Could it be that these paintings were a gallery of soundscapes? Consider then the role of sound in our ancestors’ lives. Imagine a battlefield in Scotland some 600 years ago and listen to the sounds of two thousand men playing horns as loudly as they can. Froissart tells us that all Scottish foot soldiers carried horns and the din altogether was calculated to terrify their enemy, which it invariably did. The first official mention of pipers, though not bagpipers, is in the Scottish Exchequer Rolls of 1377.
How Does Candide Reflect The Enlightenment? Emerging in the late seventeenth century and climaxing about century later, the hero’s of the Enlightenment age demanded for a revolution. One of these Enlightenment hero’s, by the name of Francois Marie Arouet, was a key ingredient to the rebellion against the norm and did his attacking not with a sword or shield, but with a pen. Going by the later name of "Voltaire" while he was incarcerated in prison, Francois wrote one of his most famous works of his life time, Candide. Francois’ Candide, bashed the Christian power among many other things and was seen as a major contributor to the idealists of the Enlightenment.
In 1280 Century England, after several years of political unrest in Scotland, the land is open to an invasion. King Edward has decided to conquer Scotland. After invading Scotland and winning the war, Edward granted areas of land in Scotland to his nobility which they were to rule. One of the privileges granted to English lords ruling Scotland was Primae Noctis, the right for the lord to take a newly married Scottish woman into his bed and spend the wedding night with the bride. Longshanks' plan is to breed out the population of Scotland.
We had been defeated on the war of revolution, but failure is always our motion, we had sworn an unbreakable promised that we will never stop fighting until we reach the gate of freedom. As a great manoeuvre in 1905, we had created a Red Army – who will bring us to the gate of freedom and justice. Comrades! As I said “a great liberating war has risen”. The whole Europe is a battlefield and we are a vanguard in this war.
How far was the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 a threat to Henry VIII? The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 was the largest rebellion of the Tudor Period. Rebels rose across the North of England, rebelling against change to their traditional way of life and worship. By 10th October, Robert Aske, a Yorkshire lawyer had become chief captain of an army of thirty thousand. The rebels made their headquarters in York before moving down to Pontefract on 21st October where Lord Darcy handed over Pontefract Castle; the most important fortress in the North.
For example in the novel, the great fight between Beowulf and Grendel is told quite differently. One big aspect of the battle that stands out is what Beowulf whispers to Grendel during the fight. Beowulf, ironically being strong and full of honor, attempts to whisper humorous statements to Grendel. He states, “ Grendel, Grendel! You make the world by whispers second by second.
Lady Macbeth: Guilty G. Delirious visions H. Sleep walking V. Murder I. Bloody hands J. Daggers Macbeth was a person who showed bravery, courage, and loyalty he believed in fighting for and being dedicated to his king. Macbeth was Thane of Glamis after winning a war in Scotland he soon became Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth and Banquo are approached by three
One of the main influences on Owens’s poetry was his meeting with Siegfried Sassoon, though Owen soon fashioned his own style and approach to the war. The characteristics of Owens’s poetry are the use of the rhyming of two words, alliteration, and assonance. Alfred Tennyson was born on 5th August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire and died on the 6th October 1892 to later be buried in the poet’s corner in Westminster Abby. Tennyson was often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, succeeding Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1850. Wilfred Owens’s poems are inspired by the horrors of his own experiences in World War One from 28th July 1914 to 4th November 1918, the day that he died 1 week before the armistice.
W.B Yeats eloquently described the very essence of Fenianism as ‘the kind of historical crisis which produces literature because it produces passion’[1] The Fenian movement was first borne abroad in the United States of America. The name for the Fenians derived from the age old Irish warriors ‘the Fianna’. Two men, John O’Mahoney and Michael Doheny led this group in 1848, a movement dedicated to reform and the expression of utmost hostility towards Great Britain. By 1858 the movement was in the process of being organised and formed in Ireland with the aid of leadership under James Stephens. A prominent figure in the Irish Fenian circle was O’Donovan Rossa, the founder of the phoenix society.
You can learn from these to spark your creative energy and capture the spirit of ending with a bang. On the brink of the American Revolution, the colonists were debating the war. Patrick Henry concluded a stirring speech on March 23, 1775 with this: “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death.” At the Democratic National Convention in 1896, William