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    Cecilia has symbolized Cecilia’s purity. With the laminated picture‚ Eugenides is able to show how Cecilia was pure and innocent at the moment. Another way Eugenides uses the symbol of the Virgin Mary in the novel is to kind of show the actions of the Lisbon girls throughout their extreme isolation. This extreme isolation began after the girl’s night out at homecoming.The

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    Jeffrey Eugenides manages to give life to the often misunderstood voice of the youth. Oppression leads to regression and the Lisbon family symbolizes that perfectly. Throughout the novel‚ the melancholy of teenage years takes an obscure path where the well known incomprehension of the youth years transforms into a gruesome/morbid tale that meets a tragic end. The Lisbon sisters represent the teenage voice that has been silenced by society and that is now blossoming into deathly and dangerous acts

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    This apparent lack of any explanation for the Lisbon sister’s deaths is the whole point: The reality of whom the Lisbon sisters were‚ and why they killed themselves is trivial. What’s important are the teenage boys and the town’s one-dimensional portrayal of the girls‚ in life as well as in death. With superficial rationalizations‚

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    Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics - International Industry Analysis TRAVEL INDUSTRY TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) INTRODUCTION 5 2) DEMAND ANALYSIS 7 2.1) GROWTH 7 2.2) GEOGRAPHICAL SEGMENTATION 10 2.2.1) GLOBAL DESTINATIONS 12 2.2.2) MODES OF TRANSPORTATION 14 ROAD TRANSPORTATION 16 RAIL TRANSPORTATION 17 AIR TRANSPORTATION 18 MARITIME TRANSPORTATION 20 2.2.4) SEGMENTATION BY AGE (IN EUROPE) 25 3) VALUE CHAIN DESCRIPTION 26 3.1) CONTENT SUPPLIER 27 3.1.1) SUPPLY ANALISYS 27 3.2)

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    and transitional theme of the story that captures the pressures of going through adolescent rites of passage: first dance‚ first kiss‚ losing ones virginity. The mysterious Lisbon girls’ suicides is told to us by an anonymous boy that represents the group of boys that have loved‚ revered and wondered at the Lisbon girls and were the last to see them alive. In the scene wherein they get a hold of Cecilia’s diary‚ the director establishes just how much of a mystery these girls are to the boys

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    were thirteen-year-old Cecilia Lisbon‚ fourteen-year-old Lux Lisbon‚ fifteen-year-old Bonnie Lisbon‚ sixteen-year-old Mary Lisbon‚ and seventeen-year-old Therese Lisbon. The four older girls‚ particularly Lux‚ who caught the attention and desire of the young men in the area. This novel has an extremely odd first person plural written work style (Cinebrary 2013). The storyteller is an unidentified individual from a group of young boys who are entranced with the Lisbon sisters. The storyteller is unidentified

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    chose this page because it demonstrates the many vessels he boards and how often he does this. March 12‚ 1755‚ at the age of twenty two years old‚ Bowen sailed from Marblehead‚ MA‚ to Lisbon; arriving in Lisbon in twenty five days. After so‚ he set sail from Cadiz to Oporto‚ which is located in Portugal just north of Lisbon‚ to discharge cargo and receive salt. Within thirteen weeks‚ Ashley then made it back home to Marblehead‚ MA. Bowen then shipped out as a master on the ship a-building at Boston to

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    Table  of  Contents   INTRODUCTION  ................................................................................................................................  2   ROUTES  ...............................................................................................................................................  3   CULTURAL  ROUTE  ........................................................................................................................

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    final. Then we went to the ceremony where we got out second place medal. Then we got too go to France the next day and we went to the beach. The beach was very fun and the food was very good. Once we left France we went got back to Lisbon. On our second to last day in Lisbon we went to the beach for the whole day and we were able to do whatever we wanted. At night we got back to the hotel and the hotel held a special dinner for us. Which ended our stay in

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    The number one description from the book that is not displayed the same way in the movie is the decaying of the Lisbon house. When reading the book‚ Eugenides words create the sense of a burial ground‚ rather than a house being unkempt. The book describes how the leaves aren’t being raked‚ the trash is piling up around the house‚ and how the smell coming from the

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