Harold Macmillan Essays

  • Political Ideology of the Conservative Party

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    history of the Conservative Party since 1830. London: Harper Collins Rollings, Neil (1994), Neil Rollings, 'Poor Mr Butskell: a short life wrecked by schizophrenia?', Twentieth Century British History, 5 (2) (1994), 183-205 Sampson, Anthony (1967) Macmillan: A Study In Ambiguity. London: Allen Lane Taylor, Andrew (2002) “Speaking to Democracy: the Conservative Party and Mass Opinion from the 1920s to the 1950s” S. Ball and I. Holliday (eds) in Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since

  • Why Is Harold Holt Important

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    Harold Edward Holt, (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967), was an Australian politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1966 until his presumed drowning death. Harold Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months. Harold also was born in Sydney, but lived in Melbourne from a young age. He was also the first prime minister born in the 20th century.Harold was the eldest child to Thomas

  • Dr. Harold Glucksberg vs. The State of Washington

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    Dr. Harold Glucksberg vs. The State of Washington 'Choosing death before dishonor is seen by some philosophers and ethicists as a rational reason to commit suicide.' In the 1994 case of Glucksberg v. Washington (Otherwise acknowledged as Compassion In Dying v. The State Of Washington), Harold Glucksberg, alongside the right-to-die organization Compassion In Dying, filed a suit in opposition to the state of Washington for three fatally ill patients he treated. Dr. Glucksberg and 'Compassion

  • Contrasting Theories on the Extinction of Dinosaurs

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    left with countless more articles to read and decipher. Works Citied: 1. Ball, Philip. “Roast dinosaur off the menu?” Nature 03 Dec. 2013 Nature News Service/ Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2015 http://www.nature.com/nsu/031201/031201-3.html 2. Clarke, Tom. “Chaos killed the dinosaurs.” Nature 28 June 2011 Nature News Service/ Macmillan Ltd 2015 http://www.nature.com/nsu/010628/010628-15.html 3. Dalton, Rex. “Hot tempers, hard core.” Nature 04 Sept. 2013 Nature Publishing Group 2015 http://www

  • Development of My Personal Core Values

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    Views of Services. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Scottish Executive on CLD. 2004. Working and learning together to build stronger communities. [online]. Available from: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/47210/0028730.pdf [Accessed 7 November 2013] Thompson, N. (2003) Promoting Equality – Challenging Discrimination & Oppression. 2nd Edition. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Thompson, N. (2005) Promoting Equality. 2nd Edition. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Thompson, N. (2009) Understanding Social

  • In this part of the essay I will be looking at two recruiting poems.

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    In this part of the essay I will be looking at two recruiting poems. Harold Begbie's Fall in poem first was released in the Daily Chronical on the 31st August 1914. The Changing attitudes to world war 1 Harold Begbie's In this part of the essay I will be looking at two recruiting poems. Harold Begbie's 'Fall in' poem first was released in the 'Daily Chronical' on the 31st August 1914. It was one of the most popular poems of its time they even set it to music and sung it in music halls;

  • Soldiers Home

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    elderly, or institutions; rather, it tells the story of a young man, Harold Krebs, only recently returned from World War I, who has moved back into his parents' house while he figures out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And yet our first impression lingers, and with good reason; despite the fact that his parents' comfortable, middle-class lifestyle used to feel like home to Harold Krebs, it no longer does. Harold is not home; he has no home at all. This is actually not an uncommon

  • Harold E. Stearns’ Critique of American Culture in the Book, Civilization in the United States

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    Harold E. Stearns’ Critique of American Culture in the Book, Civilization in the United States Harold E. Stearns and his colleagues set out on a mission to enlighten and inform the American society of the 1920’s in their book entitled Civilization in the United States. Thirty-three authors with the aid of an editor, Stearns, instead produced a highly controversial and inadequate account of certain aspects of life in American society. According to critic Arthur Schlesinger the writers of Civilization

  • Voices In The Park by Browne, Mortal Engines by Reeve and Little Women by Alcott

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    Palgrave Macmillan in association with Open University, pp.39-48 Watson, N. (2009) ‘Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868-9) Introduction’, in Montgomery H and Watson N (eds), Children’s Literature Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan in association with Open University, pp.13-17 Whalley, J. (2009) ‘Texts and Pictures: A History’ in Montgomery H and Watson N (eds), Children’s Literature Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan in association

  • Disapproval of Harold E. Stearns’ Civilization in the United States

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    Disapproval of Harold E. Stearns’ Civilization in the United States A number of historians and social critics have attempted to describe the American society and its culture of the 1920’s.  Underneath the façade of richness, glamour and content, it contained hypocrisy, shallowness and debauchery.  Historians commonly refer to the twenties as the lost generation.  Harold E. Stearns’, Civilization in the United States faced a lot of criticism from intellectuals after it ruthlessly and negatively

  • Ghost Boy by Ian Lawrence

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    the book. Harold Kline, the fourteen year old protagonist of the novel, faces many problems with the members of the society in which he lives based on his appearance because he is an albino. From rhymes to taunts and shoves, Harold is bound to accept the harsh reality that he is forced to live with. Being bullied is never an easy thing to deal with, and it certainly wasn't easy for Harold, till the day the circus came to town. Being inspired with the idea of meeting the Cannibal King, Harold runs off

  • Thematic Analysis of Jack London's White Fang

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    Thematic Analysis of Jack London's White Fang White Fang, written by Jack London, is a wonderful adventure novel that vividly depicts the life of a wolf by the name of White Fang. Throughout the course of the novel, White Fang goes through numerous learning experiences as he interacts with humans and other wolves from Alaska around the turn of the century. Jack London uses the events that transpire during White Fang's life to illustrate that only the cunning, intelligent, and strong will be

  • Why Authors Opt to Challenge Cultural Preoccupations

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    Montgomery H and Watson N (eds), Children’s Literature Classic Text and Contemporary Trends, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan in association with Open University, pp.374-387. Stephens, J.(2009) ‘And it’s so real, versions of reality in Melvin Burgess’s Junk’ in Montgomery H and Watson N (eds), Children’s Literature Classic Text and Contemporary Trends, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan in association with Open University, pp.320-329. Stevenson, R. (2008) Treasure Island, New York (USA), Oxford Press

  • Dougherty Valley Concert Report

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    The Dougherty Valley High School choirs that performed in the Dougherty Valley Performing Center were amazing for being such small choirs. This concert took place on December 6th, 2011. The director of this choir is Diana Walker, and she has been teaching choral music at Dougherty Valley High School for many years and had choir experience herself for many years. The Dougherty Valley choirs are all high school choirs and they are one of the best in this state. The two types of choir that performed

  • The Personality of Othello

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    T... ... middle of paper ... ...hakespeare’s Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Bartels, Emily C. "Strategies of submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the assertion of desire" Studies of English Literature Spring 1996: (Online) accessed. April 27 1999 http://www. Galileo pechnet.edu Bloom, Harold. "Introduction" Modern Critical Interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987. Jones, Eldred. "Othello- An Interpretation"

  • Harold Pinter

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    Harold Pinter Harold Pinter is one of the greatest British dramatists of our time. Pinter has written a number of absurd masterpieces including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Betrayal, Old Times, and Ashes to Ashes. He has also composed a number of radio plays and several volumes of poetry. His screenplays include The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Last Tycoon, and The Handmaid's Tale. He has received numerous awards including the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear, BAFTA

  • Key Functions Of The Prime Minister Essay

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    A key example of this was in 1962, when the then-PM Harold Macmillan sacked Cabinet members resulting in a major Cabinet reshuffle, an event which became known as the 'Night of the Long Knives'. Furthermore, the Prime Minister appoints the chairmen of Cabinet committees, approves the choice of

  • Analysis of Athol Fugard's Master Harold . . . and the Boys

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    Analysis of Athol Fugard's Master Harold . . . and the Boys "It's a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards." (Hally, pp. 15)"Master Harold"... and the boys by Athol Fugard, is an informative text about the relationship between Hally, a 17 year old white boy, and Sam and Willie, two black men. As Hally falls victim to the attitudes of white supremacy and racial intolerances accompanying the Apartheid policy of the 1950's, their lifelong friendship is destroyed

  • Harold and Maude an analysis

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    hard to take it at face value. The majority of our time is spent trying to answer an endless stream of questions only to find the answers to be a complex path of even more questions. This film tells the story of Harold, a twenty year old lost in life and haunted by answerless questions. Harold is infatuated with death until he meets a good role model in Maude, an eighty year old woman that is obsessed with life and its avails. However, Maude does not answer all of Harold’s questions but she leads him

  • Theme of Power in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

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    The Theme of Power in The Homecoming Author: Sarah Marchant In Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming" one of the important themes is power. Many of the characters try to exert power. Many of the characters try to exert power over others through various means such as sexuality and intelligence. The use of violence within the household is believed by the men to be the most important tool of power. However, when Ruth, the only woman in the play, enters, she appears to defeat the men's power, but not with