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    cruelty and isolation. After finding her voice and standing up for herself‚ Walker was able to confront the challenges life presented. Her experiences led to accomplishing extraordinary things like becoming an author. In one of her novels‚ The Color Purple‚ Walker creates Celie‚ the main character‚ to demonstrate her beliefs in women’s rights and equality for all. Alice Walker uses characterization and point of view to illustrate that with independence and love a woman’s life can be full of happiness

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    ignited to provide light and heat. Candles are easily melted when directly in heat. Used colored candle will be used to create the floorwax. The researchers will melt it and put some color by adding the extract of a gumamela flower. Gumamela (Hibiscus rosa) is used in a variety of ways by many cultures‚ including here in the Philippines. It contains quite a few properties in it that have been known to help someone healthy or to cure certain issues concerning the heart. Gumamela‚ when crushed

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    Intoduction * Background of the Study * Gumamela/ (Scientific Name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn) Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family‚ Malvaceae. It is quite large‚ containing several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate‚ subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are often noted for their showy flowers and are commonly known simply as hibiscus‚ or less widely known as rose mallow. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous

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    These desperate words of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple display Celie’s disconsolateness in her life and her submission towards those around her. Nettie‚ Celie’s sister is a fighter‚ refusing to allow any man or women to diminish her spirits‚ hopes‚ and dreams‚ at any cost. Whereas Celie‚ too weak and fearful to defy anyone who demands more than what she desires to offer‚ suffers through these trials‚ unable to find her voice. In The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker analyzes the character‚ Celie and her

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    Gumamela (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn) ABOUT GUMAMELA Gumamela is a shrub that grows from one meter up to 4 meters high. Gumamela is also known as: Hibiscus‚ China Rose and Shoeflower. In the Philippines‚ gumamela is cultivated as an ornamental plant. The gumamela flower comes in many colors: red‚ yellow‚ orange‚ white‚ purple‚ pink and other color combinations. Gumamela leaves‚ usually blended with Rose Hip has long been used in the Middle East and Okinawa as herbal tea. Today‚ the use

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    Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ important aspects of the African American women’s experience in America in the early/mid. 1900’s are discussed such as the physical abuse and emotional abuse they endured and their social standing in society. In both novels you are able to witness the anguish and persecution that these women had to undergo. Maya from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Celie from The Color Purple are the main characters and we see that they are both differentiated

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    How does the sexual identity of the female characters contribute to their overall development in ‘The colour purple?’ The sexual Identity of female characters contributes to their overall development‚ particularly in the protagonist‚ Celie’s life in which the discovery of her sexual identity is crucial in her overcoming oppression. The novel is of young black woman set in rural Georgia‚ early twentieth century stuck in a harsh patriarchal and segregated society. Alice walker represents these developments

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    “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a series a letters by and to the main character‚ Celie. The book begins with fourteen year old Celie writing to God about her father raping her and taking away her children. After Celie’s mother dies‚ Celie focuses on protecting her sister‚ Nettie‚ from her father’s sexual advances and encourages her to run away. A widower called “Mr. __” wants to marry Nettie‚ but their father rejects him. Eventually Celie marries Mr. __‚ who later is called Albert‚ and her

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    Pharmacology and Life Sciences Online ISSN 2277 – 1808 Bull. Environ. Pharmacol. Life Sci.; Volume 1 [6] May 2012: 48 - 54 Original Article © All Rights Reserved Academy for Environment and Life Sciences‚ India Website: www.bepls.com Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) in Sudan‚ Cultivation and Their Uses Bahaeldeen Babiker Mohamed1*‚ Abdelatif Ahmed Sulaiman2 and Abdelhafiz Adam Dahab3 1National Centre for Research (NCR)‚ Dept. of Crop Production and Biodiversity‚ Khartoum‚ Sudan. *Corresponding

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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and By the Light of My Father’s Smile Alice walker-a renowned novelist‚ short story writer‚ essayist‚ poet‚ critic‚ and author of children’s books-sees the corruption in the world and writes to portray the struggles that African American women encounter. The snags that they have in everyday society are largely copious‚ however‚ Alice Walker does wonders writing specifically about racism and sexism. In two of her famous novels‚ The Color Purple and By the Light of my

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