...English 12C 12 April 2011 “The Tyger” William Blake had a unique way of writing poems, especially in one of his most famous works, “The Tyger.” His life as a writer, themes, literary techniques, and writing style are all what make “The Tyger” so successful. Born in London on November 28, 1757, William Blake was an English writer, poet, and illustrator during the Romantic period. Blake was the second of five children born to James Blake, a hosier, and Catherine. As a child it was said that Blake would have unusual visions of spirits. Blake began seeing these visions at the age of eight (“Overview”). Blake had no formal education, being home schooled until the age of ten. Blake learned to read and write at home. When Blake was ten, he was sent to Henry Par’s drawing school to study art. Later Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, James Basire. During his apprenticeship, Blake was sent to Westminster Abbey where he drew monuments for Basire (“Overview”). According to, “Overview of William Blake,” “the Gothic atmosphere of the church influenced Blake’s imagination and his artistic style.” Blake then began writing poetry. After leaving his apprenticeship in 1779, Blake enrolled at the Royal Academy just before starting his life as an engraver (“Overview”). On August 18, 1782, Blake married Catherine Boucher. Blake taught her to read, write, and make prints of his engravings. Blake was introduced to Harriet Mathew, who encouraged Blake to have some of his poetry published. Fifty...
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...literary periods, it was an almost complete rejection of the immediate preceding period. They rejected nearly every idea from the enlightenment/neoclassical writers and artists. Hence, the writers of this period were often social critics. Three authors whom fall into this category are William Wordsworth, William Blake, and Matthew Arnold. This period is believed to be the most drastic reaction in literary history. Wordsworth's preface of 1800 has been recognized as the first text of English Romantic criticism. In his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" of 1800, William Wordsworth had similarly proposed a transformation of poetry that would correspond to the "revolutions not of literature alone, but likewise of society itself" (245). Such thinking presupposed that separation between the classifications of politics and literature by the end of the eighteenth century had already formed. He said that in his poetry he wanted to represent "incidents and situations from common life." He said he wanted to use a "selection of language really used by men." Wordsworth may seem to focus on nature, but he is actually using nature to comment on society. By pointing out certain aspects of nature he is able to study the issues that are created as society drifts farther and farther away from a more natural way of life. His work goes beyond simply pointing out the beauty and tranquility of nature to his readers and incites them to consider many issues of social responsibility not only that which society...
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...familiar to the works and life story of the two authors. This term paper focuses the comparative study of William Blake and Walt Whitman. The researchers gather information through research and analyze the data to answer the question stated in the problem. B. BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE¹ William Blake was an English poet, engraver, and a painter. A boldly imaginative rebel in both his through and art, he combined poetic and pictorial genius to explore life. YOUTH William Blake was born in London, England, on November 28, 1757, the second son of a men’s clothing merchant. From his earliest year he saw vision. He would see trees full of angels on similar sights, if this were not true mystical visions; they were the results of the artistic intense spiritual understanding of the world. From his early teens Blake wrote poems, often setting them to melodies of his own composition. At the age of ten, Blake started at the well-known Park’s DrawingSchool, at age of fourteen; he began a seven year apprenticeship to an engraver. It was as an engraver that Blake earned his living for the rest of his life. After he was twenty-one, Blake studied for a time at The Royal Academy of Arts, but he was unhappy with the instruction and left. In August 1782, Blake married Catherine Boucher. He was taught her to read and to write, and she later became a valued assistant. His sweet sha of delight, as Blake, called Catherine as a devoted and loving wife....
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...Philosophy in Blake`s Songs of Seasons Blake was considerably older than the other tradition"Romantics":13 years older than Wordsworth, 15 years older than Coleridge. He was born in London in 1757and died in 1827. Nature is greatly a very problematic concept that disrupt the calmness of people a long time ago. It is around us and we are part of it . Thus this leads human being to question its changes and phenomena. They worship it out of fears and sometimes out of admiration and wonder. This term actually is juxtaposed with ideas about culture which in a sense is what Romanticism is all about. Some critics believe that William Blake is not a romantic, however, there are many poems show that he is a romantic poet. David Stevens said in Romanticism "William Blake provides a convenient and illuminating touches in this context, if only because his views were so definite and vehemently expressed"49. Blake`s songs of seasons : "To Spring", "To Summer", "To Autumn", "To Winter" are taken from his book Poetical Sketches . These poems reveal Blake`s attitude toward nature. David Steven said in his book Romanticism "Blake Himself hardly ever copied nature in his art and neither did he seek to evoke natural surroundings in his poetry. Yet he was a keen observer at the world around him ,using aspects of nature as a kind of symbolic language to signify human and spiritual values"55. Blake deals in those poems with one the elements in nature which is its changes. Nature, for Blake, is an object...
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...During his reign he we go on to invade and raid many countries in Europe and beyond. One of his major conquests was invading Egypt in 1798. His invasion allowed him to bringing ancient artifacts that he raided from the country back home to France. The French people became interested with these artifacts and the Egyptian folklore. Hieroglyphics were fascinating, and they had not been translated during the eighteenth century which only added to their mystery. They believed that the hieroglyphics contained information about an ancient knowledge regarding magic. Books such as Hieroglyphica, written by the fifth century Egyptian priest Horapollo, became a source for occults to study and use to drive mystic beliefs. Another book that occults studied was Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians written by Jean Terrason in the mid eighteenth century. The fascination with books about Egyptian folklore during the eighteenth century is very similar to the rediscovery of ancient Greek texts that people studied during the...
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...Rpt. Cambridge UP-Canto, c. 2000.* (Rev. version of The Story of Language). Baugh, A. C. A History of the English Language. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951. 1952. 1954. 1956. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. 1960. 1962. 1963. 1965. 1968. 1971. 1974. 1976. Baugh, A. C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 3rd. ed: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.* _____. A History of the English Language. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 1993. 1993. 1994. 996. 1997. 2000. 2001. 2002. _____. A History of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Pearson Education-Prentice Hall, 2002; London: Routledge, 2002.* _____. A History of the English Language. London: Taylor and Francis-Routledge, 2010. Bex, Tony. "2. A (Very Brief) History of English." In Bex, Variety in Written English: Texts in Society /Societies in Text. (Interface). London: Routledge, 1996. 30-50.* Blake, Norman F. A History of the English Language. London: Macmillan, 1996. Rpt. Palgrave.* Bloomfield, M. W., and L. Newmark. A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English. New York: Knopf, 1963. _____. A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English.. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979. Bradley, H. The Making of English. New York: Macmillan, 1904. Rev. ed. 1968. Brook, G. L. A History of the English Language. (The Language Library). London: André Deutsch, 1958. 1977. Cruz Fernández, Juan M. de la, Angel Cañete Alvarez-Torrijos and Antonio Miranda García. Introducción...
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...1993. Rpt. Cambridge UP-Canto, c. 2000.* (Rev. version of The Story of Language). Baugh, A. C. A History of the English Language. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951. 1952. 1954. 1956. 2nd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. 1960. 1962. 1963. 1965. 1968. 1971. 1974. 1976. Baugh, A. C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 3rd. ed: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.* _____. A History of the English Language. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 1993. 1993. 1994. 996. 1997. 2000. 2001. 2002. _____. A History of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Pearson Education-Prentice Hall, 2002; London: Routledge, 2002.* _____. A History of the English Language. London: Taylor and Francis-Routledge, 2010. Bex, Tony. "2. A (Very Brief) History of English." In Bex, Variety in Written English: Texts in Society /Societies in Text. (Interface). London: Routledge, 1996. 30-50.* Blake, Norman F. A History of the English Language. London: Macmillan, 1996. Rpt. Palgrave.* Bloomfield, M. W., and L. Newmark. A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English. New York: Knopf, 1963. _____. A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English.. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979. Bradley, H. The Making of English. New York: Macmillan, 1904. Rev. ed. 1968. Brook, G. L. A History of the English Language. (The Language Library). London: André Deutsch,...
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...“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” The management role is ‘getting things done by other people’ (Parker Follet, 1941) So management can be described as ‘the process of optimizing human, material and financial contributions or the achievement of organizational goals’. (Pearce and Robinson, 1989) At first glance a manager’s role is to organise, supervise and control people so that there is a productive outcome to work. The managers role is not the same as that of a supervisor although it may include supervision, it is not the same as monitoring or recording although it may also include these functions, it is a wider and deeper, more creative and innovative role. The idea of ‘getting things done by other people emphasises the fact that mangers achieve organizational objectives by arranging for other people to perform whatever task is required and do not necessarily carry out the tsk themselves.. A more modern dynamic view of management would suggest that it should be based on innovation and on satisfying the customer. The emphasis is not on running the organization, although it remains an essential part of the management role, so much as on planning developing and changing it. (Hannagan, 2008) Models identify the key variables, suggest possible relationships and predict the possible outcomes of change. The more accurately the model represents the reality it is describing, the more useful it will be. Models represent...
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...CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………3 CHAPTER 1. LINGUISTIC SITUATION IN OLD ENGLISH AND MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD……………………………………………………………..5 1.1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTHARK……………………………………5 1.1.1 THE RUNIC ALPHABET AS AN OLD GERMANIC WRITING TRADITION……………………………………………………………………6 1.1.2 OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE PERIOD OF ANGLO-SAXON ETHNIC EXTENSION…………………………………………………………7 1.2 LINGUISTIC SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH………………..11 1.2.1 LINGUISTIC SITUATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST……………………………………………….……….11 1.2.2 DIALECTAL DIVERSITY IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD.…...13 1.3 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH CORPUS……………………………………….15 1.3.1 GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND HIS LENDING SUPPORT OF THE LONDON STANDARD’S DIFFUSION……………………………………….17 1.3.2 THE ROLE OF THE PRINTING IN THE FORMATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE………………………………………………….…….19 1.3.3 PRINCIPAL MIDDLE ENGLISH WRITTEN RECORDS AS A REFLECTION OF ONGOING CHANGES IN STANDARDIZATION………25 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………….…………....28 REFERENCES………………………………………………………………….30 APPENDIX 1……………………………………………………………………33 INTODUCTION linguistic history english language The English language has had a remarkable history. When we first catch it in historical records, it is a language of none-too-civilized tribes on the continent of Europe along the North Sea. From those murky and undistinguished beginnings, English has become the most widespread language in the world, used by more peoples for more purposes than any language on...
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...the market in which the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust competes 2.1. Porter’s 5 forces analysis 3. Internal analysis of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust 3.1. Resource based view of the firm 3.2. VRIN model 3.3. Financial overview 4. SWOT analysis 5. Strategic positioning 6. Executing the strategy 6.1. First Proposal: Bringing Shakespeare characters to life 6.2. Second Proposal: Promoting the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in London 7. Reference list 8. Appendices 2 1. Introduction The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (hereafter “SBT”) is a privately funded organisation based in Stratford-Upon-Avon (hereafter “Stratford”) in order to: 1. Promote in every part of the world the appreciation and study of the plays and other works of William Shakespeare and the general advancement of Shakespearian knowledge. 2. Maintain and preserve the Shakespeare properties. 3. Provide and maintain a museum and a library of books, manuscripts, records of historic interest, pictures, photographs and objects of antiquity with particular reference to William Shakespeare, his life, works and times (source: www.shakespeare.org.uk). Although the SBT has multiple revenue streams, its primary business is to sell a quality, historic, Shakespeare related experience to visitors to the Shakespeare houses located in Stratford. This in turn fuels its second largest revenue stream, namely the trade of goods to the visitors of the Shakespeare houses and Stratford as a whole. 2. External...
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...Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Reading guide About the Book Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers – normal, at least, for identical ‘mirror’ twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cosy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn’t know existed has died and left them her flat in an apartment block overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin ... but have no idea that they’ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt’s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the twins’ mother – and who can’t seem to quite leave her flat.... With Highgate Cemetery itself a character and echoes of Henry James and Charles Dickens, Her Fearful Symmetry is a delicious and deadly twenty-first-century ghost story about Niffenegger’s familiar themes of love, loss and identity. Reviews for The Time Traveler’s Wife ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of those books where you read the first paragraph and you’re hooked – unmissable’ Irish Independent ‘Henry’s journeys back and forth are by turns slapstick noir and unbearably poignant, and Clare’s child and teen narrations disturbingly pitch-perfect. Philosophical speculation occurs in the most unlikely devices and...
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...OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE • Palaeolithic nomads from mainland Europe; • New inhabitants came from western and possibly north-western Europe (New Stone Age); • in the 2nd millennium BC new inhabitants came from the Low Countries and the middle Rhine (Stonehenge); • Between 800 and 200 BC Celtic peoples moved into Britain from mainland Europe (Iron Age) • first experience of a literate civilisation in 55 B.C. • remoter areas in Scotland retained independence • Ireland, never conquered by Rome, Celtic tradition • The language of the pre-Roman settlers - British (Welsh, Breton); Cornish; Irish and Scottish Gaelic (Celtic dialect) • The Romans up to the fifth century • Britain - a province of the Roman Empire 400 years • the first half of the 5th century the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (N Germany, Jutland) • The initial wave of migration - 449 A. D. • the Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) • the Britain of his time comprised four nations English, British (Welsh), Picts, and Scots. • invaders resembling those of the Germans as described by Tacitus in his Germania. • a warrior race • the chieftain, the companions or comitatus. • the Celtic languages were supplanted (e.g. ass, bannock, crag). * Christianity spread from two different directions: * In the 5th century St Patrick converted Ireland, in the 7th century the north of England was converted by Irish monks; * in the south at the end of the 6th century Aethelberht of Kent allowed the monk Augustine...
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...10 4.4 Reward Mechanisms 10 5.0 Recommendations 11 6.0 Conclusion 11 7.0 List of references 12 Executive Summary Human resource management is a sensitive issue in an organization. The performance of any organization is determined by the workforce management practices in place. Owing to the competitive nature of workforce management, human resources are managed strategically (Aghazadeh 2003, p. 201). In this paper, a case study of strategic human resource management has been done. The company considered is called Home Depot. The paper briefly explores the company and its human resource strategy that was found to be diversity management. Thereafter, the paper has explored possible problems that company faces as a result of its diversity strategy. In response to the problems, the paper suggests inclusion of employee relation model in the diversity strategy already in place before making related recommendations and collusion. 1.0 Overview of the Organization The organization considered in this case study is a retail business company called Home depot. Home Depot is an American company retailing in construction and home improvement products. The company was founded in 1978 by Ron Brill, Bernie Marcus, Pat Farrah, and Arthur Blank. The initial...
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...Executive Summary Human resource management is a sensitive issue in an organization. The performance of any organization is determined by the workforce management practices in place. Owing to the competitive nature of workforce management, human resources are managed strategically (Aghazadeh 2003, p. 201). In this paper, a case study of strategic human resource management has been done. The company considered is called Home Depot. The paper briefly explores the company and its human resource strategy that was found to be diversity management. Thereafter, the paper has explored possible problems that company faces as a result of its diversity strategy. In response to the problems, the paper suggests inclusion of employee relation model in the diversity strategy already in place before making related recommendations and collusion. 1.0 Overview of the Organization The organization considered in this case study is a retail business company called Home depot. Home Depot is an American company retailing in construction and home improvement products. The company was founded in 1978 by Ron Brill, Bernie Marcus, Pat Farrah, and Arthur Blank. The initial focus during its inception was to come up with a home improvement warehouse. The company commenced with two stores in Metro Atlanta. Going by the success and good market reception from the public, the company invested further within the same line by establishing two more stores in 1979. At the time of its establishment, the company...
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...contributions. Various categories of innovation – product, process, managerial, marketing and institutional – are addressed. Important determinants of innovation are acknowledged, including the role of entrepreneurship, technology push and the existence of territorial industry clusters. Representation of knowledge is also identified as a critical factor for both the occurrence and nature of innovations. The review reveals that there is still only limited systematic and comparable empirical evidence of the level of innovative activities and their impacts and wider implications for destinations and national economies. An agenda for future research is emerging, suggesting that there is quest for both formal quantification and for qualitative studies of the foundations, processes, implications and policies of innovation in tourism. Ó 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Throughout history, tourism has been a phenomenon characterized by immense innovativeness. Books and articles have drawn attention to particularly distinctive individuals and enterprises, and their achievements have been analysed and assessed from all angles. Thomas Cook, for example, broke with the conventional thinking of his time and created – in...
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