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    Anne Sexton Cinderella

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    Anne Sexton’s poem Cinderella is an analysis of the falsehood of fairytales and their inapplicable meanings to real‚ everyday life. Sexton’s poem‚ as a whole‚ mocks the classic tale of Cinderella by retelling the story with an analysis intertwined. This big message of fairytales being fake is reiterated throughout the poem through repetition‚ similes through imagery‚ and diction. Sexton’s use of repetition is easily spotted in the last stanza of the poem. Sexton’s negative view is shown through

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    American Dream in Film

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    work‚ perseverance‚ and there are no unfair limitations. It also shows individual advancement‚ free from social restraints‚ not connected income‚ but to the concept of mobility. In film‚ these aspects of the American Dream are sometimes showed by rags-to-riches stories. These stories follow a character from a low class that work very hard to achieve success. There are many films over the years that show this concept. In 1987‚ Herbert Ross directed the film Secret of my Success starring Michael J. Fox

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    Lucas Wick Professor Michael Miller Argument and Persuasion in Humanities 12 March 2015 Working Girl’s Negative Outlook of Marxist Theory Working Girl‚ directed by Mike Nichol‚ recalls a rags-to-riches story in a modern society where the class divisions are precisely sharp. Set in the 1980s‚ the film provides a historical situation of inequitable distribution: this inequity sways all the characters’ behavior. Though Tess McGill and Jack Trainer spark up a romance‚ it is Tess’ acquisitiveness

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    Andrew L. Tan Story

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    MANILA‚(STAR) By Wilson Lee Flores - One of the most inspiring new “rags-to-riches” billionaires of Southeast Asia is Andrew Tan of Alliance Global Group‚ Inc.‚ the new multi-billion peso holding company for his three major businesses – condominium-developer Megaworld‚ the world’s biggest brandy producer Emperador Distillers‚ Inc. and a HUGE percentage on shareholdings in the nationwide Philippine franchise of McDonald’s fastfood chain. The latest 2007 issue of Forbes magazine lists Tan as

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    Cohen On Poverty Summary

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    class is not the way that I think it should be. There is a misconception about it. Many people think that in order to be considered as upper class‚ they must work their way up. I remember in my Humanities class we talked about this as “rising from rags to riches.” However‚ as I read this article it is not that way. Many sociologists think of the classes as individuals who are inside the boxes instead of working their way up on a ladder to a higher class; for example‚ the lower class individual stays with

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    Southern Reality Shows

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    Southern identities created in reality television are shaping the work and wellbeing of southerners‚ as well as their loss concept of self through southern livelihood. In recent years‚ reality television programs featuring “redneck” culture in particular have witnessed increased popularity. These southern reality television programs present southerners doing everything from frequently proceeding with unacceptable rude and obscene behavior‚ eating triple fried foods at county fairs‚ fishing with their

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    D.) THE PROGRESSION 1.) Parallel Points I.) Scarface - Tony’s rise to power is a notable rags-to-riches story‚ only that it involves drugs and dead bodies. The dark and criminalized American Dream was a strongly implemented backbone of the story‚ wherein an immigrant comes to the US to find his fortune and future. Tony eventually succeeds for a moment‚ but when his judgement and pure unluckiness started to overwhelm him‚ he became a cautionary tale of excesses and greed II.) The Godfather - The story

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    their land better and more sustainable financially speaking. The government gave them this land‚ which was a catalyst for development. 2. What role have ‘Sweat Shops’ and long hours played in Taiwan’s ‘rags to riches’ story? The sweat shops were an important stage in Taiwan’s ‘rags to riches’ story. This is mainly caused by cheap labor‚ which sets forth an increased demand in labor. This competition drove up wages because industrialization was well on it’s way. 3. The forces unleashed by

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    demonstrates Thompson’s tainted version of the American Dream‚ especially when juxtaposed to Horatio Alger’s American Dream stories‚ which involve going from “rags to riches” through hard work‚ honesty‚ and determination. In Thompson’s version‚ even though he went from being stone broke to getting $300 cash‚ in other words‚ going from rags to riches‚ there was no hard work involved. Thompson only needed to pick up the phone and drive around to Beverly Hills‚ and then

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    Ambiguous Character Development in A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens uses enigmatic depictions of character development to create a multifaceted story that encompasses innumerable themes within the plot of A Tale of Two Cities. The ambiguity surrounding characters Sydney Carton‚ Charles Darnay‚ and Madame Defarge effectively portrays author Charles Dickens’s personal perspective on the potential for human qualities to develop in either a positive or negative way when enduring personal tribulations

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