remind people you are‚ you aren’t.” Those are my favorite quotations from the Iron Lady‚ former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher‚ who died on the 8th of April‚ 2013. She understood that leadership is not about titles or photo ops or posturing. True leadership is about authenticity‚ standing up for principles‚ even in the face of strong opposition. To her admirers‚ Margaret Thatcher was an iconic national heroine who ended Britain’s post-World War II cycle of decline. Her angry critics saw
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The Psychology Behind the Unperfected Societies Dystopian have a wicked side to what believed to be their perfect society. The psychological perspective of dystopian society‚ in a government controlling environment where strict and controlling rules that demand to be followed by the societies. This rules and demand require people in the society to obtain survival skill that will not let them get killed or tortured to death. The people in this society
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society on individuals and the subjective nature of narrative. A better understanding of the text can be gained from the study of Atwood’s execution of language to portray meanings and the role language plays in the narrator’s to survival oppression. Atwood shows that language is a very powerful mechanism that asserts personhood and allows resistance against oppression. Despite being subject to reduction as a handmaid‚ Offred manages to maintain control over her narration; as exemplified in her construction
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Margaret Thatcher (Her Life as Prime Minister of Britain) Margaret Thatcher can be considered as one of the most prolific leaders of our time. She was Britain’s first and only woman Prime Minister‚ thus far. She was the longest serving Prime Minister Britain had in the 20th century. Thatcher’s stern‚ no-nonsense approach in the leadership of her government earned her the nickname‚ "The Iron Lady." She certainly lived up to the name‚ because she took Britain through a revolutionary change;
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It even sounds like as if a friend of yours is telling you their story. It isn’t straight to the point‚ there are point outs of minor details that you shouldn’t even realize. Atwood must have also put in Offred’s flashbacks to show the reader that she did have a peaceful life before this. One where she was free and had her family. Then the war began and destroyed it all. Now she’s placed as a Handmaid to serve for this family
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“Happy Endings” In the story “Happy endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ the theme is‚ the only similar part of life for all of us is death. But what is different is how people in this story live and die. In the story Margaret wrote‚ “You’ll have to face it‚ the endings are the same however you slice it.” It is the beginning and the end of our lives are similar‚ but the middle separates us from how we lived. What the author tries to say in this story is that all situations start
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is very apparent in this section. Time‚ something are never thought much of before her new life‚ is now an object she thinks about frequently. “There’s time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for – the amount of unfilled time‚” (Atwood 69). “In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium…they were giving us a chance to get used to blank time‚” (70). “The clock ticks with its pendulum‚ keeping time my feet in their neat red shoes count the way down‚” (79). This
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King and Margaret Atwood are two amazing authors with different style of writing. King talks about writing process in the interview “The Atlantic” and his nonfiction memoir “On Writing.” Basically‚ a manual book is for those who choose to write. Atwood sharing her experience of writing in the poem “The Page”. She expressed felling‚ frustrations and anxieties using metaphors. They celebrate the fact that writing is important component of our life. The poem “The Page” by Margaret Atwood is a philosophical
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The success of literary works depends greatly on the quality of its characters‚ which is why it is essential to have characters‚ both major and minor‚ with distinct and contrasting personalities. Not only are minor characters used as foils for the major characters by emphasizing their important character traits‚ but in many cases they furthermore play a crucial role in the advancement of the plot. In the three novels that were examined this year‚ The Great Gatsby‚ The Kite Runner‚ and The Handmaids
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handmaid’s tale. torture noun 1. 1. the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something‚ or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. The handmaids tale is a novel by Margaret Atwood‚ It describes the life of a woman who is documenting her life as it goes on‚ As the book progresses we are able to see the amount of torture (physical and mental) that the woman of Gilead receive. Offred and other women in Gilead are well aware
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