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Productivity in most sectors has improved dramatically in the past 200 years, but not in jobs such as the arts, teaching, law and health care, which require a high level of personal input. For those working in such jobs to have anything like a contemporary standard of living, the relative cost of their services must…

MY LIFEIt’s a bitter cold weather. Everybody in there houses sitting by fireplace or having hot chocolate. All of a sudden in the quiet neighborhood, there were ambulance sirens and then a woman was carried away on the stretcher to the ambulance. Screams and cries can be heard all over the hospital. Finally it was…

They are a wealthy midlands family. He is a straight talking detective. One minute they are having a family celebration the next, their cosy world is torn apart. Who is the mysterious stranger and where will he strike next? An Inspector Calls has the audience guessing from the outset. Lilly Page plays Sheila Birling, a spoilt excitable young…

“The Mother” by George Mackay Brown although a fairly short poem manages to in seven short stanzas creates a very concise affectionate portrait of the poet’s own mother. A number of things make this poem as effective as it is but a large portion of that magic captured in the poem comes from effective word…

Robert Browning wrote the poem ‘Porphyria’s lover’. It is written in dramatic monologue, meaning it was spoken by the lover who is clearly mad. Browning gives the poem a Victorian gothic setting. This is displayed in the opening lines, “The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops…

INTRODUCTION The word “artist” is a term that is used to describeprofessions such as painters, chefs, and even musicians. Painters use paints andcanvas as their medium, chefs use food for their delicacy, and musicians use thewords and musical instruments to create the art of sound. Even within this, theterms of chief, painters, and musicians encompass…

In a Separate Peace by John Knowles there is a character Phineas other wise known as Finny. Finny is an honest and ignorant charismatic young boy of 16 who is outgoing. Finny is unknowing of his ability to manipulate people. Finny is a lover of basic simple life. This story is set in a New…

Mr. Birling is a prosperous factory owner. He is ‘a self made man. ‘ His first priority is to make money, he quotes, ‘It’s my duty to keep labour cost down. ‘ Arthur Birling is somebody who is fond of giving other people what he thinks is good advice. He always believes he has the…

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novelabout a young boy’s coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800’s. Themain character, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floatingdown the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. Before he does so, however, Huck spends some time in…

‘ A man has to look after himself to make his own way- has to look after himself’ and this is Arthur Birling outlook on life both socially and in business. Arthur Birling also thinks that he is the man of the county, knowing everyone and everyone’s business, ‘ I was an alderman for years…