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        <title><![CDATA[I would add that the very nature of children is to use imagination and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would add that the very nature of children is to use imagination and to play and enjoy such things as a circus. However these things are "choked" out of them, to leave nothing but the facts.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:10:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the Novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Louis will be loved by all...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Louis will be loved by all children, but by whose in particular?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:36:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the second chapter of the second book of "Hard Times" Dickens...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the second chapter of the second book of "Hard Times" Dickens introduces the character James Harthouse, a young London gentleman who wishes to join politics. James Harthouse visits Coketown with the intention of being trained by Mr. Josiah Bounderby before he becomes a Member of Parliament. As soon as Mr.Bounderby receives Mr. James Harthouse's visiting card he visits him in his hotel room where  he sees Harthouse looking out of the window...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:36:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Hard Times", what does Bounderby tell James Harthouse of Coketown's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Hard Times", what does Bounderby tell James Harthouse of Coketown's smoke?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:15:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Book II, Chapter 1 of Hard Times, Charles Dickens says of Coketown,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Book II, Chapter 1 of Hard Times, Charles Dickens says of Coketown, "the wonder is, it was there at all."  By saying this, he is criticizing and satirizing the attitudes of the bosses of the factories in Coketown.
What he is criticizing is their total opposition to having any government laws regulating their businesses or being asked to allow their child workers to go to school or being asked to not emit so much smoke into the air.  He...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:01:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the novel Hard Times, why does Dickens declare that Coketown's very...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the novel Hard Times, why does Dickens declare that Coketown's very existence is a wonder?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 06:43:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what "fiction" of coketown" takes the form of threat?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hard-times/q-and-a/what-fiction-coketown-takes-form-threat-112905</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what "fiction" of coketown" takes the form of threat?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:09:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book Hard times by Charles Dickens, Why does dickens declare that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the book Hard times by Charles Dickens, Why does dickens declare that Coketowns's very existance is a wonder?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:27:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This character appears in Chapter 6 of "Hard Times."  He is a member of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This character appears in Chapter 6 of "Hard Times."  He is a member of the circus that comes to Coketown.  The start of the circus is E.W.B. Childers and the diminutive boy plays his son in his horse-riding act.
The point of the circus in the story is to serve as a contrast to Coketown and the attitudes of its people (like Gradgrind).  Coketown is a serious place that doesn't really have time for fun whereas the circus performers' whole...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:48:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book Hard Times by Charles Dickens, who is "the Diminutive boy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the book Hard Times by Charles Dickens, who is "the Diminutive boy with an old face"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:48:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Charles Dickens' "Hard Times," Coketown is portrayed as a sort of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Charles Dickens' "Hard Times," Coketown is portrayed as a sort of industrial nightmare area.  The book is written in the context of an England where a new, industrialized society is taking the place of the old agrarian one.
The river that runs through Coketown (along with a "black canal") has suffered from industrialization just as the people have.  It runs purple with some sort of "ill-smelling dye" that is part of the industrial waste....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:50:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the first book of Dickens's "Hard Times" Chapter 5 entitled 'The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the first book of Dickens's "Hard Times" Chapter 5 entitled 'The Keynote' the readers are presented with  a grim description of the ecological disaster that is Coketown.
The river in Coketown is described in the following words:

"a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye."

The dye is the chemical substance  which is used to color the textiles which are being manufactured in Coketown. After the textiles had been dyed the excess dye...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:39:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How has the river in Charles Dickens' "Hard Times" been polluted?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hard-times/q-and-a/book-hard-times-by-charles-dickens-what-does-110955</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How has the river in Charles Dickens' "Hard Times" been polluted?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:34:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book hard times by Charles Dickens, who asked whom to come peep...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hard-times/q-and-a/book-hard-times-by-charles-dickens-who-asked-whom-110649</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In the book hard times by Charles Dickens, who asked whom to come peep at the circus?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:26:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[in the book hard times by charles dickenss, how does Stone dge,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[in the book hard times by charles dickenss, how does Stone dge, Gradgrind's house, resemble his owner?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:10:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Hard Times," Thomas Gradgrind is the schoolmaster in Cokeworth.  He...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hard-times/q-and-a/what-calling-occupation-does-gradgrind-not-wish-109719</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "Hard Times," Thomas Gradgrind is the schoolmaster in Cokeworth.  He is obsessed with the idea of making sure that his pupils learn facts and nothing but facts.
He is also very much into the idea that frivolous stuff is bad and that only practical things are good.  Because of that, he will not allow Sissy Jupe to talk about what her father does.  He trains horses for a circus and circuses are pretty much the epitome of frivolity.
Because...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:05:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What calling (occupation) does Gradgrind not wish mentioned in his...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hard-times/q-and-a/what-calling-occupation-does-gradgrind-not-wish-109719</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What calling (occupation) does Gradgrind not wish mentioned in his classroom in the book "Hard Times," by Charles Dickens?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:59:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[in the novel hard times by charles dickens, how does the girl sissy's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[in the novel hard times by charles dickens, how does the girl sissy's physical appearance differ from the boy bitzer's?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:04:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ch.2  - appropriately entitled "Murdering the Innocents" - of Charles...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ch.2  - appropriately entitled "Murdering the Innocents" - of Charles Dickens' Hard Times is a harshly satirical attack on the contemporary system of school education which cruelly snuffed out the faculty of imagination of small children in the guise of overwhelming their tender minds with useless facts. Dickens presents the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind as

a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:30:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To what kind of professional athlete is the "Government Officer"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To what kind of professional athlete is the "Government Officer" compared to in Charles Dickens' Hard Times?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:41:38 PST</pubDate>
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