Within a generation, this mighty structure sank almost without trace leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of empire -- the Commonwealth. Equally, it can be claimed that Britain bequeathed its former colonies economic foundations, a cultural legacy, a sporting spirit, a legal code and a language more ubiquitous than Latin ever was. Full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire evokes remote places as well as distant times. Such actions were not be tolerated by the Irish and the Irish Americans who, together with North Americans of every race and creed rose against the British Empire in North America and In Ireland. The Irish Republican Army took on the British Empire at its height (1919-21) and British rule collapsed in Ireland as a result of the Irish War of Independence. This sparked
t iga vürst määras oma alamate usu Philipp Melanchthon Lutheri sõber "Praeceptor Germaniae" ehk "Saksamaa õpetaja" panus haridusse (õpikute ja koolikorralduste koostamine, gümnaasiumide ja ülikoolide asutamine) "Usk on kultuuri süda" esitas 1521. aastal esimese luterlaste usu süstemaatilise esituse teose Loci communes (ühised mõisted) Abistas Piibli tõlkimisel Print shows Luther burning papal bull of excommunication, with vignettes from Luther's life and portraits of Hus, Savonarola, Wycliffe, Cruciger, Melanchton, Bugenhagen, Gustav Adolf, & Bernhard, duke of Saxe-Weimar. 1 print : lithograph, color. Lutheri panus haridusse Reformatsioon tõi kaasa rahvakoolide laia leviku ja koos sellega kirjaoskuse kasvu Luther leidis, et andekatele tuleb anda rohkem haridust. Nt lõi kirjaoskuse levik eelduse nii mõnelegi andekale noorele läbimurdeks kõrgemate haridusastmete juurde.
imitating actual speech – different rhythms, varying form – free verse, rhyme, etc. First masterpiece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. Best known for “The Waste Land” (1922) – post-‐WWI world, sterile and empty, full of death. Divided into vignettes (a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a clear-‐cut impression about a character, idea, setting, or object), loosely linked to each other by the legend of the search for the Holy Grail. Barrenness of standardised civilisation, boredom of life