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    Guide to Creating a Cover Letter UNSW Recruitment The purpose of a cover letter is to effectively market your skills to help you gain an interview. An effective cover letter complements your CV and will help answer three main recruitment questions: “Can you do the job?” - focus on technical skills‚ “Will you do it?” - focus on personal skills and attributes‚ and “Will you fit in?” - focus on teamwork and “fit” with organisational culture. This checklist will help you assess and improve the effectiveness

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    The Scarlet Letter Throughout The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne continually uses witchcraft and the devil as a theme. Hester Prynne‚ the main character‚ emerges from a prison in the first few pages of the book. So from the very beginning‚ it is known that she has committed a great sin of some kind. Many other characters other than Hester also have a connection with the dark side. It is this association with the devil that eventually brings about the demise of one of the major characters. Although

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    Literature Mrs Hanan-West February 22‚ 2010 Final Draft Does Hester Prynne’s Role in Puritan Society affect her feminism? Throughout the Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne depicts Hester as a dynamic character who is constantly struggling with her identity within the Puritan Society. Ever since her conviction of adultery and her punishment as the Scarlet Letter‚ the Puritan Society has tried labeling and identifying her with their terms and laws. Hester has also identified herself with these terms‚ and

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    Carl La Barbera The scarlet letter In the novel The Scarlet Letter‚ the author Nathaniel Hawthorne includes a series of meaningful citations‚ which are supported by examples. The quote that I chose to analyze and write about is; “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which be the true.”  The meaning of this quote is that you cannot be two different people in life. It is not possible to be a different

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    Ambiguity‚ which is doubleness or inconclusiveness of meaning‚ is an important characteristic of Hawthorne’s style in The Scarlet Letter. Constantly used throughout the story‚ ambiguity continually keeps the readers attention. Examples of ambiguity are clearly seen throughout the book. When Hester Prynne is leaving the prison‚ Hawthorn briefly describes a rosebush In front of the prison. Hawthorne says‚ "…or whether‚ as there is fair authority for believing it had sprung up under the footsteps of

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    Each character in The Scarlet Letter has their own sin and they deal with it in different ways. The most obvious of these characters is Hester. Hester’s sin of adultery was the basis for the first half of the story. Hester was constantly burdened made aware of her sin with the scarlet letter attached to her breast‚ but she was able to deal with her sin in a different way. “Elsewhere the token of sin‚ it was the taper of the sick chamber. It had even thrown its gleam‚ in the sufferer’s bard extremity

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    romance novels of our time. The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne set a genre standard for American Romanticism‚ with an intrinsic love of nature‚ sense of freedom of imagination and emotion‚ and the low regard Hawthorne holds for organized religion and all that it entails. In his novel‚ Hawthorne builds on the standards of romanticism‚ as the trend away from Puritanism and religious Oligarchy. One of the essential‚ driving elements to Hawthorne ’s Scarlet Letter‚ is the deeply rooted romantic value

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    Scarlet Letter Puritan

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    The Scarlet Letter who is an adulterer‚ who obeys everyone with her punishment. Hester is described to be a slave of her own sin. Puritans laws required Hester to be bound through her identity to her very public sin. As such‚ the puritan system is the basis for which society has discovered its punishment systems. This would include beliefs on God‚ beliefs on marriage‚ how the influence of Puritanism relates to Hawthorne’s life‚ and how Hawthorne tied these into his story The Scarlet Letter. Puritans

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    Nature In Scarlet Letter

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    In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ The Scarlet letter‚ we are presented to a Puritanical society that resides adulteress Hester Prynne‚ whom must wear a scarlet letter to mark her shame. Within the novel‚ Hawthorne uses detailed descriptions of nature and introduces comprehensive characters such as Arthur Dimmesdale and Pearl with the intention of portraying the central message of good versus evil. To begin‚ Hawthorne illustrates the images of the brook and the forest to put emphasis on the

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    Scarlet Letter Short Essay Adrienne Rich‚ a feminist poet and critic‚ wrote the essay “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision‚” to identify and admonish gender norms in her society. Rich considers that “the argument will go on whether an oppressive economic class system is responsible for the oppressive nature of male/female relations‚ or whether‚ in fact‚ patriarchy... is the original model of oppression on which all others are based.” She comments on the origin of gender roles‚ wondering

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