Jizelle Torres Per.9 World Cultures Accelerated Persepolis Socratic Seminar Theme 2: Marji‚ the character Question 5: Considering the writer’s voice. Consider the writer’s voice. Was it appealing? Claim she is a kid so she has a different point of view although being a kid she is very educated on this topic Evidence “ I realized then that I don’t understand anything‚ I read all the books I could.” pg.32 “To enlighten me they bought books. I knew everything about the children of Palestine about
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constantly battling over polar positions: state against individual citizen‚ law against conscience‚ and human nature against divine nature. Ultimately‚ in following her conscience and sacrificing her life in defiance of nomos‚ Antigone is validated as a martyr and hero‚ while Creon is left alone in sorrow and despair. Given the fates of these two characters‚ is the fate of man subjective to acting solely on what is morally righteous‚ essentially upholding physis over nomos? In Antigone’s very famous choral
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The Bluest Eye depicts the social conditions and psychology of black citizens in post-World War II United States. This excerpt‚ situated in the Autumn part of the book‚ introduces the reader to a family‚ the Breedloves‚ part of whom is the protagonist‚ Pecola. The point of view is omniscient‚ enabling the author to describe the family‚ their house and state of mind. This extract has several layers of meaning : it depicts the physical‚ then moral conditions of the Breedloves‚ but also sheds light
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Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used his theatrical convention to evoke the inwardness of their characters‚ a soliloquy provides the audience with accurate access to the character’s innermost thoughts and we learn more about a character than could ever be gathered from the action of the play alone. In ’Othello’‚ both the hero and the villain speak in soliloquy. Iago‚ the villain‚ speaks his soliloquies first (Othello’s occur towards the end of the play)‚ drawing the audience in as he outlines
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The Death of the American Dream in the Great Gatsby World War I brought out the deepest‚ darkest‚ most malignant tendencies of human nature. Young men died in the thousands on the battlefield‚ martyrs of a wanton cause. 1920’s American society mirrored the Great War’s atmosphere of excess. The newly wealthy class‚ in onslaught‚ threw lavish parties and indulged in sexual promiscuity as exorbitance became the new state religion. Traditional values‚ including that of the American Dream‚ seemed to
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Writing and Communication‚ SS 100-4 15th December‚ 2012 Tracing the history of mankind reveals fascinating behavioral patterns of our ancestors that have been adopted by generations for generations. Most of these behavioral patterns were aimed at protecting oneself and survival. However‚ certain mutations‚ as you may call them‚ have led to people choosing to end their own lives at will and in some cases‚ ending it along with several others’. These people are called suicide bombers. By definition
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Tim Peterson REL 480 Brandt 4/14/09 In A Canticle For Leibowitz‚ there is plenty of talk concerning the Apocalypse. The nuclear holocaust which creates an atmosphere of mass chaos‚ book burnings‚ killings‚ and mutants; the wandering Jew who waits for Christ’s second coming‚ apparently unable to die; and finally a second nuclear holocaust which appears to do away with many things save some marine life‚ a certain mutant who represents the new creation‚ and of course‚ the wandering Jew has to
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[pic] Title Page Acknowledgement…………………………………………………………………. 1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 2 Statement of Aims…………………………………………………………………. 3 Collection of Data and Instruments Used…………………………………………… 4 Chapter One Summary of Findings………………………………………………………………... 6 Dreadlocks…………………………………………………………………………… 7 Marijuana……………………………………………………………………………
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Brandon Ruggles Jerome David Salinger was an American novelist‚ raised in Mahattan‚ Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. J. D. Salinger’s first novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ has caused quite a controversy in the literary community over its distasteful language and adult situations.The Catcher in the Rye is written in a subjective style from the point of view of its protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield
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In order to fully understand Italian Culture‚ one must spend sometime studying the famous people that were born and lived in Italy that shaped its history and its future. An important time in Italian history was that of the Roman Inquisition. During the second half of the 16th century‚ members of the Vatican church began to investigate and sometimes execute members of society who did not agree with their views1. Among these people who were executed for going against the views of the Church was a
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