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Revision notes for A Level Literature covering Carol Ann Duffy's "Feminine Gospels" collection: The Long Queen The Map-Woman Beautiful The Diet The Woman Who Shopped Work Tall Loud History Sub The Virgin’s Memo Anon The Laughter of Stafford Girls’ High A Dreaming Week White Writing Gambler The Light Gatherer The Cord Wish North-West Death and the Moon

A Level revision notes Context Feminism Motherhood The Female Body Religion Rebellion Women’s Roles The State Freedom Hope Writing

A Level revision notes Context Setting Othello Desdemona Othello and Iago Othello and Desdemona Desdemona and Brabantio Iago and Emilia

A Level revision notes The Renaissance (1300s-1700s) The Age of Enlightenment (1700s) Romanticism (1800s-1850s) + Victorian era (1837-1901) Transcendentalism (1830s-1850s) Realism (late 1800s/early 1900s) Naturalism (late 1800s/early 1900s) Existentialism (late 1800s/early 1900s) The Beat Generation (1950s) Modernism (1900s)

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Elizabeth and her court Elizabethan government Elizabeth and her Parliaments Elizabeth: Religion and religious ideas Church of England by 1603

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Mary Queen of Scots Foreign policy in the reign of Elizabeth Trade, exploration and colonisation Closing years of Elizabeth’s reign

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Elizabeth’s accession Elizabeth’s religious settlement, 1558-63 Marriage and the succession: Elizabeth’s dilemma Social and economic conditions in the mid-sixteenth century

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Regency of Somerset, 1547-49 Rule of Northumberland, 1549-53 Reign of Mary Tudor, 1553-58

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Stalin as a war leader The impact of the war on the USSR High Stalinism in the USSR 1945-53 High Stalinism: the USSR’s international position 1945-53

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates The purges and the mechanisms of control Soviet totalitarianism and its impact on culture and society Stalin’s cult of personality Stalin’s foreign policy 1933-41

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Stalin’s economic aims after 1929: the great turn Collectivisation and the war against the peasantry Industrialisation: the first three Five-Year Plans

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Nature of ecosystems Food chains, trophic levels and food webs Succession Example of a terrestrial ecosystem in the UK- The chalk downlands of the South Downs Climate change Human exploitation of the global environment Global trends in biodiversity An example of a tropical coral reef system, the Jamaican coral reef Biome 1- Tropical evergreen forest Biome 2- The savannah grassland biome Case study of a specified ecosystem at a local scale- The Sefton Coast sand dunes

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Systems framework and their application Factors of production Flows of capital, labour, products, services, information Global marketing Factors in globalisation North American Free Trade Agreement The World Trade Organization Issues associated with interdependence Barriers to trade and protectionism Trends in the volume and pattern of international trade, Fair Trade, Ethical investment Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Nature and role of TNCs Apple Inc.- a transnational corporation International development agencies

A Level revision notes Colour coded: green statistics; yellow definitions; blue dates Systems framework and their application Water on planet Earth, Atmospheric water Factors driving the change in magnitude of water stores Drainage basin systems Water balance The storm (flood) hydrograph Examples of how land use changes can affect the water cycle The carbon cycle Case study of a tropical rainforest setting- water and carbon in the Amazon