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    “I heard she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively when she was Minnie Foster‚ one of those town girls singing in the choir” (1309) said the Wright’s neighbor‚ Mrs. Hale to Mrs. Peters‚ the sheriff’s wife. Susan Glaspell wrote the play‚ Trifles‚ which was published in 1916. This play is about a murder committed in a farmhouse in the Midwest‚ focusing on the meaning of Minnie Wright’s life and reasons behind killing her husband. The different assumptions and perceptions of the men and women in

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    In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ the soldiers depicted experience many hardships throughout their daily lives. Among these hardships is a lack of luxuries which are taken for granted by most‚ but feel necessary when they are no longer available. Particularly‚ the comfort that a woman provides‚ as described in the novel‚ is a very important aspect of life which has been deprived from the soldiers. Throughout the book‚ discussion about women amongst the men on the front line was a rarity. However

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    rapturously‚ in summary‚ means being overjoyed. “She had also to anticipate how her visit would pass‚ the quiet tenour of their usual employments‚ the vexatious interruptions of Mr. Collins‚ and the gaieties of their intercourse with Rosings‚” (Austen 158). Elizabeth was wondering how the visit go and deciphered the usual occurrences that went on. The quiet tenour can be defined as the quiet tone or course of their day to day formalities based on the context of Chapter 5. “ She seems perfectly happy

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    NAME: Tomas Lebedevas TITLE: Social Darwinism vs Darwinism After Darwin made his theory of evolution the theory of Social Darwinism was created. Susan Jacoby in her book‚ “the Age of American Unreason”‚ was very critical of this theory and attributed its popularity it to the rise anti-intellectualism and anti-intellectualism in the United States culture. She describes how the pseudoscience was created from the actual scientific theory of evolution in order to push American elitist views on why

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    The Power of the Media In Susan Douglas’s essay "Narcissism as Liberation"‚ she covers the topic of the power of media on American culture. Douglas approaches this topic in a way which grabs her audience’s attention quickly. She discusses an advertisement in the first paragraph of her essay. This advertisement is a very popular one among American Society today‚ especially women. Through discussing such a popular advertisement so early in her essay‚ Douglas not only grabs her audience’s attention

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    My mother always taught me to be a strong and independent woman. She told me to always strive to reach any goal that I set for myself‚ and she would always stand behind me on everything I ever did… I chose to read the book‚ Where the Girls are by Susan Douglas. I found this whole book interesting‚ mainly because it was the era that my mother grew up in. She grew up in the 1960s‚ a time where life was finally turning around for women. In the chapter‚ Mama Said‚ she actually talks about how her mother

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    make up the category of poetry. Specific examples of poems are lyric poems‚ sonnets‚ dramatic monologues‚ elegies‚ odes‚ haikus‚ figurative levels‚ and imagist poems.  Each author has their own language of poetry that comes after a lot of thought. Susan Rowland puts it best‚ “poetic language is the native tongue of the soul.” Each author writes their poems with different meanings. The meanings in the poems might be easy to determine‚ extremely hard to pick out‚ or some poems might not have a meaning

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    Have you ever had to make a decision on whether or not to steal from your own mother? I sure hope not‚ but in the story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer‚ the main character‚ Ashleigh‚ has to make that decision. Ashleigh’s parents are divorced and she lives with her mother but‚ she visits her dad often. Ashleigh’s father gave her the nickname “Ashes” but her mom hates it‚ she doesn’t even like the name Ashleigh. Her dad is in debt and wants Ashleigh to steal her mother’s emergency money. At the end

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    piece is written in six-eight time. In the first section of the ballade‚ the tempo is Andantino. The notes that give the tempo this quality is repeated C’s on both hands that are being played repeatedly. This makes the melody and development stay quiet or hushed. Section one fades out with the right hand playing repeated A notes. There is a huge contrast from the first section to the second section. Chopin used F minor in this section and made the tempo allegro‚ which really took me by surprise.

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    In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front the meaning of desensitization is manifested through the ability to have a tender heart is vilified. The brutally inhumane experiences the participants face demonstrate how war does not allow for and eminently discourages having a tender heart. The experience of war tends to strip a person of their humanity and natural human empathy and when the realization of such becomes palpable there is a desperate want or need to feel something

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