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    • Openness to Experience: The way she approaches problems‚ learns new information‚ and reacts to new experiences are showing that she is open to new experiences and curious. For example‚ she willingly took 2 years off to travel and see the world—try new things—and define her life by more than her career (Hughes‚ Ginnett & Curphy‚ 2012‚ p.233). She exposed herself to new cultures and ideas. She is very strategic and has her eye on the big-picture which indicates her high level of openness to experience

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    Analysis of Ann Because of John’s lack of communication skills‚ Ann feels isolated psychologically and emotionally‚ and as a result‚ she is seen by the reader as a woman in despair seeking companionship during the Great Depression. Ann is dutiful and submissive‚ so typical of the women of the 30’s‚ as it is shown when she claimed‚ "Plenty to eat - plenty of wood to keep me warm - what more could a woman ask for?"(p.48) even though it is clearly the opposite of what she really wants. She says to

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    How does Carol Ann Duffy create character? The two poems I will be focusing on today are ’Girl talking’ and ’Lizzie‚six’. Both poems follow two innocent children that were abused either sexually or physically. There are two apparent themes in both poems‚ Loss of innocence and also Growing up. I will be discussing both of these and in which way are they portrayed in the poems I have chosen. ’Girl talking’ is a poem based on a young girl who was raped‚ and died as a result. The poem opens with

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    Fear‚ isolation‚ and the shear will to survive. The selection “I Survived the Blizzard of ‘79” by author Beth Ann Fennelly has a forceful impact on its reader because the use of personification amplifies the severity of the storm and in using personification Fennelly helps to understand the age of the characters. Throughout the entirety of the selection one thing remains prevalent when discussing the use of personification and that is the severity of the storm. One example of this is the line “This

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    In American literature‚ some female writers portrayed the roles of women in their writings. Women were seen only as caregivers of their homes‚ husbands‚ and children in the eighteenth century and earlier. Anne Bradstreet and Abigail Adams were women writers whom played similar roles in the different century they lived in. Women of the seventeenth and eighteenth century were deprived the chance to be more than just a woman. Through Anne Bradstreet’s poem The Prologue and the letters of Abigail Adams

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    The speaker has lost many encounters in her life such as her mother. She described losses as things that are meant to happen in one’s life‚ losing things isn’t such a big deal for her in the beginning of the poem‚ learn to accept that we lose things in our everyday life whether it comes to significant things or insignificant things we always have to be ready for what life brings us. In the first stanzas Bishop mentions to loss of keys‚ places‚ and names aren’t so relevant‚ there are more important

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    Reader book‚ an essay by Jo-Ann Pilardi titled “Immigration Problem Is about Us‚ not Them‚” explain the problem and show its effects on different aspects. The essay addresses how the illegal immigration problem has touched everyone living in the U.S and how it affects America. Pilardi focuses on the effect of illegal workers‚ who are hired by exploited employers‚ on the economy‚ and the effect on the federal government laws‚ and the effect of T.V. news on the issue. Jo-Ann Pilardi started

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    was a mountain lion that tried to kill Billy and his dogs and another similarity is in the book he had to go all the way to Tahlequah And in the movie he had to go all the way to tahlequah to get his dogs. In the book Where the Red Fern Grows Little Ann fell in the frozen water and it took a long time to Get her out and Billy had to take a hook and hook to her collar to pull her out of the ice cold water. And billy won the cup fair and square. And when billy was hunting he didn’t leave his axe and

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    ‘herstory’. A woman’s voice‚ her opinion and her viewpoint have all been heavily disregarded in the past centuries‚ with a woman being seen as an accessory to a man rather than an individual with the capability to think for herself. However‚ Carol Ann Duffy’s anthology ‘The World’s Wife’ seeks to correct the gender inequalities‚ with the poems Eurydice and Mrs. Midas portraying strong minded and authoritative females that retell the Greek mythological stories from a women’s point of view. In both

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    Consider the treatment of love in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’. Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ ultimately depicts a highly cynical attitude towards love and conventional gestures of affection. The poem uses traditional images of valentine as a starting point‚ before showing how an onion is much more true to the nature of love. An extended metaphor of the onion is then used to depict Duffy’s underlying implication that love can be destructive on many different levels. One of the main ways in which

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