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    Chinese Women: Becoming Half the Sky? ---An Analysis of Modern Feminism in China On November 7th‚ 2013‚ in order to promote a feminist student group’s upcoming campus performance of The Vagina Monologues‚ U.S. playwright Eve Ensler’s controversial play (Jaffe 2013)‚ 17 female students at the Beijing Foreign Studies University posted online photos of themselves holding up messages of “What My Vagina Says: …”. However‚ they probably didn’t expect to cause such a stir on Chinese social media. While

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    Many people feel that life goes by very rapidly. The stories "Half a day" by Naguib Mahfouz‚ and "Young Man on Sixth Avenue" by Mark Halliday‚ both convey this point. These two stories are very similar in the point they put across‚ but very different in the way they convey the theme to the reader. The short story‚ "Half a Day" by Naguib Mahfouz starts with a young boy walking to school with his father‚ on a street surrounded by gardens. As the school day went by it is actually his life flying

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    Do you agree with the view that during the second half of the nineteenth century the concept of the “angel in the house” lost its relevance? I believe that by the end of the second half the nineteenth century the concept of the “angel in the house” had not lost its relevance. Many laws were in place to protect women legally but socially women were still seen as inferior to men and the ideology of the separate spheres was still the ideal way for men and women to act by society. Women were viewed as

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    The second half of the nineteenth century was the height of the American Industrial Revolution. The United States was looking to become one of the largest industrial powers in the world. This would eventually transform the lives of millions of working Americans‚ as many of the American industrial workers’ lives were impacted by technological advancements and immigration in the time-period between 1865 and 1900. The atmosphere and working conditions that these industrial workers worked in were constantly

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    Thomas expresses the view that he is ‘half in love with pain’ in various poems‚ particularly ‘Melancholy’ and ‘Rain’. In both of these poems he seems to resent his troubles but also appreciates them in a rather unusual way. He expresses this by juxtaposing his inner states of joy and melancholy and the outer states of weather and the natural world. Throughout ‘Melancholy’‚ we see a relationship between pain and pleasure as he presents them as two halves of a whole experience‚ where one is consistently

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    In her article “Slave‚ Master‚ Mistress‚ Slave”‚ published in 1997‚ Betsy Klimasmith discusses the literary work of Louisa May Alcott. Among others‚ Klimasmith investigates the problem of interracial intersexual relationship in Alcott’s fiction. More precisely‚ the scholar claims that describing the relationship between white women and mulatto men in different texts‚ Alcott reveals the deficiency of sentimental fiction when it comes to picturing the whole spectre of female desire. By doing so‚ Alcott

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    The slave codes were harsh‚ and affected free blacks. Many opposed the codes‚ leading to an obvious appeal that would happen. Each state got rid of the codes at their own timing. The codes were not abolished until the late 1860’s. Even with the laws abolished treatment was still harsh. The slave codes went on to produce the black codes‚ which restricted free slaves. People protested and did what they needed to do to get the slaves their equal rights. "As early as the 17th century‚ a set of rules

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    of all the slaves. Instead‚ as years past and war weariness settled in‚ along with an already occurring self-liberating force by enslaved blacks‚ Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation. This historical document has been morphed into being accepted as Lincoln’s greatest achievement and the freeing of slaves. When actually analyzing the contents of this document and already occurring self-liberation movements of this time‚ it is evident that Abraham Lincoln didn’t free the slaves. 1. Self-Liberation

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    Buying and Selling Slaves Before the Civil War‚ nearly 4 million black slaves toiled in the American South. Modem scholars have assembled a great deal of evidence showing that few slaves accepted their lack of freedom or enjoyed life on the plantation. As one ex-slave put it‚ “No day dawns for the slave‚ nor is it looked for. It is all night — night forever.” For many‚ the long night of slavery only ended in death. In 1841‚ a bounty hunter kidnapped Solomon Northup‚ a free black man from Saratoga

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    Mary Webster was hanged from a tree in Massachusetts‚ for being accused of witchcraft. She hung there the whole night and was later cut down to be found alive. Mary Webster wrote this to show that god is real and he sometimes work to save us. Mary Webster used Simile‚ Synecdoche‚ and Imagery to show that in the end God is all we have. Mary Webster used simile to convey her message. In the text she said “I didn’t feel the smashed flesh closing over it like water over a thrown stone.” This is a simile

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