Margaret Thatcher‚ from 1979-1990 is the first and only woman thus far to have served as Prime Minister for the United Kingdom and dealt with many unique challenges as a result of her gender. First‚ a female‚ showing an interest in a career in politics in the 1950’s was very unusual and often considered aggressive by both male and females. As the movie showed‚ she was an outsider not only to men but also to women. As a female M.P.‚ Leader of the Conservative Party and then Prime Minister‚ Margaret
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In the book‚ A Wrinkle In Time‚ Margaret Murry is the main character. Margaret is referred to as Meg by the other characters in the first chapter. She has three brothers‚ Sandy and Dennys are twins and the youngest named Charles Wallace‚ which seems to be her favorite. Meg’s father has gone away but she does not know yet where he went or when he will return. This has been very devastating for her. Mrs Murry is a scientist and very smart. They all live in an older big home out in the country.
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The poem The City Planners is a poem written by Margaret Atwood. It starts off about the poet driving around the streets and describing what she sees‚ some things are praised‚ but there is also a list of complaints. Then the poet describes the City Planners‚ which I think they are builders or architects and their so-called constructive work. In the view of the poet it seems that they are building very tidy and smart buildings but they are actually destroying nature and the environment. The first
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Thatcher‚ Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher‚ Baroness Thatcher‚ Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher‚ Baroness‚ 1925‚ British political leader. Great Britain’s first woman prime minister‚ Thatcher served longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th cent. In office she initiated what became known as the "Thatcher Revolution‚" a series of social and economic changes that dismantled many aspects of Britain’s postwar welfare state. Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford and later became a lawyer
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Nicu is a good choice of husband for Margaret Nicu and Margaret are one of the most significant couples in the novel. The novel is about the difference of the people brought by different class. Nicu is in lower class‚ his family does not earn much and they rent farms from Chisholm’s family. Margaret‚ in the other hand ‚ is in higher class‚ she herself is in Chisholm’s family. If this young couple want to be together‚ their love should be proved. There are some reasons why Nicu is a good choice for Margaret. First of all
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Too Jaded to Write about Love An allusion is a casual or passing reference to a famous historical or fictional character. In poetry‚ allusions are often used to help reinforce a point or characterize the speaker or the addressee. In the case of Margaret Atwood’s poems‚ “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing” and “Sekhmet Lion-Headed Goddess of War”‚ allusions are used to empower and change the way we view the female speaker. This is especially obvious in “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing”
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Margaret Bourke-White was a well known photographer and was known for proving that women could do the same thing as men in the field of photography. She photographed Gandhi minutes before his assassination‚ covered the war that followed the partition of India‚ and was with U.S. troops when they liberated Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp. She was the iconic photographer that caught everyone by surprise. Margaret defied what everyone thought that a woman was capable of doing in the world of
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KATE Welcome to the Late Show with Margaret Mary Adams‚ I’m your host Margaret Mary. Today I will be talking to three men who invented and innovated during the 1800s. Our first guest is the man who leads the steel industry. Ladies and Gentlemen‚ please welcome‚ the entrepreneur and philanthropist‚ Andrew Carnegie! Jack comes out Crowd applauds JACK How do you do ma’am? KATE Very well thank you. Andrew‚ tell us a little bit about yourself. JACK Well‚ there isn’t a lot to say. At age twelve
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Margaret Sanger: The Mother of Preventing Unwanted Motherhood At the turn of the 20th century‚ the toll that years of injustices took on American minority groups rose to a breaking point. The plethora of new technology which arrived post-civil war led to many unaddressed socioeconomic issues (“Progressive Movement.”)‚ which caused many discontent individuals to unite to form malcontent groups. Known as the Progressive Era‚ the first 20 or so years of the century consisted of movements led primarily
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photography as Social Commentary Born in the Bronx‚ New York in 1904‚ Margaret Bourke-White was one of the best-known photographers of the twentieth century who was known for her fearless and dramatic photographs. She graduated from Cornell University and started her career as an industrial photographer at a steel company in Cleveland‚ Ohio. In 1929 she got hired by Fortune Magazine and traveled to the Soviet Union to photograph its industrial development. Bourke-White then
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