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    My response to the title of the poem was a fifteen-year-old Latina girl becoming of age. Quinceanera can be compared to Sweet Sixteen or becoming eighteen-years-old all of which represent the transition into adulthood for a young lady. Traditionally a Quinceanera is celebrated among the Latino culture and catholic community. The poem demonstrates tone well using her emotions and feeling toward turning fifteen. This author takes her own experience and puts it into the poem. She describes the time

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    Reyes Art Matters October 26‚ 2009 Formal Analysis: Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes As I was walking across the 17th century art section at Walters Art Museum‚ hanging behind the big rectangular pillar in the middle of the hallway‚ an oil painting on panel by Trophime Bigot draws my attention. The high contrasting tones of colors and values and the artist capability to make the grotesque painting appealing interest me. Judith Cutting Off the Head of Holofernes (Figure 1)‚ ca. 1640

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    late 1700 Woman Susanna Rowson and Judith Sargent Murray were women from the late 1700s who had their own image of the ideal woman. Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte: A Tale of Truth and Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes were written to educate‚ inform‚ and to guide women in the right path. Murray and Rowson hoped to change the way women were being seduced by men and the way they were viewed by society and themselves‚ Susanna Rowson and Judith Sargent Murray saw women’s roles in the

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    Judith Thomson’s argument through her article‚ “A Defence of Abortion” is one that adopts the premise that the fetus is a human being from the moment of conception. By doing this‚ Thomson is distancing her argument from the various theorists who maintain the moral view that it is wrong to kill another human being‚ such as (Marquis‚ 1989). This ultimately allows her to assume various hypothetical situations in which the cognitive status of the fetus is otherwise not considered. This is important.

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    The assignment I chose to revise is my literary analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofers The Story of My Body. I have made some local‚ but mostly global revisions to the paper‚ as well as addressed some of the feedback made by the instructor. The local revisions include: making complete sentences‚ rearranging words. For global revisions‚ I rewrote the conclusion‚ broke a paragraph into two‚ and as suggested by the instructor I added more analysis and connection to the young girl. In the first paragraph

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    “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy” By Judith Butler Based on your reading of the selection “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy‚” answer the following questions. Place the page number (s) and paragraph (s) to each answer. 1. What are the questions that Judith Butler would seek answers in this essay from beginning to the end of essay? - Answer: What makes for grievable life? pg. 114‚ 1st paragraph 2. What does loss indicate for the human? -Answer: That if we’ve

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    be recognized through their writing. This insight allows readers to gain a wider perspective on the views the poet bears on the many themes and issues raised throughout their poetry. In the poems‚ Wedding Photograph‚ 1913 and The Old Prison‚ poet Judith Wright uses strong imagery to comment on the themes and issues present in society‚ from the devastation of war which is relayed through the use of personification and alliteration‚ to the impracticality of altering the past showed by the inclusion

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    Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion – CRITICAL EXPOSITION The goal of Judith Jarvis Thomson in her defense of abortion is to sway the ideas of those who are against abortion by challenging the arguments they give for thinking so. She begins by stating a premise. “For the sake of the argument” a human embryo is a person. This premise is one of the arguments most opponents of abortion use‚ but as she points out‚ isn’t much of an argument at all. These people spend a lot of their time dwelling

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    Judith Wright’s poems ‘Train Journey’ and ‘Flame tree in a Quarry’ both achieve a balance between language and the imagination of concepts with her use of themes and techniques. In both poems‚ Wright creates a sense of life in the landscapes and adds beauty to it‚ which heightens its importance. The poems also highlight the power and destruction of the environment. In the poem ‘Train Journey’‚ the themes of Australian landscape and environment are portrayed with the use of personification and

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    Judith Butler‚ gender theorist‚ consistently challenges the social and cultural informalities associated with both gender and sexual identity. In 1990‚ she published her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ which has since transformed previous understandings about gender and sex‚ and the roles that they play in society (Julia). Her theories were developed as to define what sex and gender truly mean‚ and how the cultural definitions of these terms are reflected in how humans represent themselves in society. Her

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