Dame Alice: The First Feminist Character in Western Literature During the Middle Ages‚ men are known to have more power than women‚ controlling them and taking advantage over them. Women do not have the same rights as men and they are treated differently. Men are superior while women are inferior. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales changes the society of the Middle Age completely in The Wife of Bath. In The Wife of Bath‚ the main character of this tale‚ or the one telling this tale‚ is a woman‚ the
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Senior Prize Winner - Katherine McIndoe‚ age 18‚ New Zealand Commonwealth Essay Competition 2013 “To boldly go”: a letter to the lost girls To the lost girls‚ My name is Katherine. I’m a girl‚ just like you. I have grown up in New Zealand‚ and I go to university. Ever since I was little‚ I have had this feeling that I can do whatever I want to do‚ that my future is not my fate but something that I can choose. I see no obstacles‚ only opportunities. No one can force me to do anything that
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up upon her life. During the 1970s‚ many black Americans have been viewed as outsiders who are different from everyone else. Unfortunately‚ this is known as discrimination. Black Americans had to go through this tough time for 14 years straight dealing with the pain and suffering of feeling excluded. Alice Walker has experienced this civil rights movement when she was around 20 years old‚ so this short story was able to help her explain how life was like during those times. The mood at the beginning
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Good Morning/ Afternoon‚ Ladies and Gentlemen‚ Cigarettes have caused around 5 million deaths‚ which is 8 people dying each minute. Therefore cigarettes should be banned as they don’t just do physical damage but also moral damage. However banning cigarettes might lead to more criminal offense. Cigarettes have become a serial killer and have brought to people several different illnesses. The ingredients in a cigarette are so bad for you that they can kill a large rat in a matter of minutes
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Should Boxing Be Banned? What do Boxing‚ Sky Diving‚ Horseback Riding‚ and Climbing Mountains have in common? All of these sports can be very dangerous to perform some more than others but dangerous all the same‚ yet thousands of people continue to attempt these sports and many more dangerous activities evry day. An obvious question somebody might ask is why doesn’t anyone stop these people from doing these sports if their so dangerous? The simple answer is‚ its nobody else’s business what
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them through a wide variety adventures‚ including in his death. This story is yet not as inspirational as the Harry Potter series and almost impossible to read without side notes. These two tolerably stories are the same in context‚ but yet one is banned and one is taught nation wide as an example of great
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The Identity Crisis of Alice in the Mirror Image In the story “Mirror Image” by Lena Coakley‚ Alice has been in accident which to survive they were only able to save her by performing a brain transplant. She finds herself in the middle of an identity crisis when the doctor was required to exchange her body for someone else’s body. This body had belonged to a girl named Gail. Due to the change in body‚ she finds herself curious about her new body. Also she is quite sensitive about when is
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After reviewing the list of banned and challenged books‚ I found one that is by one of my favorite authors. The book Looking For Alaska written by John Green was the sixth most challenged book last year for a “scene that may lead a student to sexual experimentation”(Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016 via YouTube). Looking for Alaska was challenged in the United States‚ and is currently the bout of a drawn out battle in Kentucky. At Marion County High School an upset parent wrote a letter to the high
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Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker Page 1 of 15 ANNALS OF MEDICINE LETTING GO What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? by Atul Gawande AUGUST 2‚ 2010 Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions-—-and bad at knowing when to focus‚ instead‚ on improving the days that terminal patients have left. • Ql ara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It O started
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In her short story “Alice”‚ Paulette White describes a relationship between Alice‚ who is the protagonist of the story‚ and the narrator. The narrator shares “remembrances” of her childhood‚ although they may be unreliable‚ to convey the message that “if you change the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change”. Paulette is able to include this theme in her story by making the narrator a character who interacts with Alice through memories and present thoughts. A potent tool that the
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