Oscar attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen where he grew a passion for Greek and Roman literature. ... In Wilde's time, the practice of homosexuality was a criminal offense. ... And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, the motion is no more. ... The Aesthetic Movement, which coincided with the Industrial Revolution at the end of the nineteenth century, emphasized the artistic aspect of a man's work in producing a variety of goods, from furniture to machines to literature Oscar Wilde, however, proposed that the principles of the Aesthetic Movement ...

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National Literature Before the war of 1812, there was basically no true American literature besides political essays. ... By 1820, literature could finally be supported as a profession. ... Most of the time, the new immigrants were treated horribly by the Americans. ... The Factory System and Market Economy British inventors perfected a series of machines for the mass production of textiles in 1750. ... America was much slower to embrace the machine than other countries in Europe. ...

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This is because much of Bradbury's literature has to do with illusory ideas. ... Fahrenheit 451, which is sometimes just referred to as Fahrenheit, is one of Bradbury's most famous pieces of literature. ... After Montag leaves the technological city, he goes into the forest and meets the "book people" who further show him that the machines of the city are negative and bad and nature and the Earth is pleasant and proper. ... Ray Bradbury has experienced or has realized many other circumstances having to do with censorship of his own literature as well as the literature of others. ...

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Chaplins character is a proletarian, a man defined by his labour in much the same way as a machine. ... In Walter Benjamins essay "The Flaneur" the author suggests that the first literary endeavor of this new species of city dweller was "panorama literature" or "physiologies". ... The only other time in the film he is given an identity that isn't a job is when he is in jail. ... He has been doing this for so long that even when it comes time for him to break for lunch he has taken on the twitching rhythms of his machine. ... This meant that their primary interest was to pass the time as ...

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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One critic writes, "The democratic institutions which might have provided a means of change have all been bought off by the "Machine." ... Democracy does not help anyone apart from its institution at this point in time. ... Sinclair writes, "...it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust..." (317). ... Modern American Literature. 4th ed. ... American Literature in the Twentieth Century. ...

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The "Clock Jack" was a mechanical figure that could strike time on a bell with its axe. ... However, it is literature where human kinds vivid imagination has often reflected our fascination with the idea of creating artificial life. ... For Shelly, a robot looked like man but had the ability to function like a machine. ... From that time there has been a proliferation of work in autonomous driving machines that cruise at highway speeds and navigate outdoor terrains in commercial applications. ... The day when all dangerous or hated jobs are performed by machines not people. ...

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Dissatisfied with the shoe trade, he took up acting and studied literature, grammar, and speech. ... But at the time, the idea of hearing voices coming from a machine, rather than a person, seemed like a miracle. ... "Alexander Graham Bell also had to fight in court, this time to maintain his claim that he was the inventor of the telephone. ... In 1888 he came up with the telautograph, a telegraph-based machine that could transmit patterns of dots and lines on paper "a very early attempt at the fax machine.""... At the same time, all telephones in the United States went quiet for one mi...

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In addition, the Church of Christ in Christian Union preached a strict moral code which forbade drinking, dancing, movies, swimming, swearing, popular literature, and moral injunctions against violence and war. ... On September 12th, the Division engaged the enemy for the first time in the St. ... Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. ... Because the Church of Christ in Christian Union cond...

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Beowulf with fourteen companions sets sail and goes to the Danes to attempt to slay the evil meat eating machine. ... Beowulf illustrates some important aspects of time and history. ... With the exception of a few reminiscences and indirect reference by various characters, the setting concluding Beowulf's return from Denmark to his homeland handles time in a basically linear manner, leaving no question on the chronology of events that unravel in the poem. ... It is unlike any other poem in English literature or any other Germanic literature, and Tolkien's description of Beowulf as a ...

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The most noticeable genres of literature describe in Shelly's novel are the Gothic term and the Science Fiction term. ... They reaches the height of their considerable fashion in the 1790`s and the early years of the 19th century- (Oxford Companion to English Literature, p. 405-06). ... The Gothic goal was to rebelliously assail the secrets of Heaven, whereas, in Shelley, Nature is being penetrated in a wanton act of assumption and pride. 2 On the other hand we notice the Science Fiction:- the current name for a class of prose narrative which assumes an imaginary technological or sci...

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It was in this time, when the world made the first steps towards huge scientific and technological advances. ... Creativity is instead replaced by mundane tasks, because machines do most of the work. ... Without literature, people will live in a stable society, but have to pay the price of never being creative or thinking. ... Huxley shows that sometimes when the citizens were alone or had a moment of free time, creative forces tended to come up. ... People are conditioned against love, nature, literature and other naturally desired forms of expression. ...

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Shakespeare once said "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"- truly I believe he himself is greatness for his simple devotion and love for art and literature. ... In 1592, at the start of Shakespeare's career, a well-known writer at the time named Robert Green insulted Shakespeare by naming him an "upstart crow". ... Shakespeare had a massive role in schools in India -by this time, the British empire still existed and Shakespeare was slowly becoming known globally which encouraged his prominence- In 1853, a law was passe...

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And the numerous amount of literature and plays he produced during each time period in his life. ... He also wrote a lot anti-semitic poetry at the same time. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black literature since the Harlem Renaissance. ... At this time he and his wife changed their name to Immanu Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. ...

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But at the same time, there were ominous signs of danger. ... For the first time, women smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol in public. ... The Literary Flowering The greatest cultural advance of the 1920s was visible in the outpouring of literature. ... Art and music lagged behind literature but still made significant advances. ... They were critical of mass production and reliance on the machine; they wrote wistfully of the disappearance of the artisan and of a more relaxed way of life. ...

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The most notable practitioner was Isaac Singer, founder of Singer Sewing Machine. ... You virtually had two entrepreneurial revolutions taking place at the same time. ... Every franchisee is required to attend specific and time intensive training before opening the doors. ... The entire system from making, displaying and selling the widgets is spelled out, time tested and proven. ... While there are training sessions, tapes and literature to purchase, weeks of intensive training are not required. ...

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At that time in his writing career, he peppered most of his letters and over exaggerated on them. ... In 1894 following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige type setting machine in which he heavily invested his money (Parkes, P 233). ... It looked as if everything awful started to happen all at the same time. At that time his writing became very moralistic and had few humorous pieces in his writings. ... His work was inspired by the unconventional west, and the popularity of his work marked the end of domination of American literature by New England writers. ...

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At that time in his writing career, he peppered most of his letters and over exaggerated on them. ... In 1894 following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige type setting machine in which he heavily invested his money (Parkes, P 233). ... It looked as if everything awful started to happen all at the same time. At that time his writing became very moralistic and had few humorous pieces in his writings. ... His work was inspired by the unconventional west, and the popularity of his work marked the end of domination of American literature by New England writers. ...

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Loman had broken another promise from procrastination, but this time it was his own son. ... The time it takes to pay off a house is normally closer to retirement in most adults' life. ... Linda is talking about what they have left to pay off after the last house payment is sent in when she says, Well, there's ninety-six for the washing machine. ... As for the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine, most people in Willy and Linda's age group would have had all of this paid off long ago. ... This was not the first time he tried to kill himself. ...

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Neither of us admitted that we had been happier at any other time of our lives. ... I was informed that a subsequent letter, arriving by post in fourteen days time, would shed some light on the situation and her evaluation of the situation as it stands. ... The news couldn't have come to me at a worse time. ... Usually, whilst writing to see if it enhances the quality of my literature. ...

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William Wordsworth was one of the strongest romantic poets in the English Language of his time. ... At the time this book was published it failed to arouse interest at the time, but it has since come to be known as his masterpiece English poet, literary critic, and philosopher, William Wordsworth helped launch the Romantic age in English literature towards the end of the 18th century in Europe with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ... The way that the poet is able to convey such feelings such as beauty is through the use of both similes and metaphors both these elements of literature ...

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In this endeavor to answer the proposed question, this literature will examine the sovereignty of the longest continuously operating organized crime group in the United States, Cosa Nostra, or Italian-American Crime Families. ... As time passed, new laws were enacted to address conspiracies in restraint of trade and other economic offenses. Yet by the time the last wave of Sicilian immigrants reached America, the names of these great robber barons were connected with great universities, foundations, and charitable institutions. ... Howard Abadinsky explains what happened, "Prohibition acted ...

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However, both satirise the time period they are set in perfectly, and the different types of American Dream that existed. ... In Fear And Loathing ' this is evident in the way he talks about the hitchhiker, whom they agree to pick up in the opening chapter of the novel: "Here's this poor Greek living in a world of convertibles zipping past him on the highways all the time, and he's never even ridden in one. ... Although both examples of modern American literature, it could be said that the novels are very anti-the-American-Dream, and serve the pu...

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Technology has expanded exponentially from the beginning of time until the 90's. ... Email can have more of a real time relay in the future. There is also the possibility of your email not reaching its destination, which we all have experienced at one time. ... World Library Incorporated produced a fully searchable CD-ROM containing 450 (later expanded to 953) classical works of literature and historic documents. ... These chips are designed around a reduced instruction set machine language, intended to produce more compact, faster executing code. ...

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