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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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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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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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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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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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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Since the Battle of Hastings, England was quickly conforming under the Norman rule of a lion-hearted Crusade fighter, King Richard. ... This song could represent a curse she put on the villain or it could simple be the author adding a bit of mystery to the novel. ... Robin Hood and his merry men were brought into Ivanhoe to excite more adventures and reveal the unfailing loyalty of a witty thief to his land and to his true king, Richard. ... The story emphasizes the conflict between the Saxons and the Normans, and Ivanhoe emerges as a model of how Saxons could adapt to life under Norman rule i...

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This tradition trickled into England and Ireland, and thus was carried to Newfoundland by those who settled in the province. ... Traditionally Newfoundlanders stuff their clothing with pillows, men will dress like women and women like men, and cover their faces with cloth's or pillow cases. ... Following the meal and drink, and or once your identity has been revealed; you are supposed to perform a song and jig (dance). ...

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(www.pinkfloydhyperbase.com) The film "The Wall" consists of songs from the album of the same name in a rearranged fashion and one new song, When the Tigers Broke Free parts 1 & 2. ... The song ends with a clip of Pink's father being killed by a bomb in a bunker. ... The song begins with the drums and bass with an accent on every beat. ... The next scene in the movie is the most active and set to the song "Mother." The song begins and ends with a bass drum that sounds like a heartbeat. ...

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The song, The Candle in the Wind by Elton John portrays Diana as a loving and caring individual who made the lives of everyone she came into contact with happy. The song says that although her body is gone her memory will never leave us. Elton John used many poetic features when writing the song, these include metaphors and similes. Examples of these are "England's Rose" and "Like a Candle in the Wind". ... She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. ...

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After the festivities, Powhatan ordered his men to place two large blocks of stone in front of him. ... After suffering a serious leg wound, Smith set sail back to England in 1609 and was replaced by a sea captain named Samuel Argall. ... After Pocahontas gave birth to a son, Thomas, the Virginia Company invited the young family on a tour to England. ... During her stay in England, Pocahontas was visited by John Smith, whom she believed had died. ... Her son, who was raised by an uncle in England, returned to his mother's land, where he made his fortune growing tobacco. ...

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Prior to revolution, animals were all slaves of the wicked men, however, those days are all over and we are looking forward for wonderful generations to come. ... We even sang "Beasts of England", song from Old Major's dream, five times before Mr. ... Beasts of England, bests of Ireland,Beasts of every land and clime, Harken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time. ...

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The song, "Beasts of England" is literally an anthem about the utopian dream of the farm animals being free from Jones, but in an allegorical sense, it represents the "Communist Internationale". ... Readers can infer that Frederick and his men represent German troops who turned against Russia and fought the Soviet Union for land. When Pilkington, a neighboring farmer who has been betrayed by Animal Farm, sends a reply for the cry of help from the pigs, he says "serves you right", which alludes to England's response whilst German troops were invading Russia, a...

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A man named Christian, who's a penniless writer, comes to Paris in 1899 from England to find a better life away from his father. ... The costume design is very unique; women wore vibrant and flashy dresses, men with larger costumes than themselves were full of shine and vividness. The language use in this film was of a romantic, in which the men talked with much passion and love in their voices and women talked with elegance and sophistication. Due to it being a musical, songs were added. Some of these songs came from present day songs transformed into a Moulin Rouge dialogue and sett...

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"Crowds of men were crouching round, heating up their canteens of water, some frying pieces of meat, others heating soup, and all the time laughing and talking. From other groups came the quiet humming of favourite songs and these men knew that they were going over the top in the morning. ... Men will not understand us" And even if a soldier were to survive his time in the trenches the suffering didn't end once they reached home. ... They loathed the old men They desired that profiteers should die by poison gas. They prayed God to get the Germans to send Zeppelins to England - to make ...

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"A Dill Pickle" was written in England in 1920, during a period of significant European social and economic revolution. ... By juxtaposing the two psychologised characters, Mansfield contrasts Vera's feminine insecurity with the man's self-assuredness, demonstrating the power difference between men and women. ... "The older one grows the colder", she tells the man, and later she "shivers" as she reflects on the image of the boatman's song. ... In constructing this character Mansfield reflects upon the way that society empowers men to be "self-...

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Even after the Dutch descendents finally gained their independence from England in the 1920s, a volatile relationship remained between the two groups until the 1940's, when the Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a strong majority. ... Three main objectives that were accomplished by the freedom song during apartheid. ... Phillips stated that he "illustrates in word and song what it is that the people of South Africa want and how the songs have become more determined and defiant over the years, indicating that the people are no longer patiently awaiting change but willing to fight f...

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Or is he the ultimate theatrical Pipe-piper to one of England's greatest victories at Agincourt? ... Show men dutiful? ... He shows his leadership by example, declaring that there should be 'No King of England if not King of France!' ... 0, line 89) with some 'full fifteen hundred' (p.150, line 78) of such men as prisoners. ... Having a solo performance of the song Non nobis by a lone soldier in a dim spotlight, and then subsequently joined by the rest of the army in the background is an excellent climax to the battle of Agincourt. ...

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Music 'Jerusalem'- Misto uses music and song lyrics to create imagery that allows us to visualise the women's determination to survive. "I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand till we had built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land." They will not go down without a fight- so song lyrics are used to paint visual images that capture the women's strength of character. ... The upbeat song, and the quote, if full of positive, optimistic imagery- the irony of it in these dire circumstances is actually funny. ... The visual...

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His father was one of the richest men in the country. ... His senior essay became a best seller called Why England Slept. It explained why England was not prepared for war. ... The song "Abraham, Martin and John" was popular in 1968. ... Kennedy surrounded by police and secret service men. ...

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