"Discuss the reforms of Diocletian. What were they‚ why did he think they were necessary‚ what impact long and short range." Be sure to include comments regarding dominate‚ tetrarchy (not year of 4 emperors)‚ edict of Prices (Bailkey Lim) and Xp (Christians). Diocletian affects greatly the modern world. End of antiquity was around 9th century. Diocletian brought an end to the period popularly known to historians as the "Crisis of the Third Century" (235–284). He established an autocratic government
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Genius‚ Instead of Gender Written as a response to the prompt “women and fiction”‚ Virginia’s Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own (Harcourt edition) presents the thesis “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”. Woolf begins her essay by introducing the obvious difference in the treatment between men and women when she is shown being kicked off the grass and kicked out the library for her gender‚ and then suffering a lackluster dinner at the women’s college in comparison
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represent the characters and the overall setting. Woolf uses each color to further implant imagery in the reader’s mind. She uses the color grey to represent the elderly and sleepiness when she wrote‚ "When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey‚ her cheek sunk‚ at fifty‚" and also when she wrote‚ "...as he was in a grey-green somnolence which embraced them all..." When she introduces Mr. Carmichael who is surrounded by loneliness‚ Woolf describes his cat’s yellow eyes. The color yellow represents
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Mrs. Dalloway is a complex and compelling modernist novel by Virginia Woolf. In the novel‚ published in 1925‚ Woolf comes up with a new literary form using which she reveals her views of political‚ economical and social issues artistically in her work. Virginia Woolf ’s short stories‚ essays‚ letters‚ diaries and novels are full of criticism of the social structure. For example‚ in her first novel‚ Night and Day (1919)‚ she criticizes the patriarchal dividend in the family that enslaves women. In
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Virginia Woolf is an English author and journalist known for her unique nonlinear prose style. She was born into an English household in 1882 and wrote her first novel in 1915 called The Voyage Out. Woolf spoke at many colleges and universities throughout her career. She delivered moving essays and short stories during her time there. She suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1941 (“Virginia Woolf Biography”). Professions for Women‚ an abbreviated version of a speech delivered by Woolf‚ strives
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SOLID OBJECTS‚ Virginia Woolf The only thing that moved upon the vast semicircle of the beach was one small black spot. As it came nearer to the ribs and spine of the stranded pilchard boat‚ it became apparent from a certain tenuity in its blackness that this spot possessed four legs; and moment by moment it became more unmistakable that it was composed of the persons of two young men. Even thus in outline against the sand there was an unmistakable vitality in them; an indescribable vigour in the
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In “The Death of the Moth‚” Virginia Woolf describes her experience of watching a moth in the window. Woolf takes time to pay attention to every detail involving this moth in the window. She starts out describing the moth as content with life. She defines the day as an opportunity for pleasure and talks about the lack of change the moth has. She goes on to describe the motions and eventually begins to see the moth dying in the window. She talks about the constant struggle the moth had to fight and
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There’s always something odd and intimidating about being a guest at someone’s dinner party. When you walk in‚ the interior looks clean enough to be sold the next day‚ and the hosts are cheerful to an alarming extent. In in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf‚ Edward Albee slowly chips away at this mask from all four characters until all that is finally left at the end of the final act is the revealing‚ truthful pulp of each person. This enormous culturally impactful play (and movie) could never be successfully
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“Curricular Reforms in Medical Education: Indian Scenario” Avinash Supe Medical Colleges in India have been growing exponentially over the past 20 years and now number more than 330 with an output of 35000 doctors every year. As medical graduates from India serve all over the world‚ their training as well as competence is global concern. History of Medical Curricular Reforms in India India has a rich tradition of medical education from 2000 BC with Sushruta and Charak clearly spe
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Own‚ a book by Virginia Woolf that reunites and recreates the contents of a series of lectures she delivered in Cambridge in 1928. The author was invited to talk about the topic “Women and Novel”; however‚ she made use of her innovative style to devise a book in which fiction‚ history‚ and her own way to understand the world gathered to create a text considered as one of the references for literary criticism‚ and whose meaning is absolutely valid at present. In short‚ Woolf builds the image of “a
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