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    The woman in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” has a hard way of supporting the “feminine” side of this short story. Woman are considered to be strong opinionated leaders. The Grandmother disregards the ethnic stereotype. Not shy at all‚ the Grandmother is very opinionated and does not hesitate to voice her opinions on a range of different subjects. The grandmother pays attention to small details others would ignore‚ such as the millage on the car before the road trip started. The criticizing Grandma

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    represented. Women play fewer roles in that society than men and most occupations are males oriented. Women are disproportionally unrepresented and the powerful hold of patriarchy‚ exclusively maintained by men‚ deem morally right. Feminist‚ like Lois Tyson‚ strongly protested the patriarchal beliefs of women’s place in western culture as inferior to men by showing the negative effect of gender inequality that obscure women’s social status in that society. We also have to notice that women of color are

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    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its importance Definition Corporate Social Responsibility can be define as the idea that socially responsible companies will outperform their peers by focusing on the world’s social problems and reviewing them as opportunities to build profits and help the world at the same time. In other sentence CSR is about how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society. It means company need to answer to two aspects of

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    According to “The Psychological Politics of the American Dream”‚ by Lois Tyson‚ it says‚ “Willy feels it is his own success he is experiencing in Biff’s success. This is something other than healthy parental pride in a son who makes good‚ pride in one’s success as a father--Charley’s pride in his son‚ not Willy’s‚ is of this kind. Willy’s pride is projection‚ a very personal and intense form of vicarious experience.” (Tyson par 23). Willy’s pride in his sons isn’t a normal parental pride. It’s

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    by using the effect of pathos‚ exemplification‚ and imagery. Pathos in this film displays a depressing feel to the documentary to appeal to the emotional aspect of viewers. Pathos is represented through the size and living conditions of chickens at Tyson farms and the death of a child named Kevin by E. coli poisoning. Exemplification is used by Kenner to display examples of Kenner’s argument and how they relate to each claim. Exemplification is seen through the versatility of corn and result of cows

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    that heritage and the Indian heritage and how difficult his life is because he is Indian. Allowing the reader to feel what Tayo feels‚ hear what he is thinking and experience his reactions to the prejudice he faces helps “make sense out of chaos” (Tyson‚ 219). Reader response is the writers way in helping the reader make sense out of the conflicts the characters are going through but allows the reader to draw his own meaning from the written word. Silko has clearly shown the reader how Tayo struggles

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    Corrupted Corn Grocery stores are guilty. They have stooped to prioritizing speed and quantity over quality. In The Omnivore’s Dilemma Pollan aggressively attacked to reveal the evilness the food industry has been striving to hide. His vexation is clearly shown in his thesis "But forgetting‚ or not knowing in the first place‚ is what the industrial food chain is all about‚ the principal reason it is so opaque‚ for if we could see what lies on the far side of the increasingly high walls of our industrial

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    Cicely Wood English 101 – 004 1 December 2012 Red or Blue? There are some questions people come across in life that could change his or hers life forever. For example‚ in The Matrix Neo must chose to take the blue pill and live in an ignorant bliss‚ or take the red and find out the truth about the world he is living in. Most people are raised to believe certain things‚ meaning they believe in what ever their parents believe in‚ and their parents believe in what their parents believed in as well

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    In Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale‚” the dystopian world is the concept of using women to conceived‚ without the revival of intimacy. Offred‚ the narrator‚ tells the readers about the conditions she experiences in Gilead‚ the theocratic and totalitarian world which has replaced America. Everything about the novel is a direct assault to the feminine perspective‚ wherein common women‚ such as Offred‚ is used as conceiving vessels without the freedom to love‚ make relationships‚ and make their

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    ourselves and make us feel guilty if we don’t behave accordingly‚ the id which is in opposition with the super-ego‚ because the id consists of our instincts and forbidden desires‚ and the ego‚ or the conscious self‚ caught between id and super-ego. (Tyson 25).Through concepts such as defenses‚ embodied by the process of denial-believing that the painful event did not happen‚ selective memory-remembering only what one’s conscious thinks it can handle ‚ avoidance- avoiding things that may trigger painful

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