...An Analysis of Longfellow's A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins his poem "A Psalm of Life" with the same exuberance and enthusiasm that continues through most of the poem. He begs in the first stanza to be told "not in mournful numbers" about life. He states here that life doesn't abruptly end when one dies; rather, it extends into another after life. Longfellow values this dream of the afterlife immensely and seems to say that life can only be lived truly if one believes that the soul will continue to live long after the body dies. The second stanza continues with the same belief in afterlife that is present in the first. Longfellow states this clearly when he writes, "And the grave is not its goal." Meaning that, life doesn't end for people simply because they die; there is always something more to be hopeful and optimistic for. Longfellow begins discussing how humans must live their lives in constant anticipation for the next day under the belief that it will be better than each day before it: "But to act that each to-morrow / Find us farther than to-day." In the subsequent stanza, Longfellow asserts that there is never an infinite amount of time to live, but art that is created during one's life can be preserved indefinitely and live on long after its creator dies. In the following stanzas, Longfellow likens living in the world to fighting on a huge field of battle. He believes that people should lead heroic and courageous lives and not sit idle and remain...
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... The theme of the Wednesday Wars is, when unexpected and most needed, kindness appears. Mrs. Baker gets Holling the cream puffs he so desperately needs showing kindness because she felt empathy. Danny gives up his signed baseball to make Holling feel better showing kindness through loyalty. And Mrs.Baker gives Mai Thi her hot chocolate to show her that she has done nothing wrong, showing kindness through responsibility. The first example of kindness appears early in the book when Holling learns that Mrs.Baker might not despise him after all. Holling, ostracized by his classmates because of their jealousy that he got a cream puff saves up his money and brings a box of cream puffs to school, only to have them eaten by Sycorax and Caliban. Mrs.Baker, knowing how hard he worked to get those cream puffs, replaces them herself."But you know that stuff about the darkest nights turning into the brightest dawns? That can sometimes come true. Even when you least expect it. Because when we came back in from recess, on the shelf was a long box from Goldman's Best Bakery.. Filled with twenty-four cream puffs! Twenty- four brown, light, perfect cream puffs! Twenty-four buttery vanilla cream puffs!!'Mr.Hoodhood was simply playing a joke on you all,' said Mrs.Baker. 'Now enjoy.' And we did” (Schmidt 70).It applies to the topic because Holling was ready to "die" because of the cream puffs and really thought Mrs.Baker had it out for him. But she saw him struggling and came to his rescue. Up...
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...until some paying journalist or amateur or professional art connoisseur found someone who knew something. One day there were perhaps eighteen cars outside of the cave where Oliver had stayed. Two days later the property was purchased by an unnamable prestigious university that took measures to preserve and duplicate what Oliver had painted in it. Little more than...
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...OLIVER TWIST Charles Dickens Plot Overview Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Oliver’s birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and is eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London. Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins, a boy his own age. Jack offers him shelter in the London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a few days of training, Oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. When he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, Oliver is horrified and runs off. He is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. Mr. Brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him...
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...Oliver Twist’s will to survive Oliver Twist is one of the most famous novels Charles Dickens ever wrote. It is a tale of childhood innocence, surrounded by evil; whereby, it portrays the dark unlawful mob of a London, occupied by strong and unforgettable characters. It is a timeless rags-to-riches story about an orphan, who has to navigate his way across a city full of criminals, and stay away from being corrupted. Oliver Twist's will to survive throughout the novel, is the ultimate contributing factor to his finding his biological family. Dickens draws out a convincing image of a disturbing childhood preoccupied by a struggle between the poor laws and criminality; the forces of good and evil; and a sense of alienation. In one of the most common places where poor laws is depicted is that of where Oliver Twist’s birth takes place: a workhouse, where his mother takes refuge and dies after giving birth to her illegitimate son, and is unable to make her identity known to anyone. According to Chlebek, this is where everything “begins, the nightmare of abandonment, exploitation, and terror that constitute the orphan’s early life” (“Childhood in Oliver Twist"). During Oliver’s first year, he is brought up in the workhouse. He is then sent to Mrs. Mann’s baby farm, where he is regularly starved for the next eight years. However, on Oliver’s ninth birthday, the parish beadle, Mr. Bumble, returns Oliver to the workhouse so that he can learn a useful trade: picking oakum. When...
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...Wombles famously choose their names from an old Atlas in Great Uncle Bulgaria’s study. What continent was Orinoco looking at when he chose his name? South America (Venezuela) TV (UK) 1. On which TV show do the characters watch Itchy and Scratchy? The Simpsons 2. Byker Grove was set in which UK city? Newcastle 3. Which character did Arnold Ridley play in Dads Army? Private Godfrey 4. Which character did Catherine Zeta Jones play in The Darling Buds of May? Mariette 5. Benny, Judy, Trisha and Tucker were characters in which new series in 1978? Grange Hill 6. What is the name of the Vicar of Dibley? Geraldine Grainger 7. Who is Ricky Gervais normal writing partner? Stephen Merchant 8. In Happy Days The Fonz was played by Henry Winkler but what was character Fonzie’s first name? Arthur www-better-fundraising-ideas.com Film 1. Film star Nicholas Cage is the nephew of which Oscar winning Director? Francis Ford Coppola 2. Which 4 times Oscar winner founded Aardman Animations? Nick Park 3. What was the name of Hans Solo’s ship in Star Wars? The Millennium Falcon 4. Which Native American tribe features in the film Dances With Wolves? The Sioux 5. Forrest Gump 6. What character said “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”? The song “Hopelessly devoted to you” is...
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...Oliver Twist in relation to the Newgate Calendars Born into a poor English family in 1812, Charles Dickens worked his way up from a life of poverty and debtor's prison, to become a writer of national acclaim. In his Victorian era, he was an exception to the rule because it was very difficult to break through the barriers of social class and better oneself. Because of his bleak childhood, Dickens was one of the few writers of his time who could express the horrors of society as they really were. One of his most famous novels is Oliver Twist. This story centers on a young boy named Oliver whose real identity is unknown when his mother dies in childbirth. As an orphan, he is exploited by corrupt and selfish authority figures, and is forced into a life of poverty, hard labor, misery and crime. Oliver suffers horribly and often takes the blame for others' misdeeds. Dickens is showing that Oliver is a good person, and the bad things that happen to him are through no fault of his own, but because society and the people around him are bad. From his earliest childhood days, Oliver is treated harshly by society. He was born in a workhouse where he is barely given enough food to live and is forced to do hard manual labor. Dickens satirically describes the authorities' view of the poor in this passage: "'Oho!' said the board, looking very knowing, 'we are the fellows to set this to rights; we'll stop it all, in no time.' So they established the rule that all poor people should have...
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...Mycroft 23 November 2015 William Skiles History 102 Term Paper: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, written in 1837, illustrates what is like to be a child in the 1830’s in London. This novel shows the truth about how the Victorian society’s viewed and treated the unfortunate. The foolishness of individualism, failure of charity, clarity of an immoral city, and how the countryside is overemphasized are all main themes of this novel. With being a child in this time period it was really hard to be noticed as an innocent; these kids were growing up in the middle class as workers in terrible conditions. Survival of the fittest was what the Victorians lived their lives by. They believed that if everyone in their society would look out for their own interests, that everything would run effortlessly. But that isn’t at all what happened; Dickens shows us that there was much more issues and problems with they way children were being treated. “[…] as Oliver looked out of the parlour window, and saw the Jew roll [his old clothes] up in his bag and walk away, he felt quite delighted to think that they were safely gone, and that there was now no possible danger of his ever being able to wear them again” (14.8). At the end of the novel everyone is starting to turn against each other and give in to the philosophy, of everyone for himself or herself. However, the second group of Oliver and his many friends prove their community and society wrong by linking...
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...Summary Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stone and Stanley Weiser, and stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people, including Owen Morrisey, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Ovitz, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested, and Stone wanted Richard Gere, though Gere passed on the role. Stone went with Douglas even though he had been advised by others in Hollywood not to cast him. Efficient-market hypothesis Within the Efficient-market hypothesis, the Strong form of EMH additionally claims that prices instantly reflect even hidden or "insider" information. This is what was demonstrated within this video being that it focused on insider trading. However, The SEC believed in the Semi strong Version because this version claims both that prices reflect all publicly available information and...
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...The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known mansion in Northern California. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. It was continuously under construction for 38 years and is reported to be haunted. It now serves as a tourist attraction. Under Winchester's day-to-day guidance, its "from-the-ground-up" construction proceeded around the clock, without interruption, from 1884 until her death on September 5, 1922, at which time work immediately ceased.[3] The cost for such constant building has been estimated at about US $5.5 million[4] (if paid in 1922; this would be equivalent to over $75 million in 2012).[5] The Queen Anne Style Victorian mansion is renowned for its size and utter lack of any master building plan. According to popular belief, Winchester thought the house was haunted by the ghosts of the people who fell victim to Winchester rifles, and that only continuous construction would appease them. It is located at 525 South Winchester Blvd. in San Jose, California.[6] As of 2013, the house is under private ownership by Winchester Mystery House, LLC, a limited liability company owned by partners Edna May Raney; Gerard Raney; Ray Farris II; Sandra Farris; and M. Valerie Bovone. It is not operated by the County of Santa Clara or the U.S. National Park Service. Inspiration Although this is disputed, popular belief holds that a Boston medium told Winchester that she had to leave her home in New Haven and...
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...Oliver Cromwell was a strict Puritan, and played really important roles, not only in the civil war, but even in the government. He came from a gentry’s family, and when he was young, after having a good education at Cambridge, toke part of the Short and the long parliaments. Even if being a puritan, Cromwell supported the idea of militarism. In fact, during the first Civil War, having a strong commanding voice, and a huge military ability, Cromwell was authorized by the parliament to start his military career by razing a regiment to help the roundheads to fight the royal forces. The Ironsides, Cromwell’s own regiment, actually distinguished at the battle of Marston Moor and in many other minor engagements. In 1644 he was appointed second to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and was also authorized by Parliament to reorganize a new army which became a “New Model Army” in which Cromwell spread his puritan’s ideas. In fact he said to his soldiers: “I think that who prays best will fight best. Anyways, his new army had a great success by defeating the king in the First Civil War and the Scottish and Irish royalists in the second one. After taking over Ireland and Scotland, Cromwell, initiated a policy of systematic dispossession of the conquered lands by giving them to new puritan owners. In 1650 he also invaded Schootland and defeated all the royalist forces at Dunbar. When the second civil war ended, Cromwell realized that he had a lot of power. He was in fact controlling the army that controlled...
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...Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist was written and published during the Victorian era, 1838. Dickens’ use of language successfully denotes contextual issues and narrative concepts, an important social commentator who used fiction effectively to highlight the contextual issues of society and class and criminality. The narrative techniques Dickens uses, unified with the context in which he wrote the novel, exemplify his ideas throughout the text. The use of good literature adds to an audience’s understanding of life during those times. It embodies thought and feeling on matters of human importance. Dickens uses the characters and situations in the novel to make a deliberate statement of his personal views of society and class about the poor laws and the criminal system. Society in Oliver Twist is hugely divided. While the upper classes live in their comfortable large houses, the lower class are seen to lead wretched lives, driven to crime by hunger and deprivation. At times Dickens steps out of the novel and addresses the reader directly using indirect speech. The opening of the book, the detached narrator impresses upon the reader that Oliver was only seen as a burden upon the parish, and also highlights the injustice of falling into a predestined social class. “The parish authorities resolved that Oliver should be ‘farmed’... be despatched to a branch workhouse where juvenile offenders against the poor-laws… ‘. He uses shifting narrative voice throughout Oliver Twist to provoke...
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...The English Revolution was a period of armed conflict and political turmoil between 1642 and 1660. This included the execution of the Charles 1st, the rise of the Commonwealth followed by the Protectorate under Cromwell and then the eventual restoration of the Monarchy. Richardson is correct to state that the events that occurred were “inherently controversial… momentous and far reaching” which are still debated today. This debate rages on whether these events can constitute a Revolution. It is dependent on what definition of the word Revolution is enacted. Historians such as Jeff Goodwin provide interpretations of what it means to have a Revolution, which shall be further explored, however what ultimately accounts is how the events and interpretations of the time fit into these interpretations. Ultimately there are two ways to look at Revolution, firstly there is the struggle or initial violent uprisings of the populous against the established state. The other way of looking at a revolution is to also examine the more long term changes or effects in the mind-set of the contemporise. In other words the changes in the way men think. Richardson pushes the idea of the initial struggle constituting a Revolution whereas others such as Hill believe that the long-term effects are more significant. Both arguments both valid against differing definitions of Revolution. Similarities between the French and English Revolutions will also provide a stark comparison of the English situation...
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...2.2 Мовна реалізація авторської концепції добра і зла в романі Чарльза Діккенса «Пригоди Олівера Твіста». Дослідження структури роману «Пригоди Олівера Твіста» (“Adventures of Oliver Twist” 1837-1839) дозволяє зробити висновок про те, що художній світ, створений автором, організований за принципом дихотомії, що відтворює авторське сприйняття навколишньої дійсності як арени боротьби протилежний сил Добра і Зла. Контраст як форма вираження протиріччя найбільше відповідала ідейним установкам письменника, що намагався в художній формі відобразити протиріччя дійсності. Контраст у романі переростає рамки стилістичного прийому і стає організуючим принципом системи, збудованої на протилежностях. Маркованими членами опозиції цієї системи виступають поняття Добра і Зла. Присутність всезнаючого автора, його безпосередня оцінка зображуваного відіграють першочергову роль в контрастній організації роману. Мовні сигнали авторського ставлення до зображуваного виконує інтегруючу функцію. Розпорошені в тексті роману, вони слугують цілі текстотворення, об’єднуючи частини дихотомічної структури твору в одне ціле. Характерною рисою лексичної системи роману «Пригоди Олівера Твіста» є її контрастний характер. Вона являє собою сукупність слів протилежної семантики – позитивної і негативної, - які виражають відповідно два протилежних ставлення автора до зображуваного. Така системність прослідковується на рівні всього роману, що вказує на цілеспрямоване використання автором лексичних засобів мови. Оскільки...
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...It was a bitter and frosty December morning in Boston. The year was 1765, and the Oliver family had just woken up in their small, sandy shack on the outskirts of Boston. John Oliver, who was the father of the family, was ready to walk to his carpenter shop where he worked. His wife, Bernice, was waking up the children so they could do their chores. Ralph, the older of the two sons, was angry that he had to wake up so early every morning just to do chores. Edwin, the younger brother, was annoying Ralph, so Ralph punched him in the face. Bernice told the brothers to stop bickering, and tell their father goodbye. John was ready for work, so he told his family goodbye, and he set off on his one and a half mile long stroll to work. His carpenter...
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