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    gender roles within the patriarchal reality of the 18th century. In doing so they address the hidden fears and repressed desires of the contemporary female readership. In this way‚ literature‚ as “one of a society’s instruments of self-awareness” (Calvino 2004: 114) manages to give “voice to social and political struggles” (Carson 1998: 271); or as Norton (2006: 279) puts it‚ the Gothic genre has a subversive and political nature. As a consequence‚ the Gothic genre has been of importance for the

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    1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz

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    1984 Figurative Language

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    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say” -Italo Calvino. According to (dictionary.com) a classic is a book that is “something noteworthy of its kind and worth remembering”. There are multiple definitions of what a classic is but all of them say that the book still needs to be remembered for a long time after being finished. The book 1984 by George Orwell is a classic book when analyzing the symbolism and figurative language used throughout the book. Symbolism is used

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    Bibliography: Books Slavicek‚ L (2009) New York City’s Central Park (Building America: Then and Now) New York: Chelsea House Publications Calvino‚ I (1972) Invisible cities‚ Pan-picador Websites Greg. (2010) How Social Media Changes the Nature of Relationships http://onthespiral.com/how-does-media-changes-the-nature-of-re (Accessed on: 24.04.2011) Hampson‚ R (Accessed on: 27.04.2011) Laurin

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    genotypes are sensitive to changes in environmental conditions where the crop is grown. Therefore‚ it is necessary to study the interaction between genotype and environment in order to identify the genotypes that are stable in specific environments (Calvino et al.‚ 2003). This has resulted in the classification of soybean into thirteen (000‚ 00‚ 0‚ I‚ II‚ III‚ IV‚ V‚ VI‚ VII‚ VIII‚ IX and X) different maturity groups (Mundstock 2005). In the United States of America (USA)‚ soybean maturity groups range

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    NAME: PERDESSA ABRAMS 12/0257/1980 COURSE: HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE Introduction The movement to unite Italy into one cultural and political entity was known as the Risorgimento. Giuseppe Mazzini and his leading pupil‚ Giuseppe Garibaldi‚ failed in their attempt to create an Italy united by democracy. Garibaldi‚ supported by his legion of Red Shirts who was mostly young Italian democrats ‚who used the 1848 revolutions

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    Postmodernism in Literature

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    Postmodern literature The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily‚ for example‚ on fragmentation‚ paradox‚ questionable narrators‚ etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. Postmodern literature‚ like postmodernism as a whole‚ is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the

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    How united was Italy by 1860? INTRODUCTION      To a large extent‚ Italy was not united by 1760      Reason: -     There is no integration of all state uniting as one  -     Parochialism: people owe their royalty to their locality and thus‚ although Piedmont have shown herself as the only state suitable to lead the Italy confederation (if it was united)‚ sense of nationalism can still not be found. -     YET: it was pretty much united when compare to 1815‚ or 1848. BODY      One of the

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    Italian Neo-Realism

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    This Essay will discuss how neo realism only lasted ten years and how it was committed to representing life as it was lived‚ in complete contrast to the fascist propaganda films it superseded. It will discuss and debate this by analyzing some of the most prominent films and their directors that represented the movement. The main exponents of the neorealist movement were Visconti‚ Rossellini and De Sica (Hayward‚ 2000)‚ “The Movement lasted from 1942 to 1952‚ even though critics credit Roberto

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    Informatics 5 (1) 9-16 (2005) 05JEI00041 1726-2135/1684-8799 © 2005 ISEIS www.iseis.org/jei doi:10.3808/jei.200500041 A Multivariate Approach for the Analysis of Spatially Correlated Environmental Data A. Lamberti1* and E. Nissi2 2 1 ISTAT - Via C. Balbo‚ 16 - 00184 Roma‚ Italy Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi e Teoria Economica‚ Viale Pindaro‚ 42 - 65127 Pescara‚ Italy ABSTRACT. The formulation and the evaluation of environmental policy depend upon a general class of latent variable models known

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