The gods found out and punished Tantalus to be immersed neck deep in water with a fruit tree above him, always thirsty but never able to drink, always hungry but never able to eat, for water and fruit shifted from his reach. ... In saying that there was a new source of "venison" for the "gentlemen" of the country, he mentions that the rich young men have "of late destroyed their deer", giving it a barely controlled, annoyed quality, making the audience, if at least a bit intelligent, realize how subtly he hints of their wastefulness. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But when he is confronted in arguably the most intuitive part of the story 'Calvin' is horror-struck seeming out of his comfort zone, the author gives a realistic image of someone who has met a ghost. ... She also uses gothic effects to show trauma and conflictfor example using an old manor house with a locked up wing, shrouded in branches and enclosed by surrounding trees this sets the scene of a big dark building in the middle of know where with big gates and fences almost isolated from the outer world almost prison like. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. Changes in Europe politically, intellectually, economically, and socially, radically conditioned new response t...

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• Has Bibliography
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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses,...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate