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    bad people coming after her. In Chapter 14‚ under the list of what makes Christ himself‚ is that he was “thirty-three years of age when last seen.” In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Offred described herself as “thirty-three years old ...[with] brown hair.” Atwood suggests that Offred has trouble remembering how she used to look like and seldom gets the chance to look at herself. The way that Offred is describing herself reveals that she will not stay 33 years old and will not always have a head full

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    Betray in Oryx and Crake

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    ENG 3U1 Monday March 8 2013 Betrayal “Oryx and Crake” by Margret Atwood and “The Quiet American” by Phillip Noyce are both created at different eras but both demonstrate a very similar thematic connection. Betrayal is show through out the Novel “Oryx and Crake” and the film “The Quiet American”. In the film diolacton is used for illegal making and in the text the blysspluss pill is sold. In the film people believe that the diolacton is used to help people by making the frames of glasses but really

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    "Backdrop addresses cowboy" by Margaret Atwood Creating a masterful poetic movement through the American mythos‚ Atwood skewers "manifest destiny" by embodying the voice of the Other‚ the discarded "I am." Writing political poetry that artfully confronts dominant ideology – thus exposing the motivation and effects of misrepresentation – is a difficult challenge. The process can easily be derailed by temptations to write strident‚ overly didactic verse that elevates sentiment above nuance and

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    his enduring power and artistic qualities‚ and his audiences are emotionally and intellectually engaged and thus more responsive to Sadat’s deliverance of their own views on their beliefs and aspirations. “Spotty-Handed Villainesses” (1994) by Margaret Atwood‚ using subversive irony and humour‚ forces her audiences to deconstruct the deception of ‘evil’ women within literature and with her enduring power engages her audiences in cries for the dismantling of social gender roles. The speeches set for

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    THE HANDMAID’S TALE Grade 11 English Analytical Essay Words: 1 245 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a disturbing novel that displays the presence and manipulation of power. This is displayed throughout the novel and is represented significantly in three ways. As the book takes place in the republic of Gilead‚ the elite in society are placed above every other individual who are not included in their level. Secondly‚ men are placed at the top of the chain and they significantly overpower

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    Atwood based love on how society portrayed it and not how she saw it. In the second stanza of the poem‚ Atwood describes love as something more powerful and valuable. As the poem continues‚ Atwood shifts into how she views the actual emotion of love. Her arrogance towards love had been bitter‚ however it was not towards love itself. Her emotions and attitude begins to become known when Atwood says‚ “Then there’s the two/of us. This word is far too short for us‚ it has only/four letters” (22-24).

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    might be different they all have the same ending which results in a happy marriage and death. This leads Atwood to make the point that endings tend to be generic and the real "meat" of a book is in the middle.  2)  Theme-  In Happy Endings the theme focuses on that the middle of a story is far more important than the end. Atwood argues that most endings are generic and non creative. Atwood feels that that an emphasis on the middle of a story leads to a better‚ and more developed story.  3)

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    Who Is Margaret Sanger?

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    Margaret Sanger was a strong woman in history who decided to change the unjust laws regarding contraception in a society where a woman was not considered a person. She fought with courage‚ her wit‚ and didn’t back down even when it seemed as if she may get hurt in the process because of the higher powers around her. She was the founder of planned parenthood‚ and a great role model for woman everywhere. Margaret Sanger was born to a family of twelve‚ parents and her ten brothers and sisters

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    Margaret Thatcher and the Thatcherism (A short summary of Margaret Thatcher’s policy) University of Miskolc Göncző-Dutkay Renáta English teacher – MA Correspondence student Introduction Margaret Thatcher - the British prime minister of the 1980’s – entered into the history as an epoch-making politician. She was a controversial‚ but sometimes irresistible person‚ who was rated as a pattern in other countries too by the believers of the strict and

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    GCE TEACHER GUIDANCE LT2 Internal Assessment WJEC ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNAL ASSESSMENT LT2 TEACHER GUIDANCE INTRODUCTION We are grateful to the centres which provided us with the examples of students’ work which appear in this booklet as work-in-progress responses to the new LT2 internal assessment unit. The guidance in this booklet is directed at offering advice and support for LT2 Section A and Section B in terms of: 1. Text selection 2. Task setting 3. Assessing student responses

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