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    Being Left Handed

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    Being left-handed could even get a person accused and convicted of witchcraft. Even within the past century‚ left-handedness was frowned upon. Teachers and parents of a young lefty would sometimes tie the left hand behind the child’s back to discourage use. Nuns in Catholic schools would give a tap in the wrist with a ruler to chastise the child for using his or her left hand. Due to these punishments‚ there are few true left-handed people in their sixties or older. Those who are left-handed usually

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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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    Both Doris Lessing’s personal encounters with the Zimbabwe inequities‚ within her speech “On not winning the Nobel Prize” and Margaret Atwood’s “Spotty-handed Villainess”‚ fundamentally highlight the significance of language and learning as a means to encourage and advocate social change within its audience- primarily through the speeches’ clever use of rhetorical devices. Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech is one of incredible sentimentality as it highlights emphatically the absolute necessity

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    Left-handed Subjects

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    early age of being left-handed. As students are now allowed to ues their natural hand to complete projects and tasks there are noticeable differences in styles students complete assignments. Left-handed students in the past were made write right-handed. Teachers took writing utensils out of the left-handed students and placed the utensil in the right hand of the student‚ eliminating left-handed students making it difficult for any research to be done with the left-handed population. By studying

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    Left Handed People

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    Left-Handed Toddlers By Carma Haley Shoemaker [pic] One in every 10 people is left-handed‚ and males are one and a half times more likely to be left-handed then females‚ according to Lefthanders International. Medical researchers have looked long and hard for what causes people to be left- or right-handed. Their answer? The same reason why brown-eyed people have brown eyes: genes that manifest their trait one out of every 10 chances. With 90 percent of the population being right-handed‚ how

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    Margaret Mary Adams Speech

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    KATE Welcome to the Late Show with Margaret Mary Adams‚ I’m your host Margaret Mary. Today I will be talking to three men who invented and innovated during the 1800s. Our first guest is the man who leads the steel industry. Ladies and Gentlemen‚ please welcome‚ the entrepreneur and philanthropist‚ Andrew Carnegie! Jack comes out Crowd applauds JACK How do you do ma’am? KATE Very well thank you. Andrew‚ tell us a little bit about yourself. JACK Well‚ there isn’t a lot to say. At age twelve

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    Bread and Atwood

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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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    Margaret Thatcher‚ in her eulogy speech to Americans about the former U.S President Ronald Reagan‚ used pathos and anecdotes as rhetorical strategies. In order to connect with her audience‚ Thatcher employed pathos throughout her writing. By mentioning Reagan’s sense of humor‚ his recovery from his failed assassination attempt‚ his passion for the United States‚ Thatcher is marking each of her words in the hearts of her audience. Especially because this is an eulogy‚ it was important for Thatcher

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