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    I picked hanging fire because it had a lot of rites of passages that were important to me. The right of passage that is most significant to me in hanging fire is learning how to face hardships. Learning to deal with your insecurities is also another very important right of passage in hanging fire. In the poem hanging fire she learns how two face hardships. She deals with the fact that her mom is always in the bedroom and doesn’t care about her. “My momma is always in the bedroom with the door

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    The narrator is in conflict with her husband John‚ Jeannie‚ and herself. The narrator does not want her husband and Jeannie to find out what she does during the day and night causing a conflict with both‚ “…but I feel sure John and Jennie are secretly affected by it” (535). She is also in conflict with herself because she lets us to understand that she is the woman behind the wallpaper creeping‚ “…so that I had to creep over him every time!” (537). Rest therapy is a therapy to not worry and separate

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    In a letter from Birmingham jail‚ Martin Luther King wrote these famous words to encourage protesters to fight oppression. “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor‚ it must be demanded by the oppressed.” These words carried a significant meaning to people around the world‚ especially to the millions oppressed because their inability to speak up and take matters into their own hands. Audre Lorde‚ the author of “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action‚” reveals to the readers

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    The stories‚ The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins – Gilman and “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck have the same characteristics. Both the women were trapped and suffocated‚ with many emotions. The ladies were restrained to a situation that made everything frustrating. In these two stories they will have similar and differences between them. In the Yellow Wallpaper‚ the differences in this story is that a married woman was always trapped in the house. In the beginning of the story the narrator

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    Have you ever felt confined‚ like you just can’t seem to escape your current situation no matter how far you venture? A few decades ago‚ women struggled to break a societal paradigm in which women were subordinated within the institution of marriage. There’s a story called “The Yellow Wallpaper” and this story was written during a harsh time for change. Women went through a difficult time period and a lot of women didn’t know how to deal with it. The yellow wallpaper is a story that could relate…

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    In The Yellow Wallpaper‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a story of a woman in the 1900’s‚ she gradually loses her sanity due to a “nervous condition.” The woman in the story exemplifies the women in Gilman’s era; she verifies this by writing her story in a mode of horror. The usage of imagery‚ and plot development exposes the irrational and unjust treatment women are getting by men in her time‚ which exposes the reality that no one wants see. Gilman’s usage of imagery brings the insanity and

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    In Macbeth‚ sleep and dreams are popular elements. Sleep represents peace ‚ innocence‚and purity of the mind. When you sleep you dream. If you do not have peace with yourself or if you have guilt with yourself that results in nightmares. After the death of King Duncan Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk and have nightmares. Sleep has many meanings. In Act two Scene two Lady Macbeth fear of her guests awaking and finding out the truth. When on is asleep you find out about all the lies and when you’re

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    Reading the excerpt from Piper Kerman’s Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison book places the reader in the shoes of the main character‚ Kerman. In the excerpt‚ Kerman evokes the reader’s pity‚ as well as interest‚ through a description of the fear and nerves she is experiencing turning herself in to the federal prison. As she undergoes several unpleasant procedures‚ Kerman expresses believable emotions. She hates the dehumanizing feeling of her circumstances‚ from standing naked in

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ author of The Yellow Wallpaper‚ was determined to highlight the rights of women in the 1800s‚ or lack thereof. Gilman utilizes the relationship between Jane and John‚ along with Jane and the wallpaper to prove the independence and the determination and fortitude women in this century possessed. The short story demonstrates the need for a woman to be independent. It examines a woman’s fall into the madness due to their personal inactivity. In a much broader sense‚ the short

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    There are a variety of reasons why a person might feel trapped and suffocated‚ and why they might be trying trying to change their lives by escaping an oppressive society. During one’s everyday life it is not easy to understand what might be putting someone down‚ but when reading a story‚ an author can leave hints on why a character or characters might be feeling trapped and why they might be trying to escape from an oppressive society. In Charlotte​ ​Perkins​ ​Stetson’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper

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