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    Ideal American Woman

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    the “ideal woman”‚ and this is shown through all of the actresses and models that we so fondly look up to. All have specific characteristics in common: unrealistically skinny & many times underweight‚ perfect style (which is quite expensive)‚ they are always filthy rich‚ and of course happy. As a society‚ we get the idea that all of these things that they possess are what makes them happy‚ and what gives them the perfect life; so of course pretty much every woman wants to be like these “ideal women”

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    My Ideal Home

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    My ideal home. In the 1950s the average home was about 983 square feet and the average cost was around $8‚450 Homes were usually built with two or fewer bedrooms and children shared bedrooms if needed. Closets were around two feet by eight feet---just big enough for your clothes. Bathrooms were built out of necessity and most homes managed with just one. It was a luxury to have a garage or a carport and the majority of homes in the 50s did not include any protection for a car. Central air conditioning

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    Hamlet notoriously asserts‚ “Frailty‚ thy name is woman!” (I.II.150) after being disgruntled and disappointed by his mother’s short mourning period for his father. To a modern audience‚ this phrase is immensely appalling‚ but for the Elizabethan era‚ this is perfectly acceptable. Elizabethan social order was built upon a temple where its foundations was the patriarchal domination and it was decorated with misogynistic ornaments. Hamlet’s tumultuous relationship with Ophelia is due to his distrust

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    My Ideal Spouse

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    My ideal spouse Marriage is the most important and difficult thing in one’s life‚ so we have to choose our life partner prudently. When I was a little girl‚ like many other girls‚ I had dreams of marrying a prince riding a white horse on the green pasture and seek for perfect guy. After I grew up‚ I realized that it is not likely to happen. As I think of my ideal spouse‚ many traits and qualities come to my mind. Of many qualities‚ I am going to give 3 most important things that I would look

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    The American‚ French‚ and Haitian people’s followed the powerful Enlightenment ideals that became part of their strategy to engage them toward liberty and equality. Citizens and slaves gathered to fight a common enemy. They combined their Enlightenment ideals‚ they fought‚ and they won. By winning they were able to form a nation that contained people with a common ethnicity‚ language‚ history‚ religion‚ and culture‚ and most importantly‚ they governed themselves. Even though‚ the United States‚

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    My ideal bookshelf

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    My Ideal Bookshelf When I first started reading I completely hated every aspect of it. It was boring‚ I couldn’t spend my time outside‚ and I thought that it was a complete waste of time. But then in 3rd or 4th grade I read my first Harry Potter and was completely blown away by how great it was. J. K. Rowling opened a completely new world to me. Suddenly reading became very interesting and I started reading more and more‚ at the same time I also started to get more and more interested in

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    ideal type bureacracy

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    Ideal Type Bureaucracy A bureaucracy is "a body of nonelective government officials" and/or "an administrative policy-making group."Historically‚ bureaucracy referred to government administration managed by departments staffed with non elected officials. In modern parlance‚ bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large institution. The elimination of unnecessary bureaucracy is a key concept in modern managerial theory‚ and has been a central issue in numerous political

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    Carl Becker wrote about the ideal democracy in a government. The main purpose of the work is to make evident the nature of democracy. He compares it with other forms of government that depend on autocracy and the leadership of the few rather than the many. His concrete definition of democracy is “democratic government has always meant one in which the citizens‚ or a sufficient number of them to represent more or less effectively the common will‚ freely to act from time to time‚ and according to established

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    Epic Poetry and Beowulf Pg

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    Epic poems have a unique set of characteristics that distinguish them from just an ordinary poem. An epic poem must contain a hero that is male‚ noble‚ and of importance to society who gives long formal speeches and travels over a vast setting. In the epic poem‚ Beowulf‚ the reader can see distinct Anglo-Saxon political‚ economic‚ and religious values in the actions of the characters and the things happening around them. Wealth in the Anglo-Saxon society‚ as seen in Beowulf‚ was used as a means of

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    availability of rights‚ and opportunities. A person may not have the same status‚ but the base of which someone can achieve a status is equal. While‚ in America‚ equality has not been fully achieved‚ the chance of success through equality is an American Ideal. The ideas of equality are evident in America’s founding documents‚ The Articles of the Confederation‚ The Constitution‚ and the Bill of Rights. The Articles of the Confederation discusses the equal rights between citizens. Article IV says “...the

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