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    Aiwen Zhang Professor Griffin Fall 2013 September 27‚ 2013 Unit 1 Assignment Final Draft Victim of Love The writer of Short Talks (1992)‚ Anne Carson‚ is a Canadian poet‚ an essayist and a literary critic. She is erudite and innovative‚ having various fields of knowledge and writing with facetious languages and meaningful thought. Anne Carson would like to leave open mind for her readers as she said: ”I don’t know that we really

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    Serena Joy is a victim Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen‚ Your honor and members of the Jury. Today‚ we’re going to examine if the defendant‚ Serena Joy is guilty or should be acquitted of the alleged crime that they said she committed. I have come to the conclusion that Serena Joy is every bit a victim of Gileadean Society. I am going to discuss the two arguments and why I came up to this resolution. If you ask me what my first impression of her is‚ I am not gonna lie‚ I find her cold

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    Richard the III: Shakespeare’s Frankenstein or History’s victim By: Joshua Mastin Shakespeare‚ English 233 Dr. Malkiel Choseed 5/17/12 Joshua Mastin Dr. Malkiel Choseed English 233 May 17‚ 2012 Richard the III: Shakespeare’s Frankenstein or History’s victim We’ve all heard this famous quote before “History is written by the victors” (Winston Churchill). These words are no truer than in Shakespeare’s play Richard III. In Shakespeare’s rendition he has created a character of

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    produce subjective consciousness following the villains’ performances in the stories‚ they are used to ignoring the factor that the villains also could be the victims at the same time. In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller‚ Abigail Williams is a controversial villain because she is both a typical instigator of the accusations and a victim of the Puritan society at the same time. Firstly‚ Abigail’s heartrending life experiences and the Puritan society environment which she lives in build her

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    Desdemona has not fallen victim to Othello’s insane rage and jealousy by her wrong doing. She isn’t even the main target of the demise brought upon Iago. The one to fall is Othello‚ but to achieve this‚ Iago must get him to kill Desdemona. Totally deprived of breath and of words to tell the truth. Wrong place’s at the most wrong times‚ this is what made her the passive victim for Iago’s true victim. Desdemona is probably the strongest willed character in the play‚ although she is a woman. Shakespeare

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    Margot Heuman February 17‚ 1928 Hellenthal‚ Germany http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=tmL6KfNVLtH&b=5759983&ct=7872847 In early 1942‚ 14-year old Margot and her family were arrested‚ being sent to the Theresiestadt ghettos in Czechoslovakia. Her family was not separated until later when they were transported to Auschwitz. Seen One Day‚ Gone Another I’ve become emotionless‚ knowing the events that occur around me. Living in the ghettos in 1942 is hell; for me and

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    The role and power of the mass media has often been a topic of debate among those whom have been blessed or cursed by its influence. Whether or not it can be supported that the media has positive or negative influence on society and culture‚ it can be clearly asserted that it does have a power to persuade the masses in one direction or the other. If not‚ there would be no place for advertising. Those who are too innocently naïve of this matter should speak to a few of the young women in Fiji that

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    Burned Alive is the devastating story of a young Arabic girl named Souad living in a small West Bank village that is run by the law of men‚ where women are practically worthless. Women here are beaten almost daily‚ and are used mostly for labor purposes‚ but most importantly‚ to produce sons. Not only do women go through horrible abuse and mistreatment‚ but they also live with the risk if being killed for committing even the smallest sin which brings embarrassment to the family. In order to restore

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    rights violations that occurred during the apartheid era. Both victims and perpetrators shared stories at the TRC about violence‚ suffering‚ oppression and torture. Antjie Krog bore witness to these narratives as one of the journalists that reported on the TRC hearings. In her literary work Krog expresses her conflicted feelings towards the past in general and the hearings of the TRC in particular. Her poem “For All Voices‚ For All Victims” was written in response to these hearings and explores the

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    Rylie Talmadge Crawford English Honors B 8 March 2017 Things Fall Apart: Villain‚ Victim or Tragic Hero In Things Fall Apart‚ a novel by Chinua Achebe‚ the main character Okonkwo and the rest of his tribe‚ experience colonialism and the forceful change that is brought with it. This change affects each of the characters in his own way‚ as they either learn to adapt and accept the white men and their new traditions‚ or their rebellious actions are met with consequences. This change shapes each character

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