‘Margaret Thatcher’s achievements as Prime Minister in the years 1979-1990 were limited.’ Assess the validity of the statement. Margaret Thatcher’s political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times she served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years (1979-90)‚ a record unmatched in the twentieth century. During her term of office she reshaped almost every aspect of British politics‚ reviving the economy‚ reforming outdated institutions‚ and reinvigorating the
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Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham‚ United Kingdom on October 13‚ 1925. She was Britain’s Conservative Party leader and in 1979 she became Prime Minister. Margaret was the first woman to hold that position. When she became prime minister‚ she was very focused on reforming Britain’s economy. Thatcher played a major role in ending the Cold War. Thatcher’s relationship with Ronald Reagan was very important because they both played a role in ending the Cold War. She gave him European support for
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Margaret Atwood’s Novel thoroughly depicts feminist and government control issues. Atwood’s intent is to warn society about the dangers surrounding such issues in order to prevent a world like Gilead. Gilead is an anti-feminist society in which women have been oppressed for the sole reason of reproduction necessities and for the infertile women‚ they also have been deprived from any vocal expression or any textual knowledge in order to maintain power within the males and the regime; women are deprived
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The Narrator’s Abortion Started the Process of her Mental Transformation Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing is a novel about a woman who seeks redemption because of having her baby aborted. Her name is never revealed what denotes a serious problem in her identity. She has lost all the human characteristics such as the ability to feel (Atwood 22)‚ love (Atwood 36)‚ dream (Atwood 37) or weep (Atwood 166). She has to go through both physical but mainly mental transformation to realize and find her real
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counter his authority. When Senator Margaret Chase Smith spoke out against McCarthy’s actions on the Senate floor‚ she became the first Republican to openly criticize McCarthy. Although opposing McCarthy’s political crusade could have put here career to an end as she could have been McCarthy’s next targeted victim‚ her actions resulted in her emergence as a “woman of national importance.” Similar to the Senators appreciated in John F. Kennedy’s Profiles In Courage‚ Margaret Chase Smith adhered to her “independent
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Literature as a whole grows and changes from generation to generation. Each age has its own particular point of interest and its own particular way of thinking and feeling about things. So the literature which it produces is governed by certain prevailing tastes. Modern age is a complex age and the changing attitude of this period has influenced thought and literature of this period too. Of all forms of literature‚ fiction dominated the twentieth century as it reflected the currents and forces
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Compare and Contrast The Devil and Tom Walker And The devil and Daniel Webster By: Zack Pridey Tom and his wife were both greedy and mean‚ they seemed to care nothing for one another‚ or anyone else for that matter. Tom was so greedy and mean‚ he made a deal with the devil to make himself rich. He didn’t care who got hurt or what he had to do‚ so he agreed to do as the devil said. Jabez was a very poor humble man‚ and he was very down on his luck‚ if something bad happened to the neighbors
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In her novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood uses symbolism to illustrate the handmaid’s role in the society of Gilead. The handmaids are the women who had broken law of Gilead‚ and were forced into the role of a surrogate mother for a higher ranking couple. The handmaids had no rights or free will. They were under constant surveillance and this caused them to be very cautious. The author characterizes most handmaids as a tentative and distrustful‚ which is perhaps why Offred never puts in words
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“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a series a letters by and to the main character‚ Celie. The book begins with fourteen year old Celie writing to God about her father raping her and taking away her children. After Celie’s mother dies‚ Celie focuses on protecting her sister‚ Nettie‚ from her father’s sexual advances and encourages her to run away. A widower called “Mr. __” wants to marry Nettie‚ but their father rejects him. Eventually Celie marries Mr. __‚ who later is called Albert‚ and her
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Throughout Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded state is created through the use of multiple themes and narrative techniques. In a dystopia‚ we can usually find a society that has become all kinds of wrong‚ in direct contrast to a utopia‚ or a perfect society. Like many totalitarian states‚ the Republic of Gilead starts out as an envisioned utopia by a select few: a remade world
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