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    Comparison of the Characters in "A Doll’s House" and "The Stranger" In the real world there exist many different people‚ of different races and ages‚ each one unique. Some live secluded lives with few friends and others live very rich and complex lives surrounded by friends and acquaintances. No matter what type of life is led it is human nature to adjust one’s external personality to suit the specific situation‚ much like putting on and removing different masks. People tend to be polite and

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    House of Sand and Fog sense of self essay In House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III‚ the author states an epigraph in the beginning of the novel from (“ The Balcony” by Octavio Paz): “Beyond myself/ somewhere/ I wait for my arrival.” This epigraph defines ones sense of self and Behrani‚ Kathy‚ and Lester in House of Sand and Fog all have a sense of self in some way. It may not be clear at first but the author burn’s an image of each character’s personality into the readers head. By the end

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    House Compared to other hospital dramas‚ “House” is more medically accurate with episode criteria‚ and is also a very intriguing show that keeps viewers on edge. There are things here and there that are slightly off or aren’t completely accurate‚ but that’s what occurs with most television shows to maintain interest for obvious reasons. Many aspects make the show a better choice‚ as opposed to other shows‚ like Grey’s Anatomy‚ General Hospital‚ and Scrubs. An important role to the show‚ Dr. Gregory

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    Megan Nealon Psychology CHARACTER ANALYSIS 1. NOAH – The Notebook Noah is a hard working boy from the outskirts of town who meets a rich girl named Allie. They fall in love over the summer but are forced to end the relationship because Allie’s parents disagree with it. After they break up Noah goes into a deep depression. He is even too depressed to shave his face. Noah once told Ally that he would buy an abandoned house that she likes and fix it up so they could live in it. When

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    In the play‚ A Doll House‚ Nora goes through a major character change. The play is set during Christmas time and New Year’s because these are both times of “rebirth” or “reawakening” and similar metaphors to what Nora goes through during the play. Nora is treated and acts like a doll living in a doll house during most of the play. Towards the end of the play‚ Nora realizes that being a “doll” is not her reality. The reality of her trials with her marriage wake her up from her imagination to the

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    the scorpion” The poet ’s mother was stung by a scorpion on that night when it was pouring very heavily‚ thousands of villagers on hearing the news came in ’like swarms of flies ’ trying to do their bit in saving the mother. They came with lanterns‚ candles and crowded round her chanting the name of God ’a thousand times ’‚ they first tried to search for the scorpion for they felt as much  as the scorpion moved the poison of the mother would spread but there was no trace of the scorpion‚ they

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    House M.D. is a medical drama and investigative series that centers on the job of Dr. Gregory House. He is a physician who works at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital as the Director of Diagnostic medicine where he supervises a team of highly skilled doctors who take on medical cases that other doctors fail to solve. In season six‚ episode three of House M.D‚ House explores different ways of distracting himself after completing a rehab program. As an addict to Vicodin‚ he must cut all of his old habits

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    The Haunting Hill House is a novel written by Shirley Jackson. In this novel‚ Jackson writes about Hill House which was believed to be a haunted place in which Dr. John Montague with his invited guests‚ Eleanor Vance‚ Theodora and Luke Sanderson stay at for a while with the purpose of helping Dr. Montague to write his book. Jackson writes the novel in away Hill House is the physical manifestation of the mind and during Eleanor’s stay in Hill House‚ the house becomes a reflection of her own mind.

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    Commentary on “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezequiel The poem “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel is an account of how the poet remembers his mother being stung by a scorpion when he was young. However‚ he does not write about his own feelings or reactions; we realize he is merely the narrator. Most of the poem is in the third person‚ as Ezekiel reports on what other people do and say and he uses various images and senses to make us visualise the scenes. The poem is written

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    As humans‚ we are all expected of something‚ and we all deal with those expectations in our own ways. In The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros shows the expectations of Esperanza Cordero and explains how she deals with the difficulties of living in poverty in 1984. One societal standard is the expectation that the oldest sibling is responsible for the younger siblings’. Being the oldest of the children in her family‚ Esperanza is responsible for her siblings. One morning Esperanza’s abuelito

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