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    Interestingly‚ the theme of love can also be seen to help portray the societies of Jane Austen and E. M. Forster view of marriage. Jane Austen has love between hero and heroine as the center of most of her novels. Although Anne Elliot and her true love‚ Captain Wentworth‚ do wind up being together it is not until Captain Wentworth is rich‚ well connected‚ and highly respected that he marries Anne. Restating‚ that Jane Austen’s society views marriage as one that should be economically based. In A Room

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    An act of kindness can go a looooong way. Jane Addams and Mahatma Gandhi made big changes to this world through their positive passions and that had a great sizable effect on people and continues to do so. Opening a new law office‚ supporting and giving to the poor‚ and the Hull House are all ways these people have shown their passion. First of all‚ positive actions can have great effects on people by opening a new law office to end mistreatment. To clarify‚ positive actions could have great effects

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    JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen writing tends to be witty and romantic. Though her name never appeared on her published books during her life‚ Austin’s works rose to fame after her death in 1817. In fact‚ her popular books‚ such as Pride and Prejudice‚ have never gone out of print. She is now considered one of England’s most famous novelists. The writing style of Austen: Austen’s writing style is a mix of neoclassicism and romanticism. Neoclassicism encourages reason and restraint in writing. It

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    Through a Window: My Thirty Years With The Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall is Jane Goodall’s documentation of the time she spent studying chimpanzees in Africa. Although it mostly talks about the animals‚ of course‚ it also talks about her working with the people in Africa and her family. She went to Africa to study the chimpanzees and see how they are alike‚ and different‚ from humans. She first began her work in Gombe in 1964 with two research assistants‚ at what eventually became The Gombe

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    How Houses Can Reflect More Than Social Status Typically‚ a house is the reflection of one’s wealth and societal status. In her novel‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen creates the almost immediate judgment of social class by the estates of Rosings Park and Pemberley in order to develop her characters. However‚ Austen uses the estates to form a different idea of what social status symbolizes. While both Rosings Park and Pemberley are estates of similar class‚ Austen provides a different insight

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    Cassandra Land Essay Question: Evaluate the effectiveness of Jane Yolen’s use of fairytale conventions and themes to explore issues associated with the Holocaust in Briar Rose? Jane Yolen uses fairytale conventions as an allegory to portray her version to the Holocaust. Fairytales original purpose was to teach people about morals and lessons regarding powerful emotions like: greed‚ hate‚ envy‚ and jealousy. The story of Briar Rose idolizes three characters Becca‚ Gemma‚ and Josef Potocki. The Briar

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    The Plea for the Chimpanzees In the story “The Plea for the Chimpanzees” by Jane Goodall‚ Jane writes of a personal experience on her visit to a testing center where they use various primates to test products‚ one being chimpanzees. She was very upset with what she had seen during her visit. Chimpanzees were being treated horribly during and after being tested. Their living conditions were not what she would have thought them to be. They were quite worse. They had very little a social life with

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    prosperity known as industrialization. The economy seemed to be doing well due to the advancements brought by industrialization‚ but this wasn’t necessarily the case. Many economic and social issues arose‚ which called for immediate attention. Jane addams attempted to resolve some of these issues by focusing on poverty‚poor living conditions‚low wages‚ and lastly americanizing immigrants.John sinclair however‚shown some light of the meat packing industry‚ which called for reforms.

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    Part Twenty-One: The Progressive Era 21-6 Jane Addams‚ Twenty Years at Hull House (1910) Based on a similar movement in England‚ settlement houses arose in American cities in the late nineteenth century to address various social problems connected to immigration and urbanization. Among others‚ the settlement houses attracted middle-class‚ college educated women who had no other employment outlet. Jane Addams founded the most famous settlement house‚ Hull House in Chicago‚ where she and others

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    “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...” This was true in FDR’s time‚ but not when you are one of the many people the devil has put in his arithmetic. In the book The Devil’s Arithmetic‚ Jane Yolen‚ has made a made a wonderfully unbelievable book showing what it was like when if you were in the concentration camps. Although you may not want to recommend this book to a second grader‚ this is a historical fiction that is almost on the spot with its historical facts. The fact still remains

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