The blood fetish The blood fetish is a short story‚ which is written by Morley Roberts in 1908. The gothic genre was quite popular around the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century‚ and they were known for including horrific and supernatural elements. Gothic novels often takes place in creepy environments‚ as old castles‚ dark forests and abandoned houses. It is clear to see how The blood fetish fits into this genre‚ as it deals with superstition‚ living severed hands‚ mystery and gloomy
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BRITAIN 1945–2007 Answering Questions at AS Level When you are preparing for the AS examination‚ remember that you will be asked to engage in extended writing. For AQA and Edexcel‚ you will be expected to produce an answer that evaluate sources and also produce answers that incorporate your own knowledge. For OCR A‚ you will be expected to produce an essay-style answer based on your own knowledge. The differences and similarities between GCSE and AS History are explained on pages 4 and 5
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Christopher Morley wrote “On Laziness”‚ an essay about laziness in 1920. Morley wrote this just after World War I to explain the effect of philosophical laziness on a person’s happiness. The author proved that the philosophically slothful man is the only truly happy person using comparative analysis‚ historical evidence‚ and repetition. In his essay “on Laziness” Morley compares the life of a lazy person to that of an active person to prove that a philosophically lazy person is happier. Morley states
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10/12/12 A.P English Close In-Class Analysis Essay An author by the name Christopher Morley writes to us an essay called‚ “On Laziness”. Within his essay he uses the styles of allusion and diction to engage his readers and achieve his purpose. Morley speaks on how people should be lazier; it gets you more in life. The more lazy you are the less people are going to ask from you he says. Morley uses a lot of dictions throughout his essay to achieve his purpose on laziness. “It is our observation
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Temper—Morley I feel perfectly content at Woodrow Wilson Skateboard Park‚ a cement swell in the ground located just west of the easternmost point of the north side of Chicago and trapped perennially in the mental space inhabited by fourteen-year-old angry youths. Outside of home and school‚ it is the place where I have spent most of my life. Its terrain so familiar‚ I could navigate it blindfolded‚ towed on my board by a pack of feral dogs. Much of what I know of life‚ I learned there. A sea of
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in government; the Winter of Discontent. Source 7 expresses that “that winter enabled Thatcher to come to grips with Callaghan…Callaghan tried to downplay the crisis”‚ here Young is expressing that following this winter the conservatives were sure to win. On the 22nd January‚ around 1.5million workers came out on strike this was to get a pay rise. However‚ the Wilson and Callaghan governments had failed to meet their expectations and instead had alienated a large section of their supporters and had
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Thatcher to come to grips with Callaghan” [source 7] Young expresses here that the way the Labour party handled that situation showed their weakness as a government giving Thatcher and the Conservative party a chance to observe and analyse what they had to do in order to win the election. Although the Winter of Discontent made out that the Labour party was definitely going to lose the election‚ “a Labour defeat was not a predestined certainty” [source 9]. Rowe says that “Callaghan might have won if he had
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‘The record of Labour governments in the years 1964 and 1979 was one of continuous failure.’ Asses the validity of this view. (45 marks) The Labour governments throughout the years 1964 and 1979 can be considered a period of continuous failure. 1964‚ Harold Wilson came into power riding a wave of expectation and idealism‚ fuelled by the ‘the white heat’ of technological change. By 1970 however‚ Labour was in some difficulty and resulted in its time in power to slowly
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production and exports by supporting collaboration between the government‚ employers and trade unions. It predicted an economic growth rate of 3.8% and a 25% increase in exports by 1970. However‚ due to the balance of payments crisis‚ Wilson and Callaghan (Chancellor of the Exchequer)‚ were forced to impose £500 million worth of cuts and to increase taxes. This is shown in Source 9 when it states that there will be “no tax cuts for time being”. Therefore‚ the National Plan was cut and instead of being
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