In the Victorian Era in England, people played two kinds of sports: recreational sports and competitive sports. ... Croquet was introduced in England in 1856, croquet is still played today at parties, events, etc. ... " Although croquet was never a popular men's game, it had both social and economic advantages: men and women could play together, and it required little equipment and no special clothing. ... Thus began the British Open golf championship (1860), the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing (1867), the Football Association Cup (1871), the County Cricket Championship (187...

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Ships carrying goods such as rum and fish left New England for the west coast of Africa. ... When a former slave learned that there was salvation "for every man" and that God loved black men as well as white, he recalled the ecstasy he felt. ... Their musc was a blend of African culture, Protestant hymns and songs, and the emotions that were part of slavery. They sang spirituals, work songs, whimsical songs, and nonsense songs. ... Sorrow and desolation have their songs, as well as joy and peace." ...

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Eliot became an England citizen in 1925 and received the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1948. ... Eliot's most famous works included The Waste Land (1922), "The Love Song of J. ... His early works, like "The Love Song of J. ... During this time, the world was suffering from a turning point caused by World War I and many of the population's young men were getting killed. ... In a way, Eliot used amusement to confront important social problems, such as his poem "The Love Song of J. ...

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King Henry VIII and the Church of England King Henry had various problems which included; the influence his seven wives had on the social order, his tyrannical reign of both politics and religion of the period, and his demonizing of the Church of England. ... (Ross 60-62) Church of England King Henry next tried to put real pressure on the Pope. ... (Historical ...Profiles Pg 2, Para 4) The official state Church of England, a national Church having both Protestant and Catholic features, based on episcopal authority, and with the monarch of England formally as its head. ... In 1534...

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He is sent to Warwickshire, England due to the murder of a popular military officer. The current conflicts revealed in this small city accurately reflect the post World War I society of England. The historical and dynamic aspects embedded in the novel highlight the wartime role of English women, experiences faced by men, who fought in the Great War and the return of "shell-shock" veterans in England. ... During the war, there were men who, "always came back, and brought his men back with him. ... Most war songs were not composed by professional musicians, but created by soldiers. ...

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There was a song that he had forgot in from when he was little, but the dream reminded him the song. He sang the song that is called Beast of England. Eventually everyone knew the song. ... Jones was a sleep and ended the meeting with the song Beast of England. ... Every Sunday they had a meeting and ended the meeting with the song Beast of England. ...

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This particular group was comprised of four men from England that were a late generation of the Beatles (who were known for rebelling against the monarchy and traditional lifestyles of England). ... One of Roger Walter's songs, "Comfortably Numb", gives the audience his interpretation of his life while he was on heroin. ... Roger Walters shows how great heroin is in his song but also the problem's that may be associated with the use of it. ... In the song Cocaine he shamelessly promotes the use of cocaine. ... The basic message we get from Clapton's song is that cocaine ...

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One of England's greatest poets, Keats was a key element in the Romantic Movement. ... Tom Paine's "Rights of Men- b. Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Men- c. ... "England- b. ... "A Song: "Men of England- 8. ...

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The album titled Shaheedi Immortality was produced in England to record the bravery of a few, who laid down their lives, in addition to another quarter of a million Sikh over the last two decades to ensure the survival of others. ... Afterwards, Indra Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was assassinated by her two body guards which lead to the "84 riots which where planned, government organized killings of Sikh men women and children. ... Each of the songs recalls certain events in recent history. The songs are all written in the same manner. The lyrics are the main element and the foc...

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Describe two of the character from The Prologue (neither of them may be the Pardoner of the Wife of Bath) and explain how they represent the lifestyles of England during the Middle Ages. ... Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories apparently told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London, England. ... Chaucer dedicates some lines in the poem to the squire's skills - horsemanship, jousting, sketching, dancing, song and verse writing: "Wel koude he sitte on hors and fa...

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The British sung Yankee Doodle to ridicule the Americans, though the Americans soon adapted this song in their favor. 6. ... England Vs. ... England Advantages: disciplined and experienced army, powerful nation, strong navy. 2. ... Women contributed to the war by completing the farm and house duties of the men who are off at war, while still maintaining their own tasks, serving as cooks and nurses in the war, and by occasionally fighting in the war. 4. ... Battle of New York: (August 1776) 1 of the biggest battles of the war - The fighting was now shifted from New England to the Middle Stat...

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In reading the drama Beckett, by Jean Anouilh, the childhood song "This Little Light of Mine" reverberates in the mind's eye with a renewed strength, a force not totally perceived by the young tike who bellows the song in childrens' choir. It is a song devoted to the most honorable quality in man, a song in praise of what Thomas Beckett prized and cherished as his own adamant quality---integrity. ... And then Henry placed another duty upon Beckett's shoulders, one entirely different---the Seal entitling him to be Chancellor of England. Beckett&#...

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Two prominent men in Bob's life were Marcus Gravey and his grandfather and surrogate father, Omeriah Malcom. ... Two days before Bob Marley was scheduled to play the "Smile Jamaica" Concert ,six men entered where Marley was staying and shot grazing his stomach and elbow. ... He started the concert with a bang, when he started with the song "War". ... It did not heal and Bob reluctantly went to a doctor a month later in England. ... It was kind of ironic that during 1992, the Jamaican Tourism Board used a cover version of Bob Marley's "One Love" as it's theme son...

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He loves drinking rum and singing a special pirate song. ... He returns to England with the rest of the crew. ... "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" ... Drunk seaman Bones is singing his favourite song and his behaviour to Dr. ... On their way back to England they stop for a while at a South American port. ...

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Tragedy=goat song. ... purpose-stuff-passion=trying to resolve-perception=trajic fate would rather not face, greatest punishment. anagnorisis=recognition of perception of truth. peripeteia= figures fortunes reversedChorus=12-15 men, represented citizens, originally no separate actors, wore masks. ... ROMAN DRAMA several sources, 1st Gdrama- Etruscans, northern italy, absorbed by romans improvised song and dance. ... Miracle plays performed by saints about miracles developed late in the 12th c in England and on the continent. ... Puritan extremists, theater=aristocracy and low life. wasting t...

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John Lennon, who is considered the founding1 member, was born in Liverpool England on October 9, 1940. ... At the time, they were a relatively small band in England. ... In 1963, Beatle-mania hit England, and the Beatles moved from openers at small venues to a headliner on highly rated British variety show "Sunday Night at the London Palladium". ... The song itself was about an affair Lennon had. ... We were not boys, we were men. ...

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Some saw the native women as being abused or dominated by the men of the society. ... They sang war songs and teased and taunted their captives in order to show that their bodies can be broken in many ways. ... Augustine, Jamestown, Quebec, Montreal, New Amsterdam) were composed exclusively or primarily of men. ... In colonies such as New France, where European men lived in close contact with large numbers of Native Americans, sexual liaisons between white men and Indian women were common. ... Thus marriages were long and fertility rates higher than in either England or the Chesapeake. ...

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He was one of America's leading 20 twentieth Century poets often associated with rural New England. ... While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. ... Men work together, the speaker says, whether they work together or apart. ... The presence of syntactical energies and of larger rhythmic units makes poem feel less purely song-like, and gives it solid sympathy. ... While reading the poem the audience hears something like a song, especially because of the rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and CC. ...

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His ultimate goal was to lead men to a "life of freedom, love, and apprehension of the beautiful" (Richards 672). ... In 1819, Shelley wrote "Song to the Men of England" (Editors 610). ... In stanza III, a reference is made to the working class as the "Base of England." The metaphor is picked up again in stanza VII, when Shelley orders the "Men of England" to "shrink to [their]...cells" (Editors 611). ... In this sonnet, Shelley uses numerous adjectives to defile England's ruling class. ...

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His ultimate goal was to lead men to a "life of freedom, love, and apprehension of the beautiful" (Richards 672). ... In 1819, Shelley wrote "Song to the Men of England" (Editors 610). ... In stanza III, a reference is made to the working class as the "Base of England." The metaphor is picked up again in stanza VII, when Shelley orders the "Men of England" to "shrink to [their]...cells" (Editors 611). ... In this sonnet, Shelley uses numerous adjectives to defile England's ruling class. ...

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In 1859, he and twenty-two other men attacked the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. ... Stonewall Jackson was another Confederate General who got his nickname, "Stonewall" because he made his men stand ground during Union attacks like a stone wall. ... He and his men marched to the sea from Atlanta, Georgia; pillaging and burning as they went along. ... Over twenty-three thousand men were c...

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Hew spent his last days traveling to Northern England, and the Scottish Highlands to find traditional songs and ballads. Burns wrote more than 300 original songs. ... John Anderson, my Jo was a song that Burns rewrote telling of a elderly woman's feelings toward aging. ... William Fisher confesses to his sins and asks for forgiveness and asks God to destroy men like him and asks God not to listen to their prayers. ...

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Unlike the Unitarians, they wanted to rejuvenate the mystical aspects of New England Calvinism. ... Walt Whitman, In part 5 of "Song of Myself", analyzes his inner-self while revealing many aspects of transcendentalism in his poetry. ... The line "And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers" refers to the over-soul, the spiritual essence to which all souls participate, and thus relate. ... As the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review agrees with me, "the famous section 5 of "Song of Myself" is a good example of the transforming mystical experience, describ...

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