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    clumsy‚ overweight and "useless‚" hopelessly ostracized from the inner circle by her unemployment and consequent failure to follow fashion. "I’ve got a job‚" Muriel tells them‚ referring to a cosmetics sales position offered by her father’s mistress. "It’s not your clothes‚" the friends retort‚ it’s you." Crushed‚ Muriel steals money from her parents and buys a holiday at the same resort where the clique is staying. Once there she meets up with a friend from high school (Rachel Griffiths)

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    dishonesty. The mood of this tone is somehow humorous and confusion‚ Shakespeare clearly knows the mistress is unfaithful yet maintains their love affair alive. The poem refers to white lies‚ outlining infidelity as it connects to my theme. The tone is reflective but again shifts in the last quatrain when Shakespeare This poem mentions about the age of the love affair. The speaker questions why his mistress cannot admit that he is old‚ but rather the two lovers let the truth be concealed. The form once

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    Anne vs. Mary of The Other Boleyn Girl Even though the movie The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) looks like it describes some historical events‚ it demonstrates an eternal rivalry that exists between two opposite kinds of women who try to gain a man’s attention and love. In this era of England’s history‚ women were not very favorable in the society. They were inferior to men and had to obey their parents without question. This belief carried over into marriage‚ where women would do the same with their husbands

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    the sonnet 130 of Shakespeare is an unconventional poem. Most of the sonnet sequences in Elizabethan England were modelled after that of Petrarch. Petrarch’s famous sonnet sequence was written as a series of love poems to an idealized and idolized mistress‚ Laura. In those sonnets Petrarch praises her beauty‚ her worth‚ and her perfection. He has used an extraordinary variety of metaphors‚ largely based on natural beauties. But in Shakespeare’s day these metaphors had already become cliché. But they

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    Oh my‚ I’m so torn right now. How could I have possibly run my husband’s mistress over? What type of person am I? Before it happened‚ I was so unfathomably captivated by Gatsby. Oh Gatsby‚ how I’ve always felt so much joy when I’m with him. I love him‚ I do. Even so I ran over Myrtle? I think her name was‚ good riddens. All I’ve ever wanted was for Tom to be faithful to me and to support me and our little fool of a daughter. What type of mother am I if I was to stay with a man like Tom whose running

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    horrible fates to fall upon her children and moved from man to man‚ resulting in none of her children sharing the same paternal background. This could be due to the fact that Brecht himself had very little regard for women’s feelings‚ jumping from mistress to mistress while he was still married. Also Brecht was not around to support his children‚ which could’ve led to mother courage’s nonchalant attitude towards the wellbeing of her offspring. Although Brecht did not want it to‚ WWII had a very large

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    another underlays the significance of their trust. And also‚ the fact that these characters have a right to choose whether or not they have love for one another. The main motif present in this novel is the motif of cheating when “(Tom) had one (a mistress) and was insisted upon wherever he was known”( Fitzgerald

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    telling her own story in these letters to God. Later in the book‚ many women come in to her life including her Daughter in law‚ and her Husbands Mistress‚ and these women practically help her break out of the constrains of life‚ and find joy. Sexism is a very big theme to this book. Some other themes include race‚ love‚ sexual identity‚ and femininity. Mr.’s mistress‚ Shug Avery‚ a blues singer comes to stay at their house and Celie finds herself sexually attracted to her. Soon‚ Celie and Shug find a stash

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    In this poem‚ William Shakespeare illustrates a woman who is not so imposing. Throughout the piece‚ the narrator compares his lover to beautiful things‚ but she comes out with the short end of the stick. She was not blessed with desirable attributes‚ yet he loves her. Unlike most poets from his time‚ Shakespeare does not write to please the reader’s ears but to be brutally honest in a way that is endearing‚ in a roundabout way. His sonnet is very atypical in the way that he describes his beloved

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    Words Hurt. In the Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire‚ Freire provides an in depth analysis and definition of oppression. Many believe that the oppressed are the only ones on the receiving end of damage but in dehumanizing others‚ the oppressor is also subject to damage. Dehumanization “marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen‚ but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it” (1). Examples of this “two-way street” are found in Jacobs and Fredericks recount of their

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