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    Moreover‚ within this scene we can observe Blanche try to use flirtation during her interaction with Stanley‚ in order to take control over the situation. However‚ Stanley is blunt in his response commenting that Blanche’s ‘looks’ are ‘merely okay’ once she questions whether she could have ‘once been considered attractive’. Naturally‚ this insinuates that Blanche will not have dominance over Stanley through her sexual appeal‚ which will make the events of play more intriguing for the audience‚ as

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    The Life of Margaret Mitchell The Life of Margaret Mitchell Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was a writer from Georgia. She wrote the book Gone With the Wind. I chose Margaret Mitchell for this assignment because I am also from Georgia and I wanted to know more about her and what inspired her to write this book. I have seen the movie based on this book more than any other movie. A biographical sketch provides information about a person’s life. The biographical sketch will explain who the person

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    A Streetcar Named Desire In what way can A Streetcar Named Desire be seen as an exploration of"old" America versus the "new" America? In the play‚ Blanche represents old America and Stanley represents new America. Why Blanche represents old America is because of her way of thinking‚ lifestyle and values. When Blanche walks into the room where the guys are playing poker‚ there is a great example of how Blanche represents old and Stanley new. When she walks in‚ the guys are sitting around the table

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    recurring Polka symbolizes Blanche’s insanity because she hears it occasionally in her head. Later‚ Blanche considers herself as the cause of Allen’s death and feels remorse. Another cause of her problems is that she lost her parents and their plantation‚ Belle Reve. She was left alone by Stella who moved to the city to start a new life. Then she had to leave the school she taught at‚ because of a love-affair with a seventeen-year-old boy. She lived in cheap

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    ------------------------------------------------- Effects on Families According to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ Policy Statement “The Psychological Consequences of Unemployment‚” the stress of unemployment can lead to declines in individual and family well-being (Belle & Bullock‚ 2011). The burden of unemployment can also affect outcomes for children. The stress and depressive symptoms associated with job loss can negatively affect parenting practices such as increasing punitive and arbitrary punishment (McLoyd

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    O’Connor to express her utter disgust of Southern façade’s in “Good Country People” uses symbols‚ themes‚ and use of diction in her title to dismiss typical southern stereotypes. Hulga‚ the daughter of Mrs. Hopewell‚ is everything opposite of a Southern Belle. Although her mother would love for her to be a definition of a true lady‚ she wants to cut anything tying her to the tyrannical clutches of her mother’s ideals of a lady. Hulga has a Ph.D. in philosophy and with her degree came her

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    National High School La Paz‚ Iloilo City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation In High School Jc Belle Traspaderme Anasario Tria Gracia Gabitanan Lubas March 2012 Approval Sheet This thesis entitled “EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TRANSPORT METHOD CONDITION ON SURVIVAL OF JUVENILE SHRIMP (Penaeus indicus)”‚ prepared and submitted by Jc Belle Traspaderme Anasario and Tria Gracia Gabitanan Lubas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation‚ is hereby accepted

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    William Shakespeare ’s Sonnet 107 Nowadays William Shakespeare is renown as one of the world ’s greatest and most prolific dramatists of all times.Both tragedies such as "Romeo and Juliet"‚ "Hamlet"‚ "Anthony and Cleopatra"‚ and light-hearted comedies like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "A Midsummer Night ’s Dream" are still box-office successes in theatres all around the globe.Yet‚ besides being a playwright‚ Shakespeare has also exercised his complex literary talents in poetry‚ appreciated in

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    an emotionally absent parent. He became increasingly abusive as the Williams children grew older. His mother‚ Edwina‚ was the daughter of Southern Episcopal minister and had lived the adolescence and young womanhood of a spoiled Southern belle. Williams was sickly as a child‚ and his mother was a loving but smothering woman. In 1918 the family moved from Mississippi to St. Louis‚ and the change from a small provincial town to a big city was very difficult for William¹s mother. Williams had

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    Expressionism in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg‚ Ohio According to Webster’s New World Dictionary‚ expressionism is “a 20th-c movement in art‚ literature...seeking to give symbolic‚ objective expression to inner experience.” In his essay‚ “Anderson’s Expressionist Art‚” David Stouck writes‚ The Winesburg stories accumulate power from those exaggerated‚ stylized gestures by which a character is revealed or through which a scream of suffering is made to be heard. “Expressionism” is the formal term

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