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    Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream a play centering around lovers‚ performers‚ and mischievous fairies in a forest outside of Athens. There are 3 subplots within the play that take place throughout the night: a love rectangle‚ preparation for a play for the Duke’s wedding‚ and a feud between the king and queen of the fairies. These subplots however‚ all become intertwined with one another as the play goes on. Two of the subplots have very distinguishable characters‚ but one of them‚ specifically

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    Michael Cunningham ’s The Hours and Postmodern Artistic Re-Presentation MARY JOE HUGHES ow that Michael Cunningham ’s The Hours has been made into a film representing yet another echo of Woolf ’s Mrs. DaUo\va\\ it is worth investigating just how the later novel conceives its relation to its predecessor. Because The Hours directly lakes the role of literature as one of its subjects‚ it may provide a model for considering postmodern artistic representation more generally. Such re-telling or re-presentation

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    Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth

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    Characters 1. a) Lispeth is a young girl who was left at a mission as a baby in time of famine. She grows up‚ finds an Englishman suffering from fever on the road‚ and takes him to the mission‚ announcing that she will take care of him and then marry him. He flirts with her and then he leaves her alone. At the end she finds that he hasn’t intention of marrying her. b) The Chaplain’s wife is the person who takes care as a mother of Lispeth when her parents die. She lies Lispeth when she said

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    Business controlled assessment To investigate the marketing strategies adopted by a number of locally owned businesses and those of a large limited company. Im going to be investigating the various different marketing strategies used by two local businesses and a large limited company. To do this I will be using secondary research which is information that has already been found‚ and I will be using primary research‚ which is information that I have found myself. Background research Berkshire

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    David H.‚ and Canter Brown. "Tale of Angola: Free Blacks‚ Red Stick Creeks‚ and International Intrigue in Spanish Southwest Florida‚ 1812-1821." Go Sound the Trumpet!: Selections in Florida’s African American History. Tampa‚ FL: University of Tampa for the Florida A & M University Dept. of History‚ Political Science/Public Administration‚ Geography‚ and African American Studies‚ 2005. 5-18. Print. In David H. Jackson and Canter Brown’s book‚ Go Sound the Trumpet: Tale of Angola‚ these men talk

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    Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had‚ to discover the unspoken realities of women’s lives written between the lines of Ballard’s diary. The result of Ulrich’s efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale‚" now a movie of the same name‚ made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. The film recounts the day-to-day events described in Ballard’s diary and expanded upon by Ulrich‚ based on some careful

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    Recognition. These topics were hit on through various points in the book and they were touched upon in various ways through different characters. Although Pattern Recognition is a postmodern novel‚ both knowledge and the self both have been discussed in modern and postmodern ways throughout this book. William Gibson‚ a postmodern writer‚ is known for combining punk with technology to form a genre of writing that became known as “cyberpunk.” Gibson has written nine total books‚ with that consisting of

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    Advanced English Assessment 2 A truly valuable novel is not purely based on content‚ but has the ability to challenge and spur readers into reaction based on construction and language of the text. Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale is a true example of such value‚ as her novel not only attracts readers but also warns us of the uncertainties and dangers of the future. She demonstrates how language can be used as a powerful tool for both manipulation and domination as well as how reconstructions of both fiction

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    certain literary device. Such an analysis helps not only to identify narrative elements such as theme‚ plot‚ and setting in a fictional work but also to reveal the author’s purpose and viewpoint and the cultural and social factors influencing the author. __________________________________________________________________________ Directions and Analysis Task 1: Analyze Literary Elements in Genji Monogatari Genji Monogatari‚ or The Tale of Genji‚ is a Japanese novel written in the early eleventh century

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