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    Stringency: A rigorous imposition of standards; A tightness or constriction; A scarcity of money or credit. Strictness: conscientious attention to rules and details The narrator makes reference to ‘a stake in your fat black heart’ and vampire imagery is clearly used here as vampire can only be killed with a stake through the heart. The stress falling on each word is like each pound and thrust of the stake. In addition‚ monosyllabic words create force and energy. The sentence is plosive and

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    My Name is Margaret

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    Maya Angelou’s story “My name is Margaret” is full of negativity and hatred towards Mr. and Mrs. Cullinan. Margaret begins her story by pointing out the differences between the white and black lifestyles. “While white girls learned to waltz and sit gracefully with a tea cup balanced on their knees‚ we were lagging behind‚ learning mid-Victorian values with very little money to indulge them.” Education is one the key differences that is pointed out in the beginning of this short story. “During my

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    I have chosen the film Forest Gump to write about my understanding of film. It was released in 1994 and directed by Robert Zemeckis‚ produced by Wendy Finerman and Steven Tisch. The movie based on the written screenplay of Eric Roth from the novel of Winston Groom. It has several well-known‚ talented actors such as Tom Hanks‚ Sally Fields‚ Robin Wright and Gary Sinise to name a few. The production cost of fifty-five million and it grossed six hundred and seventy-seven million worldwide. Forrest Gump

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    Poetry commentary on Mirror by Sylvia Plath Mirror by Sylvia Plath is a poem that deals with the unchanging and painful process of age and time which leads to people to try and change this by creating their own delusional world. Plath uses the technique of personification for the mirror. The poem is narrated from the point of a mirror. When Sylvia refers to the mirror as being not cruel and truthful‚ she means that what you see is not false‚ a mirror never lies since it can only show the truth

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    Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poetry and Struggle with Depression Numerous people around the world suffer from some form of depression and the great American poet Sylvia Plath was no exception. Depression can be defined as a mood disorder that causes persistent feelings of inadequacy‚ sadness and loss of interest. Those who suffer from depression often have difficulty accomplishing everyday tasks and may feel as if life isn’t worth living anymore. Now considered a mental illness throughout America

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    Chapter 2. Forest and Terrestrial Biodiversity of Mauritius 2.1 Overview of Biodiversity Mauritius has an area of 1‚865 km2‚ of which 30% is considered forested. The area of good quality native forest‚ (i.e. that with more than 50% native plant cover‚ Page & d’Argent 1997)‚ is estimated to cover less than 2% of the island (NEAP 1999‚ MWF unpublished‚ Fig.2.1). The rest consists of plantation forestry‚ deer-ranches or highly degraded vegetation invaded by alien plant and animal species. As a result

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    Author’s Purpose Sylvia Plath writes her autobiography The Bell Jar utilizing a smart protagonist‚ whose life is driven into depression by the deterioration of today’s society to familiarize her readers with suicide. Esther lives a perfect life‚ according to anyone looking at her on the surface. Esther continues to live her life in a fully coordinated “patent-leather” outfit from “Bloomingdale’s” while she sips “martinis” surrounded by “anonymous young men with all-American bone structures”‚ yet

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    and bombs through the roof” is false and promises security that it cannot uphold. This is also a reference to the nuclear weaponry of the cold war period. • Plath’s concerns here reflect a classic theme of political ethics‚ the morality of ends and means‚ as well as relating to her anxiety and mechanization and conformism. • Writing between the first two waves of modern feminism‚ her work anticipates many of the issues and ideas that women in subsequent decades were to pursue‚ as she was deprived

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    Sylvia Plath was a gifted writer‚ poet and verbal artist whose personal anguish and torment visibly manifested itself in her work. Much of her angst stems from her warped relationship with her father. Other factors that influenced her works were her strained views of human sexuality‚ her sado-masochistic tendencies‚ self-hatred and her traditional upbringing. She was labeled as a confessional poet and biographical and historical material is absolutely necessary to understand her work. Syliva Plath

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    Introduction Forest Labs is a pharmaceutical company that develops‚ manufacture and sell branded forms of ethical drug products most of which require a physician’s prescription. Most of the drags are marketed directly‚ to physicians with a mission that a CEO and President of Forest Labs Howard Solomon in his letter to shareholders defines as “to increase shareholder value by obtaining and successfully marketing more and more fine pharmaceutical products”. Forest`s product pipeline highly depends

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