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    In this essay I am going to look at the changes to education legislation from 1944 to the present day. I will look at how these changes have reflected government educational policies and to what effect. Firstly I will look at the ‘Butler Act’‚ war time 1944. The education act 1944 was called the ‘Butler Act’ after the conservative politician‚ R.A.Butler. The 1944 ‘Butler Act’ was undoubtedly a significant milestone in terms of the history of education Britain. It became increasingly clear

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    Language and communication The abrupt nature of the utterances in Top Girls reflects a style of playwriting that is more modern‚ where a short sentence can be loaded with meaning. The minimal use of words lays bare the main issues while allowing much dramatic effect through their simplicity. There is more strength in what is not said‚ and the clarity of speech does not mean that there are fewer issues to decode. The language of misogyny‚ appropriated by women‚ is apparent in Joyce’s swearing at

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    Introduction If I told you a rose grew from concrete‚ would you believe me? How about if I told you a small building in Brooklyn‚ New York grew to be a savior to most of the women in the United States? Please‚ take me seriously. Roughly 100 years ago‚ Margaret Sanger opened a very tiny birth control clinic in the ghettos of Brooklyn and it has been blossoming ever since. Eight days after the business opened Ms. Sanger was arrested for giving the illegal contraception to the needy women‚ but that clearly

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    The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood is about the feminist movement and how it would be if women were not equal to men. The book begins to describe where the women live. It takes place in the Republic of Gilead. Each women was assigned to a specific job and had no choice what to wear the color the commander said to wear. The narrator of this story’s name is Offred. Offred is known as one of the Handmaid’s in this book. She is forced to wear a long red habit. Due to the low reproduction

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    The Female Body in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Lady Oracle By Sofia Sanchez-Grant1 Abstract This essay examines scholarly discourses about embodiment‚ and their increasing scholarly currency‚ in relation to two novels by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. Like many of Atwood’s other works‚ The Edible Woman (1969) and Lady Oracle (1976) are explicitly concerned with the complexities of body image. More specifically‚ however‚ these novels usefully exemplify her attempt to demystify the

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    The Moment By Margaret Atwood The moment when‚ after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room‚ house‚ half-acre‚ square mile‚ island‚ country‚ knowing at last how you got there‚ and say‚ I own this‚ is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you‚ the birds take back their language‚ the cliffs fissure and collapse‚ the air moves back from you like a wave and you can’t breathe. No‚ they whisper. You own nothing. You

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    must use a process to perform a strike and this process entails the use of a postal vote called a ballot. (Gov.UK‚2013) Before this particular law was implemented the leader of the conservative party‚ Margaret Thatcher‚ had initiated the idea of making strike action harder to participate in. Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister from 1979 through until

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    A symbol is a literary device used by the author to portray an idea to the reader. In Margaret Laurence’s‚ The Stone Angel‚ the stone angel is a symbol used to heighten the reader’s understanding of the characteristics of Hagar Shipley. First‚ the stone angel is used to show Hagar’s pride in the Currie family name. She prizes the stone angel because it is expensive and imported from Italy to honour a mother Hagar never knew. Similarly‚ the stone angel is symbolic of Hagar’s inability to show

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    A look At plot using‚ “Happy Endings‚” by Margaret Atwood Stephen I. Perrine English 101 Sec003 Plot deals with where a story begins‚ and how it ends. Some of the twists and turns that occur might be part of it‚ but the basics of plot are according to Atwood in “Happy Endings” two people meet‚ a bunch of stuff happens and they die. The point Atwood is making is that plot‚ no matter how a writer contrives it‚ is in consequential; because‚ all endings are the same. Plot is nothing more

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    inflation after coming into office. Source 8 directly conflicts with sources 7 and 9 as it shows figures which suggest that unemployment rates and manufacturing output have seen a rapid decrease from the year 1979 and 1984 which the years in which Margaret Thatcher served her first term as Conservative party leader. “Thatcher’s fundamental philosophy of anti-socialist economics prescribed a number of broad objectives” Her basic ideas were that the government basically had to do less in order for it

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