In the book, Colley traces the construction of a British identity in the period between the Act of Union joining Scotland to England and Wales in 1707 and the formal beginning of the Victorian age in 1837. ... The early nineteenth century allowed women to come to terms with the meanings and demands of Britishness. ... The middle class in Britain was composed of the majority of the population. The opinions of the middle class were created in response to the actions of the elite. The end result is that by dressing more like the middle class society, the elites were able to change the opin...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1991 the average ages were 25.5 years for women and 27.5 for men. ... Cohabitation is also more likely to turn into marriage with age - 36% of cohabitations of those aged 20-24 do not end in marriage, compared to 8% of those aged 30-34 years. ... Of couples divorcing in 2004, a half (53%) had at least one child under the age of 16. ... Some of the demographic causes of increased marital breakdown may be linked to the following trends: "The earlier a partnership is formed, the more likely it is to breakdown. ... The Elderly In 2000 there were an estimated 3.6 million persons over state...

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To only go to sleep and then get up early the next day to do it all over again. "Infants of four and five years of age, many of them girls, pretty and still soft and timid; entrusted with the fulfillment of responsible duties, the very nature of which entails on them the necessary of being the earliest to enter the mine and the latest to leave it" (Sybil). ... Also, a small middle class would only mean an increase in controversies between the poor and the rich based on their rights. ... It came a time where the middle class fled to the inter city away from the factory, disease smoke,...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Progression in the middle ages led to "watchmen", in cities in Europe. ... In the early middle ages England created the keepers of the peace were established and these men were knights assigned to protect the king. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wordsworth's poem Animal Tranquility and Decay, which he wrote in 1798, merely twenty-eight years into his existence, displays his early realization of such perceptions. ... The middle two lines here suggest that the man is so content and quiet that he seems to be "not all there," but in fact his patients and acceptance are the result of years living among the world and developing a relationship with nature. ... Upon writing this poem he sheds new light on the whole ideas of humans living within nature instead of off of nature, and contentness even in old age and death as well as accepta...

• Word Count: 1344
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• Grade Level: High School

In Warwickshire, Catherine Tarrant had drawn sketches of "a mother and child locked in each other's arms, fierce protectiveness in the mother's face, terror in the child's" and "a girl in a rose splashed gown circling in ecstasy under the spreading limbs of an aged oak. ... Early symptoms included tiredness, irritability, giddiness, lack of concentration and headaches. ... Hickam often wandered aimlessly in the streets of Warwickshire, stopping in the middle of roads and directing traffic that no one else can see. ...

• Word Count: 2089
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School