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    The piece of art that we have chosen is the piece I’m Still Here by Carrie Liao. This piece is 8.0” (20.32 cm) high and 10.0” (25.4 cm) wide. The medium of the piece is ink and gouache. The piece’s subjects are the ship sailing in the clouds and the boy standing on the walkway. Other objects in the piece are the clouds surrounding the ship‚ the night sky‚ the wooden walkway‚ and the manta rays flying around the ship. The colors of the piece are lighter in the bottom left‚ including light pink‚ yellow

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    Wendy Ellison Scott Vaughn ENGL 3150 I Stand Here Ironing Motherhood is filled with great joy‚ but there are many challenges along the way that can be rewarding and damaging to both mother and child. Tillie Olsen gives us a look into the hardships that poverty and absence caused a young family in I Stand Here Ironing. All parents want better for their children‚ but the hardships caused by poverty can hinder the ability to create strong relationships and make positive choices for the children

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    the herald of the idea of postmodernism in this deconstruction of the question of “Why am I here?” being present to digest. To represent this idea is the story of Chris McCandless‚ as told in the book Into the Wild. The story actually begins quite late in the journey of Chris McCandless with him meeting a truck driver who gives him a lift‚ named Jim Gilliam. The story from there moves around from here to after his death‚ covering his high school days and even the life of the author himself. This

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    Vignette #: 7 I’m Not Right Up Here Axis I: 309.21 Separation Anxiety Disorder‚ early onset‚ 313.81 Oppositional Defiant Disorder‚ 315.9 Learning Disorder NOS Axis II: V62.3 Academic problem Axis III: R Axis IV: Victim of Child abandonment (Mother) Axis V: GAF = 31 (current) Phillip meets criteria for Separation Anxiety Disorder Criteria A by meeting three (or more) symptoms: 1) Phillip showed anxiety at separation from his grandmother when he began school Criteria B is met with duration

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    Exile is one of the dominant themes permeating Brian Friel’s long career as a playwright. Philadelphia‚ Here I Come! was his first big international success. It was also the first to focus on the plight of characters torn by the need to abandon the place to which they feel deeply attached for the sake of their own growth and integrity. The exile in Philadelphia is twenty-five-year-old Gar O’Donnell. He lives in familiar Friel territory‚ the fictional Irish village of Ballybeg‚ in this instance

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    grabs ahold of a heart of the audience‚ because it as distressing as it sounds it comes a little too late. A story portrayal of a mother and daughter’s relationship‚ as well as a daughter’s devaluation during those times is tear-jerking. I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen is a representation of true emotion and somewhat guilt or the lack of‚ during a period when times were challenging. The point-of-view‚ setting‚ and tone demonstrate the somberness in the theme of the relationship between an

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    Human Trafficking‚ it happens here‚ it’s happening now. Imagine a young girl whose family is struggling and unable to provide her with a good education and a woman arrives and offers this young girl a job and a chance to attend school. Since this opportunity is unlikely to be offered at another time‚ the girl accepts the offer. When this young girl arrives in this supposed “opportunity of a lifetime” it is a living nightmare. The story you’ve just pictured is true in the case of 12 year old Maria

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    Tillie Olson’s “I Stand Here Ironing” is a story told from the perspective of a young mother during the Great Depression. The woman reflects on the hardships she faced while raising her first-born child‚ Emily. The mother’s experiences were common to many women. The 1930s was a time when patriarchy was prevalent. Women were expected to adhere to domestic duties and pass these practices on to their daughters. Women strove to find husbands to care for them and start families with. Few women obtained

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    Willie Boy Is Here: History and Myth The hunt for Willie Boy has been the subject of much debate since the manhunt occurred in 1909. Harry Lawton’s novel “Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here” was largely based on the conventional story that was told by Ben de Crevecoeur. The account told by de Crevecoeur‚ and subsequently Lawton‚ share the idea that Willie Boy was drunk off stolen alcohol when he committed the crime‚ even though there was no evidence of this. The film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here was directed

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    order to be capable of murder. She conveys this through the use of figurative language and alliteration.     Through the usage of figurative language‚ it is understood that she wants to lose her nurturing female qualities. Her statement of “unsex me here” figuratively means that she does not want to be the sex that she was given so that she could commit the murder. Literally she means that in order to pull off the deepest cruelty‚ she would have to have less feminine traits. A women is naturally portrayed

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