Oh My Aching Feet In John King Fairbank’s short story‚ “Footbinding‚” Chinese parents choose to bind their daughters’ feet so they could have a better chance for a good marriage arrangement and success in life. A Chinese custom in practice for decades‚ “Footbinding spread as a mark of gentility and upper-class status” and as a way “[…] to preserve female chastity” (Fairbank 403). At a very young age‚ parents tightly wrap their daughters’ feet with cloth to prevent growth and change the shape in
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Fairies‚ Withes‚ and Ghosts‚ Oh My! Shakespeare’s Use of the Supernatural Come‚ you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts‚ unsex me here‚ And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! (Macbeth‚ I.v. 88095) Man has long desired to peer behind the veil of human existence and understand the supernatural. There may have been no greater period for this obsession than during the Renaissance‚ and there was no more influential literary influence during this period than William
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Plot Summary for Hamlet Shakespeare In the early scenes‚ Hamlet’s father visits him as ghost. The ghost first visits Marcellus and Barnardo. At first the ghost does not talk to anyone. When the King finally talks to Hamlet alone he tells him that Claudius‚ the late king’s brother‚ killed him and that Hamlet needs to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet accepts his fathers request but first must put Claudius through a test to see if what the ghost says is true. Within Shakespeare’s play‚ there
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Synopsis: Jane Eyre Q4:What are some of the incidents in the plot that might have been labled melodramatic or improbable? Why might these episodes have been included despite the author’s intention of developing a realistic novel? “The man who has no imagination‚ has no wings” A young woman by the name of Jane Eyre from the Charlotte Bronte coming of age novel Jane Eyre has a vivd imagination. The novel is an autobiography of Jane’s life---Her dramatic or illusive episodes that she experiences:
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of Old Chang Kee Considering to what the competitive advantage Old Chang Kee possesses‚ it is obviously the food product‚ especially Curry Puff. As there are a lot of homemade food products like this from the competitors‚ but the factor that leads Old Chang Kee shares customers that competitors cannot match is the taste come with the price. The affordable price range makes a wide range of customers. All products of Old Chang Kee were priced between $1 to $2. This means that Old Chang Kee can
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PLOT SUMMARIES OF ELEONORA Eleonora is about an unnamed narrator and his love life. The narrator lives with Eleonora‚ his cousin and his aunt. Their valley is isolated from others and no strangers ever enter it. The narrator only knows Eleonora‚ his aunt and the valley. This valley is named as the valley of the colored grasses and it is described as a paradise of fragrant flowers‚ fantastic trees‚ and a "River of Silence”. They live there together for fifteen years before they realize that love
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Roderigo- Loves Desdemonia‚ is persuaded by Iago to attempt to kill Cassio‚ is murdered by Iago to remain silent (d) Emilia- Married to Iago‚ gives iago the handkerchief that convinces Othello that Desdemonia and Cassio had a relationship (d) Plot Othello marries Desdemonia in secret. However Roderigo goes to her father and blows their cover. Othello is forced to defend himself from accusations of witchcraft. News of a Turkish invasion of Cyprus reaches Venice‚ and Othello‚ with Cassio his
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PLOT OF INTO THE WILD (FILM) The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative‚ jumping back and forth between McCandless ’s time spent in Alaskan wilderness and his two-year travels leading up to his journey to Alaska. The plot summary here is told in a more chronological order. In May 1992‚ Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in a remote area just north of the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska and sets up a campsite in an abandoned bus. At first‚ McCandless is content with the
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Native Speaker was written by Chang-rae Lee in the twentieth century and published in 1995. The novel takes place in New York‚ depicting the late twentieth century. The protagonist is Henry Park‚ a spy for an espionage firm who has been deserted by his wife. Henry is first chosen to work in this espionage firm because he possesses exceptional skill in blending into varied surroundings. He fails his first assignment‚ which was to spy on Dr. Emile Luzan; afterwards‚ Luzan dies mysteriously‚ and Henry
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The book‚ Remove the ladder‚ in a book written by Dr. Ha-Joon Chang‚ born in South Korea‚ 1963 and remains one of the most influential and prominent in the world thanks to his writings as the book heterodox economists read "Remove the ladder "or in its English version" Kicking away the ladder. " He is an expert in development economics and works within the paradigm of the new institutional economics. Currently he is working in Cambridge as a lecturer‚ but has also been a consultant to the World Bank
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