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    In artmaking students have explored the structural and subjective frame and how artists investigate and respond to their world through portraiture. Through a study of Dobell’s ‘Joshua Smith’ and Joy Hester’s ‘Untitled Woman in Black’‚ students have developed an understanding of why and how artists use visual qualities to communicate ideas and characteristics. The purpose of this task is for students to demonstrate their understanding of each artwork and how the artists have represented their experiences

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    Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is one of Joyce Carol Oates best short stories. Oates shows the reader what it is like to take things for granted and make mistakes through the main character‚ Connie. Throughout this story‚ Connie finds her identity and grows as a woman. In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ Joyce Carol Oates shows us the struggle of a young woman dealing with her family‚ sexuality‚ and common mistakes that can be made

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    “Whose is the greater guilt therein when either’s conduct may dismay: she who sins and takes the pay‚ or he who pays her for her sin?” (Cruz 296). In the 1600’s‚ when a woman commits adultery and brings shame upon her husband she is often put to death as punishment. However‚ in Hester Prynne’s case she is shamed with a scarlet letter and excluded from society. In the novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester is forced to wear a Scarlet Letter “A” upon be bosom for the rest of

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    In the beginning of the book Hester Prynne is a very kind woman. She ended up making a poor decision that will affect the rest of her life. Its life everyone makes mistakes we’re all human.But what shes does is something she will have to live with for the rest of her life and never be able to take it back.In this book The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone.Hester is the main character‚and let’s get to the point;adulteress. In the beginning of the book‚Hester is forced to marry Roger Chillingworth

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    WOMEN IN ARTHURIAN LEGENDRY. Throughout literature women have been depicted in many different ways. This may have been influenced by certain stereotypes or an author’s personal experience. In Arthurian legends such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ the female character queen Guinevere is not portrayed as an individual but as a social construct of what a woman should be. Queen Guinevere however plays a passive woman. At the time of the middle ages‚ women were considered to be of lesser quality

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    Where Have You Been?     “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388)  The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?”  in the 1960’s‚ she was

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    Abortions have become popular to the industry. About 43% of American women will have one or occasionally more than one abortions during their lifetime. Women’s centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year. Most abortions are done on women under the age of 25. Majority of abortions are done for teenagers. Abortions are obviously in great demand. Most of the causes of abortions for women are due to personal and medical problems‚ and abusive sexual acts (rape pregnancy). The

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    You have been asked to investigate a new procedure that physicians would like nurses to adopt in the hospital. *Discuss the process you would apply to determine whether the procedure falls within the RN scope of practice *How you would go about introducing the new procedure with physicians and fellow nurses. You have been asked to investigate a new procedure that physicians would like nurses to adopt in thehospital. Discuss the process you would apply to determine whether the procedure falls within

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    Although Hester did sin‚ she remained true to herself and wore the A as her duty. However‚ Dimmesdale‚ whom was the dad‚ preached and kept punishing her even though he committed the same sin. I agree with Carpenter and his views. Hester’s sin was not completely her fault. The author explains‚ “Because Hester Prynne was so perfectly loyal and loving that she would never abandon her lover‚ she was condemned by the Puritans” (Carpenter). I believe Hester never tried finding a way out of her punishment nor

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    with your husband‚ being shunned by society‚ and disobeying a commandment given by God possibly be good? In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne the book’s main character‚ was forced to wear a scarlet stitched letter “A” on her chest after she had committed adultery. Although Hester was shamed and shunned by society she was lucky by Puritan standards to not be physically punished or even killed (“Puritan” US). Many adulterers in the Massachusetts Bay Company were subjected

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