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    In today’s society‚ all are taught the social structure that is meant to be followed and not changed; yet‚ are also taught to stand up for something if enough belief is put into it- a double standard by most accounts. Such standards exist in the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Set in the time where women’s equality was a joke and with an ending too shocking for the German public‚ this play brought into light the “two kinds of spiritual law one in man one in women” (Rosefeldt) this view outlines

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    Many celebrities have doubles‚ people who look very much like them‚ but come from other walks of life. Charles John Huffman Dickens did not have a known double in real life‚ but he employed their use in his writing. A Tale Of Two Cities is a classic tale of the French Revolution written by Dickens. The novel begins with Mr.Lorry saving a man from prison whose daughter‚ Lucie Manette‚ later marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to save an old family servant‚ he is sent to the guillotine

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    is a commonplace when digging into the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale to stress the anachronism of calling Chaucer a feminist. Yet it is also a commonplace to find Chaucer attractive for his play with gender in his book‚ nowhere better demonstrated than in the reconstitution of various misogynist diatribes into the charismatic Wife of Bath who talks back defiantly to “auctoritee”. If Chaucer is not actually endorsing the strident voice he gives to the Wife‚ he is certainly making play with textuality

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    day. When a person spends more time on internet‚ he would spend less time with his family or real life friends. Those people who live with that person in real life will start leaving him. However‚ those people who found out on the social network site will not stay online all the time. During the blank time‚ this person will feel lonely. There is nothing in his life. When a person spends more time on internet‚ enjoy his own small world more‚ he is also kept away from outside by internet. Most people

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    Who is to say where the line is to be drawn? The line of morality‚ that is. The concept of “morality” is no longer taken into account by it’s literal meaning. Today’s new morphed definition of morality creates a deadly combination when brewed with modern time expressions of “feminism.” That is the problem right there. The world cannot come to precise terms with these two important concepts of “morality” and “feminism.” This is the reason for so much hypocrisy and controversy. There is certainly

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    TANABATA’S WIFE By Sinai Hamada I FAS-ANG first came to Baguio by way of the Mountain Trail. When at last she emerged from her weary travel over the mountains‚ she found herself just above the Trinidad Valley. From there‚ she overlooked the city of Baguio itself. Baguio was her destination. Along with three other women‚ she had planned to come to work on the numerous roads that were being built around the city. Native women were given spades to shovel the earth from the hillsides‚ and to make way

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    taken on both our feelings of sickness. 4. (Life of Pi) Page 168: I had to devise a training program for Richard Parker. I had to make him understand that I was top tiger and that his territory was limited to the floor of the boat‚ the stern bench and the side benches as far as the middle cross bench. I had to fix in his mind that the top of the tarpaulin and the bow of the boat‚ bordered by the neutral territory of the middle bench‚ was my territory and utterly forbidden to him. 5. (Outliers)

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    Dani Hewitt WR121 Portrait of a Writer From a very early age I loved to read. I read every chance I got. And everywhere. I read in my car while driving (which resulted in a fender bender)‚ in the bathtub‚ and yes‚ even in the shower. I ruined a good many books this way. I believe that this kind of love for reading never goes away. Just like the love you have for your child. I think that to be able to create

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    DOUBLE OR NOTHING “A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.” ― Alfred Hitchcock The reality is this -- all humans are flawed. Some have repressed personality traits that are recessive until they come to the forefront because of an unusual challenges or unexpected event. Some struggles bring out the best in us‚ while other challenges force us to show our “dark side.” When pushed there‚ most humans are capable of doing things that would normally seem unthinkable

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce‚ the main character‚ Stephen Dedalus has a life long desire to find a father figure. Not finding it within his own home he is forced to look out among the other men who play intricate roles in his life. Some of the men that Stephen looks to as father figures include; his dad‚ the dean of his school‚ the Jesuit priest of the retreat‚ his friend Cranly‚ and Daedelus of a Greek mythology. Again and

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