An unknown artist created the statue Saint Margaret of Antioch ca. 1275-1325 A.D. using limestone‚ paint‚ and gilding. As the name suggests‚ the subject of the painting is Saint Margaret‚ depicted as young and innocent standing atop her emblem‚ a dragon. The statue is currently being displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Cloisters Collection though it was originally made in Burgos‚ Castile-Léon‚ Spain. While large‚ Saint Margaret of Antioch is not life size and stands at only
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paper - 500 word 2/10 Brandy Stefanell Vaccaro‚ ENC 1102 7/10/13 Reaction to‚ “My name is Margaret” This story reminds me of a sad time in our history when the people of this nation thought they could own another human being. I would like to say this time has passed‚ but we are barely able to hang on. We may have a bi=racial president‚ but there is still racism among the old south. Margaret was only a child and she was being groomed to be the help. It may have been on different scale verses
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place where sailors me their fate in a twisted convergence of ship and shore. Homer portrays these Sirens as dangerous and deceptive‚ and their song tempts Odysseus so much that he orders his men to tie him down‚ simply to ensure his survival. Margaret Atwood’s poem: Siren Song‚ however‚ basks the Sirens in a light of subtle danger‚ and extreme desperation. Stanzas four and eight detail that desperation‚ as one Siren sings‚ begging for liberation "out of this bird suit... Help me!... only you can
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Margaret Thatcher was born as Margaret Hilda Roberts on Octobers 13‚ 1925 in Grantham‚ England‚ which is famous by Nuton and Cromvil. Her father was Alfred Roberts‚ who owned a family grocery store and the family often helped him at the store‚ but at the same time he was the active in local politics. He was a very strict man; nobody has right to joke‚ to have a rest during the work hours. Margaret watched only several movies in her childhood and has only few family parties. In such environment Margaret
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Margaret was born March 23‚ 1984 to Nora and Augue DeFrancisco. She grew up in Chicago‚ Illinois with her mother and her older sister Regina. Margaret’s father was a convicted drug dealer and wasn’t around much while she was growing up. Margaret and her sister were both known as good students and no one could recall them ever getting into trouble. The girls were also known for their beauty and this caught the attention of many men. This proved to be deadly to a man named Oscar Velazquez. Oscar had
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challenge in the recording of history is that oftentimes the truth cannot be known‚ but only interpreted. According to the first Premier of the Soviet Union‚ Vladimir Lenin: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth” (Moncur On-Line). In the case of Margaret Atwood’s historical novel‚ Alias Grace‚ the renowned Canadian author went through the trouble of compiling hundreds of resources on historical figure Grace Marks in order to present Atwood’s version of the truth. By examining the author‚ what little
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Margaret Sanger. journalist‚ women’s activist and founder of planned parenthood— is known for all of those things. Held to a very high standard and well spoken of for her words on the issue of women’s rights and birth control‚ there are on the contrary very dark and sinister actions of this American pioneer. Although she was helpful to American women in the most minuscule of ways‚ she was also a racial supremacist and eugenicist. Margaret Sanger‚ born September 14‚ 1897 in Corning‚ New
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Feminism in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners The Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Desk Dictionary defines feminism as‚ “A doctrine advocating the granting of the same social‚ political and economic rights to women as the ones granted to men.” Feminists consider woman as an oppressed group‚ those who must present themselves as individuals and human beings. In Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners‚ Morag Gunn’s struggle for female self-representation is seen as she writes about her life. This is shown through
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Margaret Thatcher‚ Iconic Leader in History (King‚ 2002)Chellee Nemec Abstract There are too few iconic women leaders in history when in which female leaders of today can aspire to. While the numbers are small the women that did make their mark in history are notable leaders for women of today to emulate. After learning more about her life‚ Margaret Thatcher may very well be the most influential female leader of our time. No other female leader and many men for that matter have been able to accomplish
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Melinda Hernandez ENGL1302.20150120.428724 January 30‚ 2015 Death and Plots Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” is sly‚ sophisticated‚ and delightful. With a coy ease that feels so natural‚ she threads her story along‚ revealing her characters‚ drawing the audience into something that isn’t at all what it appears. Slowly yet intensely‚ she reveals the principal of plot development that she is trying to deliver to her audience. Atwood begins with just fifteen puzzling words. She breaks the rules of conventional
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