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    how George and Virginia have to hide a crucial fact about themselves to be able to date each other. While Virginia believes their love is real‚ George thinks their love is actually lust‚ and Virginia want a partner to be with through her tough times. In the play The Clean House‚ we noticed that Virginia was a very childlike character‚ and often had to hide things about her life. She would always get into a fight with her sister‚ raising her voice often as a child would. Virginia also tries to hide

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    occurred‚ when a student at Virginia Tech starting shooting fellow students. This shooting spree lasted for about two hours and by the end there were a recorded thirty-three deaths including the shooter. After this shocking event so many students and families were crying over friends‚ family and loved ones. Nikki Giovanni‚ in the speech “We are Virginia Tech” in 2007‚ addressed the Virginia Tech students fear and sadness. The speaker uses repetition‚ imagery and point of view in her speech to bring listeners

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    Gender In The Movie Her

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    The film Her‚ directed by Spike Jonze‚ portrays the ideal of true love and happy endings differently than other romance films. Normally in a romance film‚ “true love” and “happily ever after” are shown at the end of the movie. In contrast‚ the film Her‚ did not conclude with true love and a happy ending. This film broke the boundaries of how these two ideas end up affecting our daily life‚ due to the influence of the culture around us. The main character‚ Theodore‚ goes through periods of transition

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    The Death of the Moth Virginia Woolf The passage “The Death of the Moth” has been excerpted from Virginia Woolf’s (1882-1941) collection of essays and published one year after her death. Throughout this particular passage‚ she symbolizes a moth and its insignificance yet contribution to nature‚ along with her views on life and death. She skillfully elaborates about this moth‚ providing information that reveals it is much more noteworthy than it is treated. She begins her writing with a general

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    Frida, Her Life

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    culture of her country in a style combining Realism‚ Symbolism and Surrealism. Drawing on personal experiences including her troubled marriage‚ her painful miscarriages‚ and her numerous operations‚ Kahlo’s works are often characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are self-portraits‚ which frequently incorporate symbolic portrayals of her physical and psychological wounds. Kahlo was deeply influenced by indigenous Mexican culture‚ which is apparent in her paintings’

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    Warming Her Pearls

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    Warming Her Pearls for Judith Radstone Next to my own skin‚ her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them‚ warm them‚ until evening when I´ll brush her hair. At six‚ I place them round her cool‚ white throat. All day I think of her‚ resting in the Yellow Room‚ contemplating silk or taffeta‚ which gown tonight? She fans herself whilst I work willingly‚ my slow heat entering each pearl. Slack on my neck‚ her rope. She´s beautiful. I dream about her in my attic bed; picture her

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    Her First Week

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    Her First Week ‘Her first week’ captures the emotions of a newly made mother and shows her feelings during the first week she spends with her child. Sharon Olds expresses her happiness of being blessed with a baby girl and shares the experience of emerging into motherhood. The poem transfers the joy and thrill of being with child and portrays the feelings of the mother with her child around. It also shows the beginning of a new bond between mother and child.

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    A Woman in Her Prime

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    A Woman in Her Prime by Asare Konadu. Heinemann‚ 1967. 107 pages Compared to the brilliance and brashness of so much Nigerian literature‚ the quieter literature of Ghana may seem in danger of being overlooked. A Woman in Her Prime is a good example of what a mistake that would be. Like its heroine‚ A Woman in Her Prime is modest‚ balanced‚ calm‚ and understated‚ but with a charm and quiet beauty that prove captivating. It centers on a domestic drama that can be stated simply: Pokuwaa would

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    Her First Ball

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    Her First Ball – Katherine Mansfield Characters: Protagonist: Leila Her first ball is based primarily on Leila‚ who is the protagonist of the story. In this story‚ we do not particularly know her appearance‚ but can form an image of her through the description of her personality. Leila is youth and idealism personified. She is simple; she tries to act mature in the story because she feels indifferent amongst her cousins and it is uncomfortable for her. “She tried not to smile too much; she

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    Her Sweet Jerome

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    "Her Sweet Jerome" is a short story about a married‚ black couple. Their relationship is not working and they don’t really love each other. The female character is lying to herself. She pictures herself as sexy and beautiful but she is described as a big and awkward woman. She is trying to look sexy and attractive‚ so she can cover up her flaws. She is also denying the truth by pretending that her husband finds her attractive‚ when he in fact is disgusted. Their relationship is unhealthy‚ mainly

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