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    Melinda Hernandez ENGL1302.20150120.428724 January 30‚ 2015 
Death and Plots Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” is sly‚ sophisticated‚ and delightful. With a coy ease that feels so natural‚ she threads her story along‚ revealing her characters‚ drawing the audience into something that isn’t at all what it appears. Slowly yet intensely‚ she reveals the principal of plot development that she is trying to deliver to her audience. Atwood begins with just fifteen puzzling words. She breaks the rules of conventional

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    On June 11‚ 2004‚ in the wake of President Ronald Reagan´s death‚ Margaret Thatcher‚ the former prime minister of Great Britain‚ delivers a melancholic yet powerful eulogy in his honor. Thatcher predominantly uses imagery and anaphora throughout her eulogy‚ commemorating Reagan and his successful presidency through the Cold War era. Her description of the former president presents Thatcher as an intellectual and complex woman who uses her personal knowledge to create a strong sense of respect for

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    An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks The Four Sides “People aren’t always as they seem” Miranda Jordan Mr. I “The Color Blind Painter”: The Side That No One Sees • Since Mr. I became totally colorblind‚ all he wants is to be able to see in color once again. • He contemplates about suicide due to the fact he knows he will never feel the joy of seeing color besides black and white again. • He searches for help to find answers why he became color blind‚ and if it can be reversed. Greg “The

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    In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood explores bathrooms as a safe space for women away from men. The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred‚ who is the protagonist as well as a Handmaid in Gilead‚ a dystopian society where women are divided and valued only for their ability to fulfill certain roles. These include the ability to reproduce‚ as well as the ability to fulfill stereotypically feminine roles‚ such as doing housework or being a wife. In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Atwood invents the bathroom as a safe

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    Saint Margaret of Cortona Margaret of Cortona was born in Loviana in 1247. When she was 7 years old‚ her mother passed away. Her father remarried. Her stepmother had little care & love for her. Growing up‚ she became more willful and reckless‚ & she had a reputation one wouldn’t envy. At the age of 17‚ she met a young man from Montepulciano‚ and she eloped with him. They had a child out of wedlock. Nine years after‚ her lover was murdered & his body was found in the forest. This crime shocked Margaret

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    Nicu is a good choice of husband for Margaret    Nicu and Margaret are one of the most significant couples in the novel. The novel is  about the difference of the people brought by different class. Nicu is in lower class‚  his family does not earn much and they rent farms from Chisholm’s family. Margaret‚  in the other hand ‚ is in higher class‚ she herself is in Chisholm’s family. If this young  couple want to be together‚ their love should be proved. There are some reasons why  Nicu is a good choice for Margaret. First of all

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    The poem The City Planners is a poem written by Margaret Atwood. It starts off about the poet driving around the streets and describing what she sees‚ some things are praised‚ but there is also a list of complaints. Then the poet describes the City Planners‚ which I think they are builders or architects and their so-called constructive work. In the view of the poet it seems that they are building very tidy and smart buildings but they are actually destroying nature and the environment. The first

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    Within the poem “In The Secular Night”‚ Margaret Atwood invokes a morose‚ and careless‚ and ultimately bitter character through a life of loneliness and isolation. Throughout the poem‚ the protagonist‚ seemingly a woman‚ seems to have a cloud of misery revolving around her‚ she feels “deserted” and - at “two-thirty” in the morning - feels herself start to relive a specific night of her adolescence in which she first felt lonely. The night she “lit a cigarette”‚ “cried for a while” and ultimately

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    Introduction As Margaret Atwood herself put it best‚ “not real can tell us about real.” Oryx and Crake is a dystopian novel‚ which plays on the fear of human extinction by the hands of humans themselves. As implausible as it may seem‚ certain technologies and social developments presented in the novel are not entirely farfetched. This essay will discuss the real life analogue of Atwood’s “perfect” modified human race‚ and how technological advances in our current world can possibly lead to our

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    Margaret Bourke-White: Photography as Social Commentary Born in the Bronx‚ New York in 1904‚ Margaret Bourke-White was one of the best-known photographers of the twentieth century who was known for her fearless and dramatic photographs. She graduated from Cornell University and started her career as an industrial photographer at a steel company in Cleveland‚ Ohio.  In 1929 she got hired by Fortune Magazine and traveled to the Soviet Union to photograph its industrial development.  Bourke-White then

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