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Harold Brighouse wrote “Hobson’s Choice”. Mr. Brighouse was born in Lancashire 1882. Harold Brighouse wrote a lot of plays featuring Lancashire. Harold was a very clever in school but wasn’t interested in going to University. Mr. Brighouse was brought up happily in middle-class family. Mr. Brighouse’s father was called by the name of John Brighouse. Mr. Brighouse…

Both these poems talk about different stereotypes. In ‘Not my best side’ and ‘Warning’ the old stereotypes are challenged and new stereotypes are created. ‘Not my best side’ a poem by U A Fanthorpe is based on a painting in which she challenged the stereotypical image of the brave heroic knight, the beautiful and helpless…

My Pretty Rose-Tree, written by William Blake, is a poem of love, jealousy, and sorrow. This eight-line poem, following the abab acac rhyme pattern, is full of strong symbolism and a great deal of personification, all used in an attempt to express the narrators feelings. William Blake brings the flowers alive with the personified characteristics…

?The true test of Comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter. ? George MeredithComedy has been a very popular form of entertainment in our society since hundreds of years. It lets us separate out minds form the hectic world and brings happiness to our lives. Comedy can be expressed in many different ways such…

Romantic Music: The Ideals of Instrumental Music When studying the Romantic period of music, we encounter an apparent opposition that plagues attempts to understand the meaning of Romanticism as applied to 19th-century music. This opposition concerns the relationship between music and words. Although instrumental music is considered the perfect Romantic art, it is acknowledged that…

One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest, by Ken Kesey, is about patients and doctors in a mental institution. The author talks a lot about what goes on in this institute. The main points in this book deal with control, be it the character of McMurphy who is unable to handle control, or Nurse Ratched the…

children were expected to attend schools where the King James Bible was read, where Protestant hymns were being sung, where prayers were being recited, but most importantly where textbooks and the entire slant of the teaching was very much anti Irish and very much anti Catholic. ” “Many schools required that students recite passages from…

ll favored for the beautiful light cast by its flame. In its most basic form the candle consists of a cylinder of wax, tallow, or similar material surrounding and saturating a fibrous wick. Ancient Egyptian tombs at Thebes bear relief carvings of cone-shaped candles on dish-like holders, or candlesticks. The oldest known candle fragment was…

In August of 1889, Carrie Meeber leaves her small town to find employment in the city of Chicago. Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, informs the reader that, “Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was nevertheless her guiding characteristic. “. With her youth and innocence she hopes to seek employment so…

J.R.R. Tolkein, a noted Oxford linguist, is most well known for his advanced writings in the fantasy field. Tolkein had a very interesting life: his childhood was common for someone of that era; he lived a very interesting and productive adult life. He completed great works that earn him recognition to this very day. J.R.R. Tolkein…