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giving lectures and speeches all over. The last novel Charles got to finish before dying was ‘Our Mutual Friend’ which he finished in 1865. On June 9th 1870 Charles Dickens died of a stroke in him home in London, he was buried in Poets corner at Westminster Abbey. After hearing of Charles death ‘Thomas Carlyle who was a Scottish Historian and also an author had said “the good, the gentle, high-gifted, ever-friendly, noble Dickens- every inch of him an honest man”’(Thom.…

Henry Tudor is born during the onset of the Wars of the Roses to an illegitimate bloodline which traces its roots back to John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster. This lineage belongs to the House of Beaufort, which was established when John of Gaunt had his son who was born of a mistress legitimized. The only stipulation to this legitimization was that the Beaufort line would never be able to enter the line of succession for the Throne of England. Sadly, the Yorkists which would oppose the Lancastrians…

As Lenina and Henry listen to Calvin Stopes and his sixteen sexophonists at the Westminster Abbey Cabaret, “Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world-the warm, richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma- holiday”( Huxley 77). This is important because soma is a drug that makes a person be happy for a period of time. It…

CLASS The three texts I have studied are ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, and ‘The King’s speech by Tom Cooper. Through my study of the cultural content of these three texts, it is clear that there are clearly embedded values and attitudes that can be difficult to change. These attitudes are clearly seen looking at class, family value, religion, the role of women, and war in these texts. In ‘The King’s Speech’, it is evident that there are deeply embedded beliefs and…

Austin Williams Mrs. Armstrong English 262-02 25 April 2016 The Lonesome Lady of Shalott “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Prudish and narrow-minded are excellent terms that describe how the people from the Victorian era are portrayed. The Victorian era was a time when the legs of a table had to be concealed under cloth so that it was not suggestive in any way. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a prominent author in the Victorian era. By the age of forty-one,…

While he lived, he was offered a burial in Westminster Abbey with the Britain’s kings and queens and other honorable scientists. He turned this offer down so that he could be buried with his wife, Sarah, in full modesty. Michael Faraday lived an incredible life. He came from a very poor family with little…

William Blake William Blake is a poet, painter, and engraver who lived in the late 18th century to early 19th century(G.E Bently). Blake became a well known writer despite his difference between other writers of the time. Through his work as a poet he hoped to achieve change in social order and men’s mind(Poetry Foundation). Although many people of his time thought him crazy, Blake became a strong influence of the Romantic Age and inspired numerous writers and artists throughout the rest of…

J.J Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburban area in Manchester, England on December 18, 1856. Thomson was a Nobel Prize winning physicist with his research that helped discover the electrons of an atom. J.J Thomson full name was Joseph John Thomson, He was an English physicist and mathematician. Joseph Thomson was considered to be a prodigy at his time, becoming the first to be 14 and attending college. Joseph Thomson’s father was a book seller who intended Thomson to become an engineer.…

=Natural selection and The Theory of Evolution were just two of the things that Charles Darwin conquered through the exploration of The Galapagos Island. Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. In 1831, Darwin convinced Captain Robert FitzRoy to let him join him aboard the H. M. S. Beagle as the ships naturalist. They first settled off from England in 1831 for a five year voyage, Charles Darwin had an ambition for scientific research. After exploring the coast of South…

the ceiling and reflected to the spectator creating an extra layer of immersion. As an example, the director used this technology to put the spectator inside of crucial moments like the famous Churchill speech in the House of Commons, or the Westminster Abbey bells. One might really think that was there inside the House or with Churchill as he walked down the subway. Additionally, this movie was recorded using state of the art digital cameras that have the classical 35 millimeters sensors and…