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    According to the article‚ Daum admits that she imagined Pete’s personality to be possessing the aspects she would like her romantic partner to have‚ this fantasy was initiated by the messages that Pete sent her. Many people who are looking for internet romance tend to assume a complete picture of their “partner”. When reading a typed message there is strong tendency to

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    In his story "A Sweatshop Romance‚" Abraham Cahan does a good job of creating a clear visual of the activities that occurred at the coat-making factory of Mr. Leizer Lipman‚ a Jewish-American who got married to a woman from a poor town in Western Russia. In this story‚ there are certain propagandistic situations as well as anxieties and concerns that relates to class-consciousness in the twentieth century. According to the story‚ Mrs. Lipman‚ the proprietor’s wife and a co-owner of the business occupied

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    years ago‚ men had little respect for women because of their gender. Females were not given the rights they deserve. They were controlled by their fathers‚ then handed straight over to their husbands. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion have occurrences that show similarities between the two female protagonists‚ Nora Helmer and Eliza Doolittle. Nora and Eliza are comparable in several different ways because both go through experiences with powerful outcomes ultimately transforming

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    The play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw has many different characters that bring much to the play due to their backgrounds‚ feelings‚ and intentions. One of these remarkable and famous characters is Eliza Doolittle. How Eliza comes across‚ how she is treated by others‚ and how she changes are what make Eliza such a wonderful character. Firstly‚ Eliza comes across as a sassy‚ smart-mouthed flower girl with horrible English‚ and is transformed to a still sassy‚ figure fit to consort with nobility. She

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    Question 1.The Merchant of Venice: A Romantic Comedy From Insights‚ 1992 The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ probably written in 1596 and 1597‚ and forms one of a group of such comedies‚ along with The Two Gentlemen of Verona‚ As You Like It‚ andTwelfth Night. Romantic comedy was a popular and much-preferred type in Elizabethan theatre‚ and all the trappings of such are present in The Merchant of Venice. First‚ the romantic involvement is represented not by one couple

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    Productivity Management PM – Q7 Self-Fufilling Prophecy or Pygmalion effect and the 4 factors plus its application. The problem with productivity measurements – especially in measuring a company’s workforce efficiency‚ is that they do not take into account other factors relating to the way people work. This means that elements such as employee’s initiatives‚ their flexibility‚ teamwork and adaptability are not incorporated in the measures of input. As such‚ the calculation of productivity

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    Rags to Riches Eliza Doolittle is a main character in the play Pygmalion. She is a poor girl from the streets of London who turns out to be a brilliant and beautiful young woman. Eliza Doolittle uses her skillful thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer to lessons with the rude Henry Higgins to become a lady in a flower shop. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle does not

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    The scene shifts to Higgins’ laboratory in his home in Wimpole Street. It is eleven o’clock the next morning‚ and Higgins has been giving Pickering some demonstrations of the types of equipment that he uses in recording sounds which can then be studied at leisure in a scientific manner. As Higgins finishes his demonstration‚ Pickering admits that he is impressed‚ but he hasn’t been able to follow more than half of what Higgins has shown him. Mrs. Pearce‚ the housekeeper‚ enters to announce that there

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    The Winter’s Tale: The Tragedy Within A Romance In 1623‚ the complete works of Shakespeare were published in the First Folio. Within this Folio were the works of Shakespeare categorized by their genre. There were tragedies‚ histories‚ comedies‚ and the final four were romances. Prior to this time‚ romance was not a widespread genre in anyone’s writings. We can see by means of the "genealogy" of writing‚ that the romance we know today was created through the combination of the Greek

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    I’m pretty much angry every day and it’s pretty much always for the same reason: My Chemical Romance. I first listened to MCR when I was 11 or 12. I heard a song called Cancer while creating a playlist on a website called 8tracks. My friend told me to put the song on the playlist so I did. It was a playlist inspired by The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The song was a sad one and I didn’t really look into them much further because I already heard a few other songs (in passing‚ you could say)‚

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