The rise of the modern age throughout the world allowed for mass change, progress, and empowerment. Free capitalism created opportunities for many, but also ruined the lives of many more. With the British Opium Trade, the conflicts surrounding World War 1, and then in Revolutionary China, race, rationality, and capitalism were the core principles that divided the groups involved, but also linked these historical events together. Throughout progress and history, these fundamental principles were tested
Words: 1407 - Pages: 6
English Literature, Key Poems List Thomas Hardy: Men Who March Away - Volunteers marching to war tell those who watch them pass by of their faith in the justice of their cause. Thomas Hardy: In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ - The routines of life and love continue during conflict, and will continue long after it is over. Rupert Brooke: Peace - This sonnet is an expression of thanks for being able to respond to the call to arms and leave behind the stale and empty concerns of civilian
Words: 1545 - Pages: 7
Democracy) Galsworthy, John. The Man of Property Greene, Graham. One of: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Joyce, James. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses Kipling, Rudyard. Kim Lawrence, D. H. Two of: Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow, The Plumed Serpent Lewis, Wyndham. Tarr, manifestos in BLAST 1 Mansfield, Katherine. “Prelude,” “At the Bay,” “The Garden Party,” “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” (in
Words: 2557 - Pages: 11
this class, as opposed to the aristocrat forms were the focus of the novelists of this period. Charles Dickens emerged as a literary figure and wrote about London life and struggles of the poor in Oliver Twist. In the early twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling wrote highly versatile novels, short stories and poems, often based on his experience in British India. E.M.Forster also wrote A Passage to India which reflected challenges to imperialism. Novels from this era reflected great world events such
Words: 2256 - Pages: 10
than in the British novel" (62). He makes mention of several other Victorian authors who broach the issue of empire and otherness such as Charles Dickens (Said, Culture and Imperialism 62), William Thackeray (Said, Culture and Imperialism 62) or Rudyard Kipling (Said, Culture and Imperialism 66). Regarding the depiction of the "other," Dracula too is a product of its
Words: 1765 - Pages: 8
A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet, "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country," India. The poem was published before Derozio's untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti rhyme scheme. In Derozio's, there is Spenserian concatenation
Words: 2456 - Pages: 10
University of Alberta English 123: Literature in Global Perspective Section A8 Fall 2014 Mon/Wed/Fri 1:00-1:50 pm HC 2-11 Instructor: Dr. R. Fowler Office: Humanities Centre 4-75 email: rfowler@ualberta.ca Office Hours: Mon. 2:00-3:00; Wed. 10:00-10:45 (or by appointment) (appointments will also be scheduled for writing conferences) This course introduces students to post-secondary studies in English through world literatures in English. Focusing on materials from
Words: 1970 - Pages: 8
squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence. Sun Tzu "The first casualty of war is truth. Rudyard Kipling One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage. Sun Tzu There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind. Napoleon Bonaparte In
Words: 2186 - Pages: 9
CentralNotice Vai a: navigazione, ricerca Benvenuti su WikipediaL'enciclopedia libera e collaborativa | 1 169 872 voci in italianoAccesso sicuroVersione per dispositivi mobili | Sfoglia l'indice Consulta il sommario Naviga tra i portali tematici | | VetrinaIl Polizeiregiment "Bozen" (Reggimento di polizia "Bolzano"), poi SS-Polizeiregiment "Bozen", era un reparto militare della Ordnungspolizei (polizia d'ordinanza) creato nell'autunno 1943 in Alto Adige durante l'occupazione tedesca
Words: 1763 - Pages: 8
Virginia’s London Complex in Mrs. Dalloway Fang Yuling Introduction Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), an experimental novelist, critic and essayist of the 20th century, has been regarded as a major modernist writer, whose great contribution to the innovative techniques is undeniable. Susan squire once said: “Whether she thought it "the most beautiful place on the face of the earth" or "the very devil," to Virginia Woolf the city of London was the focus for an intense, often ambivalent, lifelong scrutiny
Words: 2686 - Pages: 11
