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    Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to consider becoming organ donors after death. Thesis: Becoming an organ donor after death is not only an important decision for yourself‚ but it is also an important decision for the life that you may have the power to save.

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    It is very important to be thankful. If you aren’t thankful for anything in life‚ you can go through life miserable for not having anything positive. There need to be some things that make your life happy or you will be sad. Some of the things I am thankful for are FaZe‚ phones‚ and sports. The thing that I am most thankful for is FaZe. FaZe is an intelligent group of gamers that play Call of Duty and hit trick shots for a living. The reason they do this is for self satisfaction‚ and

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    April 22‚ 2013 CHASE AUTO FINANCE: P.O. Box 901076 TX1-0055‚ Ft. Worth TX 76101-2076 Dear Customer Account Research Department‚ I am writing to you because I am currently obligated to your company for a loan bearing an interest of 6.75 %. This obligation was entered into on March 11‚ 2013 under contract number : Since Incurring this obligation‚ I have entered the active duty military service of the nation in the United States Army on October 05‚ 2010. This entry into active military has

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    How Far Do You Agree With The View That Lady Bracknell Does Create Comedy in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’?  When deciding if a character creates comedy or not it is important to weigh up the pros and cons of their main attributes. For me‚ overall Lady Bracknell does create comedy so I agree with the view but as with anything else it is arguable. It is clear the her triviality‚ character inversion and Wilde’s use of stock character create comedy although it can be argued that she is nonsensical

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Problem Proposals A complicated person can take a toll on a relationship. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Aunt Augusta is that complicated person. From the beginning‚ she brings conflict with her social class‚ her family‚ and her approval. Because of Aunt Augusta is from a high social class‚ she wants everyone in her family to marry someone of high class too. When someone is part of a high class‚ they always have money. Towards the end of the play‚ Algernon

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    Both Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9‚ are apt at critiquing victorian society. Yet‚ the plays are somewhat thematically different. The critiques present in The Importance of Being Earnest focus on the victorian obsession with appearances‚ whereas those in Cloud 9 have a greater emphasis on colonialism and the repression of gender and sexuality. Both works are highly relevant to the society and time in which they were published. Hence‚ although both critique

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    And ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’? A Doll’s House and The Importance of Being Earnest were both written in the late nineteenth century at a period in time when gender roles in society were not only significant to the structure of society but were restrictive and oppressive to individuals. This was particularly true in the case of women who were seen as the upholders of morals in polite society and were expected to behave accordingly. A Doll’s House and The Importance of Being Earnest challenge

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    How are the female characters in The Importance of Being Earnest presented and in what ways do they conform to the Victorian ideal of passive women. Victorian England made a clear division between gender roles of men and women. The life of a conventional Victorian woman was focused on marriage and family in which her upbringing was based on this. Young girls were brought up to perfectly innocent and sexually ignorant. The typical Victorian woman was seen to be weak and passive‚ she was taught to

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    illegal and frowned upon were what made his play The Importance of Being Earnest so successful. Wilde’s play was intended to not only entertain his spectators‚ but also try to change their attitudes in a passive‚ yet meaningful way. A background knowledge of Oscar Wilde’s life would be essential to understanding The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde‚ a homosexual and aesthetic‚ was very much anti-Victorian; while the Victorians were worried about being proper and following the norms and rules‚ Wilde

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    and the present. One person’s secret can lead to countless more secrets and problems‚ and before once can realize it‚ they could be living their lives in a lie. The character Jack‚ also known as “Ernest” creates a lie about himself in the Importance of Being Earnest that ultimately causes there to be chaos. While Jack chooses to continue his lie‚ it results in others to lie‚ and he causes people to change how they view him. When one person deciders to take the path of secrecy‚ it will consume

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