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    Cited: Goldman‚ Jane. "The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism‚ Post- Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual". Cambridge‚ U.K.‚ New York‚ NY: Cambridge‚ 1998. 100-115.

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    “Science‚ it would seem‚ is not sexless: he is a man‚ a father‚ and infected too” (Woolf‚ 1938). Feminist Virginia Woolf declares this bold statement to express how science is sexist; gender bias by which women’s interests‚ insight‚ or perspective are disvalued and ostracized. Over the decades‚ there has been an outburst of the feminist writing on the philosophical development in literature and history. A majority of the feminist writings harshly criticize the philosophical traditions‚ which include

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    In an excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s memoir “Moments of Being”‚ she constructs a memoir with optimistic diction to convey to humanity that the significant moments from the past are a lesson to be used in the future. In Woolf’s excerpt she reflects upon her childhood memories with her brother Thoby and her father at a seaside village. Woolf is indicating that some moments from that past are a lesson used in the future. One lesson learned was from a moment Woolf had with her brother and father fishing

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    In Virginia Woolf’s book‚ Mrs. Dalloway‚ Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith grow up under the same social institutions although social classes are drawn upon wealth; it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. The English society which Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. Clarissa and Septimus share the quality of expressing through actions‚ not words. Through these basic beliefs and idiosyncrasies‚ both characters

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    In the anecdote by Virginia Wolf‚ the author reflects on men’s oppression affecting women’s intellectual pursuit in the twentieth century. Employing metaphors and simile‚ she exemplifies women succumbing to restrictions and boundaries placed upon them in their education. Wolf utilizes metaphors describing her thoughts and manifests what men had done to those thoughts. On a bank with willows in fine October weather‚ she compares her contemplation to “the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts

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    In psychology‚ memories have three stages in which the brain can retain and recall past experiences and information; encoding‚ storage‚ and retrieval. Most memories from someone’s childhood are lost due to absentmindedness but in her memoirs‚ Virginia Woolf dwells upon treasured thoughts of a fishing trip in the company of her dad and brother. This remembrance does not transient or linger in the back of her mind‚ no. She vividly contemplates‚ remembering every word and detail of past events. Woolf

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    SOLID OBJECTS‚ Virginia Woolf The only thing that moved upon the vast semicircle of the beach was one small black spot. As it came nearer to the ribs and spine of the stranded pilchard boat‚ it became apparent from a certain tenuity in its blackness that this spot possessed four legs; and moment by moment it became more unmistakable that it was composed of the persons of two young men. Even thus in outline against the sand there was an unmistakable vitality in them; an indescribable vigour in the

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    HOUSE BILL NO. AN ACT PROVIDING PROTECTION AND SECURITY FOR ONLINE GAMERS POLICY ON HACKING/SCAMMING/BANNING AND ABUSIVE ONLINE GAMES PROVIDERS. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: Preamble: Whereas players of online game should be protected and secured upon hacking‚ scamming by co-players and unwanted banning of Game Masters without a legal basis. Also‚ preventing the administration having a poor game service. Also‚ Creating

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    THE HOUSE OF GEORGE BROWN (George Brown House (Toronto). (2014‚ September 26). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 5‚ 2014‚ from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brown_House_(Toronto)) Professor Name - Benjamin McCarthy Student Name - Dilan Perera - 100904553 What is House of George Brown and where it is located Between 1874-76 there was nice second empire -style house was built by the father of The Globe newspaper (now Globe and Mail) Mr George Brown and he named it as Lambton Lodge

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    The colonies of Massachusetts and Virginia were located in separate regions of the New World and had many social and economic variations. The very laws and ideas these people have put into work are what have shaped America into the county it is today. When looking at these two colonies we know one thing is for sure‚ trade‚ land‚ religion‚ and natural resources were vital parts of their being. In this free-response essay I will contrast the colonies by how their societies were ran and how their economies

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