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    career. Because of her husband’s transfer she was able to work with her old friends from college Fernando and Matilda. When she started the job it did not require the specific credentials according to Fernando. Once Matilda became familiar with Lydia’s situation she didn’t give Lydia options to make sure her credentials were on file. The case review didn’t explain that Fernando and Matilda made those judgment calls because of their friendship but it was obvious that they wouldn’t have let it happen

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    Amy Reid English 5720: Franta 09/27/12 The Contradiction in Women’s Roles in Castle of Otranto While each character in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto seem to have their own dispositions that fuel the story‚ these dispositions also create a pattern intrinsic to gender. The males of the story are powerful and oppressive to their female counterparts. In contrast‚ the women remain devoted and submissive. Although it may seem that Walpole is trying to degrade women by use of male domination

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    Roald Dahl’s life was almost as fantastic as his books. Dahl’s patterns in his life are much like the patterns in his novels. He made a clear connection with the tragedies that his characters are faced with. One theme that is apparent in most of Dahl’s work is the use of cruelty by authority figures on the weak and powerless. Dahl with humor turns this cruelty to be more of a positive‚ amusing aspect‚ rather than a negative traumatizing one that he himself was forced to overcome. Tragedy in the family

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    within community as some agreed/disagreed with foreign influence. Dolores does not want Matilda to disappear into White World. Civil War to defend culture. Developed cultures take advantage of those who are poorer. Stole away husband and father. Took away Independence. Ruined land and environment (Pollution of water‚ plants and animals. Destroyed rainforests). Against Helps advance knowledge and understanding. Matilda says the story results from their ignorance of outside world If all cultures were

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    betrayal of the others. In the book Mister Pip‚ Matilda’s mum stole the only copy of great expectations because she did not like Mr. Watts’s teachings. Matilda’s mum‚ a very religious woman believed that the book ruined her children’s beliefs‚ when Matilda confessed to believing in Pip but not in the devil. In doing such things‚ Matilda’s mother did not realize what she had given up and what kind of betrayal she just committed. She was very religious‚ and she wanted her daughter to believe in what she

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    beautiful daughters. Since Estella had stopped studying when she was still a child‚ she always had an argue with her mother-in-law named Matilda. Matilda loves her grandchildren very much that she didn’t want them to become like their mother – an illiterate person. Matilda taught everything she knew to Estella’s children. She tried to be a mother to them. Matilda wanted to raise them the way she raised her children‚ Daniel and Jojo. Because of this‚ Estella felt that she doesn’t have a place in them

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    the theme of the power of literature through the construction of the characters‚ Matilda‚ Dolores and several more. Through these characters‚ literature (or story-telling) is an extremely powerful theme in Mister Pip as it not only provides an escape for the community‚ but also as a tool to bring them together and shape their views of the world. Matilda‚ a teenage girl‚ is the main protagonist of the novel. Matilda is constructed

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    novel published in 1796. His novel follows the dark descent of the monastery’s abbot‚ Ambrosio‚ and his fall from grace and virtue‚ as he engages in immoral acts. Enticed by the temptations of the devil’s agent‚ the cross-dressing hermaphroditic Matilda‚ he succumbs to debauchery and witchcraft leading to the murder of his own mother‚ Elvira and incest with his sister‚ Antonia. After succumbing to sin and having his plans found out‚ he finally sells his soul to the Devil‚ in exchange for freedom

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    Peter is undoable different than Matilda. Unlike Matilda‚ Peter “is a qualified and experienced teacher seeking to learn from the local teacher who he views as reservoirs of cultural knowledge” (p. 97). I feel like Peter does not feel the calling to evangelize instead to grow in his profession.

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    What techniques does the director Danny DeVito use in the film ‘Matilda’ to illustrate the character Jennifer Honey as benevolent? The film ‘Matilda’ directed by Danny DeVito‚ was released in 1996. This movie promotes people to speak up for their rights and what they believe in. the movie is about a child called Matilda whom lives a very unfair life where adults control her‚ her thoughts and all of her actions. Matilda starts school at Crunchem Hall Elementary school where she meets many different

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