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    late 1700 Woman Susanna Rowson and Judith Sargent Murray were women from the late 1700s who had their own image of the ideal woman. Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte: A Tale of Truth and Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes were written to educate‚ inform‚ and to guide women in the right path. Murray and Rowson hoped to change the way women were being seduced by men and the way they were viewed by society and themselves‚ Susanna Rowson and Judith Sargent Murray saw women’s roles in the

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    Judith Thomson’s argument through her article‚ “A Defence of Abortion” is one that adopts the premise that the fetus is a human being from the moment of conception. By doing this‚ Thomson is distancing her argument from the various theorists who maintain the moral view that it is wrong to kill another human being‚ such as (Marquis‚ 1989). This ultimately allows her to assume various hypothetical situations in which the cognitive status of the fetus is otherwise not considered. This is important.

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    The assignment I chose to revise is my literary analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofers The Story of My Body. I have made some local‚ but mostly global revisions to the paper‚ as well as addressed some of the feedback made by the instructor. The local revisions include: making complete sentences‚ rearranging words. For global revisions‚ I rewrote the conclusion‚ broke a paragraph into two‚ and as suggested by the instructor I added more analysis and connection to the young girl. In the first paragraph

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    The Baroque Period James M. Boynton Art Appreciation October 28‚ 2012 Abstract The Baroque period was a time heavy on neo-classical artists. Some of the greatest paintings marveled in more modern times were created during this era. A time when paintings were painted so well they could be compared to photographic portraits. The artists of this time focused on precision and accuracy and gave realistic portrayals of their subjects. The Baroque period was a seventeenth to eighteenth century

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    In this Greek vase painting of Theseus showing some of his many labors and great adventures. Starting at the center of the vase the artist showing Theseus most famous minotaur scene I believe that this is the point where Theseus has just killed the minotaur and dragging him out the labyrinth because the sword is still in his right hand and only half his body is showing. As I continue around the vase some of the scenes are easily to identify then others like the scene of Theseus killing Skiron‚ by the

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    “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy” By Judith Butler Based on your reading of the selection “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy‚” answer the following questions. Place the page number (s) and paragraph (s) to each answer. 1. What are the questions that Judith Butler would seek answers in this essay from beginning to the end of essay? - Answer: What makes for grievable life? pg. 114‚ 1st paragraph 2. What does loss indicate for the human? -Answer: That if we’ve

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    throughout their poems. These literary devices can serve to represent marginalised groups in ways that challenge their reader’ original perceptions. Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright are two poets who have applied this strategy. Although Noonuccal and Wright both share a passion for writing‚ they came from vastly different contexts. Judith Wright was born a white woman in Armidale‚ New South Wales‚ in 1915 – the eldest child of Phillip and Ethel Wright. She began writing poetry to please her mother‚ who

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    He brought the brush to the canvas‚ carefully mixed in an assortment of reds and blues and waited for the next stroke. It had taken him five hours just to mix the paint and when he brought the finely tipped horse hair brush to the canvas‚ he couldn’t do it. The vision he had thought on for 4 months just wouldn’t come‚ it just couldn’t be converted into the frame. What had happened to him over the years? Once he was running around the studios of New York‚ working non-stop to meet the next gallery

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    be recognized through their writing. This insight allows readers to gain a wider perspective on the views the poet bears on the many themes and issues raised throughout their poetry. In the poems‚ Wedding Photograph‚ 1913 and The Old Prison‚ poet Judith Wright uses strong imagery to comment on the themes and issues present in society‚ from the devastation of war which is relayed through the use of personification and alliteration‚ to the impracticality of altering the past showed by the inclusion

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    John Ruskin said‚ “I always said that no woman could paint.” This quote from John Ruskin is nonsense. If women can give birth and raise their children to live their own lives‚ women could do everything anyone else can. In this era‚ some of the most powerful positions in governments are being held by women. Maybe I have an untrained eye‚ but if no description for a work of an artist is provided‚ I would not be able to tell if a piece of art was created by a man or a woman. Art or all entertainment

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