HIST 200 Xiao Shuai Oct. 10th‚ 2011 History of Chinese opium trade and historical influences Why did opium become such a problem and what were the British and Chinese views of the opium trade? Whenever people talking about Modern Chinese history‚ the opium war is always a fashion topic as it is the beginning of the Modern Chinese history. However when people talking about the opium war‚ the history will stretch back to the time when Britain first finish the industrial revolution. In the middle
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The literary and historical influences on George Eliot’s work. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans‚ a leading author of the 19th Century. She used a male pen name‚ she said‚ to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot’s life‚ but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. Mary was an inquirer; she often questioned her faith and her religion. Mary was schooled in literature‚ languages
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upheaval‚ Paradise Lost‚ an epic poem published in 1667 in ten books‚ reflects in a way the great changes of the Renaissance. This poem‚ written by John Milton (December 1608 – November 1674)‚ an English poet‚ polemicist and civil servant‚ tell the Christian story of the creation of the Earth‚ the fall of Satan and the Fall of Man. As a puritan‚ Milton‚ who had already attacked the Church for its corruption in Lycidas (1637)‚ give this classical Christian tale puritan traits (such as the protrayal of
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life‚ because when I feel sad it helps me get through tough times and certain songs represent eventful moments in my life. To start off‚ one song that means a lot to me is “Tiny Dancer” by Caroline Glaser. My favorite part off the song is‚ “Ballerina‚ you must have seen here dancing in the sand” (Glaser). These lyrics represent an elegant
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Sonnet 16 – On His Blindness by John Milton John Milton is considered to be the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. Although his chief work is “Paradise Lost”‚ he also wrote other wonderful poems‚ prose‚ as well as sonnets‚ in which he tackles a number of subjects which range from religious to political. Rarely is one piece of writing limited to one or the other of those fields. Among all the sonnets‚ Sonnet 16 is special because
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style within “Paradise Lost‚” and reveals her feeling that Milton‚ while clearly an expert of literary description‚ does very little to touch upon human passions and emotion within his poem. Upon reading “Paradise Lost‚” it is clear that Woolf has a point; extravagant descriptions of heaven‚ hell‚ angels and God abound within the epic‚ but instances of human sentiment are more difficult to come across. Woolf goes as far as to say that Milton “entirely neglects the human heart.” While Woolf’s statement
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protagonist begins to understand what must be done and prepares himself for the final stretch‚ and yet his hand is trembling as he points the barrel of the gun to the back of Lennie¡¯s head. Logical‚ clever but fiercely loyal and compassionate‚ George Milton is clearly a round and dynamic character. He begins as an idealist; full of dreams of a better life; but he cannot evade the real world forever. As fate catches up with George‚ the stunning realism of the tale hit both the readers and the protagonist
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Milton Friedman was an American Nobel economist and his major concern was in the fields of economics and statistics. According to the The Economist‚ Friedman "was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century." He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis and his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. According to the "Lesson of the Pencil" video on YouTube‚ Milton Friedman used the pencil to
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In this week’s reading "Areopagitica" by John Milton he writes a formal protest against prior censorship. In June of the year 1643‚ English Parliament passed a law known as the Licensing Order which stated that all books were required to be approved by an official censor before they could be published. A little over a year later is when Milton wrote Areopagitica to try to repeal the law. He was not successful in his efforts; however‚ this piece of literature stood as an inspiration for the right
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