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    Blanche----A Fragile and hypocrisy Southern Belle Blanche is a controversial figure throughout the play‚ on one hand‚ brought up and educated in Southern culture‚ she has been used to embracing a certain order of custom and certain culture rules. She represents fantasy for her many outrageous attempts to elude herself‚ and she likewise represents the old South with only her manners and pretensions remaining after the foreclosure of her family plantation--Belle Reve. In the south‚ the lack of opportunity

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    play‚ albeit not directly. Blanche’s transition from Belle Reve to New Orleans is not a smooth one. A Southern gal with a pompous attitude cannot fit into the bustling metropolitan life of a city which is developing on the principles of equality and merit. Blanche is shocked at Stanley’s rough and unrefined behaviour and mannerisms. Before coming to her sister’s house‚ she has suffered many rough transitions – from being thrown out of Belle Reve to being dismissed from Laurel. The morose period

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    I think it is about an only family boy that loves drawing but hides it from people because they would tease his‚ he has sisters and a careless father about him‚ he gets a new neighbor that’s his age it’s a girl her family is sweet

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    Crime In Detroit

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    Detroit‚ also known as the Motor City‚ is located in Michigan‚ a midwestern state bordering the four Great Lakes. Detroit is the most populous city in the state of Michigan‚ and has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world. Detroit is home to Motown‚ an American hit record company created in 1959 by Berry Gordy Jr. The auto industry is also a major part of Detroit’s interesting history. Although Detroit’s crime rate has dropped‚ Detroit can’t shake the number one

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    the details that come with it as well. La belle dame is a “femme fatale” a woman full of trickery and dishonesty who tricked the knight into falling in love with her “Full beauty - a faerys child” the beautiful lady la belle dame. In this ballad we see that in the first three stanzas the pace is very slow and negative but in the last five stanzas the pace changes and the mood turns positive until the end where we see the curse put on the knight by la belle dame and the mood turns from loving and joyful

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    Conflict causes most of us a great degree of discomfort‚ anger‚ frustration‚ sadness‚ and pain. Conflict is a struggle between two or more forces that creates a tension that must be resolved (although in some stories‚ as in real life‚ it isn’t). Examples of different types of conflict include: - Cultural social class conflict. -Emotional conflict -Group conflict (racial) -Conflict with the

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    Women Spies of the Civil War “ [At first] it was not deemed possible that any danger could result from the utterances of non-combatant females… That this policy was a mistaken one was soon fully proved…” - Allan Pinkerton‚ The Spy of the Rebellions‚ 1883 (Leonard 1). In antebellum America there was little tolerance for autonomous women. Usually females‚ spanning all classes‚ were attached to households‚ dependent on males for status and wealth. Society

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    broken cup!” She was too old to be a mothering-hen teapot‚ but how she sang of cleaning up! With adult love‚ I watched the aging Belle‚ who lived much longer than our king‚ The Beast‚ and now they’re gone‚ all gone‚ and I can tell all‚ if I hated them—their lies‚ at least. When Belle dispelled our immortality‚ we felt the two-ness of reality. BELLE It’s crossed my mind that it was Stockholm Syndrome. That moment in the woods‚ those wolves around‚ I could have let the “monster”

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    Beauty and the Beast‚ it first aired in theaters on November 22‚ 1991. Beauty and the Beast portrays the second scene in our movie‚ which depicts the ages four to ten. At this stage in our life‚ we begin to establish our own opinions just like when Belle decided to form her own opinion on Beast . Our lives have been long enough to cognize the world and we have a better understanding about topics. Most young children at this time in life‚ cherish a movie more than school. Not all children would (I for

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    teacher. I think she is a very poetic person which reflects on her romanticism. This in a way portrays the romantic and dreamy state of mind of the people from the Old South Stanley is more interested in the bill of sale from Belle Reve. Stella’s mention of the loss of Belle Reve seems to convince Stanley that Blanche is trying to hide some kind of theft. Stanley wants to know how Blanche could afford to buy the pearls and other jewels that are in the trunk. Stanley‚ the symbol of the New‚ works

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