Ruined by Lynn Nottage is a heartbreaking tale detailing the journey of Mama Nadi and the damaged girls who she houses in her brothel. Caught in the crosshairs of a brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ the women in this novel are desperately trying to reclaim their bodies that have been used as weapons of war. The combination of the chilling account of the women and the melodramatic tendencies evoke strong emotions and reveal the horrors of humanity and perseverance. The scene is
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The cost of any war is the people. In the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage‚ women are the cost of the war. In the play‚ a middle-aged women named Mama Nadi runs a brothel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the Second Congolese War. She takes in many women in order to keep them safe‚ and in return‚ they work in her brothel. As a result‚ this creates many conflicts between characters and the war. Money is a key factor creating the conflicts within the play. Money embodies the hardships
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Born on April 14‚ 1932 in Butcher Hollow‚ Kentucky‚ Loretta Lynn grew up in a small cabin in a poor Appalachian coal mining community. The second child of eight children‚ she began singing in a church at a young age. Her younger sister‚ Brenda Gayle Webb‚ also went on to become a singer as Crystal Gayle. Loretta married Oliver "Mooney" Lynn just a few months before her 14th birthday on January 1948. The following year‚ she and Oliver moved to Washington State where he hoped to find better work.
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Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14‚ 1935) is an American country music singer-songwriter‚ author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow‚ Kentucky to a coal miner father‚ Lynn married at 13 years old‚ was a mother soon after‚ and moved to Washington with her husband‚ Oliver Vanetta Lynn‚ Jr. (b.1926‚ d.1996)‚ nicknamed "Doo". Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he had affairs and she was headstrong. Their experiences together became inspiration for her music. On her 21st birthday‚
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Out of the three full-length plays read in class‚ Ruined by Lynn Nottage was the best play. This play is filled of intense drama‚ yet it has beautiful and hideous events that bring together the play. There are many reasons as to why this play is the best‚ mainly because it’s targets woman who been raped‚ mutilated and who are now facing the consequences and putting on a brave face to get by. The play Ruined focuses more on the topic of woman. Those women are view as how of “ruined” by society.
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Ruined Response Paper 1) One of the main‚ most interesting characters in the play is Sophie. She was brought to Mama Nadi by Christopher as a bar girl. Sophie is Christopher’s Niece. Christopher wants to protect her and knows that Mama Nadi will take care of her. At this point in the play Sophie is extremely shy. It is understandable because she is being brought to some she has never met. Mama and Sophie end up becoming really close and Mama takes great care of Sophie. Later in the story mam
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Government Bre-Ann Cantrell Lynn Jenkins Lynn Jenkins was born on June 10‚ 1963 on a dairy farm in Holton‚ Kansas. She has two children‚ Hayley and Hayden and currently lives in Topeka‚ Kansas. She Graduated from Kansas State University and Weber State College with a major in accounting and a minor in economics. Congress woman Lynn Jenkins is also certified to be a public accountant. She served in the Kansas state Senate for one term‚ as well as the Kansas House of Representatives for
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Lynn‚ David H. “Creating a Creator.” Readings on The Great Gatsby. Ed. Katie de Koster‚ 154-62. San Diego: Greenhaven Press‚ 1998. Print Author David H. Lynn argues that the distinction between character and personality suggested from the earliest pages of “The Great Gatsby” reveals just how fully responsible Nick is for his creation of Gatsby‚ the romantic hero. He claims that Nick fleshes Gatsby onto a skeleton of public gestures as this is someone whose essential romantic
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Eulogy - Sarah Lynn We are all brought here today to mourn the loss of a friend‚ family member and true star who was taken from us too early‚ Sarah Lynn. I first met Sarah Lynn when she became a child star at the age of seven. I remember how she was still sweet‚ innocent‚ and was not yet transformed by the evolving society we have today. Even from a young age‚ she always wanted to be a celebrity‚ as she once said: “When I’m older‚ the whole world will know the name Sarah Lynn!”. Funnily enough
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Rosen and Lynn have differing opinions on the impact of the Indian caste system on sepoy armies. For Rosen‚ the armies had to be separated from the caste system to be successful. Lynn‚ on the other hand‚ argues that integration with the caste system was imperative to the success of the sepoy armies in India. Rosen suggests that the British were successful in India‚ not because they changed Indian social systems‚ but because they were able to separate their armies from society and overcome the fragmentation
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