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  For a Qualitative research: 1) Collection of non - numerical data and analyzing their meanings, concepts and experiences. 2) Eg: Interviews, Focus group observation, case studies and thematic analysis etc. 3) Subjectivity is used by the researchers focusing on personal opinions and biases. 4) Emphasis given on quality and depth analysis. 5) Explores on the question of 'why' and 'how' rather than 'what' and 'how many'. 6) Limited sample size is used. 7) The questions used are open ended in nature. 8) Used in the fields of Education, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology etc. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next". So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

1) The Hundred years war happened from 1337-1453. 2) This war was a conflict between two countries - England and France. 3) It was the longest war marking 116 years of continuous conflict. 4) Cause - Dynastic rights, feudal and land power, economic power etc. 5) Key figures in English army were - Edward III, Edward the Black Prince, Henry V, Henry VI, John of Gaunt. 6) Key figures in French army includes - Philip VI, John II, Charles V, Charles VI, Charles VII, Joan of Arc. 7) Many events like Battle of Sluys, Battle of Crécy, Battle of Agincourt were won by English army. 8) Joan of arc sacrificed herself for the French and attained the title of saint in May 16, 1920. 9) Despite the frequent winning by the English army, the French gained the victory in the end. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next". So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

  1) The Black death arrived in England in 1348. 2) Killed 30-50% of the total England's population. 3) Traditional medical practices were questioned by the people. 4) This black death was also the major cause for the Peasant's revolt (1381). 5) It weakened people physically and psychologically and made them to live in fear and superstition. 6) People in england doubted in God, faith, priest and were wrongly guided by some heretics. 7) The concept of feudal system started declining because of the plague. 8) 'The Plague' by Albert Camus, 'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccacio specifically talks about people's condition during the plague attack. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next".  So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

  1) The Greek tragedy was introduced in the city of Athens in 5th century BCE. 2) Thespis is called the Father of Greek tragedy.    Structure of Greek tragedy: 3) Prologue: The opening scene that gives background information of the play. 4) Parados: Song and dance by the chorus after prologue. 5) Episodes: They contain the main acts of the play. 6) Stasimon: The Choral odes that came after every episode. 7) Exodus: The Conclusion or the final scene of the tragedy. 8) Some of the famous Greek tragedies - Oedipus rex, Oresteia, Medea, and Antigone etc. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next".  So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

1) The War of roses happened between 1455 to 1487. 2) The two Plantagenet houses involved were House of Lancaster and House of York. 3) The Lancaster house had  red rose and the york house had white rose as their symbol. 4) Cause: The fight for throne and power between the Lancasters and Yorks. 5) Rulers under Lancastrian house - Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI. 6) Rulers under Yorkist house - Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III. 7) Henry Tudor defeated Richard III in Battle of Bosworth in 1485. 8) The result of this event lead to the establishment of Tudor dynasty in England. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next". So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

  1) 'The Peasant's revolt' started in June 1381. 2) This revolt was led by Wat Tyler and John Ball. 3) The cause of this uprising of peasants are - Tensions caused by the plague called Black death and The impostion of Poll tax by Richard ll in 1380. 4) Kent and Essex were the two places where the uprising ignited for the revolt. 5) In June 13, 1381 - The Savoy Palace was burned by the rebels of the revolt. 6) In June 15, 1381 - Wat Tyler was beheaded without any trial. 7) 2000 to 3000 people died in this revolt. 8) Despite the failure of the Peasant's revolt, it led to some changes like decline in feudalism, equal justice, fixed rents and ownership rights. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next".  So..meet you with new facts ✌

1) 'The Theatre' was built in Shoreditch, London during,1576 by James Burbage. 2) 'The Curtain' theatre was opened in 1577 in Finsbury field, Shoreditch, London. 3) 'The Rose' theatre was put up in 1587 by Philip Henslowe. 4) 'The Swan' theatre was built in Southwark, London in 1595. 5) 'The Blackfriars' Theatre was built near River Thames in 1596. 6) 'The Globe' theatre was opened in 1599 in Southwark, London. 7)  Globe theatre was rebuilt in 1614 after a fire accident in 1613. 8) 'The Fortune' theatre was built in Finsbury, London in 1922 by Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next".  So..meet you with new facts ✌

1) The Revenge tragedy is a genre that was developed by Seneca the young, a Roman playwright in 1st century CE. 2) Justice pursuation, revenge, bloodshed, corruption in the court, within the characters and madness are the themes of revenge tragedy. 3) The use of ghostly figures and supernatural elements are used to stimulate revenge in the play. 4) The number of deaths starts slowly and reaches a maximum amount and even the protagonist gets killed. 5) Revenge tragedy was hugely admired during the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. 6) The art of disguise is used to mislead characters into confusion and deception. 7) The murder that has happened in the Revenge Tragedy affects the avenger deeply and in the end the Avenger reaches a mad mentality. 8) Some of the famous revenge tragedies are Hamlet (1601) by Shakespeare, The Duchess of Malfi (1612) by John Webster and The Spanish tragedy (1582) by Thomas Kyd. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next...

1) Greek theatre first emerged in the city of ‘Athens’ in 6th century BCE. 2) There were three types of dramas prominent in Greek theatres - Tragedy, Comedy and Satyr plays. Structure of Greek theatre:  3) Koilon - It is where the audience were made to sit to watch the performance of the plays. 4) Parodos - The entrance that is connected from both the sides to the orchestra. 5) Orchestra - It is the space where performance was done by the chorus and interaction happened between the actors and the chorus. 6) Skene - A room back of the stage where the actors change their costumes and masks for the performance. 7) Diazoma - The pathway that divided the seating areas as upper and lower sections. 8) Proscenion - This is an acting area present in the front of the skene. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next". So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

  1) The Canterbury tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1388 to 1400 CE. 2) The Canterbury tales consist of 17,000 lines in total. 3) There are 32 pilgrims in this tale and their destination is to visit Sir Thomas Becket's shrine in Canterbury, England. 4) Even though there were 32 members in their group only 24 stories have been narrated by the Pilgrims. 5) There are three social groups represented in the 24 tales, they are Nobility, Church and Commoners based on the social structure of 14th century England. 6) The general prologue to Canterbury tales consists of 858 lines. 7) This remains as an unfinished work by Geoffrey Chaucer.   8) The characters of nobility such as the Knight, Parson, Clerk and Plowman are praised whereas the other characters such as the clergymen and the Commoners are criticized and mocked by the author in these tales. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next". So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

1) Edmund Spenser called "Chaucer, well of English undefiled" in his allegorical poem The Faerie Queen. 2) "Chaucer was not in any sense a poet of the people"- W.H. Hudson 3) John Dryden called Chaucer as "The Father of English poetry" in Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern (1700) 4)  Edward Albert called Chaucer "The earliest of the great moderns" in History of English Literature. 5) He is called Morning Star of Song and Morning star of Renaissance. 6) John Dryden calls him as "Here is God's plenty" in The Canterbury Tales. 7)John Livingstone Lowes "Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language". 8) His works are divided into three periods - "The French period (upto 1370), the Italian period (1370-1385) and English (1385-1400). "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next".  So..meet you next with new facts ✌

  "The idea behind Structuralism is that, There are things we may not know but we can learn how they are related to each other. This has been used by science since it existed and can be extended to a few other studies like linguistics and mythology but certainly not to everything. The great speculative structures are made to be broken. There is not one of them that can hope to last more than a few decades or at most a century or two"- Claude Levi Strauss.  Introduction : For today we are going to see a concept called Structuralism instead of facts. And this information was given by my friend K C Prakalya in the class as a lecture to us. I took the summary of her lecture, and these are the points we have regarding the concept of Structuralism on the subject of Critical theory.  Structuralism: Have you ever tried solving a jigsaw puzzle without knowing the final picture? How do you know where each piece fits? Or just think about your favorite dish, It can be ...

1) Celts are group who inhabited the Europe that includes France, Ireland, Spain and Britain. 2) Britons or Brythons are specific group who inhabited Great Britain that includes Wales and England. 3) Celtic people practiced Celtic paganism as their religion. 4) In 43 AD , Emperor Claudius lead an army and invaded Britain and established a Roman province. 5) Romans introduced their own religious god and goddess such as Jupiter, Mars, Juno and Minerva into the paganism of Great Britain. 6) Barbarian Conspiracy happened in 367 AD where the Picts, Saxons and Scots attacked together in the  Roman Britain against the Romans. 7) The fall of Roman Empire happened in the 410 AD due to internal corruption and failure in political system. 8) In 5th century AD, the Germanic tribes called Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded Britain. "Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next". So..meet you next with new facts ✌️

1) The three periods of Ancient Greece are Archaic, classical and hellenistic period. 2) The three famous tragedians of Ancient Greek are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides .  3) The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, and the trilogy Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides) are the famous works of Aeschylus. 4) Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus are the famous works for Sophocles. 5) Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae, Alcestis and The Trojan Women are the famous works of Euripides. 6) The Old comedy was introduced by Aristophanes in 5th century BC. 7) The New comedy was introduced by Menander in 4th century BC. 8) Plato belonged to the school called 'The Academy' or 'The Platonian Academy' which was founded by himself in 387 BC. 9) Aristotle belonged to a school called 'The Lyceum' which was founded in 335 BC.   10) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, P...