Margaret Thatcher is United Kingdom’s longest serving prime minister of recent times and first female head of government. She was in charge of Conservative Party and British government for over 11 years from 1979 up until 1990. The “Iron Lady”‚ that’s how Russians called her‚ is well known and respected nowadays for transforming Britain with the help of her strong leadership skills‚ her crack down on the trade unions‚ victory in Falklands War and‚ of course‚ her famous combative attitude to the
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Grantham‚ England‚ Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s Conservative Party leader and in 1979 was elected prime minister‚ the first woman to hold the position. During her three terms‚ she cut social welfare programs‚ reduced trade union power and privatized certain industries. Thatcher resigned in 1991 due to unpopular policy and power struggles in her party. She died on April 8‚ 2013‚ at age 87. Politician and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was born as Margaret Hilda Roberts on October
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A 1991 play‚ Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life‚ Vivian Bearing‚ is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security
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Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin is a meta-fiction that is deliberately deceptive. Structured like nesting Russian dolls‚ it is a novel-within-a novel within another novel‚ blending three narratives interspersed with newspaper clippings‚ a letter‚ and society announcements. It uses these narratives to weave an interchangeable story‚ slowly making it become clearer over time‚ with the use of darkness imagery‚ interlaces allusions to myths‚ fairy tales‚ literature‚ and the Bible to explore
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And Then I Met Margaret is a non-fiction book about a boy who came from a place where his future was already determined not to go beyond what the mill town offered. The author‚ Rob White‚ shocked the neighbourhood by becoming a college boy‚ a teacher‚ and eventually a billionaire. He acknowledged that his success in life was not his own and there were people who helped him along the way‚ though not in material things but in something that mattered to him more – his character. What the author mainly
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written well into his career. It is also one of the most popular. Margaret Thatcher‚ former prime minister of Great Britain‚ once said‚ “In politics‚ if you want anything said‚ ask a man; if you want anything done‚ ask a woman.” Novels and plays often portray circumstances that reflect Margaret Thatcher’s sentiment. In the play Medea‚ one of the most powerful and enduring of Greek Tragedies‚ some of the characters portrayed Margaret Thatcher’s sentiment by the actions they have committed
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In Homer’s Greek epic poetry‚ "Odyssey"‚ the Sirens are described as devilish‚ mythical creatures while in Margaret Atwood’s poem‚ the "Siren Song"‚ are portrayed as innocent‚ mythical creatures trying to escape their fate while using tone‚ point of view‚ and monologue to each’s advantage of portrayals of the Sirens. Throughout‚the encounter of the Sirens in the "Odyssey"‚ Homer’s diction places the Sirens as villains preventing Odysseus from completing his journey. Homer writes‚ "...the Sirens
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Title: Sent Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Text Type: Novel Date Read: January 2010 “Sent” by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the second novel in “The Missing” series. It is about four teenagers; Jonah‚ Chip‚ Alex and Katherine. In the first book “Found”‚ we find out that thirty-six teenagers had been stolen from history and accidently put into the twenty-first century. To fix time they have to go back to their original century. But of course‚ the teenagers don’t want to go back to their earlier
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People who we share spaces with every day. Per an editorial by Margaret A. Winker‚ the dangers of those who own firearms are becoming a prominent public health concern. Winker urges a release of funds‚ previously frozen‚ that are meant to be allocated to gun control. Further‚ she reports that one person is killed every
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Odyssey is one of a quiet‚ submissive‚ faithful woman. The readers do not see much of Penelope’s actions throughout the epic and rather just hear of what she should be doing. Penelope’s story and relationship with Odysseus has remained a myth‚ until Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. In the novel Penelope finally explains her story of what happened while Odysseus was on her journey away and back to her. The Penelopiad is praised as a feminist text and throughout the story the reader truly finds insight
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