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    1. “Harpo say‚ I love you‚ Squeak. He kneel down and try to put his arms round her waist. She stand up. My name Mary Agnes‚ she say.”-This passage is from Celie’s forty-first letter. Squeak has just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to release Sofia from prison. The prison warden raped Squeak‚ and she returns home battered and torn. However‚ Squeak is not defeated‚ and she makes an important act of resistance when she decides to reject the belittling nickname‚ Squeak‚ that Harpo has given her

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    slavery and racism are practiced on the basis of one’s own race. As a matter of fact‚ that’s what Alice Walker tries to reflect in her novel. She sheds the light upon this theme in many scenes. For example‚ when the mayor’s wife asks Sofia to work for her as a maid and Sofia rejects this racist and humiliating offer she is slapped for daring to refuse‚ and eventually imprisoned for defending herself. As a black woman‚ she is expected to be honored and pleased with being a white lady’s housemaid. Hence

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    Architecture and the Catholic Church Michael A McFadden Arch 401 Design Studio V Leon Bridges‚ FAIA‚ NOMAC The Catholic Church was the vast influence in the architectural world. The architecture of cathedrals‚ basilicas and abbey churches is characterized by the structures’ huge scale and trails one of numerous branching traditions of form‚ function and style that all ultimately derive from the Early Christian architectural traditions created in the Constantinian period. Architectural Styles

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    Essay‚ Research Paper: So Far From God Literature Free Literature essays posted on this site were donated by users and are provided for informational use only. The free essay on this page was not written by our writers and should not be viewed as a sample of our writing service. We are neither affiliated with the author of this essay nor responsible for its content. If you need high quality‚ fresh and competent research / writing done on the subject of Literature‚ use the professional writing service

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    “Alice Walker’s depiction of female characters in ‘The Color Purple’ is intended to act as a stark contrast to how many female characters have been portrayed throughout literature” Discuss this statement with reference to the critical anthology Throughout literature there has been an array of female portrayals‚ most prominently those in 19th century fiction‚ who didn’t work unless driven to it by necessity. Instead‚ the focus of interest was on the heroine’s choice of marriage partner‚ which would

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    Fifth century‚ eastern half of empire remained intact while west crumbled. There where large and complex bureaucracy. Rebuilt Constantinople‚ including Hagia Sophia. Codified Roman law Corpus iuris civilis (The Body of the Civil law). Had sent Belisarius to reconquer the Western Roman Empire‚ which didn’t last. The emergence of the Islamic state‚ 17th century. Arab peoples conquer the Sasanid Empire and part of Byzantium. Prolonged sieges of Constantinople by Islamic armies. Byzantium survived partly

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    into Europe‚ reaching as far as Vienna. The Ottomans decline due to a Janissary revolt‚ and weak government. The Ottomans introduce Europe to coffee‚ and coffeehouses become popular with Enlightenment thinkers. They also trade expensive tulip bulbs. Hagia Sophia is converted into a mosque. Islamic culture spreads throughout the

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    “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy‚” Celie is told by her Pa. So that’s what she does in The Color Purple‚ she writes to God‚ in letters. She does this‚ not only because of the command‚ but also because she is unsure of how to deal with being the subject of rape and abuse. She doesn’t clearly know how to express herself‚ and her letters to God is the only thing that would listen to her anyway. As Celie grows older‚ she gains outside listeners that help her actualize God

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    hanging out with my best friend‚ going to dances with her mom‚ and sometimes even with my mom. At one of the dance I went to there was really loud Mexican music. We were all dancing and having a great time. I met this girl named Brittney and her friend Sofia we bumped into them when we were getting something to drink. I remembered them because I had them on Facebook; I just had never talked to them in person. I went up to them and started talking to them about how we would always talk on Facebook and say

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    For example‚ Sofia ‚a artist‚ is diagnosed with schizophrenia‚ and has hallucinations. Consequently‚ she finds a method to cope with the hallucinations and also use them to her advantage. As an effect‚ she draws her hallucinations. As a result‚ Sofia draws her hallucinations ‚ which have become popular to the world ;therefore‚ she uses her illness to her advantage ‚and has become

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