freedom? Margaret Atwood raises these questions and many more in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. She uses the character Offred to demonstrate passive behavior and acceptance of a totalitarian regime after the fall of the United States. In the new Republic of Gilead‚ Offred is a Handmaid‚ a surrogate for the government’s elite. Before Gilead‚ Offred was married with a daughter‚ her mother and best friend were both feminists and she had a decent job. Offred is a controversial character because Atwood makes
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“I’ll tell you what real love is … I’ll give you a good example. And then you can draw your own conclusions” (Carver 144). Addressing the constant fear of existential nothingness‚ Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” explore how the actions of characters‚ however useless they may appear to be‚ can impact happiness. Both stories begin at a point of ignorance‚ and develop their messages as the characters have to face the real but distressing
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Evaluate how TWO speeches you have studied employ rhetorical devices to represent visionary ideas Powerful speeches affirm universal values which remain prevalent in human nature’s aspiration to productively approach the future. Noel Pearson’s speech “An Australian history for us all” (1996) and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” (1977)‚ through effective use of rhetorical devices‚ creates textual integrity to explore visionary ideas: establishing the need for change by examining “the past
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Choose two prescribed speeches and write an essay where‚ through close analysis of specific aspects of the speeches‚ you demonstrate the speeches textual integrity. We Recognise a text as possessing textual integrity when we see form‚ structure and language producing a unified conceptual whole. The speeches ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ by Margret Atwood and ‘Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation’ by Faith Bandler‚ represent how a combination of structure‚ form‚ language as well as exploring the human condition
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to Blame for Global Starvation and Wars? Margaret Atwood’s “Bread” carefully crafts several scenarios in which most people easily relate. All the while however‚ Atwood sets up the reader to be overcome with emotion and empathy. Through bread‚ Atwood stealthy argues that we have an abundance of comfort and life while others are suffering throughout the world. That American’s turn a blind eye to what is happening in the world today. Eventually‚ Atwood leads the reader to a place of guilt and self
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In the "Odyssey" by Homer ‚ and the "Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood‚ the sirens are portrayed differently for example in the story‚ the sirens are described through the ship members point of view whereas in the poem‚ the point of view is through the sirens. Perspective plays a huge role in this along with tone and imagery. Tone‚ for example‚ represents how beautiful or evil sounding the sirens were. In the story‚ the sirens have evil hoarse voices apparently ‚ "...Ravashing voices...heart inside
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In I Want A Wife by Judy Brady and The Female Body by Margaret Atwood they both share similarities and differences. In I Want A Wife‚ Brady talks about the needs of men and how wife’s do it all‚ on the other hand‚ in The Female Body‚ Atwood talks about how women are categorized by their gender. Both essays are also similar and different in their style‚ Brady uses repetition while Atwood numbers her topics. The theme and purpose are both similar and different in the way that one is a wake up call
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whole" Choose TWO speeches and argue how the structure of each contributes significantly to your understanding of the speech as a whole. An orator’s ability to utilise speech structure permits them to not only convey their ideas efficiently‚ but also to help achieve a social change and improvement. This notion of social change is at the heart of any successful speech. The idea of “parts to the whole” is shown in both Paul Keating’s Funeral Service of the Unknown Soldier and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty
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Maria Nina D. Dollentes BSAct 2-1 I. Introduction Good Morning everyone! I’m here today to talk to you about an extremely serious issue that society faces today‚ racism. Racism is the discrimination of a person because of the race that they have inherited. There are many different types of racism‚ like racial discrimination‚ ethnic jokes‚ racial assumptions‚ and harassment‚ but they all got a couple of things in common. All kinds of racism are despicable and create a negative and sometimes dangerous
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(*) Acting Capacity # | Name | Term Began | Term Ended | President | 1 | Jose Antonio Gonzales | March 1986 | June 30‚ 1987 | Corazon Aquino | 2 | Rafael Alunan III | July 1‚ 1987 | June 30‚ 1989 | | 3 | Narzalina Z. Lim | July 1‚ 1989 | June 30‚ 1992 | | 4 | Vicente Carlos | July 1‚ 1992 | 1996 | Fidel Ramos | * | Evelyn B. Pantig | 1996 | 1996 | | 5 | Guillermina T. Gabor | May 19‚ 1996 | June 30‚ 1998 | | 6 | Gemma Cruz-Araneta | June 30‚ 1998 | January 20‚ 2001 | Joseph Estrada
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