show that the whigs are responding directly to popular pressure. The popular radicals were calling for democracy‚ but the whigs were only interested including the middle class into the electoral system‚ and even then in a subordinate position to the gentry. The terms of the bill were that copyholders with land worth £10 a year were added to the system. The boroughs were given an even franchise of £10 yearly rental. The Whigs made boroughs under 2000 lose both mps‚ 2000-4000 lose 1 and towns over 10
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would also take place‚ whereby friends would bet on the athlete’s performance in an attempt to make some money. Pedestrianism was also a key part of pre-industrial athletics. Footmen were employed as messengers or as runners in competitions. The gentry would pay for the footman to train and would then enter them into competitions to make money. Pedestrian races would often attract extremely large audiences and developed spectatorism. In the 1860s the great American Indian Athlete Deerfoot visited
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The depiction of war is a common subject for artists to embark on because it speaks to the conventions of society during contentious times‚ but with each one‚ a different image emerges. John Trumbull’s The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill‚ June 17‚ 1775 provides a romanticized war of honorable sacrifice and an overall sense of hope. Timothy O’Sullivan’s A Harvest of Death at Gettysburg‚ July‚ 1863 narrates war on the complete other side of the spectrum with an un-idealized image
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doesn’t cause pollution and rotting. We can prevent people from becoming ill by building a proper industry. Profession area Life expectancy Labourers London 15 Liverpool 14 Wiltshire 31 Tradesmen London 25 Liverpool 20 Wiltshire 48 Professor/gentry London 43 Liverpool 34 Wiltshire 49 In Chadwick’s report it shows that people who earn more money live longer in all areas but overall Wiltshire has a higher life expectancy. John Snow John Snow’s report was published in 1849. He investigated the
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under the rule of Kubilai Khan. They captured China and established the Yuan Dynasty in 1234. The Mongols controlled the Chinese area south of Mongolia. They established direct control over Mongolia‚ and ruled with a bureaucracy. There was no scholar gentry‚ no civil service exam‚ and Confucianism was not used. The Chinese were also not allowed in the government. They also had their hands on the social and cultural policies of China. The Mongol conquest of Russia reduced the Russian princes to tribute-payers
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Collins is a boorish character‚ he offends Lizzie by impulsively exclaiming that Lady Catherine de Bourgh had said his wife ‘must be active‚ a useful sort of person‚ not brought up high’ which is suggesting he picked her as she was born into a lower gentry family and she is useful to have because she can be told what to do and she will do it. Lizzie is more ambitious than this stereotype and would not consider marriage to someone who thought that was the role of a
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Kevin De Ornellas The Country Wife ENG302C2 1. William Wycherley A Shropshire lad‚ born 1641‚ died 1715. Educated in France and at Oxford. First play‚ Love in a Wood‚ 1671‚ was set in St. James’s Park Was favoured by the King’s mistress‚ the Duchess of Cleveland. Annoyed Charles II by secretly marrying in 1679. His most famous work is The Country Wife‚ probably performed first in 1675; the play’s first edition was published in 1675. 2. Critical reputation. Wycherly’s
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Characters are very important to a story. They help to build up the interest of readers so that they want to continue reading. Many stories base their themes on how the characters act and what they do. A theme is a meaning or a point to the story‚ which the author wants you to get out of it. Two stories which utilize characters very well to build up theme are‚ "Bartleby the Scrivener‚" by Herman Melville‚ and "The Flight of Betsey Lane‚" by Sarah Orne Jewett. These two stories build the theme
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prince could do anything within his guidelines. Natural law was morals and natural sins. Personal ruler ship is power in war and enforcing laws. Humanism was the main form of government for hundreds of years in England (Collins). The Nobility and Gentry aided the monarch in ruling parts of Europe
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1.1 Research and describe the pastimes of the upper classes and landed gentry and investigate the reasons for their participation. Pre-Industrial Britain was made up of two classes‚ the upper class and the lower class. Prior to the industrial revolution Britain was largely agricultural and rural‚ with limited travel available meaning that only the upper class were able to travel and way to communicate with different parts of the country besides messengers. Britain’s upper class lived a very sophisticated
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