If you look back 200 years‚ women enjoyed few of the legal‚ social‚ or political rights that are now taken for granted. They could not vote‚ could not sue or be sued‚ could not testify in court‚ had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage‚ were rarely granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce‚ and were not allowed to go to institutions of higher education. Women were expected to remain subservient to their fathers and husbands. Their occupational choices
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA “ION CREANGA” STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES ENGLISH PHILOLOGY CHAIR DIPLOMA PAPER FIGURATIVE USE OF WORDS IN W.S.MAUGHAM`S SHORT STORIES) Submitted by: IONAŞCO SILVIA‚ the 4th year student‚ group 404 Scientific adviser: SMOCHIN OLGA‚ Senior lecturer Chişinău – 2011 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………...3 Chapter I. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF STYLISTIC
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What is neural Darwinism? Defined as the large scale theory of the brain function by Gerald Edelman‚ the Neural Darwinism was first mentioned in the book called the Mindful Brain in 1978. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972 for his improved understanding and capability to show methods by which the population of lymphocytes are actually capable of binding to foreign antigens which is further increased by the differential clonal multiplication that occurs in the brain. This meant that the human
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protagonist to help develop the story’s theme The theme of a story is not only a subject or topic of discourse‚ but also a specific quality‚ characteristic or concern about life and human nature. Theme is essential in fiction as it is the backbone of meaning in stories. Theme illustrates the main idea about life and human nature‚ and the existence of theme allows readers to better understand the author’s purpose. The short story”Identities’’by W.D. Valgardson is about a man who lives in
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In S.E. Hilton’s short story “The outsiders” is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis life in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers‚ Darrel and Sodapop. His parents died when he was younger from a wreck. Throughout the book‚ the author talked about the towns two rival gangs‚ the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers are the lower class white people who are considered hoods or juvenile delinquents by society and the Socs are the higher class white people who are the rich kids from the
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of irony can easily captivate or excite us. Many times in order to understand the morals or theme of a story you need to be able to recognise the irony. In the short stories‚ “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ “The Gift of the Magi” by O Henry and “The Suit” by Can Themba various forms of irony are present. These forms of irony include: verbal‚ situational and dramatic irony. The first story “Lamb to the Slaughter” is about Mary Meloney‚ a devoted caring wife that ends up killing her much loved
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American short stories Joyce Carol Oates: "Capital punishment" (1992) 1. Analyse the father and the daughter relationship in this story in terms of their feelings for one another. How do these feelings illustrate their differences or similarities? The relationship between the father and the daughter is quite tense even though they love each other. We can see proof from the text on page 267 "She thinks of Mr. Brunty‚ whom she loves‚ as a "big lug." A "big dumb lug." A "big dumb ox."" There is
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Canada is surrounded by the Arctic ocean to the north‚ the Labrador Sea and Atlantic ocean to the east‚ the United States to the south‚ and the Pacific ocean to the west. 2. In Wilderness Tips‚ Margaret Atwood incorporates various themes in her story. Family plays a big role because the characters are all related; there are three sisters‚ a brother‚ and one of the sister’s husbands. The sisters‚ Pamela‚ Prue‚ and Portia‚ have alliterative names. Atwood writes‚ “It was the mother (Prue explained)
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The short story “Who‘s Passing for Who” by Langston Hughes was influenced by Hughes’ background in his society. This racial influenced story exemplifies how people thought of and interacted with those of a different race and those of a similar color. Hughes proves his credibility in writing the piece through his experiences that he endured in his lifetime during the Harlem Renaissance. The life he led was filled with daily racism and discrimination; he experienced much of his subject matter regarding
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Assignment: Sexuality in Carmilla Le Fanu’s story of Carmilla has been adapted as a web series‚ in which the setting is modern day society at a college campus. Laura remains the narrator of the thirty-six-episode season‚ where she records all events from her dorm room as part of her journalism class. The web series stays loyal to having Carmilla remain the female vampire in the story‚ while also implying other female romantic relationships. In the short story Le Fanu’s choice of a female vampire alters
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