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    Tita’s emotions. The use of food in this novel has numerous meanings‚ and Laura Esquivel uses each and every one with careful thought and planning. First Esquivel expresses the importance of the De La Gaza customs when Tita is offered the hand of Pedro‚ but must refuse when Mama Elena says‚ "you know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me till the day I die" (Esquivel 10). Tita is devastated by this inhumane tradition and becomes extremely saddened. Mama

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    as imagery to symbolize the release of strong‚ intense passion by the characters of the novel. Fire as well as coldness ( which is used to describe the absense of passion) influences the way that the reader views the characters‚ Mama Elena‚ Tita‚ Pedro‚ Rosaura and Gertrudis and illustrates the love‚ lust and emotion that are common themes throughout the text. Fire can be linked with two different ideals throughout the novel; one of passion and one of rebellion. The imagery of fire represents the

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    “The mosquito magnet” 1.Is the mosquito magnet an innovation? If so‚ what type? Well I do think it is an innovation because they came up with a bright idea of operates 24/7 by releasing a continuous stream of carbon dioxide (CO2) and scientifically proven attractant to draw mosquitoes to the trap. Mosquitoes are vacuumed into a net where they dehydrate and die.  is scientifically proven to disrupt mosquito breeding cycles‚ virtually eliminating the nuisance nd danger of mosquitoes in all season

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    How do anthropologists understand other people’s psychologies? It is believed that humans are both biological and cultural beings‚ making them biocultural. Despite being fairly new to the world of anthropology‚ the biocultural perspective has built on history of research on how cultural and social influences shape the psychology‚ emotion‚ and personality‚ of the individual. Anthropologists have made sense of individual psychologies through many different theories. A good starting place on how anthropologists

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    environment. Lorca expresses this uprising against Bernarda using colour as symbolism‚ while the house is symbolically used by Bernarda Alba as a means of repressing her family members and remaining in control. Esquivel uses the characters‚ Tita and Pedro to demonstrate the frustrations of forbidden love on the individual due to Mama Elena’s harsh rule. The use of symbolism and the portrayal of the household tyrants used by the two Spanish speaking authors express the characters’ defiance due to their

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    people as naive as Claudio‚ people get what they want because of their status. In the beginning of the play‚ Don John and Barachio tell Claudio that Hero is being wooed by Don Pedro‚ and his immediate reaction is to believe that it is true. As Don Pedro agrees to woo Hero for Claudio‚ it seems to Claudio that Don Pedro is pleading for himself. “The Prince woos for himself‚” he says (2.1‚ 172). For Claudio‚ “friendship is constant in all other things save in office and affairs of love” (2.1‚ 173-174)

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    relationship that somewhere went wrong. The deception of Beatrice and Benedick comes courtesy of Don Pedro in Act 2. In this scene‚ Don Pedro‚ out of pure amusement‚ asks Leonato‚ the governor of Messina‚ and Claudio‚ a lord attending on Don Pedro‚ for help to bring these two together: "If we can do this‚ Cupid is no / longer an archer; his glory shall be ours…" (2.1.363-4). In Act 2.3‚ Claudio‚ Pedro‚ and Leonato‚ see Benedick in the garden and decide that that is the right moment for them to

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    let their husband do everything to maintain the family balance. Tita is tempted to go for Dr. Brown‚ but this temptation should not come in the way impeding her to be with the one that she is really in love with‚ Pedro. Should Tita choose Dr. John Brown‚ the one with a good career or Pedro‚ the one she truely loves? Tita loves

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    Magic realism Magic realism (or magical realism) is a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The term was initially used by German art critic Franz Roh to describe painting which demonstrated an altered reality‚ but was later used by Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri to describe the work of certain Latin American writers. The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (a friend of Uslar-Pietri)

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    those who consume the food with that emotion. In one section of the novel‚ Tita makes Quail‚ in Rose Petal Sauce‚ to express her passion for her sister‚ Rasaura’s‚ husband‚ Pedro‚ who she is deeply in love with. With that meal it seemed they had discovered a new system of communication‚ in which Tita was the transmitter‚ Pedro the receiver…

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