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    to deter the able-bodied poor from seeking poor relief? The report compiled by the 1832 commission of enquiry displays its strong belief that the able bodied poor were and had to be put in their ’proper position’ as the reform of the poor law was based on the commission’s findings this could suggest that they agree with the interpretation that main aim of the poor law administration after 1834 was to deter the able-bodied from seeking poor relief. However D. Englander‚ author of ’Poverty and Poor

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    ‘Brief psychodynamic therapy aims at relief of the patient’s major current conflicts rather than at change of his/her personality structure.’ Evaluate this statement using theoretical perspectives that take into account traditional psychodynamic beliefs. Psychodynamic therapy addresses a person’s unconscious processes and how they are demonstrated in their present behaviour. The goals of such therapies are self-awareness and understanding of preceding erroneous influences‚ in order to change

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    Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel that depicts the life of a female coming to age during a time of war and violence in Iranian. The editor of The Ithacan‚ an online college newspaper‚ criticized this work of literature as being nothing more than an “advanced comic book” and “not too challenging.” He argues that Persepolis and similar literary works do not encourage intellectual advancement and does not benefit college freshmen. Despite the more basic vocabulary‚ the side narratives

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    Why Marjane Satrapi chose to tell her story Persepolis in the graphic form The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was written in the graphic medium to appeal to a wider audience. Literary critic‚ Manuela Constantino‚ proposes that “the combination of a visual representation and a child’s point of view makes the story easily accessible and therefore attracts a wide range of readers.” (Constantino‚ 2008: 2) Another plausible reason for Satrapi’s choice to do the novel in this medium is the

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    invited to speak at West Point‚ a military base that was required to read her novel Persepolis. She describes what she thought the trip would be like before and after it occurred in a comic strip called My Speech at West Point. Satrapi perceptibly addresses the issues of war‚ death‚ and insularity in her essay with humor‚ and is affected greatly by the outcome of her trip. Although Satrapi is there to talk about Persepolis‚ she takes this opportunity to share her views on the war in Iraq. In the beginning

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    understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story‚ with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns‚” “mysteries‚” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies‚ novels or poetry. Essentially‚ a medium is just a blank slate with no rules governing what it can be used to do. Until recently (the last 10-20 years)‚ comics in North America were

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    PERSEPOLIS: Unity in Diversity Submitted by: Akoijam Malemnganbi 13HEMA50 ‘If you prick us‚ do we not bleed? If you tickle us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in

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    Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood‚ by Marjane Satrapi Identity and Social Justice Unit Ms. Kamrass English 9 Essential Questions: Why is childhood an important time of life? When does it end? How do people cope when their lives are changed by forces they cannot control? Persepolis is a graphic novel. Why do you think Satrapi chose this genre to tell her story? I. Literary terms: mood – the effect of literature on the reader: it is usually controlled by imagery allusion - in literature‚ an implied

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    That the Xerxes mother and her link to Cyrus the Great was only an advantage in Ahura-Mazda’s claim of Xerxes to be the divine ‘King of Kings’. Xerxes expresses this claim of divinity on a block of Limestone at persepolis “Saith Xerxes the king: had other sons of Darius there were‚ [but]... thus unto Ahura-Mazda was the desire‚ Darius my father made me the greatest after himself.” This is thus showing Xerxes grand claim that Ahura-Mazda himself gives the consent

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    was that‚ I kind of in a way‚ was writing about another thesis instead of the one I chose to do. I was mainly writing about what figurative language and literary elements did Satrapi implement in her book and why or why did Satrapi chose to write a comic book style in black and white. That is another thing that I modified and took some parts out‚ and kept some figurative language and literary elements that actually related to how Satrapi portrayed

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