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    COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS OF: COUNTRY LOVERS BY NADINE GORDIMER (1976) AND WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GIRL (FOR THOSE WHO AREN’T) BY PATRICIA SMITH (1991) SHARON DEVINE-POOLE ENG 125: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE INSTRUCTOR: MARY LOUISE PHILLIPS BECKER NOVEMBER 27TH‚ 2011 THESIS Although the similarities aren’t quite the same they still have the same concept. I will compare and analyze these two writings in which one is a short story‚ and the other is expressive poetry. I chose these two particular

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    Drama And Failure In Marriage During the 19th century women did not really have much power or say in anything that went on. Women were really the ones that stayed home and took care of the family and tended to the house‚ while the husbands went out and worked. Women stayed out of the lime light and their opinions were never heard or considered. The short story “Story of an Hour” is about a woman who suffered from a marriage. As a reader we are not introduced to the conflict between the husband

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    Symbolism Symbolism is an element present in writing. “The Red Convertible‚” a short story written by Louise Erdrich‚ tells the story of the destructive nature of war. With the name in the title‚ it is only natural that the convertible plays a very important role in the short story. The condition of the car throughout the story shows the stages of a relationship between two brothers. The main characters in the story‚ Lyman and Henry Lamartine‚ develop an inseparable bond through a red convertible

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    “War and its aftermath” In Louise Edrich’s short essay‚ “The Red Convertible‚” she exposes the horror of the war that impose on the relationship of the two brothers‚ Henry and Lyman. Edrich uses symbolism to reveal the struggle and hardship Henry brings home from the war of Vietnam. She also shows Lyman’s difficulties while separating from his brother and his attempt to build the close relationship between them. She uses pathos in this short story to describe the theme of emotional disorder that

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    November 24‚ 1946. His mother‚ Louise Cowell‚ was pregnant with Theodore when she was only twenty-one years old. Louise grew up in a very strict Methodist backround. Because she was not married‚ having Theodore was an embarrassment to her parents‚ Sam and Eleanor Cowell. Sam Cowell was known for being ill-tempered and racist. He verbally and physically abused his wife. Because of this‚ Eleanor suffered from frequent bouts of depression and was always living in fear. Louise had greatly struggled to even

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    School Dress Codes Schools and students have two different opinions on dress codes. Students want to wear designer clothing to school to increase social status and individuality. Parents are buying expensive clothes for their children as a reward for good grades. Meanwhile‚ the students are getting robbed and killed for their clothing. Some schools enforce dress codes to discourage violence against students that choose to wear higher priced clothing. The school’s main objective is keeping

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    Defining Social Class Social Class is defined as a division of society based on social and economic status. The six social classes include: upper class‚ new money‚ middle class‚ working class‚ working poor‚ and poverty level. Wealth has formed a concept of Social Class‚ allowing upper-class to feel they hold an advantage. Wealth in social class may cause a different mindset and outcome in life. Position in the social structure grasps effect on the ways people perceive and view the world. For instance

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    Emily Dickinson’s "Success is Counted Sweetest" has been penned in iambic trimeter with the exception of the first two lines of the second stanza. The poem highlights aphoristic truths that are universal. In the first stanza‚ Emily Dickinson endeavors to define the true essence of success. The general impression is that success can be ’counted’ by only those who have experienced it numerous times. Nevertheless‚ it is more precisely evaluated or counted by those who have never succeeded as they can

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    be in place. These vary from what cheese can be sold‚ how to weigh fish‚ or what glass a glass maker can make and the sale. Pretty simple rules to follow. Ibn then starts to mention the role women should partake in the Seville market. Women were forbidden to wash in the garden. Women were not allowed to sit by the riverbank if men were already there. Muslim women were not allowed to enter abominable churches. Women were not allowed in the house of a priest if he refuses marriage. Women dancers were

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    Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. "Ghost Stories of Forbidden City." China Tour. Absolute China Tours. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. <http://www.absolutechinatours.com/china-legends/ghost-stories-of-forbidden-city.html>. John Retzer. "The Origins of Halloween." www.jeremiahproject.com. Jeremiah Project. Web. 12 Nov. 2011. <http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/the_origins_of_halloween.html>. Rachel. W."The Haunted Forbidden City." Www.omystery.com. O! Mystery‚ 20 July 2010. Web. 13 Nov. 2011

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