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    Alice Walker an award winning womanist‚americanist‚and civil rights activist has accomplished overnight success with “The Color Purple” and “Women.” Both reflecting black females rights and Alice Walker’s southern childhood struggles. “The Color Purple” takes place in the segregated harsh south between 1910 and 1940. Walker remakes the humiliating and devastating discriminatory laws outcomes and uses americanism to achieve white and black interaction across the united states. Born in Eatonton Georgia

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    Beddor: A Brief Summary

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    time‚ tearing them into confetti.” Alice then has the following thoughts “ No more. Erase it all. I will not longer by odd Alyss. Odd Alyss must die. (Beddor 89). This is a big turning point in the book because this is when Alice starts changing and conforming to the real world. She starts wearing English clothes and stops attempting to use her white imagination. At this point Alice has become desperate and is willing to do anything in order to be ordinary. Alice is proposed to by Prince Leopold‚

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    photo was a close up of him so I could remember his cute face. As soon as I took the photo‚ I immediately thought of Alice and Rose’s troubled relationship. Rose is usually the one trying to reach out and connect with her mother‚ but unfortunately her mother doesn’t reciprocate. The in-between space from This One Summer I intended to capture in the photo is the space between Alice and Rose. They don’t fully ignore each other‚ but they don’t connect either. I also wrote a poem‚ which accompanies the

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    Through The Mad Hatter

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    characters to appear in both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass where he appears as Hatta. Hatta is both very similar and very different to the Hatter just as Alice is very different from her Wonderland self. Everything in Wonderland is composed of pieces of Alice’s personality‚ “the dream that nearly obliterates her is composed of fragments of her own personality” (Auerbach 318). Since this is true every character in the Alice books is a reflection of Alice. Both Alice and the Mad Hatter are

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    The themes that are in the films and novels; Alice In Wonderland directed by Tim Burton‚ The Luck Uglies written by Paul Durham‚ The Maze Runner‚ and The Clockwork Angel‚ the viewers may pick out would be the sheer recklessness that these young characters have. These themes can be pointed out easily from their actions between these stories as well as traits such as curiosity that make these characters very similar to each other. In the movie ‘Alice in Wonderland’‚ directed by Tim Burton the themes

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    How I Met My Husband

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    In the short story “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro the structure of the plot and the conflict work in unity to reach the conclusion. This story has a sympathetic protagonist dealing with a relatable conflict‚ suspense‚ and a twist ending that may keep the reader thinking after the last lines have been read. The protagonist in this story‚ Edie‚ is a timid person who is always doing whatever makes other people happy and never says what she wants. She describes herself as “shy” (Munro 127)

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    Growing Up In Wonderland

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    Adolescence‚ An Alice in Wonderland Story Adolescence‚ something we can all relate to whether we want to admit it or not. It is a period in our lives in which we think we know everything‚ but in reality we know nothing. It is essentially the crossroads between childhood and adulthood. Throughout Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland‚ Alice goes through a series of physical changes and mental realizations that directly correlate with the transformation that engulfs adolescence. As Alice goes

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    that they don’t belong in. in movies such as "Alice in Wonderland"‚ "Charlie and the chocolate factory"‚ and "Edward Scissorhands" they all show how his movies differ from others. Using different cinematic techniques Burton can make one character stand out among the others. He is able to use camera angles and lighting to give the audience a different outlook on his movies. In one of his more popular films "Alice in Wonderland"‚ high angles are used as Alice is falling down the rabbit hole. Burton does

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    In the book‚ The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor‚ the classic story of Alice in Wonderland is flipped on it’s side. In Beddor’s novel‚ Queen Genivieve of Wonderland’s daughter‚ Alyss‚ takes an interesting journey‚ but in the end‚ ends up back in Wonderland. When Alyss is young‚ Redd kills King Nolan‚ which is the first time evil comes to Wonderland. Soon after that‚ Redd attacks Heart Palace and Queen Genevieve sends Alyss into the Pool of Tears but Alyss sees Redd kill Genevieve before she is

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    Alice Walker

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    Beauty When the Dancer Is the Self “Beauty when the dancer is the self” written by Alice Walker is a well written and thought provoking essay that makes the reader reflect the meaning behind beauty. As a young child Walker lost vision in one of her eyes and in doing so lost her confidence and self-esteem. The essay is made up of different memories that come together to tell her personal story of how she learned to accept herself and her abnormality. As a little girl Walker thought beauty was in

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