1920 Biography About Caroline Gertrude Ederle American swimmer‚ the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Born in New York City‚ Ederle began swimming as a young child and started competing as a teenager. From 1921 to 1925 she broke many American and world swimming records. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris‚ France‚ Ederle won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay and bronze medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle races. Looking for a new challenge‚ Ederle turned to channel
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women were viewed back then in that time during the early 17th century. Shakespeare centers this unjust and cruel behavior towards the two most prominent women in the play; his mother Gertrude‚ and his lover Ophelia. Shakespeare first shows the hatred that exists between both Hamlet’s’ relationships with Gertrude and Ophelia. Hamlet’s two distinctive relationships between his mother and lover come to be similar when his character lashes out and becomes angry. In scenes where Hamlet is livid and
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Queen Gertrude is Hamlet’s mother and the wife of her dead husband’s brother‚ King Claudius. Gertrude and Ambiguity Gertrude is most definitely a central figure in the play – Hamlet spends a whole lot of time dwelling on her incestuous marriage to Claudius – but her character is also pretty ambiguous. Was she having an affair with Claudius before the death of Old Hamlet? Does Gertrude know that Claudius killed her former husband? Why does she drink the poisoned wine her husband has prepared
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approach situation with a fearless and courageous attitude‚ and can is often admired by many. The novel Daisy Miller by Henry James is a fictional story about the life of an American girl in Europe and the situations that she experiences. Daisy reacts to these situations with a fearless and courageous approach. Her actions seem to affect every character in the story and are misperceived by many. Daisy consistently had the courage to stand up to the other Americans‚ the characters who adapted to the European
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Driving Miss Daisy depicts a strong friendship that progressively builds between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and an African American chauffeur named Hoke Coleburn. After crashing her car into a neighbor’s property from pressing the reverse peddle too hard‚ Miss Daisy Werthan lost her privilege to drive on the road. Since she cannot drive‚ her son hired Hoke to be her personal chauffeur. At first‚ Miss Daisy refuses to let Hoke drive her anywhere out of fear of losing her independence
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Through out the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as pure. The author always describes the two leading female characters‚ Daisy and Jordan‚ dressed in white outfits. At one point in the novel‚ Daisy recalls he own childhood and describes it as white. The color white is oftentimes associated with purity‚ hope‚ and innocence. Therefore‚ the reader can identify Daisy Fay Buchanan as a pure‚ naive‚ and innocent character. On the contrary‚ she is not; she is the cause of most‚ if not
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Driving Miss Daisy‚ (1989) a screen play by Alfred Uhry and directed by Bruce Beresford‚ takes place in post-World War II Atlanta‚ Georgia. The main character of the movie is Miss Daisy Werthan‚ a Jewish widow in her seventies. The movie begins with her putting her car into the wrong gear‚ and going in reverse into her neighbor’s yard. Thus‚ her son‚ Boolie Werthan‚ believes that no insurance companies would want to insure her after this incident. At his business‚ Werthan Industries‚ he runs
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attraction to Daisy In the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the main character - Gatsby – is in love with Daisy Buchannan. Moreover‚ the protagonist’s love for the young woman is the result of the objectifying and romanticizing of the latter. Throughout the novel‚ Nick shows Gatsby as the epitome of grandeur and the American Dream. Gatsby’s greatness‚ however‚ lies in his ability to pursue his dreams and‚ from them‚ create realities. This is the very case with Daisy. The main
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Gatsby Jaylene P. ______________________________ I was so nervous‚ I felt as if I was going to be sick. Daisy was special and I wanted to win her back‚ now that I had everything that she had wanted before. I could take care of her now. I had the biggest amount of gratitude towards Nick for doing this for me. If only he had known how deep this reconnection with Daisy meant to me. Nick didn’t know the little details that had been buried many years ago. I was wearing the best suit that I owned and
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Assignment Daisy Buchanan: A selfish‚ greedy and hurtful woman of a noble social class in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Winter 2014 Ha T.T. Nguyen hanguyenyeume94@gmail.com One of the reasons contributing to the success of F.Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel The Great Gatsby is that the author cleverly builds a network of diverse and profound characters. One of those is Daisy Buchanan‚ who is round and dynamic with various aspects of her personality. Firstly‚ Daisy seems very
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