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    The flashbacks give us with the impression that Esther has always played the roles which others have wanted her to play. Helen O’Grady proclaims that this kind of identification of self prevents spontaneity and weakens the chances of active participation in the making of the female identity. Furthermore‚ she argues that women have a tendency to police themselves and criticize their own performances within the broader culture. In the broader culture’s representations‚ for example in the media‚ the

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    The difficult one: 1. Characterize the following characters: Matt Buckner: Matt is a studied journalism on Harvard‚ in the start he is a bit shy‚ he don’t have the guts to stick up for himself. But that is about to change‚ he is joining the hooligans from West Ham United! He is beginning to defend himself‚ and he learned how to fight. Pete Dunham: He is a violent guy‚ he is the leader of the firm GSE‚ and he took over after his brother‚ the major. He is living for fighting; he is living

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    GDP Expanded at 4.2% Rate in Second Quarter Corporate Profits Also Surged‚ Rising 6% from the First Quarter to an Annual Rate of $1.840 Trillion Ben Leubsdorf. August 28‚ 2014. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/articles/gdp-expanded-at-4-2-rate-in-second-quarter-1409229416Gross Domestic Product The purpose of Mr. Leubsdorf’s article was to explain how the current GDP exceeded prior expectations. Ben went into great detail about the encouraging direction of not only the GDP but also of unemployment

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    Decoding ’Natural’ Rate of Unemployment Neil Shah. September 7‚ 2012. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1038358262?accountid=12085 UNEMPLOYMENT Neil Shah wrote this article which briefly covers the topics of unemployment and the natural unemployment rate. The way our economy has been on a downward slope has led to the need to write about the natural unemployment rate. There are more and more people losing their jobs. Not only do they lose their jobs‚ but the longer that

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    practicalities of opening a Chinese restaurant in Middleton were a challenge too. There were no Chinese supermarkets or wholesalers in Manchester and Lily’s nearest source was Liverpool‚ over 30 miles away” (Tse‚ 183). The novel “Sweet Mandarin” by Helen Tse recounts the journey of three generations of Chinese women and how their love for food changed their lives. “Sweet Mandarin” gives an account of how the family came from an impoverished‚ callous village in China to eventually settling in Hong Kong-

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    (1) Helen Zia‚ in the article‚ Reinventing Our Culture‚ quotes a hapa (mixed heritage Asian American): People say that were a cultural bridge‚ or the other extreme‚ that we represent cultural degeneracy and we will dilute the culture Which viewpoint do you support? When the person explained that a person with a mixed heritage can be looked upon as a cultural bridge‚ or a representation of cultural degeneracy‚ I believe that they are a cultural bridge. I think that if more and more Asians became

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    3.5 Graham Street: A Case Study As stated in the introduction‚ Graham Street is a character street specialized in selling fresh and affordable produce to people all over Hong Kong. One can find meat‚ vegetables‚ dried seafood and even Chinese medicine and incense there. At the age of 172‚ it is Hong Kong’s oldest wet market‚ but it might not survive for much longer because of the URA. During the process of urban renewal‚ the URA has disregarded its “people first” objective and its procedure lacks

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    because of the lack of a green card or legality in the United States. Helen Thorpe wrote and published a narrative on four girls who recently graduated high school that each has big decisions to make. For Clara and Elissa‚ choosing which college to attend is their main concern‚ and for Marisela and Yadira‚ applying to college is their biggest concern because they lack having a proper social security number and a green card. In Helen Thorpe’s book “Just Like Us”‚ she explores the different realities

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    please the aesthetic senses‚ especially the sight. In the poems “Helen”‚ and “To Helen”‚ by Poe and Doolittle‚ both authors recognize Helen’s physical beauty‚ a quality that she is most known for in the ancient world. However‚ this statement proves to be one of the few similarities between the two poems compared to the many differences. Based on Poe’s poem‚ he is very kind and loving toward Helen. On the contrary Doolittle speaks of Helen in a harsh‚ and negative way. These poems clearly show their

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    Sex and the Single Girl is a novel written by Helen Gurley Brown that really gives us a liberal and different side of women in the 1960s and what our culture was facing. The novel too many in our present day generation will most likely agree to most of the content‚ however there are several examples of what I believe our culture would find different to talk about in public without getting looks. Brown is breaking down this barrier with her novel‚ and wants women to be able to express themselves

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