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The civil rights movement in Usa In the South, during the fifties, matured a black movement for the equality, directed by the coloured community. One of the most significant deeds was the buses boycott at Montgomery, in Alabama, launc ...

The cultural context of the years after the first world war Before talking about the cultural context I have to tell something about the political and social developments of this period. When Queen Victoria died, she was succeeded by he ...

    The dance is a way of expression that, refusing the use of the word, puts in evidence the language of the body. Such language, universally known, it allows to express particular feelings, through one or more movements of the b ...

The Dead Characters:   LilyKate and Julia Morkans housemaid. Kate and Julia MorkanGrand dames in the world of Dublin music, who throw an annual party at Christmastime. Pat MorkanBrother of Kate and Julia (dead). ...

The Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands whi ...

The definition essay Adolescence Adolescence is the phase of every human beings physical and mental development that takes a person from childhood to adulthood. This transitional stage is characterized by significant biological, psychologic ...

The development of drama ORIGIN The origins of British drama date back to the Middle Ages. Before that time street performers went around the country to performed their shows also in the halls of aristocrats. LITURGICAL DRAMA Drama was ...

The diary of a young girl ANNE FRANK CHARACTERS        ANNE FRANK= She was a sixteen years old girl that lives in Holland during the Second World War. She was a Jewish but she was always cheerfu ...

The difference between the Medieval ballades and the contemporary ballads. When I speak about the medieval ballad, I think always about the ballades which I have read in my school-book ( Lord Randal, Robin Hood ). When I speak about the ...

THE DOUBLE The theme of the double is a constant of the Victorian writers, in particular of those of the second generation and through it they reveal the hypocrisy of their own time. Even if Mary Shelley didn't live in the Victorian ...

THE DRAMA IN THE ELISABETHAN AGE The prose and the poetry of the renaissance never became popular literature, as they were intended for an elite readership. Drama, on the contrary, became very popular thanks to many elements: - &n ...

The Eighteenth Century. 1702 1776 History and Society. - Anne Stuarts (protestant daughter of James II) → Queen with the Act of Union 1707 (union of English and Scottish Parliaments). - War of Spanish Succession 1701 ...

The Elizabethan Age The Tudors The dynasty began with the Lancastrian Henry Tudor.He defeated King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 ending the War of the Roses between Yorkists and Lancastrians. There were other claim ...

The English Romanticism It is very difficult to delineate with precision the attitudes and interest which characterized the poetry of the 18th century. The period between the Enlightenment and Romanticism was defined Pre-romanticism or ...

THE FASCISM HISTORICAL PERIOD Fascism was an Italian Political Movement founded in 1919 by Benito Mussolini. Anong its members there are revolutionary people, republicans, anarchists, and syndicalist. All of them at first wanted to create ...

The first and the second generation of romantic poets First generation features The first generation ( Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey). To a shorter period of optimism about French Revolution succeeds a longer period of despair, and pess ...

THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY 1.     The reforms the Government introduced under William IVs reign are: THE REFORM ACT s increased the number of electors and granted almost all members of the middle class the r ...

The First World War   In 1914 Britain declared war on Germany as she had invaded neutral Belgium. The conflict soon became worldwide and lasted four years. At the start the British army consisted of volunteers, but two years later men ...

THE GLOBE   When Sam Wanamaker, a young American actor, came to London in 1949 he had an idea in is mind he wanted to see the Globe, the theatre where all Shakespeares plays were performed at the beginning of the 17th century and whe ...

The golden mushrooms lady To escape the terrible war that had involved also the city where she was born, Marisa Favalli, an Italian young girl, emigrated from Italy to Canada, losing contact with her family. There she met a pleasant family ...