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    and a lady named Rosemary took her in and Rosemary doesn’t like Sophie. Rosemary hired au pairs to take care of her until she was old enough to go to boarding school. At Sophie’s boarding school she is roommates with two girls named Delphine and Marianne. The book opens with Sophie in her bed dreaming about her dad and traveling to Russia with all of the pretty snow and not all of the rain like there is in England. Sophie goes to

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    Marianne‚ with her headstrong will‚ passionate sensibility‚ excessive spontaneity‚ and romantic idealism‚ serves as a foil to Elinor’s sense. She is described as like her mother Mrs. Dashwood‚ who “was sensible and clever: but eager in everything: her sorrows‚ her joys could have no moderation. She was generous‚ amiable‚ interesting‚ she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between she and her mother was strikingly great.” (p. 4 Volume 1 chpt 2). She weeps dramatically when her family are

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    Moses Mendelssohn

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    plea for tolerance in Jerusalem " Oder Uben Religios Macht und Judenthum ". Mendelssohn was a great philosopher‚ and his contributions to the Jews were and still are great. Samson Raphael Hirsch lived between the years 1808 and 1888. He was the leader of Orthodoxy in Germany in the nine-teenth century. Hirsch was known as the " Jewish religious thinker "‚ and the " founder of Trenniley-Othodixie " (separatist Orthodoxy). He was the leading spirit in the establishment and of modernized Orthodox

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    Bye Beautiful

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    provides historical context. | 10 – 11 | Spider in bedroom | Similes | | | 12 – 13 | Sandy sees Billy looking at their car at night. | Adjectives | | Introduce Billy | 14 – 20 | “First big shop” at Dot Read’s store.Children’s agesGlad refers to Marianne as “ our smart girl” | Descriptive passagesDialogueSymbolism: Marianne’s ring | Sandy’s sense of inferiorityis highlighted – i.e her place in the familyRole of women in society | Context for setting (place) | 21 – 30 | Sandy has Marianne’s old

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    Whose Face do you see?

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      only  way  the  story  is  shown  as  through  the  eyes  of  the  mother  and  Marianne  so   that  the  story  is  presented  with  the  emotions  of  the  characters.   The  italicized  parts  of  the  short  story  show  the  thoughts  of  Marianne  while  the   normal  text  represents  the  mother’s  point  of  view.  This  continues

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    1. Rushdie and capitalist libertarianism “Society is intrinsically used in the service of hierarchy‚” says Bataille. In a sense‚ Foucault promotes the use of neodeconstructive cultural theory to deconstruct reality. Any number of appropriations concerning the role of the writer as artist may be revealed. Therefore‚ the subject is contextualised into a capitalist libertarianism that includes consciousness as a reality. The premise of neodeconstructive cultural theory states that the raison

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    Compare and contrast the sisters‚ Elinor and Marianne‚ in Sense and Sensibility to Cecily and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest. Be sure to consider the personalities of each woman as you analyze how the demands and requirements of courtship dominate her attention and her interactions with others. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood VS Cecily and Gwendolyn In this paper‚ I intend to show the similarities and differences between the sisters in Sense and Sensibility and those in The Importance

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    Against Interpretation

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    students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to find incantations while interpreting them. Analyzing texts is

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    The Nature of Arguments

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    for Beginners: week one Marianne Talbot Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford Michaelmas 2009 Today we shall be looking at: (i)  the nature of arguments (ii)  how to recognise arguments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM Definition: ‘Argument’ …. a set of sentences such that… …. one of them is being said to be true… …. the other(s) are being offered as reasons for believing the truth of the one. An argument: It is Friday‚ Marianne always wears jeans on Friday

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    Media and Body Image

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    standard. "Women are‚ taught to see their bodies in parts‚ and to evaluate each part separately. Breasts‚ feet‚ hips‚ waistline‚ neck‚ eyes‚ nose‚ complexion‚ hair‚ and so on-each in turn is submitted to an anxious‚ fretful‚ often despairing scrutiny." (Sontag) Women see magazines from cover to cover in which unrealistically beautiful and skinny girls are collaged on ever single page. Body image is greatly affected by the mass media ’s portrayal of the thin ideal body type. First‚ the media

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