THE GREAT TENTATIONS: Carlota Ll., Claudia Z., Anta C., and Lia G

The Great Gatsby

Armand G.

Arnau G.

Elif N.

Lola M.

Rosa M.

Aina P.

The Great Gatsby: The Spanish Dream - Pau A., Ana C., Lucía M., Clàudia M. and Paula L.

Puritanism word Lucía M and Elif N

PURITANISM:

1.    1. Who were the puritans and  what was puritanism?

Puritanism was a religious movement that started in the late 16^th and 17^th centuries, when Elisabeth I was the queen of England.

It was formed by some Christians who decided to divided from the Church of England because they thought there were still catholic practices, which were not within their principles.

 

2.     Important puritans:

There were a lot of important puritans, but the most famous were Peter Bulkeley, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet and Anne Hutchinson.

 

Peter Bulkeley à He was an influential puritan minister and founder of Concord (a town situated in Massachusetts).

John Winthrop à He was noted for his sermon “A model of Christian Charity”, as well he had a leading figure in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Anne Bradstreet à She was the first female to have her works published in the British North American colonies.

Anne Hutchinson à She was one of the first puritan females to be noted for speaking freely about her point of view of religion and habits. In addition, she was so influential in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

 

3.     Puritanism in the USA:

In 1630 the British puritans were persecuted in England because of their beliefs so they decided to moved to other countries like The United States of America, where John Winthrop create a new colony called The Massachusetts Bay Colony.

This colony was formed by some states of the east coast like Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut and the capital was Salem.

 

4.     Habits and prohibitions:

The puritans had some rules, habits and prohibitions related to religion, beliefs….

In the year 1644 they decided to avoid Christmas because they thought it was a pagan celebration and has nothing related to the Bible. So finally, this came true because a lot of puritans had important political positions.

Another habit was to keep one day of the week in honor of God, in this case this day was Sunday, like it was said in the ten commandments.

And as well they couldn’t have sex outside the marriage and get divorced, so if they renege on, they became sinners because they committed a sin.

 

5.     Women:

In Victorian society puritan women had different and important roles like tending their vegetables garden, were responsible for caring their husbands, guiding the next generation of Puritan children…

As well they had some limitations written in a book like for example:

-        They weren’t allowed to vote in the General Court.

-        They were also restricted from buying and selling any piece of land, they only do it men.

-        And they couldn’t sue in a court of law, they couldn’t accuse anyone or plead guilty of something they committed.

All these limitations happened because men thought that women were to important, indispensable in their lives but at the same time they were culturally inferior than them.

If the woman was married, she had to follow his husband, but if she was unmarried se had to follow his father.

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Script of the oral presentation about the Victorian writers.

Victorian writers and their work:

(Presentation)

Armand: Charles Dickens: He was one of the most famous writers of the Victorian era. He was the first writer to talk about the low class. He started writing about politics and after he started writing in the newspaper every Sunday. His histories talk about children that were orphans and have to look for their live by themselves. His most famous novels were Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.

Roger:  Bronte sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne were sisters who wrote poetry and novels. They were born in into a poor family. Two of his sisters and her mother died young. They spent a year in a school that oppressed them. Charlotte wrote her most important work about that year. For all the things that happened to them, she made them write in male pseudonyms.

Arnau: Robert Louis Stevenson: Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 and he died in 1894. He was a British  novelist, poet and essayist. He is the author of some of the most recognized adventure novels, like the Treasure Island, The Black Arrow or The Strange Case of Dr. Jeklly and Mr, Hyde.

Roger: Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde was born on 1854 in Dublin Ireland. was a writer. He became famous for laughing at society and his wit.

He did studies at Trinity College and Oxford. When he was young he did win  Newdigate Prize for Poetry. When he gets married, he begins writing novels and a feminist magazine. But when he was older, a man  accuse him of homosexual and finally he enter to prison.

Arnau: Lewis Carroll: He was an English writer of children's fiction, a logic, poetist, mathematic, photographer and inventor. He born in 1832 and he died in 1898. He wrote one of the most popular children's fiction, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.

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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON - Lola M, Rosa M and Aina P

POWER POINT:

WORD:

 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR
WATSON

INTRODUCTION:

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are two known characters created by the British author Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle and they are very famous for their mystery stories and adventures being detectives.

 

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective, referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories. Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic sense, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.

In appearance, Holmes is tall and thin. He has black hair and grey eyes, thin lips and a 'hawk-like' nose. Holmes is scrupulously clean and is always dressed neatly.

Holmes seems to be an unemotional person at first glance, but he is not. He cares deeply about his friends and is often concerned for his great friend and biographer Watson.

 

DR WATSON

John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' best friend, assistant and, in most of the cases redacted by him, flatmate, and the first-person narrator of all but four of these stories.

He is described as a classic Victorian-era gentleman, unlike the more eccentric Holmes. He is astute and intelligent, although he fails to match his friend's deductive skills.

Watson was a middle-sized, strongly built man, square jaw, thick neck, with a moustache. He was quite handsome, Sherlock Holmes told about his natural "advantages" with the women

 

Method for investigation: our skilled detective was the forerunner of many of the forensic investigation techniques, the same ones that were written by Conan Doyle long before they were adapted to current law enforcement and forensic procedures: fingerprints the system was originated by Alphonse Bertillon in Paris and is based on identification by measuring twelve characteristics of the body, typewritten documents has been typed on a typewriter or word processor, handwriting the type of writing is different in everybody, footprints, ciphers and dogs because they can be very significant clues.

 

INSPIRATION:

SHERLOCK HOLMES

The character's name was a tribute to one of the childhood idols of the English novelist, the doctor and philosopher Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1904), one of the most renowned American writers of the 19th century. However, the character and work methodology of the detective are inspired by another doctor, Dr. Joseph Bell (1837-1911), known for his observation skills. This character was Doyle's mentor.

Physically, there were also enormous similarities between the two, from a stringy body to an aquiline nose to piercing eyes. On one occasion, the writer Robert Louis Stevenson sent a letter to Doyle in which he asked: "Isn't Sherlock our old man, Professor Joseph Bell?" We could say that if Doyle was Holmes's father, Dr. Bell was his soul.

 

DR WATSON

It is said that the character of Dr. Watson is inspired on a real character, although the reference is not so clear. It is doubtful whether Conan Doyle used Dr. James Watson, a member of the Portsmouth Literature and Science Society, with whom the author made friends during his stay at Southsea, or Dr. Patrick Watson, assistant of Joseph Bell himself at Edinburgh Hospital.

 

COMPARISON WITH TV SERIES AND FILMS

One of the comparisons is that in the books there appear very few things about Sherlock’s family but in TV series, apart from his brother Mycroft, we know his parents and his sister, Eurus Holmes.

Sherlock in TV series is a man of the 21st century who uses iPhone and has cool pairs of clothes and in the books he is a man of the 1880’s and 1910’s and there aren’t phones.

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In TV series most people are referred to by their first names with some exceptions and in the books most people are referred to by their surnames.

 

FAKE OR POSSIBLE THEORIES

• At first, Arthur Conan Doyle thought of calling his star character “Sherrinford Holmes”. However, he ended up baptizing him Sherlock after the combination of the two names of his favorite cricketers, Sherwin and Shacklock. The last name is due to Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), one of the writers that Conan Doyle most admired.
• As many must know, in the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock was a cocaine user. This aspect has not been directly addressed by the series (opting to address more of his addiction to tobacco) but many consider that Sherlock does indeed use drugs and the writers have planted subtle evidence of this.
• Another possible theory is that Sherlock Holmes and Watson are in a relationship and it seems that they are homosexuals.