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Old English Period : The history of the English language in England begins with the settlements of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in Britain. The settlement attained significant proportions by the middle of the fifth century, though it may have begun before then.  Detailed Short Note On Old English Period (1000 Words)   These three Germanic tribes came from the North German plain near to the district which is now known as Schleswig-Holstein. The Angles settled in the area extending northward from the Thames over the greater part of what is now England and the Lowlands of Scotland. The Jutes settled in Kent, the Isle of Wight and along part of the Hampshire coast.  The Saxons settled in the rest of England south of the Thames with the exception of the South-West, which was still held by the celts. The invaders had to encounter varying degrees of hostility from the celts and for mutual protection various tribes combined to produce small kingdoms. The grouping of tribes wa...

A Short Note on Eighteenth Century Prose [500 Words +] Despite the interesting body of verse that the eighteenth century produced, the works that have worn best and that still hold the general reader most are in prose. Defoe and Swift and Fielding hardly seem to have dated, while Pope and his followers seem artificial to modern readers, and require to be looked at through the glass of historical perspective.' Daniel Defoe was a journalist, and that fact itself draws him to our own time.  The development of the newspaper and the periodical is an interesting literary side line of the seventeenth century. The Civil War undoubtedly stimulated a public appetite for up-to-the minute news and the Restoration period, with its interest in men and affairs, its information services in the coffee houses was developing that wider interest in news-home and foreign- which is so alive to-day. Defoe is, in many ways, the father of the modern periodical, purveying opinion more than news, and The R...

A Short Note on Modern Short Story Origin: The Short Story a comparatively recent development in English literature . As early as Chaucer there were short stories in verse, for his Canterbury Tales are stories put into the mouths of travelling pilgrims; but a proper prose medium was lacking in the English of the time, and although Chaucer's Parson's Tale and the Tale of Melibee are attempts at prose stories, they are of poor quality. In Italy, however, Chaucer's friend Boccaccio had written his own tales, contained in the Decameron, in prose, with much greater success .  Under Italian influence, prose romances continued to be translated and written in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but none of these can be claimed as direct ancestors of the modern short story.  In the 18th century , Steele and Addison evolved the tale-with-a-purpose to drive home a moral, but this again is different from the present-day tale of 'impression' or 'idea'...

Essay on English As a Medium of Global Communication English is spoken widely in the world. It is the only link-language among different countries of the world. Here, we shall consider the special merits which this language has for being accepted as a world language for international communication. There is an urgent need of an international language to serve as the common medium for political, historical and scientific thought for the people of the world.  An international language is also needed for international trade and commerce. It is also essential for international tours and excursions. Many attempts have been made to supply this need artificially. Artificially constructed languages have been offered for the purpose of meeting the demands of trade and travel on the international level. The best examples of these are found in Esperanto and Basic English.  Visit on Blog: Thehimanshurajblog As none of the artificial languages has been quite satisfactory as a universal l...

Latest News About Window 11 (2022)   With an intend to make cutting edge encounters, tech goliath Microsoft has declared that it is sharing new updates to Windows 11 and the Microsoft Store for engineers. The new updates incorporate application building apparatuses to empower engineers to take their current code and make it inconceivably convincing on Windows, better approaches to reach and connect with clients through the Microsoft Store, and so on. "Our objective with the open foundation of Windows is to make it simple for you to construct and run your applications on Windows, whether they are .NET, web, Android, C++, Linux, or quite a few cross-stage systems," Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer, Windows and Devices, said in a blogpost. "This makes it simple to involve Windows for all your designer work processes and dispersion models and arrive at additional clients to assemble your business your way," Panay added. Gadgets in Windows 11 give a new, glanceable,...

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