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    called‚ “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant explains how a woman’s beautiful night turned into tragedy. In “The Necklace” a woman‚ Mathilde‚ uses her husband and her friend to get things for the ball. Then‚ later realizes that the necklace was missing. Mathilde spent ten years of her life paying for the replacement necklace. She later finds out that the necklace was an imitation. Guy de Maupassant shows the themes of looks do not matter and being happy with what you have in “The Necklace”. From the

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    The most important symbol in the short story "The Necklace" is the necklace itself. The entire story revolves around it. As we move through the story the necklace takes on different meanings as circumstances change. This is a story about a beautiful woman and a low-class man that sacrifice ten long hard years of their lives for a special night for his spoiled wife. Mr. and Mrs. Loisel were invited to an annual ball held by the Minister of Education. Mrs. Loisel had nothing to wear to

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    The Necklace By Guy de Maupassant Mathilde and Loisel had no luxury at all‚ but Mathilde still wished for the good things in life. Her husband‚ whom would do anything for his wife‚ got an invitation for a party where all the “important people” (177) would be. Not everyone was given an invitation to the party‚ so Loisel thought his wife would be surprised and excited. Mathilde did not appreciate the invitation and offended her husband by saying she’d “look like a pauper” (178) and would “rather

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    What you may or may not have known is that the Earth is actually flat. In this paper I will insert testimonies from several celebrities and scientists while giving reasoning behind this claim. Flat Earth Society has several facts behind this. One is the Bedford Level experiment shown here. The first investigation was carried out by Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884)‚ the president of the Flat Earth Society‚ in the summer of 1838. He waded into the river and used a telescope held eight inches above

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    I received your letter about the issue concerning your friend’s lost necklace. According to your worried note‚ you had gone to a ball and wore your friend Madame Forestier’s expensive diamond necklace and lost it. The clasp had broken and you didn’t realize it had fallen off until you returned home. My advice to you is to contact the people who hosted the ball and have them look around or ask if anyone found a necklace. If you have no luck‚ be completely honest and tell her what happened

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    in The Necklace In Mauassant’s essay‚ The Necklace Matilda Loisel borrowed a necklace from a rich friend‚ Mrs Forestier‚ so that she would not present a "shabby air in the midst of rich women." She loses the necklace but refuses to admit that. Her and her husband‚ not realizing that the necklace was fake‚ buy a similar necklace to return to Mrs Forestier. They end up having to work for ten years to pay off this debt. All of Mme. Loisel’s actions leading up to the loss of the necklace were

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    things one doesn’t have. What will happen if they actually lose everything? Can materialism really poison one’s way of life? The desire to be rich and popular is what took Madame Loisel’s middle class stature and turned it into a life lesson. In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant‚ Mathilde Loisel gets so lost in the thought of becoming rich that her fear of being poor becomes reality‚ showing that

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    ’The Gift of the Magi’ by O. Henry and ’The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant are two short stories that share some similarities. Namely‚ they are both ironic. The two main characters in both also happen to be husband and wife and make sacrifices for their spouse. The husband in ’The Necklace’ is a ’thrifty clerk’ who doesn’t like to spend too much money. After implored by his wife‚ he gives her the money that he saved up for a rifle so she could buy a nice dress instead. The husband in ’The Gift

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    Many people say that this is the downfall of society‚ but is it? The World is Flat is a brief history of the Twenty-first Century written by Thomas L. Friedman. In Chapter Six‚ named The Untouchables goes over the problems of the society and how we can fix it. The chapter goes over the importance of upgrading your skills and how important your job can be. Friedman often states the concept of people starving for jobs in other countries such as India and China. Instead of people starving for food‚

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    the ‘World is Flat’ thesis put forward by Thomas Friedman. Thomas Friedman in his recent book ‘The world is flat’ discusses a short history of globalisation in the twenty-first century. His discovering journey took him around the world to investigate the new concept in transnational business. He views himself as Columbus-like‚ but in a new modern word‚ in which he is searching for the sources of today’s wealth. Only to come to a rhetorical conclusion that the world is “flat” not round! His book

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