Midterm Review Sheet Unit 1: Evolution‚ Revolution‚ Enlightenment Term What caused it? What does it mean? What is the result of it? Magna Carta John raised taxes to keep English lands in France Lost‚ nobles forced John to sign Magna Carta Established the Great Council‚ king could only raise taxes with approval‚ king had to pay when seizing property (Eminent Domain)‚ all people had right to Jury of peers. Parliament (=Great Council) Magna Carta Created to limit King’s power Created a limited monarchy
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While being an actress and entering Hollywood‚ she changed her physical appearance: dying her hair black and painting her face. Many films and productions were inspired from many stories‚ plays‚ and poems. In 1909‚ the famous poem‚ “The Vampire” by Rudyard Kipiling was circulating the United States. A painting of a pale‚ dark-eyed‚ magnetic woman who possessed a male victim inspired this poem. Both the painting and poem created a new type of vampire‚ the female vampire: worthless but irresistible creature
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tradition‚ which has regarded the novel as an instrument of social debate. He believed that it was the duty of an artist to examine a problem‚ but not to provide a solution. Before starting his career as a writer‚ Galsworthy read widely the works of Kipling‚ Zola‚ Turgenev‚ Tolstoy‚ and Flaubert. The extract under the study begins with the description of the protagonist – Mr. Jolyon. He feels bad and stays at bed‚ hiding from the light. But when with lunch he gets the telegram from Irene saying that
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Theme 2 The business I chose to examine is called The House of Busby. My interviewee is David Brouze one of the founders of The House of Busby his contact details are 0828576152. Currently David Brouze is one of the owners of The House of Busby. The head offices of The House of Busby are located at Sandton 171 Katherine rd. The following is the profile of the company. This will also show that The House of Busby is doing well as there are significant improvements. The profile of the company Background
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tradition‚ which has regarded the novel as an instrument of social debate. He believed that it was the duty of an artist to examine a problem‚ but not to provide a solution. Before starting his career as a writer‚ Galsworthy read widely the works of Kipling‚ Zola‚ Turgenev‚ Tolstoy‚ and Flaubert. His Life: John Galsworthy was born in1867 at Kingston Hill‚ Surrey‚ England into an upper-middle-class family. Galsworthy studied law Harrow and New College‚ Oxford. John Galsworthy was studying law‚ continuing
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The Swastika The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles‚ in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period and was first found in the Indus Valley Civilization of the Indian Subcontinent. It occurs today in the modern day culture of India‚ sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol; it remains widely used in Eastern
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products such as rubber and ivory‚ which led him to surmise that Belgian King Leopold II’s colony was exploitative and relied on slave labor. Morel wrote The Black Man’s Burden (1920)‚ from which the following excerpt is taken‚ as a response to Rudyard Kipling’s poem‚ “The White Man’s Burden.” It is [the Africans] who carry the “Black man’s burden.” They have not withered away before the white man’s occupation. Indeed… Africa has ultimately absorbed within itself every Caucasian... In hewing
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made similar claims decades before Said.” Wikipedia states that Edward Said analyzed the works of postcolonial fictional writers exploring how they were both influenced by and helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority. In Rudyard Kipling’s famous Poem‚ White Man’s Burden‚ he describes noble sacrifice colonizers made to help the “wild” and “fluttered folk” indigeous people to live “a better life” often imposing their religious beliefs to convert the people in their new civilization
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“tribal music” (Adichie‚ 4:33). The fact that her favorite artist was Mariah Carey would likely shock most people. The danger Adichie is attempting to reveal through her anaphoric method is yet again expressed through her discussion of John Lok and Rudyard Kipling’s literary works‚ which depict African natives in a less than flattering light (Adichie‚ 6:39; 7:23). This is dangerous because there are many cultured‚ educated people from all continents and it seems her goal is to illuminate her audiences
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