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    Betty Marie Tallchief was a good dancer. She was Native American. She came from an Osage. Betty Marie Tallchief was born in 1925. She spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. When she was four she took her first ballet lesson. Ballet broke her out of her shell. This section of the story tells how she became to love ballet. She became a star in her hometown. She performed her ballet skills at county fairs and other places. She was natural good at ballet. Her being

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    1- Who wrote this document? An 18 year old Marie-Antoinette‚wife of Louis-Auguste the dauphin of France‚ and daughter of Maria Theresa‚the Empress of Austria.She would later become the queen of France‚which she would reign for over two decades until she was declared guilty of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed by guillotine. 2- What is this document? It’s a letter from Marie-Antoinette to her mother‚detailing a day she spent with her husband and the welcoming they received

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    ” The Declarations of the Rights of Women” is a declaration written by Marie Gouze under the pseudonym Olympe de Gouges. This declaration was her attempt to disseminate a list of Rights for women that mirrored the Rights men had in France under the rule of Marie Antoinette. Gouze was heavily influenced by Enlightenment principals‚ and it is very evident in her writings. Firstly‚ Gouze was the self-taught daughter of a simple middle-class butcher. This was one major theme of the Enlightenment; the

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    In a document associated with chapter twenty one‚ there is a reoccurring theme of social satire. Women’s anti-suffrage is being exaggerated and ridiculed to emphasize the corruption of those against women having the right to vote. In her Monologue‚ Marie Jenney Howe mocks anti suffragists by highlighting the many ignorant remarks made by those against women’s suffrage. She establishes the fact that antisuffragists don’t want men and women to be considered as equals. Howe describes how women are believed

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    According to Marie Winn in “The Plug-In Drug”‚ television has many negative effects on our society today. In her essay she emphasis that television today is controlling the everyday aspect of life. She inference that television has ruined family rituals‚ the communication and it’s seen as equivocal. She acknowledged that there is a problem with our society and the way that television influence us. Been said‚ I’m able to say that I agree with Winn on the subject of television having negative effects

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    Rather than simply explain how Marie Antoinette was the victim of pornographic pamphlets‚ she does precisely what Ranke believed historians should not do: judge the past and challenge previous interpretation as to why the queen was subjected to this type of cruelty. Hunt argues‚ “The

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    In Television Addiction by Marie Winn she makes the claims that although television addiction isn’t as serve as a drug and alcohol addiction it still has a draw to it. At first announces that the word “addiction” is used “jokingly” as well as a way to “denote” splurging on something you find enjoyable. Winn brings up the negative side of addiction defining it as‚ “a search for a “high” that normal life does not supply.” Which leads her into discussing the effect on the people who are addicted and

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    While visiting the San Diego Museum of Art I chose to examine the artwork Portrait of a Lady‚ by Marie-Guillemine Benoist which was painted in 1799. The artist of this painting was a frequent salon contributer after the Paris Salon began to allow female artists to submit their own artwork. Benoist often paints portraits of varius people in the same fashion with oil on canvas. Portrayed in this artwork is a woman wrapped in a gold shawl with a soft and pleasant face. The woman grasping her gold shawl

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    Coleman 1 Staci Coleman Professor Thoreson English 101 18 February 2012 Cell Phone: A Cordless Addiction Marie Winn wrote an amazing article “Television: The Plug-in Drug” in which she introduces the argument about television and its overwhelming affects on families. She opens the minds of readers with explaining that the casual entertainment television was intended for has now become a troublesome problem within families. Winn proposes that the problem lies within the seductive

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    I have finished reading Legend by Marie Lu. The prompt I have chosen for my Journal Entry is “Describe the author’s craft (language and style). What was good about the author’s writing? What thing might you try to do in your writing that you learned from this author?” Things that I believe the author did well in her writing were the use of perspective‚ character development‚ and foreshadowing. One of the features of Legend was that it was told by two characters in the same story‚ Day and June.

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