Thomas Gainsborough: Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748) – oil on canvas‚ 69‚8x119‚4ccm This both a landscape and a double portrait painting. This is a landscape of the East of England. Gainsborough is famous for painting the South-East of England. Landed-gentry (landowner but live in the countryside). On the side‚ we can see that the harvest have just been done. This is a picture of the countryside as an object of conception : agricultural landscape‚ the man has been hunting‚ woman sit. Thomas Cole‚ The
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represent young women in this class. In the book‚ they both marry into higher social classes than they were formerly associated with. This in turn denotes the themes of Social integration and upward mobility. The class they married into was called landed gentry. This social class lived off the wealth of their estates generally located in the country‚ far from the hustle and bustle of large cities. They also practice primogeniture‚ where the eldest son inherits the majority of the estate upon the death of
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How far was Henry VII’s control over the nobility in the years 1485 to 1509 due to his financial policies? (24 marks) As Henry was a usurper‚ it was unlikely that he’d gained much support and loyalty from his Nobles although it did not evade the fact that he had to establish some authority over them. One of the primary methods Henry used was to either punish or reward his Nobility with his financial policies. Henry had a very detailed and complex financial policy which enabled him to milk
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as household producers and gaining respect as mothers. In the south‚ the introduction of slave labor left little work for women. Women fell into submission under the upper-class men. In both the North and South‚ the daughters of the wealthy urban gentry were becoming the nation’s first leisure class whose only responsibilities were to woo a good and wealthy husband and to bear his children. Women were not supposed to hold positions that properly belonged to the head of the household. In both the
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Maxim Gorky’s “The Lower Depths” shows the struggle between classes. Unquestionably‚ its focus is on the lowest of the economically low class people being controlled by the bourgeoisie. It is also a representation of how cruel the society could be towards them and how‚ in turn‚ the people are affected by the society. Although the play talks of the story of low class people –the vagrant‚ the gambler‚ the ex-artist‚ the ex-aristocrat‚ the prostitute‚ and so many others‚ the thief’s character is
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Advanced Placement World History Summer Assignment Contact info: Mary Thompson Kristina Moser mthomp2@neisd.net (school year) kmoser@neisd.net mthompson84 @aol.com (summer) cell: (210) 639-6798 1) Obtain all required materials for the course. • loose paper • spiral notebook • textbook (available at Roosevelt High School (356-2200) World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Stearns
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Culture Many influential settlers worried that America remained culturally inferior to Great Britain. This led to the British elites building grand houses and filling them with British imported goods‚ thus making it more consistent with the British gentry. Colonists imported “courtesy books” which contained rules of polite behavior‚ the practice of personal cleanliness‚ social ranking in society‚ and information about respecting other people’s feelings‚ traits all trait exhibited by the English.
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Hollywood and Beyond As an African American woman‚ I believe I have the ability to relate to some of the issues being faced by African Americans. As a result‚ I have chosen to create a cinema and write about the stigma surrounding homosexuality in the African American churches. Because I was raised in the church most of my life‚ I understand the plight of people who struggle to be who they are and are often ostracized as a result of living their truth. A Brief History Historically‚ African
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A Modest Proposal Rhetorical Analysis Bennett Meyer Since the first British colonization attempts of Ireland the island had been a place of tyrannical oppression and prejudicial mistreatment. This went on for centuries‚ with constant rebellion and resistance. In 1729 Jonathan Swift‚ an Irish clergyman living in England‚ denounced the cruel policies of England in a backwards manner. His use of verisimilitude in "A Modest Proposal exposes the corruption of British foreign policy towards the impoverished
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to find out what is causing Hamlets madness. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive to the castle‚ Queen Gertrude politely says to them‚ And sure I am two men there are not living to whom he more adheres. If it will please you to show us so much gentry and good will‚ as to expend you time with us a while for the supply and profit of our hope‚ your visitation shall receive such thanks. Her plan is to see if Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can find out whats wrong with Hamlet since they are two very
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