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In Jane Austen’s Gothic Novel Northanger Abbey, there are two polarizing characters introduced; John Thorpe and Henry Tilney. In virtually every love story there a choice between lovers to be made by the heroine, both exhuming intriguing qualities, and Northanger Abbey is no exception to this. Henry Tilney and John Thorpe happen to be the two men of interest. Austen fascinatingly presents the two men as contrasting characters, both in their values, morals, and behaviors. Austen uses the two…

Imagination: It’s All in Your Head In Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, Catherine Moreland lets her imagination get the best of her in numerous occasions. On some occasions, she struggles with separating the reality of society in Bath from Gothic novels she reads avidly. In others, she is simply naïve to the inner characters of those around her. In both cases, it can be argued that her mental struggles could have ultimately have lead her astray, away from Henry Tilney, and away from Bath,…

The Gothic Life Northanger Abby offers an almost contradictory look at the Gothic style. On the one hand, Austen seems to criticize and parodies the common motifs of the Gothic as she offers a buildup of fictionalized gothic moments of suspense only to clash them against a humorous mundaneness of actuality. This is seen when Catharine arrives at the Abby. Instead of receiving an omen of murder increasing the suspense and danger surrounding a dilapidated castle, “the breeze had not… waft the…

True North – Anna Darlene Edmondson “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him (Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV). Say you were lost in dense-wooded timberland. Probably, your own intuitions of ‘true north’ would misguide you (like my GPS). It’s continuously recalculating … and sadly, I miss appointments. Ugh! Truth is, I depend on technology and believe it’s faultless. Yet, glitches abound with nearly everything man creates. However,…

Every Wednesday, current Prime Minister, David Cameron, meets in the House of Commons for half an hour to answer questions from Members of Parliament. These questions are meant to address current events both international and domestic, and have come to be known as Prime Minister Questions (PMQs). All Members of Parliament must write their questions for the Prime Minister on the Order Paper several days prior to the PMQs. Once submitted, the questions are then sorted through, scrambled, and…

British parliament has a two house system. This bicameral structure includes a house of lords and a house of commons. The house of lords is made out of people who inherited the position or were elected by the monarch and prime minister, while the House of Commons consists of members elected by the people. The house of lords has very small influence in the British government. The most useful action they can perform is to delay a law brought up by the house commons. It is delayed for up to a year,…

Chapter 4: Legislation Answer Structure 1. Intro -Act of Parliament is also known as domestic legislation is the law made by Parliament. -Parliament consists of the House of Commons and House of Lords, and every bill has to pass to the Queen for consent. -Members of Parliament sit in the House of Commons are elected by the general public in five years, whereas members of the House of Lords are appointed by Queen. -Parliament is sovereign in the United Kingdom as it can make or unmake any law and…

Democratic Dictatorship? The Power of the Prime Minister in Canada Recently in Canada, it is being debated if the power that the Prime Minister holds has become stronger. Section 9 and 10 of the Constitution Act of 1867 declares the Queen and Governor as the ones who possess executive power, when today in practice, that power is found within the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The era of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as Prime Minister has been referred to as the period when the checks and balances began to…

despite the elevated media profile for would-be parliamentarian reformers and refuseniks after the Lefebvre and McGrath parliamentary reforms, the current Canadian House of Commons committee system remains comparatively understudied to similar Westminster-style democracies. Decades worth of government responses to committee recommendations are largely untouched, even by the Library of Parliament; empirical frameworks developed to judge committee influence and effectiveness in the UK, Australia…

Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy, that is as well technically a constitutional democracy under the dominion of the British Commonwealth; however, the British Commonwealth is purely ceremonial and does not possess any real control over the direction of Canada nor any actions dealing with Canadian foreign policy. The head of state of Canada is Queen Elizabeth II of the British Commonwealth, but as I stated earlier she holds no real power in Canada and is ceremonial. The true power in…