be viewed as morally ambiguous and why his or her moral ambiguity is significant to the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary. The Awakening: Moral Ambiguity In The Awakening‚ Edna finds herself unhappy living in a patriarchal society‚ and gives up her family and life to be content with herself. Her moral ambiguity can be compared to that of many women who sparked the early days of the women’s suffrage movement. Edna “[is] found of her children in an uneven‚ impulsive way” (Chopin 19)‚ and
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Geraldine has a strong relationship with her maternal side of the family. She grew up very close to her grandmother and godmother. They were actively in her life since she was born. Geraldine and her grandmother are very active in the church. Geraldine has the opposite relationship with her paternal side of family. She has very limited contact as her father’s parents never married. He grew up in two separate households. Geraldine has visited them occasionally but was not very close to either of
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Children of the Holocaust Children were the most vulnerable people during the holocaust era. The Nazis had it set in their minds that they killed them because of a racial struggle or as a measure of security. The Germans and their collaborators killed them for both those reasons and also in retaliation towards the partisan attacks. 1.5 million children were brutally murdered by both the Germans and their collaborators. Amongst these children about one million Jewish children were killed. The
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ARGUMENT/SYNTHESIS PRE-WRITE 1. What is your topic? Arming Pilots. 2. What is your claim? Pilots should not be armed. 3. What is your thesis sentence? Supporters of arming pilots argue that it a better solution than equipping airplanes with sky marshals and that it would considerably enhance the security of airplanes. However‚ crucial constraints‚ such as the risk of crash that can be caused by a bullet hole in the airplane‚ the fact that pilots can’t be blindly trusted to carry guns‚
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As Difficult” written by Rachel Martin‚ who got her information through Timothy Kudo‚ “Where Have You Gone‚ Charming Billy?” written by Tim O’Brien‚ and “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce point out the psychological effects war can have on a person. These stories are very different from each other but they also support each other on a psychological aspect. These stories also give multiple examples of these long term mental effects. “For Many Returning Vets…” by Rachel Martin is a very good example
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Mother and her Sister Happiness is a key factor in life. Weather happiness is found in love‚ in career‚ in family - everybody deserves to experience true happiness sometime in life. Life is not complete without this key factor. This is true in the case of the mother in the short story “My Mother and her Sister” who does not seem to find true happiness in life before her days are over. This assignment will begin with an analysis and interpretation of the short story “My Mother and her Sister” by
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women being in need of male protection‚ underappreciated and a lesser of a man comes up in these novels. In Heart of Darkness‚ Marlow chooses not to tell Kurt’s fiancés’ the reality of the world they are in‚ as not to frighten them‚ as if they are children that cannot be told the truth. He fears in telling them the truth he is going to disrupt their bliss and unawareness of the harsh reality. By doing this‚ he is pulling a mask over their eyes and turning a blind eye to the truth. This theme of keeping
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In Her Actions? Is the killing of anyone ever justified? Is the life of one individual more important than another? In Euripides‚ Medea‚ Medea kills the princess of Corinth‚ the king of Corinth‚ Creon‚ as well as her own children. Are her actions the actions of an insane‚ distraught person or those of wise‚ foreign‚ barbaric woman trying to protect her children? Through the story of Medea‚ Medea justifies the killing of others while several other characters portray the injustice of her killings
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Most in the family called her Nani; in fact‚ everyone I ever witness engaged with her‚ called her Nani‚ except for one person‚ her daughter Marylou who always referred to her with some less than endearing term‚ the most common was “old woman.” Nani who has long passed was a delight. She stood under five feet tall‚ and weighted no more than 90 pounds‚ of which 80 pounds was all heart - she was fiery‚ witty‚ intelligent‚ and gentle. Nani loved people‚ adored children‚ respected everybody; she never
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and her Sister” Losing a sister or a parent is very difficult to come to terms with‚ and death itself may even put your own life in perspective. It can make people wonder if what they have done with their lives is what they wanted to do. Did they live their lives fully‚ did they go the places they wanted to go‚ see the things they wanted to see? In the text “My mother and her sister” by Jane Rogers‚ the narrator has just lost her mother‚ and although her aunt Lucy has lived with her since
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