constantly devising evil plans to serve her purpose in life. She needs to feed on people’s blood to maintain her youth and beauty. The 29 year-old singer‚ plays alongside the show’s regulars. Donovan(Matt Bomer)‚will be her blood-hungry lover‚ whose domesticity actually goes against her limitless pursuits. Kathy Bates‚ is Donovan’s mother‚ who works as a front-desk clerk in the hotel. Sarah Paulson‚ plays the role of Hydormic Sally‚ who returns as an addict. The other characters that were named are that
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The ultimate purpose of this chapter is to discern the experience of motherhood‚ the leap from domesticity to creativity and writing the body parts in poems such as “Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward”‚ “The Double Image”‚ “Her Kind”‚ “the Division of Parts”‚ “the Exorcists”‚ and “the Farmer’s Wife”. The maternal experience‚ along with the exaltation of the female body‚ is at the heart of the analysis of a number of poems. Sexton’s poems reveal the quest for the female identity through motherhood
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Words and Their Implied Meanings Would you rather belong to the "Apple Dumpling Gang" or the "Crypts"? The connotation of the word gang reaches "hit an all time low" in the 1990’s. We envision today’s gang members as drug lords who kill each other on street corners. Society rejects and imprisons them. Once members of a "gang" simply shared common interests and enjoyed social acceptance‚ much as members of a club today. Many pairs of words have experienced a similar disagreement in connotation
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For example‚ sales people‚ politicians‚ and leaders in other areas all have different goals and audiences‚ but use persuasion to their benefit. Cult leaders and other extremists in history have used persuasion to immerse followings and gain social loyalty. Over time they have evolved with different religious‚ political‚ and revolutionary motives. A cult by definition is a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as
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change‚ heart trouble‚ and emotional response in the short stories. She tries to find her identity in the stories. She depicts unconventional issues that women were going through during that time. She highlights that women were bound by conventional domesticity and took care of the household. However‚ through the description of her characters‚ the author defies the conventional role of the women as free and independent. In her short stories "Regret‚" "The Story of an Hour‚" and "The Storm‚" Kate Chopin
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A cult film is described as‚ “strange‚ quirky‚ offbeat‚ eccentric‚ oddball‚ or surreal‚ with outrageous‚ weird‚ unique and cartoony characters or plots‚ and garish sets” (Dirks‚ 1). Furthermore‚ they are usually awry or different in style and are considered controversial because in a sense‚ they are breaking the rules of the narrative and production of film. There are certain elements that make a cult film to be considered one‚ anatomy‚ consumption‚ political economy‚ and cultural status. In Mathijs
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Betty Friedan and Barbara R. Bergmann both dissect the occupation and implications of being a housewife but from two different angles and for two different audiences. In Friedan’s writing she is trying to counter theories presented previously to the American public on "The Housewife’s Syndrome" which many have based on the role of "famine fulfillment" and show that it has more to do about identity crisis. Friedan sights that a number of outside influences such as marrying at a young age‚ media
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following their leader‚ such as on a sports team‚ to extreme religious cults. Religions itself have different levels of obedience. Depending on how fanatic an environment you’re in‚ the level of obedience is obviously raised. It is my opinion‚ based on personal experience that many people involved in such cult-like religions eventually decide that they don’t want to be there. To some people‚ the structure that these cults provide is very attractive to them. They love the fact that people are
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threatened to obey and respect their new leader. Both of these examples are what makes up the dystopian world of 1984. People can also be persuaded into thinking they are joining their ideal vision of a utopia. This example is much like the Heaven’s Gate Cult. These examples best describe how a utopia can easily become a dystopia. A Utopian society can easily be converted to a dystopian society if power fall into the wrong hands. They could easily manipulate people by playing the nice guy and persuading
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Kate Grenville’s episodic novel Joan Makes History (1988) is also "good to think with" in term of national identity. Grenville deviates from exploring Amanda Lohrey’s suggestion of a "suitable past" (1996). Instead of celebrating what Lohrey describes as "mindless nationalism" (1996‚ p 150)‚ in the invented traditions of Australian society‚ national identity‚ political progression and territory‚ Grenville explores the key periods of Australian history through the first-person narration‚ presenting
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