The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... Hi...

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In the early part of the novel, she mostly speaks of life within the family: births, deaths, marriages, love to each other and the family bondage gets predominant in the early description of the novel. ... Partition and Partition Literature The Rarh region of Bengal- silent and peaceful for centuries after centuries – became turbulent and troubled with the outbreak of communal riot between Hindus and Muslims.... And it is the very consciousness which grew amid the educated middle class just after the World War II. ... " The narrator has become a woman of middle age giving birth to ...

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Raised in an upper middle class upbringing, his father was a physician and his mother had trained as a singer. ... This love of the nature remained with him all his life. ... While in the hospital, Ernest fell in love with a nurse, but their love affair came to an immediate end, when she walked out on him, for an Italian officer. ... Ernest was not lucky in love. ... He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. ...

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Hitler used it "to control the press as well as all other means of expression-radio, film, art, and literature"(Rhodes 11). ... Goebbels believed that "the masses love a commander"(Rhodes 12). ... It was an anti-Semitic film set in the Middle Ages about a "crooked-nosed" Jew who forces a German woman to sleep with him or he"ll hurt her husband. ...

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After his birth in 1894, Cummings grew up as an intellectual and at age seventeen attended Harvard, where his father was a professor. At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... Cummings isn't the only activist who protested against conflict and American hierarchy, and pushed to "make love and not war." ... With the country and his family pressuring him to feel "etcetera", the character converts what should be his feelings of pride to feelings of love. ... Most i...

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• Grade Level: High School