Atwood’s speech‚ delivered to a group of well-read women in 1994‚ highlights how gender inequality is prevalent due to certain social delimitations of that time due to the ongoing inaccurate representation of women in literature. Throughout her speech‚ she highlights the polarising dichotomy that the society‚ at that time‚ has placed on women as either being “very very good” or “horrid.” The intertextual reference to a nursery rhyme emphasised through the binary opposites strengthens her argument
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Odysseus so much that he orders his men to tie him down‚ simply to ensure his survival. Margaret Atwood’s poem: Siren Song‚ however‚ basks the Sirens in a light of subtle danger‚ and extreme desperation. Stanzas four and eight detail that desperation‚ as one Siren sings‚ begging for liberation "out of this bird suit... Help me!... only you can." Despite the uncertainty of her sincerity‚ it highlights Atwood’s frequent use
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In her story Happy Endings‚ author Atwood speaks of various possible plots on what a happy ending is‚ almost like “what ifs?”‚ giving the reader a rush in each situation with a distinct “happy ending”. “Intended to ‘reveal the logic of traditional behavior and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life’” quotes the textbook. Causing the reader to wonder‚ “What is a ‘happy ending’?”. Everyone has a different interpretation of what a happy ending is and Atwood encourages her readers to explore their
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Hi-fi became a generic term‚ to some extent displacing phonograph and record player in the 1950. People would like to play record on the hi-fi rather than playing it on the phonograph. But the technology of high fidelity sound reproduction is at its heart a cheat‚ and the idea is to imitate the sound of a concert hall which fake the reality of a live performance and fool the human ear. In High Fidelity‚ Rob‚ the main character‚ and his cohorts‚ fidelity means more than faithfulness to sound quality;
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Margaret Atwood’s Novel Alias Grace is a story based off of a historical murder that occurred in the nineteenth century. The court convicted Grace Marks‚ the main character‚ of the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his house keeper‚ Nancy Montgomery. A servant named James McDermott was found guilty of the murder‚ along with Grace‚ during the trial. The court ultimately concluded that James McDermott be hanged to death and Grace Marks sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace was eventually granted
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Atwood’s Machine Abstract: Ideally‚ Atwood’s Machine consists of two masses‚ connected by a massless inelastic string threaded over a frictionless pulley. In this experiment‚ the dependence of the acceleration on the two masses was investigated. Introduction Atwood’s Machine is represented schematically to the left. Upon inspection‚ Newton’s Second Law for the system can be derived: For m1: (1) For m2: (2) Solving the (1) for N‚ followed by substitution into (2)‚ yields the following
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Happy Endings Based on my knowledge‚ nearly 95% people prefer a happy ending for a story or a movie‚ but in the reality a percentage of people have a happy ending with their life‚ marriage‚ school‚ work is much lower than that. That is reason why people keep prefer a happy ending for things that they read‚ watch or work on. On the story “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ She shows me a difference scenario that life of a couple can happen. It could very good like in the scenario A or very bad like
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My topic for this ISP is focusing on how the main character‚ Susie evolves‚ and how she affects people on Earth without being present. In the novel “The Lovely Bones” Susie is a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family‚ friends and killer from heaven. Throughout the novel‚ Susie is trapped in a “perfect world” leaving her from seeing her family‚ friends and killer. Susie begins to mature in her journey through heaven as she progresses and even though she does not grow up‚ shows
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Death by Landscape It is often wondered what an artist was thinking or what message they are trying to convey when they create an unusual or even a masterpieces of art. Now it is also safe to say that such beauty and talent might only be in the eye of the beholder‚ and many will never appreciate or understand the views that others have towards an artists work. Why do some people find such depth in the simplest of paintings‚ such as a landscape? Many people connect to paintings or pictures
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Among the Hidden is the book I read for this book report. It has 153 pages and it is fiction. The book takes place on a farm over a one-year time period from late summer to late spring. We don’t know the exact year‚ but it is sometime in the future. It is here in the US‚ but it just doesn’t seem like it could be since things happen in the book that just don’t seem imaginable to us. The story is about a boy named Luke. He is a shadow child. A shadow child is a third (or even more) child in a family
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