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    Kate Chopin and Charles W. Chesnutt Wrote the Literary History for America Post-Civil War The American Civil War drastically changed the society and culture of the United States. History books all tell the stories of the struggle by recently freed African American slaves. These books tell of the financial hardship‚ as well as the cultural endeavors these people had to endure to attempt to become equals to white Americans‚ as well as to acquire equal rights. Racial segregation is a big topic highly

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    The Awakening‚ The Story of an Hour and Desiree’s Baby By: Destiny Frye Title The Awakening: The novel was titled “The Awakening‚” because the main character Edna Pontellier goes through a series of liberations that cause her to “awaken” or become aware of her The Story of an Hour: The title refers to the actual duration of the story. All the events that take place in the story can happen in the time frame of an hour. Desiree’s Baby: The title refers to one of the main characters‚ Armand

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    Escape In The Awakening

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    The reason why we experience different effects of our escapes is because of the different pressures we feel from society. Society played a strong role in the cause for Edna’s escape in The Awakening‚ when societies norms and rules caused Edna to feel suppressed. The societal norm that women take care of the household and family was not of any interest to Edna‚ but she was forced to uphold these duties because of how her husband and society both

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    Cousin Kate

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    (1783-1854)‚ professor of Italian at King ’s College from 1831. He resigned in 1845 because of blindness. All the four children in the family became writers; Dante Gabriel also gained fame as a painter. Christina was educated at home by her mother‚ Frances Polidori‚ a former governess. She shared her parents ’ interest in poetry and was portrayed in the paintings and drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites.” Christina was sexually abused by her father‚ her poem ‘Cousin Kate’ could possibly be a recount of the series

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    The Awakening is a novel about gender relations which brings into sharp focus the stifling effect of society’s expectations on a woman’s growth as a person. The novel opens in the late 1800’s in Grand Isle‚ a summer holiday resort popular with the wealthy inhabitants of nearby New Orleans. The Awakening continues in the tradition of the local colonists with it’s references to Creole culture. The feminist ideas presented in The Awakening begin as mild sentiments‚ but as the story progresses‚ these

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    “[a] victim mind-set causes people to focus on what they cannot do instead of what they can do. It is a recipe for continued failure” (Maxwell). Tess Durbeyfield‚ in Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy‚ and Edna Pontellier‚ in The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ develop a victim mind-set and shape themselves around inadequate men more deeply than Dominique Francon‚ in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Tess Durbeyfield becomes a victim of the inadequate men surrounding her: John Durbeyfield‚ Alec Stoke

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    Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (Frédéric François Chopin) was born on March 10th‚ 1810 in Żelazowa Wola‚ Poland. His mother‚ Tekla Justyna Krzyżanowska‚ was of Polish descent and his father‚ Mikolaj Nicolas Chopin‚ was a French expatriate. Both Mikolaj Nicolas and Tekla Justyna Chopin played a major role in Fryderyk ’s academic and musical tutelage by ensuring that he was well taught by means of home schooling. Being that both his parents were musicians‚ his mother a pianist and his father

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    Kate Sheppard

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    Kate Sheppard Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote. She and other pioneering women campaigned so effectively that in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world to grant the vote to all women over 21. http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Society/People/S/Sheppard-Kate/ Kate was also involved in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union‚ founded the National Council of Women‚ established the first women

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    In her novel‚ The AwakeningKate Chopin depicts a woman much like herself. In the novel‚ the reader finds Edna Pontellier‚ a young wife and mother who‚ like Chopin‚ struggles with her role in society. The Victorian era woman was expected to fill a domestic role. This role requires them to provide their husbands with a clean home‚ food on the table and to raise their children. They were pieces of property to their husbands‚ who cared more about their wives’ appearance than their feelings. Edna initially

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    Princess Kate

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    Princess Kate Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Middleton was born on the 9th of January 1982 in England at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading‚ Berkshire (around 29 miles outside of London). She is the eldest of three children born to her mother Carole Elizabeth (née Goldsmith)‚ at the time a flight attendant‚ and Michael Francis Middleton (born 1949)‚ a flight dispatcher (later an airline officer) for British Airways. She was raised in Bucklebury‚ Berkshire. Her father’s family came from Leeds

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