Diasporas‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ marginality‚ hybridity‚ national identities‚ cultural transformation‚ changes and politics in language etc….
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What was the most important factors of Colonial New England Economy? In seventeenth century‚ after Columbus discovered the New world------United State‚ the Europe was beginning a period of great change. With the help of the navigation improvement‚ a mass of European emigrated to United State for variety of reasons. From then on‚ the history of colonial New England went into a new chapter. One of the great impacts was the economy‚ and eventually the New England was regarded as the birthplace of American
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Is Multiculturalism dead? Critically examine arguments for and against multiculturalism in the context of relevant literature sources on the subject. Introduction: This essay will appraise and analyse the contention that multiculturalism is dead. It will consider arguments for and against in conjunction with relevant written frameworks of ; Barrow: 2009: 2012; Claval: 2010; Crick: 1989; Cowie: 2003; Miene: 2006; Gordon: 1998; Guttmann: 1999; Modood: 2007:2010; Richardson: 1990; Rosado: 1996;
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Postmodernism in English literature. 1. Postmodernism in the English literature of the last decades of the 20th century. 2. John Fowles’s novels as an example of postmodern writing. In the 1960s the cultural layers changed and grew confused; the emergence of the mass media and the technological revolution changed the nature of culture and publishing. Here started the era of postmodernism‚ manifesting the philosophical‚ cultural‚ and political instability of the contemporary world‚ and the difficulty
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English Literature Students should study English Literature because literature is part of our cultural heritage‚ literary works can be entertaining‚ beautiful‚ funny‚ or tragic. They can convey profundity of thought‚ for instance like 《Macbeth》shows that the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints. Each literature has a themes that the author wants to show. Also students learn a lot of history and culture from the English literature. It takes them to new places
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CHAPTER I EARLY COLONIAL LITERATURE. 1607-1700 I. The English in Virginia. II. Pilgrims and Puritans in New England. III. The New England Clergy. IV. Puritan Poetry in New England. I. THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA: CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH‚ WILLIAM STRACHEY‚ GEORGE SANDYS. THE story of a nation’s literature ordinarily has its beginning far back in the remoter history of that nation‚ obscured by the uncertainties of an age of which no trustworthy records have been preserved. The earliest writings of a
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Anonymous English 1A 28 June 2010 Quiz #1 1) In “If Black English Isn’t a Language‚ Then Tell Me What Is?”‚ James Baldwin believes that Black English is simply a dialect. He continuously gives examples of how some languages are considered dialects and why they are not only dialects. He also continuously defines what a language is. Language‚ in general‚ “reveals the speaker.” It allows the people to “evolve a language in order to describe and control their circumstances.” Baldwin’s
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first used in England only as late as the nineteenth century‚ means’ "re-birth". Broadly speaking‚ the Renaissance implies that re-awakening of learning which came to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Renaissance was not only an English but a European phenomenon; and basically considered‚ it signalised a thorough substitution of the medieval habits of thought by new attitudes. The dawn of the Renaissance came first to Italy and a little later to France. To England it came much
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