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    Carol Gilligan

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    Carol Gilligan Biography Carol Gilligan was born on November 28th 1936. Gilligan was born and raised in New York City. She was an only child of William Friedman and Mabel Caminez. Her father was a lawyer meanwhile her mother was a nursery school teacher. Gilligan is married to James Gilligan who is the director of the centre for the Study on Violence at Harvard Medical School. Gilligan received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Swarthmore College‚ a master’s degree in clinical psychology

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    nostalgic emotions and yearning for the tranquility and yearning for the nature of her hometown. The vivid imagery‚ which stimulates the readers’ senses plays an important role in intensifying the vehemence of her emotions. Brewster also expresses her nostalgia in a way that makes readers empathise with her strong yearning. The lack of rhyming scheme in this piece conveys a sense of fickleness and unsureness. "People are made of places‚" she says‚ which I believe specifically means that people are made

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    April 2013 Shoeless Joe and Nostalgia Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball by Judge Landis and the fight to have him reinstated still rages on. W.P. Kinsella‚ author of New York Times Best Selling Novel‚ Shoeless Joe‚ expresses his feelings about a time in history when baseball was heart-pounding and thrilling to go and watch Joseph Jefferson Jackson play ball. In Kinsella’s heartwarming story he displays many types of rhetorical devices such as‚ nostalgia; a desire to return in thought

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    The Christmas Carol

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    How does dickens show the change in scrooge’s character in ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ look closely at the language used and how this influences the reader In 1843 Charles dickens wrote ‘A Christmas Carol’ partly to make people aware of the terrible conditions of the children of the poor. In 1843 he visited the field lane ragged school and was appalled by what he saw there/ ragged schools catered for the very poorest‚ hungry children who roamed the streets‚ trying to teach them the basic

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    Christmas Carol

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    Dickens. Charles. A Christmas Carol. New York: Scholastic Inc.‚ 1999 Title: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens affects the book in many ways. For example‚ this time that the book takes place is around Christmas so that will be a key factor in the books plot. A Christmas carol is one of the many blessings that happen around Christmas‚ one that Ebenezer Scrooge needs very much. Basically the title relates to the book because of the second chance that Scrooge is given. Context: Charles Dickens

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    A Christmas Carol

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    A Christmas Carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas. History The first specifically Christmas hymns for Christians that we know of appear in fourth century Rome. Latin hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium‚ written by Ambrose‚ Archbishop of Milan‚ were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. Corde natus ex Parentis by the Spanish

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    A Chirstmas Carol

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    A Chirstmas Carol A christmas carol is a book about poverty and christmas and how they are linked. And dickens builds a strong message abouit chirstmas and poverty in the 1914 and how the richman helps the poorman. And even though the poor have no money they still have a good chirstmas.The main character‚ Ebeneezer Scrooge‚ starts off having no feelings for others or any Christmas spirit‚ but changes from his gloomy‚ dark appearance to a carefree‚child-like person at the end. Charles Dickens was

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    symbolises Erica’s current state and when the 9/11 attacks occur it symbolises the volcano erupting resulting in the island within being thrust in to turbulent seas and violence‚ as Erica finds herself post the attacks‚ resulting in a deep state of nostalgia regarding Chris‚ who at one point was also her -ironically- protective volcano. After the 9/11 attacks occur Erica became highly “introspective” and she states that she hasn’t been like this “since the first time‚ since Chris died”‚ her nostalgic

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    Nostalgia is a term that was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer as an equivalent to the German term Heimweh‚ which means homesickness (Tierny). Because of that‚ the word homesickness and nostalgia are closely linked to each other and are sometimes used interchangeably. Like many others‚ I will tackle both homesickness and nostalgia; namely their history‚ their effects‚ people’s views on them and how important they both are as emotions. The history of nostalgia and homesickness is a fascinating one;

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    Christmas Carol

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    CHRISTMAS CAROL BY CHARLES DICKENS Christmas Carol tell the story of Ebenezer Scrooge‚ a greedy miserable self-centered man‚ that works in his counter house on a frigid Christmas eve with his exploited employee. Bob Cratchit. If there is one thing he hates more then beggars it is Christmas. A Christian analogy of redemption based upon a kind given‚ charitable pleasant time of Christmas scrooge is a skin flint business man who represents the greedy impulses of Victorian rich he subscribed to

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