...Alexandra: Sorry father I was out in the garden King: Never mind that lie, we need to discuss wedding arrangements! Queen: Prince Liam from Aarondell is a fine gentleman! Or even Prince Harry Alexandra: They’re both wimps! They couldn’t even beat me in an archery competition if they wanted! Queen: Alexandra! You need to stop fooling around and doing such manly activities! You are 16 now, start acting like the lady that you are! Alexandra: I told you I want to be called Alex from now on, please! Mother those dresses are so ugly and plus I feel more comfortable in my slacks! Queen: You’ve been like this since you were little and we have letting you get away with it but now that you are 16 and a young lady you need to present yourself as one! King: Such a mature and beautiful young lady and she still does not have interest in finding a prince to marry! Alexandra: Father I am sorry I just simply do not see myself with a man in my future! Queen: *gasp * You cannot stay single your whole life! Alexandra: Mother I do not intend to stay single my whole life. I just do not find men attractive… King: WHAT? What do you mean? Queen: Well no, no that’s okay maybe because you haven’t found a good-looking man. Alexandra: No mother I am just simply not attracted to men. Not Prince Liam, Not Prince Harry, No Prince could change my mind. I find women more attractive! (King slaps Alexandra and she falls to the floor) King: Rubbish!!...
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...Character Analysis of Abigail Williams Author Miller’s drama The Crucible takes place in the seventeenth-century in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem suffers from witch-hunts, trials, and false accusations. In effect, the town is full of worry and suspicion; and when young girls falsely accuse self-righteous neighbors in Salem of witchcraft, the town goes against itself, which ultimately causes a conflict between power and aggression. The personality of Abigail Williams, the understood leader of all the young girls, ultimately causes the whole play to go into effect. Abigail displays that she is sinful, envious, and manipulative. Abigail Williams’ characteristic of sinfulness causes her to be the antagonist of the whole play. Abigail commits...
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...and even till around the time the British had rule over India or during the British Indian Empire (Water takes place in 1938) * Sati is a part of Hindu culture and thought from the Vedic age and even Greek writers who accompanied Alexander have recorded this practice in 326BC. * Not as common anymore, considered a primitive ritual now * Although banned by the Indian government, still occurs behind closed doors * Upper-caste widows may not remarry, so many are abandoned by their families after the death of their husband in Vrindavan, "the City of the Widows", a pain ghetto on southern Delhi Who participates in the ritual/rite-of-passage? * Women or girls of all ages, who have become widows, belonging to an orthodox Hindu family or background * Marriage of young girls to older men is common in India and other traditional parts of the world * Widows=outcasts of Hindu society, no place for them What are some characteristics of the ceremony? * Becoming a widow is considered a “sin” in Hinduism, for her actions in her previous life for which she is making up for or compensating for, (as this supposedly caused the death of her husband) * Widow has three options: 1. Marry your husband’s younger brother 2. Burn with your dead husband (sati) 3. Lead a life of self-denial * When being forced to spend the rest of her life in an ashram or institute, she must: * Shave her head bald * Wear a white clothing/sari...
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...Review and Analysis Paper Kaitlin McFarland Sociology 201-001 Mrs. Cole July 28, 2015 Abstract As you review this paper, you will find an overview of the movie “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls” with specifics on the issues that were presented from a wide variety of sources and countries. You will also find explanations about the various social problems that were highlighted in the movie, and I will give you insight into my personal opinions about the movie and how it affected me and impacted my outlook on the subjects presented in the movie. Movie Review During our class time, we reviewed an inspirational movie called “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.” This film is a documentary of modern day sex trafficking and slavery. Though out the movie the movie producers and directors travel to 19 countries that are centers for major sex trafficking including, Cambodia, Thailand, Moldova, Las Vegas and Amsterdam’s Red Light District with most of the women being sold coming from the Eastern European areas. This documentary goes beyond the black and white facts about the sex trafficking industry and how it works. They go beyond the factor of just poverty and how it meshes with prostitution and sex trafficking; it informs the audience of the law in different areas of the world. For example, prostitution is a legal act in Amsterdam. During the film the movie producers and directors take a trip down the Red Light District and film many girls standing in windows making sexual...
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...I am bringing this vignette into my analysis because it displays another woman like her great-grandmother who sits by the window. These women used to be independent before the presence of a male figure. After a male’s dominance and actions taken toward her she becomes a different person one of silence, sadness and oppression sitting by the window. Esperanza uses these women as examples of the life she will have if she does not search for another one that breaks this cookie cutter mold. By delving deeper into oppression of women and the impact of men and their opinions of women, I decided to use personal experience and interview my sister and her two best friends. They are in their sophomore years of high school and have been invited to several Sweet Sixteen parties. One of the girls in the group had Sweet Sixteen herself while the other two celebrated in a different way. The first question I asked them was if during their own or during another’s Sweet Sixteen did they feel the need to dress nice for men? All girls replied, “yes”. I found this...
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...Critical Article Review Penelope Baxter Adely, Fida, J. (2007). Is Music Haram? Jordanian Girls Educating Each Other About Nation, Faith, and Gender in School. Introduction Fida Adely was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College but as of August 2007, she has been the Hala Salaam Clovis Maksoud Assistant Professory of Arab Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Dr. Adely received her Ph.D. in Comparative Education and Anthropology from Columbia University. She is interested in education in the Middle East and Africa, especially areas that pertain to women, gender and culture. In this paper, Adely furthers her research on Jordanian schoolgirls. The abstract clearly states the purpose, the setting, the research design as well as the study’s conclusions and recommendations. The abstract outlines Dr. Adely’s intent to explore the importance of extracurricular activities, more specifically music, in the education of patriotism, faith and femininity in a female high school in Jordan Her qualitative study based on first-hand experience as well as conversation analysis is aimed at both the academic community and the general population interested in socio-cultural perspectives on education in the Middle East. Analysis Throughout her study, Adely builds primarily on her previous work from 2004, however she does cite literature from Kandiyoti (1991) and Ahmed (1992) among others....
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...WUTHERING HEIGHTS: IDEAS AND THEMES Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell”. Charlotte presented her sister Emily as an unconscious artist who “did not know what she had done”. Unlike what Charlotte thought of her sister, some literary critics agree on the fact that it is a very carefully constructed novel. The main problem of critical response was that critics could not work out its moral standpoint. Both lovers deliberately marry other partners. As Catherine Earnshaw dies halfway through the novel, which pair of lovers is meant to carry our approval, Catherine and Heathcliff or young Catherine and Hareton? Moreover their voices reach us through a medley of others: Mr Lockwood, Nelly, Isabella, who are often ignored by readers. A parable of a natural equilibrium disturbed by an external force and eventually somehow restored. The theory that a principle of calm and storm informs the novel provided a comprehensive interpretation. The two aspects (calm and storm) are not necessarily conflicting and will ultimately lead to a state of equilibrium. The world described by the novel is pre-moral, and the drives of the main characters seem to reach beyond their death and strive for transcendence. (Early Victorian Novelists, Lord David Cecil, 1934) A restless force, represented by C and H, which continually pushes against a framework of religion, propriety, social expectations. The novel represents a clash of social classes and economic...
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...Analysis of Eye Socket Girls by Paula Bomer In the course of history, the ideal of a woman has changed a lot. In newer, postmodern times, the female body ideal has changed radically. With the technology advancing significantly in this period, it creates an even easier way of setting more focus on how the ideal woman should look. The medias, commercials and famous fashion houses are now defining what the perfect woman is supposed to look like. This often results in teenage girls starving themselves to loose weight, and tries to strive for this unachievable woman ideal. The story “Eye Socket Girls” by Paula Bomer takes this up to a postmodern perspective, where we follow an anorectic girl at a hospital. The time is hard to pinpoint exactly, but there’s some hints throughout the story. A TV, and the American actress Winona Ryder are mentioned when the narrator describes how obesity takes over “weak” High-School girls. This description indicates that the story takes place in the late 90’s or early 00’s. The female ideal at this time was to be as thin and bony as possible as described in the story “We look voraciously at one another. We envy the protruding bones of someone who is that much closer to not being here at all” (p. 112, l. 11-12) when she tells about the anorectic ward where she is hospitalized. The story takes place in an American hospital ward, where the only patients are anorectics. The story signifies that it is taking place in America, since the narrator is...
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...Multicultural Analysis Elizabeth Alston ENG157 March 11, 2013 Melissa Sheppard Multicultural Analysis Multicultural literature offers the reader a brief look into a new or unknown culture. The traditions, values, beliefs, and lifestyle are revealed through the story, and the reader realizes why certain actions or decisions are made. In the various stories throughout this course there are common themes represented in many. Modern ideas and traditional beliefs often disagree and this is shown in Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path,” Chitra Divakaruni’s “Mrs Dutta Writes a Letter,” and Subhadra Sen Gupta’s “Good Girls Are Bad News.” These stories illustrate the conflict between modern ways of thinking versus traditional beliefs and if the ability to change is present. Every culture has their traditions and practices that make them who they are. These traditions are learned from past generations and continually passed on. It takes many years to change common customs as well as open minds. When something is practiced decade after decade it makes it harder to accept change, especially for the older generations who are very much set in their ways. This is demonstrated in all three stories. In “Dead Men’s Path” it is the young headmaster, Obi who wants to move forward and eliminate the path from the school as he thinks it is not necessary. Obi believes the school’s appearance is more important than years and years of tradition. In “Mrs Dutta Writes a Letter” it is the...
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...Chris Newsome Professor Clough English 101 8 December 2014 "Araby" Analysis James Joyce's "Araby" is the story of a young boy from Dublin. Written in a first person point of view, the same young boy is also the narrator. While his name is never revealed other things about his life are brought to the reader's attention. He is raised on a dead end street named Richmond Street which is described as "blind" (Joyce 572) in the first sentence of the story. Richmond Street is also described as a "quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free" (Joyce 572). Living in a home with his aunt and uncle where a Catholic Priest once lived and died. The boy becomes intrigued by the old books and many other things left in the library by the priest. Soon though he becomes obsessed with his friend Mangan's sister. At first he admires her from a distance and one day while the other boys are playing she speaks to him. Astonished and at a complete loss for words when she finally speaks to him. She asks him if he plans on attending the local bazaar Araby. Desperate to impress her he promises to return with a gift for her from the bazaar. Things do not go as planned however, he spends most of the evening waiting for his Uncle to come home to give him the money he needs. Once his Uncle finally makes it home the bazaar is all but over. Determined to buy the girl a gift he decides to make the journey there anyway. When he arrives everyone is packing up and preparing...
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...journey itself could always be beneficial for self-growth. In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard, the main character, gets the news that her husband had passed away from a railroad disaster. After she had heard the news, she went away to her room and began to stare out of the window and looked out into the new spring life. Her internal journey began when “she sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair quite motionless,” and that she felt that something was coming for her and she was sitting there waiting for it to come. “ She felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.” Mrs. Mallard abandoned herself and uttered words underneath her breath that she as “Free,” and she kept whispering “Free! Body and soul free!” It was like she was drinking in a elixir of life while the window was open. When she arose, she walked out her room and downstairs to see someone opening up the door, and there stood Spann 2 her husband. When Richards went to reach for Mrs. Mallard, he was too late. The doctors said “she had died of heart disease- of joy that kills.” (Barnet 23-24) In the story of “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Brown is not only taking an eternal journey but he is also taking an internal journey as well. a journey for one night, as begins his quest down the dark gloomy road in the forest. His internal journey starts when he’s in the forest and begins to look around...
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...The assignment is to write an analysis of the erdely essay on binge drinking among young people. In your crritique discuss the writing techniques that erdely uses to make her illustration essay convincing. Use this analysis as a springboard to address the issue of drinking in our culture and the often tragic results of drinking irresponsibly. Share personal views, as well as experiences and/or obervations related to the issue. Think of targeted audience for your essay as well as your purpose for writing. Below is the essay that we are to do the analysis of: Binge Drinking, A campus Killer by Sabrina Rubin Pregame tailgating parties, post-exams celebrations and Friday happy hours-not to mention fraternity and sorority mixers-have long been a cornerstone of the collegiate experience. But on campuses across American, these indulgences have a more alarming side. For some of today’s college students, binge drinking as become the norm. This past February I headed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, rated the No. 2 party school in the nation by the college guide Princeton Review, to see the party scene for myself. On Thursday night the weekend was already getting started. At a raucous off-campus gathering, 20-year-old Tracy Meddler struggled to down her beer as fist-pumping onlookers yelled. "Chug! Chug! Chug!" In the kitchen, sophomore Jeremy Budda drained his tenth beer, "I get real wasted on weekends," he explained. Nearby a 19-year-old estimated. "I’ll end up having 17,18 beers...
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...The Last Leaf character analysis The Last Leaf is about a girl suffering from pneumonia, Josie, they have disappointed the most, just begging to the trees in the window of the vine around the vine leaves all fall out, they would be able to leave this world, the Soviet Union Iraq – her roommate, this fee through the brain, hoping to rekindle the hope of life Josey. But all in vain, to hear the news of the Bellman uncle, quietly in a stormy night to risk their lives on that one picture will never fade the vine leaves, that one never out of vine leaves to Josey realize that they should pick up the life of faith, her tenacious survived, but because the storm painting Berman vine leaves and put them pneumonia departed forever. I think this article has three main characters: Bellman uncle, Josie, Sue. Berman is an uncle for the benefit of others, no regard for the safety of others and their own high-quality a person. Embodied in the article when he learned that the small painter had pneumonia and become very passive, he Poverty and ill health in order to encourage the little artist that tenacious live, the old artist struggling with the stormy night to draw up a permanent wall The ivy leaves are not falling. For his own masterpiece and the price paid with his life, but the young artist has been encouraged so tenaciously against the disease. So I think he is a hero forever, he showed to others the sincerity of love and care, and make a valuable sacrifice, more reflects his self-sacrifice...
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...Cat in the in rain My assignment will contain an analysis of the short story: “Cat in the rain” written by Ernst Hemmingway. In my analysis and discussion I will focus on literary modernism and the lost generation, what typical features of the period, of the generation and of Hemingway’s style we see in the text, besides the text in from the 1920’s. The story is written in third person omniscient narrator, who deals with several different characters appearing in the short story. In the story we follow a couple and particularly the woman, and her vision on the relationship between her and her husband. She deals with many different issues, which appears in the way she is described throughout the story, and by the way she interacts among the other characters. The couple is on vacation in Italy, where they are staying at a hotel. The story takes place a rainy day. The American woman is looking outside the window, when she suddenly sees a cat hidden under a table from getting wet by the rain. She decides to go outside, to save the cat. On her way, to rescue the cat from the rain, she comes across the padrone of the hotel. He sends a maid out to help the American girl. When they gets to the table, where the cat were suppose to be, it was strangely enough gone, in proportion to how strange it is for a cat to walk into the rain, when they hate water. When she returns to her room, she is al of the sudden sad and annoyed. Without knowing why, she just wanted the cat so bad. When she...
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...Introduction Margaret Atwood is a prolific and prize-winning author of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her work is worthy of analysis, for she has been considered a Noble Prize contender for years. Indeed, Kazuo Ishiguro issued an apology to Atwood when he captured the 2018 prize. In her collection of short stories Moral Disorder and Other Stories, Atwood conveys the transformation of Nell from child to adult, and the question arises: what literary techniques does Atwood employ to convey the subtleties of this transformation. After a careful analysis of the stories, it is evident that Atwood uses motifs, allusions, image patterns, and shifts in point of view to portray the maturation of Nell. Cat Imagery In several of her stories,...
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