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I. 1 At the time of the Norman invasion, Harold Godwinson was king of England. His brother Tostigg had been exiled, after trying to claim the throne for himself. While in exile, King Harald of Norway decided he wanted the English throne too. Tostigg offered his services to the king, and was accepted. Meanwhile, William the Conqueror was preparing to invade as well. This meant that Harald 's forces were both spread out, and lessened, since this was at the end of summer and most of Harald…

was external motivation: for some reason a raised realization of long vowels, or a slight diphthongization of high vowels – whichever came first – became fashionable, caught on in the speech community and so the ball starting rolling and has, for Cockney at least, not come to rest since. ‘Raymond Hickey Language Change (Page 2 of…

When Keats says the poet of negative capability is “informing” and “filling some other Body,” he sounds as if directly quoting from Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. “By the imagination . . . we enter as it were into his body, and become . . . the same person with him, and thence form some idea of sensations.” This is from Smith (11), but it can be put into Keats’s mouth without a great stretch of imagination. The only significant modifications in Keats’s portrait of the ideal poet, the…

A Clockwork Orange is a film produced in 1971, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess. This movie follows Alex, a young, 15 year old teen living in futuristic Britain. Alex is an ultraviolent youth, who performs gruesome acts of extreme brutality for no other reason except that he simply wants to. He takes pleasure in being just as evil as other people are good; he enjoys the power that he has over people and their lives. In Alex’s mind, killing and violence was just a fun game. The movie…

to Devon and have lived here for 16 years. Moreover, I find that my accent is neutral, since my prosodic features haven’t identified any specific regional background. My mum has influenced the way I speak, as despite coming from Kent, that has a cockney twang she also speaks with a neutral…

Wang 1 Alissa Wang Mrs. Kaplowitz Honors Ancient Literature – Block 4 01 December 2017 Battle of My Two Channels: Chinese and English English, as everyone knows is the most popular language in the world, and it is also the third most spoken language. But to your surprise, Chinese, which seems to be the most complicated language, is the most spoken language in the world. Because these two languages are too different, few people point out the actual differences and similarities between them.…

Considering that both American and Australian English are the same language, it might seem very strange how different the 2 dialects are. Both derive from British English, and are largely similar. Yet, there’s no denying that there are some very obvious differences. It can be said that the main reason is due to the fact that Australian English (as with other varieties, such as New Zealand English) have had less time to come into its own form as compared to America English. Hence, while…

person has, the more beautiful or virtuous they will be. Instead, the beauty and virtue of this book is found in the simple goodness of people such as Mignon, an innocent underdog of a character who just may have more charm than the magnificent “Cockney Venus” in which she plays her humble role…

Romantic poets of his time by many scholars. Although, he died at a considerably young age, 25 years old, he published fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes(PoetryFoundation.org). Keats and his works were criticized by others by considering him the “Cockneys School”, which were back then working class Londoners who were considered “low social class, lack of education, and vulgarity”(p. 404 ; sec John Keats). This did not stop Keats though from pursing his passion of writing about death, love,…

The Beaver is a 2011 dramedy (dark comedy) film directed by and starring Jodie Foster. Written by Kyle Killen the moive also stars Mel Gibson, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence and Riley Thomas Stewart. The story doucuments a man in a mid-life crisis, a boy, a girl, a husband, a wife a father and son and a crumbling family providing a glimpes in to the life of Walter Black, a depressed and trouble husband, the beaver, a hand puppet Walter found in the trash, Meredith Black, Walter’s wife, Porter…