As Jeanette‚ the protagonist of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit‚ states‚ “time is a great deadener.” (93) Essentially‚ as time passes‚ people will inherently forget crucial details of history‚ allowing for various interpretations and even inaccuracies to be perpetuated. The aforementioned Oranges‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia‚ and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart all explore‚ in some capacity‚ how certain people or events from the past are
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Child Study JB Child Study JB Center: Lutheran Family Mission Reporter: Jacqueline L. Montgomery‚ Student Date: December 1997 Child’s Age: 6 yrs. 2 months GENERAL INFORMATION: JB is the oldest of three children (a 9 month old sister and a 3 year old brother). JB talks about his younger sister all the time. JB lives with both his parents‚ who are not married but are together. JB has a Grandma who lives a couple of blocks away
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: very clear on Winterson’s own perspective and opinion‚ conveyed through her own history as the protagonist and the structure of the novel. POST MODERNISM - fragmented‚ discontinuous structure‚ hybrids‚ experimenting‚ and subjective view of truth. Post modernism came about because of the first world war- left Britain broken and fragmented. The massive blood bath changed the mind-set of the country‚ thought about bigger questions‚ ideas about rejecting an overall authority
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Student athletes vs. NCAA College athletics has grown into an integral part of universities across the nation. It has become an enormous industry that draws in a whopping load of finances to the universities. Many people may ask‚ where does all of the money go made by ticket sales and school merchandise? School officials will say to fees‚ athletic equipment‚ and travel costs. On the other hand; athletes may say‚ they have no idea. The debate about whether or not college athletes should be paid has
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the key notes about the early voyage on the slave ships is the intuitive understanding that upon early capture these captives were at their strongest. While the conditions were horrible from the start‚ their physical and mental conditions would only deteriorate over time‚ which resulted in many revolts happening before the ships even left from shore‚ or sometimes even before the captives boarded the ships. Again‚ the conditions by which the captives were under were extremely difficult‚ and
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Revolution was a series of thoughts and changes in economy of the western nations‚ motivated by the population increase and the growth of agricultural activity. Though they are far apart in time‚ the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution not only share a wide range of similar ideas‚ but they also show many different concepts of living and social thoughts. The Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution have many concepts that are in common. Both these revolutions increased the standard
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On the surface of the novel‚ Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit‚ may appear to be about a young lady trying to figure out who she is whilst in a constrained community. However this is not the whole story. Within the novel there are constant struggles with finding who you are‚ social class and the broad concept of fitting in. Winterson does this well through her use of symbols and motifs which are as one example an orange. Even the sub-plots within the novel such as her mother possibly having a lesbian
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Why Only One Hour? The short story of “The Story of an Hour” uses many elements in fiction writing such as symbol‚ plot‚ style‚ and theme. With these elements the reader can give different perspectives as to how such a short story can have many meaning. In the story the symbol of the heart in presented as Mrs. Mallards having health problems and also as a way to show the reader of how she feels emotionally. In the begging of the story we are presented with the facts of Mrs. Mallard’s health conditions
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Career Plan Since I was a child‚ I have always dreamt of being rich; having so much money I could be a bank‚ a mansion to live in‚ and an abundance of cars to drive. However‚ as I grew older‚ I quickly realized that my dreams and aspirations are directly correlated to my ambition‚ drive and motivation to obtain them. In recent years‚ I’ve been dedicating myself to my academics in hopes of achieving a better paying job later in life. My career dream career path is in the Health Care Industry‚ specifically
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Abstinence-Only Programs Are Ineffective According to Debra W. Haffner‚ “There are no published studies in the professional literature indicating that abstinence-only programs will result in young people delaying intercourse.”(…) In correlation with the growth of teen pregnancy‚ the desire to experiment with a partner‚ and the advancement of more effective contraceptives‚ abstinence-only sex education is not the proper teaching for teenage students. Critics of abstinence-only education propose
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