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    sitting on her porch waiting for me to get there. When i pulled up in the driveway‚ she yells “THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT VACATION!”. We get finally get to my house‚ my parents had the trunk so full i thought it was going to burst. Me and my friend Belle try shoving our bags in‚ they would barely fit. So i ask my mom if she needed to bring the whole house

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    Blanche lacks self-awareness and comes across as rude‚ making it harder for the audience to sympathise. In the time the play was set girls from the South were called “Southern Belles” and stereotypically were beautiful and‚ coming from an upper class family‚ were polite. Although Blanche would probably seem like a Southern Belle‚ she does come across as impolite and so breaks this stereotype. However at times Blanche does seem to know what she’s saying and therefore is self-aware. After making it

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    John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821)‚ yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little more than five years (1814-1820)‚ and three of his great odes--"Ode to a Nightingale‚" "Ode on a Grecian Urn‚" and "Ode on Melancholy"--were written in one month. Most of his major poems were written between his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years‚ and all his poems were written by his twenty-fifth year. In this brief period‚ he produced poems that

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    Ficara 1  Victoria Ficara  Professor Nick  GT Reading­ Spring 2015  27 February 2015               Amanda: Lost in the World of the Past  Tennessee Williams’ character Amanda Wingfield from ​ The Glass Menagerie​  is a bold  and manipulative woman obsessed with and cemented in the past. Years ago‚ Amanda was  abandoned by her husband and was forced to raise two children alone during the Great  Depression. Haunted by the rejection of her husband‚ she is determined to keep her children  close‚ ev

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    Since the play’s debut in 1947‚ Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire has been considered both his most charming play as well as the most controversial piece of literature he has written. When reading any form of literature‚ one of the most important occurrences is that of the movement between the author and the reader. Williams uses competing narratives throughout A Street Car Named Desire‚ inviting a unique perspective for the reader to be able to assess the authority of the storytellers

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    Biff: “will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens” Compare how the authors of Death of a salesman and “street car named desire explore the conflict between truth and illusion Truth and illusion are utilized in Tennessee Williams “Streetcar Named Desire” and Arthur Miller’s “Death of a salesman” through the use of the character; to lead the reader to a possible conclusion on the beliefs that went into the American dream that prompted people to work hard was that america

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    Gender socialization is defined as the process in which societal factors such as school‚ family‚ and the media‚ teach children their gender roles at an early age and those roles are continually reinforced throughout their lives. Boys are raised to adjust their behaviors and actions to the male gender role‚ while girls are raised to adapt to the female gender role. Schools reinforce such roles by enforcing uniform policies; for example‚ in some schools‚ girls are required to wear skirts while boys

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    Quote Analysis Literary Features “They told me to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!” (Scene 1‚ Page 6) Sexual desires are a common interest several people tend to have and Blanche Dubois significantly portray and represents the theme of sexual intimacy in A Street Car Named Desire as Tennessee Williams uses allegory‚ allusion‚ symbolism‚ and foreshadow in order to demonstrate how do Blanche’s “trip” through

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    solutions help or harm radish plant growth when the seeds of the radish plant are soaked in said solutions prior to planting. Background: The IRP project I am doing is based off the subject of seed germination. The seeds I will be planting are cherry belle radish seeds‚ freshly bought. Instead of planting the seeds in soil like it is normally done‚ the plant seeds will be placed on paper towels to grow for better observation of the roots‚ and for a quicker result (N.p.‚ n.d Web. http://homeguides.sfgate

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    The theme of “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple” is immigration and migration. The main focus of the book is the Whipple family moving to California during the gold rush in 1849. The Whipples along with many other people migrated during the book. In the beginning of the book‚ the main reason that the story happened is because of dreams to go west. “ Mama and Pa had long dreamed of going west…”(3) Lucy’s parents wanted to move west with their family. Without their dreams‚ The story would not have happened

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