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    Your Mouth Is Lovely starts with Miriam in a cold and unforgiving prison in 1911. Our main character is pregnant‚ and her execution is postponed until the birth of her child. After the delivery of her daughter‚ Hayya is taken off of her chest and she is once again alone. Weeks pass‚ and her death sentence is reduced to life in prison‚ an act of “mercy”. The point of view now changes temporarily to third person to describe her parents and both her and her brother’s unfortunate births in 1887. Her

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    done the work for nothing. The whole story of making Max and Miriam together didn’t work out and Feld sacrificed his money for nothing. Sobel is a kind gentleman ‚ that lost his life and escaped his hometown germany and came to New York. To wrap it up‚ In the deep discussion between Sobel and Feld‚ Feld gave up and agreed on Sobel’s love for miriam and not to be sorrowful but asked him to wait and sacrifice two more years til Miriam becomes 21 and to ask her to marry him.

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    Epigraph Of Anna Funder

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    vergangenheitsbewältigung – is evident. When Funder first meets Miriam‚ she is wearing dull grey‚ devoid of colour. By describing her clothing and colour scheme‚ Funder provides a contrast to the woman shown to her and the colourful girl Miriam describes herself as what she used to be. Her development in healing her own scars is shown in the later chapters‚ when she appears in white. White is a colour that symbolises purity and innocence‚ thus Miriam has somewhat ‘purified’ herself of her past‚ and had gained

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    lives were heavily seen in Anna Funder’s Stasiland. Anna Funder interviewed a series of people in Eastern Germany who encountered various difficult situations under the strict watch of the Stasi. For example‚ Anna interviewed a woman named Miriam Weber. Miriam became a prime target for the Stasi at the age of sixteen when she and her friend Ursula made flyers that spoke out against the injustices of the Stasi. They stuck up flyers around their town in Leipzig. The girls passed the Communist Party

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    Do you know that there’s a certain species of sea grass that are delectably edible? Miriam Quiambao travels to the Island of Binuangan in Obando‚ Bulacan to taste the “Dampalit Atchara‚" a popular side dish in the island made from Dampalit sea grass. Aside from harvesting Dampalit‚ Miriam also discovers that aside from papaya‚ Bulakeños also use the bitter ampalaya to make their famous atchara! From Obando‚ Miriam then travels to Candaba‚ Pampanga to taste Tita Lida Lacandulao’s famous Binurong

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    Congress and Senate under the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo were dominated by conservative Anti-RH representatives. A few like Representatives Edcel Lagman and Janette Loreto-Garin in Congress and Senators Pia Cayetano and Miriam Defensor-Santiago have continued the fight despite of the overwhelming hostility of their peers to the RH Bill. Mrs. Macapagal-Arroyo herself promoted an abstinence-only program during her 9-year tenure as president. Ever since I was involved with RH advocacy

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    CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Since the purpose of the study is the problem concerning plastic banning‚ the researchers focused on the haphazard posed by the issue. Plastic bags are one of the plastic products produced in greater numbers‚ and one of the products most commonly dispersed in the environment. Unlike any other waste products‚ plastics have a slow rate of decomposition and accounts for various mishaps of flooding e.i. Plastic bags have been

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    D.H.Lawrence Sons and Lovers

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    ’In Sons and Lovers‚ Paul is not really torn between Miriam and Clara but rather between his mother and his father.’ Discuss. Sons and Lovers is considered one of the greatest English novels of the twentieth century. Centred on the lives of an English rural family‚ the novel explores issues relating to marriage‚ family‚ industrialism‚ class and sexuality. While the first sections of the book focus on the early marriage of Mr and Mrs. Morel‚ it is their second son Paul who comes to dominate the

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    treated similarly and differently. For example‚ in the Time article and “First Seven Years‚” both of the main characters are playing matchmaker and trying to find a person a spouse. Feld is trying to play matchmaker and find Miriam a young‚ good looking man to be her husband‚ but Miriam has different ideas‚ when she discovers Max is boring and a materialist. Similarly‚ since the Time article has matchmaker‚ Erin Davis‚ the texts are related because they are both trying to find people that they will fall

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    with him and speaks for him on his first job interview. The only thing redeeming Paul in this is that he knows that he is being tied down by his mother and is fighting a silent fight against her for his whole life. Although Mrs. Morel doesn’t like Miriam‚ he keeps his relationship with her. Although Mrs. Morel doesn’t want Paul to stay out late‚ on most occasions he breaks this rule also. The only thing that ever releases Paul from Mrs. Morel’s grasp is her death. Mr. Morel’s captivity is

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