Laura Riazzi 30 September 2009 A.P. English Literature and Composition 12 Mr. Lane “Once Upon a Time” Literary Analysis “Once Upon a Time” is a reverse fantasy story written by Nadine Gordimer. The concept of a reverse fantasy is a tale that one expects to end happily ever after but has a plot twist where the ending is cruel or injust. The structure of this story begins as the narrator writes that they are asked to contribute to an anthology of children’s literature. The next moment‚ while
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DESCRIBING A HANDSOME MAN BLOND HAIR LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 OTHERS Viking-gold hair Nordic-gold hair Aryan-gold hair lions mane-gold hair Achilles-gold hair Hercules-gold hair Scandinavian-gold hair Teutonic-gold hair mother lode-gold hair Apollo-gold hair 1. He had wavy‚ Hercules-gold hair. 2. He had mussed‚ Nordic-gold hair. 3. He had twirling‚ Aryan-gold hair. 4. He had a swirling‚ lion’s mane of gold hair. 5. He had whisked‚ Apollo-gold
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Russia‚ who lacked basic political ability and motivation. Nicholas‚ having utmost faith in his abilities‚ refused to acknowledge concerns of the Government and public‚ and focussed his time on his ill child‚ his wife‚ and infamous mystic healer‚ Rasputin. His lack of ministration of Russia caused outrage among desperate citizens. In 1905‚ Russian troops experienced an ignominious loss against the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese war1‚ due to lack of preparation and industrialisation. In the same
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Why was the Tsar overthrown in February 1917? Was it the work of revolutionaries like Lenin and Trotsky? Certainly not - they were mostly either in prison or in exile. Lenin had said in 1916 that he feared he would not live to see a revolution in Russia! Was it the War? The war certainly had a serious impact on all aspects of Russian society. Defeats undermined the army‚ and economic problems alienated much of the population. Lack of food and fuel in the cruel winter of 1916-1917 certainly
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During the years prior as well of the first years of World War 1‚ the war was also taking a huge effect of shaping the homefront in new ways. With a lack of workforce due to soldiers off fighting‚ the working class dynamic changed in a huge way. The struggle of war also led to revolutions and inner conflict on the homefront. The most profound effects that the Great War had on the homefront of European countries was a thriving new job market for women as well as increased wages‚ a period of political
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There was‚ however‚ an attempt to bring the Romanovs back to their rightful place on the Russian throne‚ a revolt of which your father and I chose to keep secret from you and your siblings. The letters from members of the Constitutional Democratic Party had been piling up‚ each one mentioning a plan to rid Russia of the Bolsheviks. The revolt had finally come in 1917 at the hands of General Lavr Kornilov with a mission to end the revolution and bring our family‚ primarily Nicholas‚ back to Russia
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How far was Tsar Nicholas responsible for his own downfall? In 15th March 1927 Tsar Nicholas of Russia abdicated in this essay I will be analysing to what extent it was his fault and what extent he had no control over His mistakes The first reason that it was his fault is that he was a weak character who was not fit to rule a large nation such as Russia as we can see in source 12 “He keep saying that he was wholly unfit to resign…. But he was not. ” This is a very reliable source as it is his sister
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"Russia is a cauldron of boiling water‚ tightly closed and placed on a fire that is becoming hotter and hotter. I fear an explosion." (As It Was Lived: 4-18) This very sentence was spoken by a French traveler who visited St. Petersburg. The dramatic change of government from an absolute monarchy to a communist government in Russia came to be because of a variety of different reasons. The revolution came about through a long phase of repression‚ unrest‚ and poverty for the average working-class Russian
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Until the twentieth century‚ Russia remained under the Medieval feudalistic social structure which had three basic levels. First‚ a czar ruled the country as an autocratic‚ and frequently despotic‚ monarch. Rich nobles‚ the next level in this society‚ owned vast quantities of land and also served in government posts. Last of all came the rest of the Russian people—the peasants or serfs. Serfs had few rights and worked for the nobility their whole lives. They were little better than slaves and lived
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The Great War has produced and displayed many things the world had never seen before. Flamethrowers‚ poison gas and tanks were the inventions of the time‚ but starting at that point‚ began the rise of what goes by the name of propaganda. For the first time propaganda had an impact on war and the sneaky way countries managed to manipulate their citizens. This form of mind control was commonplace during World War I as many citizens began to follow how they could assist their countries‚ either good
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