The Italian Lira is a fairly new currency with roots that lie deep within Italian culture. The word "lira" is actually derived from the Latin word "libra"‚ meaning pound‚ making it a distant cousin to that of the British pound sterling. The lira was a monetary unit long before it existed as a coin or note. The lira made its first appearance in the hands of bankers‚ merchants and consumers in Venice in 1472‚ put in place by Doge Nicolas Tron. The Venice lira set a trend for large silver coins with
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Blue Remembered Hills The key idea in blue remembered hills was the change between the childish behaviour and their immoral choices to their views changing to become much more matured and making better life choices for them and others around them. The relationships in the play are very varied as there is a large power struggle between many characters; this made it very hard to see the true friendships and the false ones. In the first lesson we were asked to create a proxemics atom exploring the
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state. After the reorganisation‚ the erstwhile Mahasu district and its major portion was merged with Shimla. Its name has been derived from the goddess Shyamala Devi‚ an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali. As of 2011 Shimla comprises 19 erstwhile hill states mainly Balson‚ Bushahr‚ Bhaji and Koti‚ Darkoti‚ Tharoch & Dhadi‚ Kumharsain‚ Khaneti & Delath‚ Dhami‚ Jubbal‚ Keothal‚ Madhan‚ Rawingarh‚ Ratesh‚ and Sangri. As a large and growing city‚ Shimla is home to many well-recognized colleges and
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In Charles‚ we have seen how a traditional housewife being restricted in family trifles; and in The Haunting of Hill House‚ we read a young woman who was alienated from the society‚ failed to find her self-identity and company of others‚ ended her life by suicide. Both the two stories reveal the physically and mentally vulnerable of women‚ as well as their unconsciously helpless and anxiety; depend on male‚ while yearn for freedom. In Jackson’s last novel‚ it surprised us with a convert‚ by depicting
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Fern Hill By Dylan Thomas Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green‚ The night above the dingle starry‚ Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes‚ And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. And as I was green and carefree
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in Norcombe Hill. Gabriel Oak is a small time farmer with 200 sheep. One day he sees a wagon‚ with a beautiful woman inside‚ Bathsheba. He instantly falls in love with her. However he finds that she is quite vain but her flaws don’t deter his love. After meeting her a few times‚ he goes to her aunt to ask for her hand in marriage; he is however rejected‚ by her aunt and then Bathsheba as she felt she was above him. Later on‚ Gabriel’s sheep dog chases his flock of sheep over the hill‚ killing most
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John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity” is a well versed Spiritual Call to Arms aimed at preparing his Puritan followers for the unknown hardships that lie ahead. His sermon was equally motivating and preparative. Winthrop was very clever in how he approached this speech. He was able to not only rally his troops with the importance of their journey‚ but also seeded the implications of what straying from the righteous path may lead to.” So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this
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THE HAUNTING OF SARA HILL is a supernatural thriller. The idea of a vengeful ghost haunting innocent people always seems to resonate with the mainstream audience. The script uses some of the elements that make for a potentially compelling tale. There’s a haunted house‚ scary noises‚ ghostly visions‚ and the threat of physical harm. The plot also has a backstory that drives the current hauntings. While there are definite strengths to the storytelling‚ the script would benefit from more development
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THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems but comes to find out no matter how big or small a problem‚ trying to run from it will only make the problem follow. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place
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The Hollow of the three hills Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story begins on a paradox. He writes ‘’in those strange old times…’’ yet the time period hasn’t been specified at all. This can be seen as a deliberate attempt at vagueness. Hawthorne is trying to distort the reader’s sense of time as most successful gothic stories take place in haunted settings outside specific time periods. The rest of the paragraph has been devoted to the description of the setting. The Hollow is a place of dark magic
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