Writing Assignment: Famous Type Designer Christopher Benson September 25th‚ 2010 John Baskerville January 28th 1706 – January 8th 1775 John Baskerville was born January 28th in 1706‚ in the village of Wolverley. Wolverley is located near Kidderminster in Worcestershire. He was a printer in Birmingham‚ England. By the year of 1723 he had became a skilled engraver of tombstones and was teaching writing. In 1726 he set up a school for teaching writing and book-keeping‚ as well as maintaining
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The designer and history behind Baskerville font starts with John Baskerville‚ John Baskerville. Baskerville‚ who had made a fortune in japanning before turning to printing when in his midforties‚ was responsible for several advances in printing technology‚ improving press platens and packings‚ formulating darker and faster-drying inks‚ and inventing wove paper‚ which was smoother than the old laid papers with their vertical ribbing. All of this enabled him to employ a typeface with sharper definition
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English Homework Mortimer presents Holmes and Watson with a manuscript which the always observant Holmes had already noticed and dated at 1730. The document‚ dated 1742‚ Baskerville Hall‚ reveals the myth of the Baskerville curse. At the time of the "Great Revolution‚" Mortimer reads‚ Hugo Baskerville lorded over the Baskerville mansion in Devonshire. The infamous Hugo became obsessed with a local yeoman’s daughter‚ whom he kidnapped one day. Trapped in an upstairs room‚ hearing the raucous drinking
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chill of the night air. Yes‚ first shot got him! You look back at your partner yelling‚ “here he come.” The coon falls and you hear a loud crash; your bluetick jumps off the tree and goes in for the kill. The coon puts up a fierce fight biting the hounds face and digging into his ears with razor sharp claws. The snarl of your bluetick and the hiss of the coon last for only a minute. Then‚ everything goes quiet and you see your victorious coonhound standing over his prize panting nonstop. You take
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There are no humans seen or mentioned within the film‚ but the anthropomorphic behaviours are still distinct‚ the most obvious being the ability of speech. As mentioned whilst discussing Lady and the Tramp and The Fox and the Hound‚ the film demonstrates class differences within the wildlife’s hierarchy. The Lions are royalty and the other animals are the Lion’s people‚ as is reflected in Hamlet. Simba‚ the film’s protagonist‚ is an anthropomorphic representation of Hamlet himself
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this particular movie because not only is it a classic‚ but it is a very deep movie with adult themes. The mix of characters‚ each different and pursuing a different goal‚ combined with as subtle mix of themes‚ makes this a winner. The Fox and the Hound is about society and the roles we are expected to conform to. There is a plethora of themes packed into this Disney film. Similarly to Bambi‚ there is an anti-hunting theme. The opening shot shows Tod’s mother being killed in the woods. There are
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The Hound of the Baskervilles Essay The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a suspenseful mystery novel‚ staged in England during the Victorian Era. Robert Daley‚ a novelist who reviews books for the New York Times Book Review‚ states that a novel should entertain the reader‚ teach the reader‚ and emotionally involve the reader. In this novel‚ Doyle fulfills one of Daley’s requirements by continuously entertaining the reader. Similar to many other well¬-written novels‚ The Hound
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Safjasl;dfjasl;fsjldfsdf;asasffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff- ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff document is a written or drawn representation of thoughts. Originating from the Latin Documentum meaning lesson - the verb doceō means to teach‚ and is pronounced similarly‚ in the past it was usually used as a term for a written proof used as evidence. In the computer age‚ a document is usually used to describe a primarily textual file‚ along with its structure and
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Inspector Hound‚ which was written between 1961 and 1962 and premiered on June 17th 1968‚ is an absurd play that comments on the role of the critic in relation to the play he or she critiques and comments on the interdependent relationship that is formed between critic and actor. The Real Inspector Hound’s plot revolves around a couple of critics‚ Moon and Birdboot‚ who become embroiled in a murder mystery while watching a play about a murder mystery; in this sense‚ The Real Inspector Hound is a play-within-a-play
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“In what ways are the formulaic conventions of The Real Inspector Hound used to satirize aspects of theatre and modern life?” The so-called ‘formulaic conventions’ of ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ are used not in their original forms‚ but rather altered‚ exaggerated and appropriated to represent Stoppard’s perceived nonsensicality of certain elements of both theatre and life‚ though Stoppard draws a hardly finite line between the two. Stoppard deconstructs the aspects of crime writing‚ and crime theatre
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