Mona Lisa Smile The movie "Mona Lisa Smile" is set in the 1950s and deals with the starting feminist’s movement against traditional roles. The main character‚ "History of Art" teacher Katherine Watson‚ arrives at the conservative all-women college of Wellesley and tries to teach her really smart students not only art history but also independence. She also wants her students to know that their aim‚ namely getting married‚ does not have to be their only purpose of life‚ but that it is also possible
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scornful. Although Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew and Portia from The Merchant of Venice seem to be polar opposites‚ they both share a few things in common‚ and that is that they are both witty‚ bold‚ and independent. In The Taming of the Shrew‚ Katherine Minola is first introduced as the short-tempered sister of Bianca Minola‚ whom has a line of men waiting to marry her. However‚ their father‚ Baptista Minola‚ will not permit anyone to marry Bianca until her older sister‚ Katherine is married
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The Taming of the Shrew: Dramatic Essay “The Taming of the Shrew” is a play written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare and was first performed in 1590. As the title suggests‚ the main plot revolves around a bitter young woman named Katherine‚ who is being pursued by a courtier named Petruchio‚ a greedy man whose only love is money. Despite Katherine’s disagreeable character‚ Petruchio aims to win her hand in marriage in order to lay hold of the considerable fortune that is Katherine’s dowry
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Discussion Overall‚ we agreed Katherine did a great job negotiating with Alisa. She was relentless in the way she “stonewalled” the negotiation as well as creating a challenging environment for Alisa. Katherine did a good job controlling Alisa’s emotions and remained focused on the difficult negotiation. Katherine created a socio-emotional conflict during the negotiation accusing Alisa of having lack of experience because she was new to the industry. At one point‚ Katherine even offered up her own
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in the preface. Obama mentions how differently he would have written the book‚ if he had known his mother wouldn’t survive her illness. He would have written it with a drastic difference in the way his mother is portrayed throughout the memoir. Ann Dunham‚ a freethinking and fearless white woman from Kansas‚ who married a black man from Kenya‚ paves the way for young Barry to become a successful student and leader. Barely two years into the marriage‚ she was left to raise Barry alone; yet she returned
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Relationship Analysis The play The Taming of the Shrew is about society and deception. Two wealthy women are awaiting a marriage that would not happen unless Katherine‚ the older of the two and a shrew got married first. As the men of padua lie about who they are in order to woo the beautiful Bianca‚ Petruchio marries Katherine in attempt to tame the untamable as many would claim. The movie 10 Things I Hate About You was about two sisters who were polar opposites. Bianca was popular and everyone
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Doyle’s ideas about women’s and men’s roles parallel to the ideas brought forth in The Taming of the Shrew because Doyle and Shakespeare both portray women to be subservient to men. In Shakespeare’s comedy‚ Taming of the Shrew‚ the main character Katherine marries a man by the name of Petruchio and throughout the play he begins to control her because she is deemed crazy in society’s standards. In both the play and article women are supposed to give men all of the control in the marriage. The definition
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Katherine listened intently to Ashlynn talking about her life as a Paladin‚ and it confirmed many suspicions she had about the holy knights. They were strict and lonely. The first‚ made Katherine’s life appear easy. Sure‚ Father Royald was strict‚ but if they had no activities to do they were allowed free time to do whatever they pleased. The problem was they never had free time. The second item‚ loneliness‚ was something that resonated with Kat. Something Kat mulled over as the Knight talked to
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The Taming of the Shrew and Ten Things I hate about You In the Shakespeare`s summarized version of play The Taming of the Shrew we travel approximately four hundred years back in time during the growing period of Renaissance and the reign of the Queen of England‚ Elizabeth I‚ where Shakespeare shows us the dominance of men in relation to women‚ with setting in Padua (current Italy) while the movie Ten Things I hate about You‚ successfully updated version of The Taming of The Shrew adapted to contemporary
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58 years‚ Katherine‚ moved to Amelia Island‚ Florida during their retirement years. Before their settling in Florida‚ they lived a happy‚ loving‚ and healthy life with their three children Annie‚ Gracie‚ and Buzz. John and Katherine got married at the age of 27 after reconnecting through mutual friends during college. They had their first-born three years later‚ Annie‚ who is now 55 years old living with her husband and children in Athens‚ Georgia. A couple years later‚ John and Katherine were blessed
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