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    1 ”The Fabulous Button Sisters” is a short story from 2006 written by Sarah Salway‚ it’s about a girl named Karen and her best friend Michelle. Michelle is living with her aunt‚ while her mother is in Hollywood trying to become a star‚ Michelle is waiting for her mother to become a star so she can come live with her and become one too. Michelle and Karen have a plan to go together‚ so they both can become stars. Karen and Michelle is going to a party and they have agreed to dress up like chocolate

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    Compare how a relationship is presented in “The Manhunt”by Armitage and “Nettles” by Scannell The poem “Nettles” is about a father that cares for his three-year old son after he has fallen in a parade of nettles. Even though the father is most sympathetic towards his son‚ and cares for him until his pain is “not so raw”‚ he is furious with anger at the nettles for causing his son the amount of pain that he is feeling at that point. This is understandable as he is his father and he wants to always

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    Inferior Status of Women Women sought for liberty and equality that was granted to men during the early nineteenth century in the United States. Women questioned differences in rights and roles compared to men. Sarah Grimke was the daughter of a wealthy slave-owner in Charleston‚ South Carolina. She despised slavery and inequality of women and moved to Philadelphia. She became a Quaker and leader for abolition and women’s rights. Sarah Grimke published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes in

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    Shannon Waters English 2 August 25‚ 2013 Macbeth The play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare took place in Scotland in the 1600’s. It is an alarming play about a couple who are disturbed due to their excessive ambition. They both want Macbeth to be king‚ but it comes with a price. He has to kill King Duncan to gain the royal crown. It all started when the three withes told a rumor to Banquo‚ and Macbeth. Lady Macbeth told Macbeth to “look like an

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    Jade Taylor lives with her family. She has five sisters (Amelie‚ Emma‚ Blythe and Mimi). Her mother is a medium‚ so she focuses on the spiritual realm. Her father died of smallpox‚ leaving her mother in grief. This whole book starts off with Maude Taylor connecting with the spirit of Mary Adelaide. Mary Adelaide’s husband then thinks that Maude is just a fraud‚ when she connected with her. He thought she was a fraud because he was never okay with the spiritual realm. Sometimes‚ Mimi even thinks that

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    What is ‘American Exceptionalism’ and what are its (religious) origins? ‘The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional‚ and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. (…) Let us cease‚ then‚ to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.’ Alexis de Tocqueville‚ Democracy in America‚ 1835/1840 When in 1497 John Cabot and his sailing crew landed on the North American coast‚ he was guiding the first colonists to a

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    Sandy and her beautiful sisters – analyses “Sandy and her beautiful sisters” is a short story written by Antonia Fraser. It is a rewriting of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. The story tells me‚ that being beautiful isn’t equal to being happy or to have a good life. The protagonist Sandy is a character with depth. She is‚ unlike her two beautiful sisters described as “plump” with long curly hair. Because of her lack in beauty Sandy has grown up being the unnoticed sister‚ which has resulted in

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    The Mirabal sisters undergo tremendous transformations throughout their lives. When Trujillo’s dictatorship begins affecting their families‚ they become upstanding women. As a result of their outspokenness‚ the sisters earn the nickname Mariposas‚ meaning “Butterflies”. Butterflies do not begin their lives as the colorful and graceful creatures many people initially think of. They begin as caterpillars. At a specific time in their lives‚ caterpillars undergo a change known as metamorphosis and become

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    Although so many disparities exist between three sisters in terms of writing style‚ value and reputation‚ they have many things in common‚ such as the usage of Gothic element and the theme of feminism. When considering the common features they all have‚ it is inevitable to mention their family and life experience. Their interest towards literature and writing was firstly cultivated by their father Patrick Bronte. Patrick Bronte was ‘a poet‚ writer‚ and polemicist’ (Wikipedia.org)‚ who ‘was the

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    Angelou’s character‚ Marguerite‚ uses to define the social split in her life. Marguerite uses many different examples to discern what makes Sister Flowers so different and special compared to herself and her own life. Yet the use of grammar comes into play when Marguerite describes meetings between the head figures of both sides of her social spectrum: her mother and Sister Flowers. This meeting and the way it is described allows the reader to form opinions on Marguerite’s stance on the world‚ what embarrases

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