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    Summary: The Awakening

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    Eizen calls for her many times but it’s fruitless and she never comes. He goes out looking for her in a frenzy. Edna’s tiny and could be anywhere‚ but he also knows her. Knows Edna has hiding places she favors over all else. So he searches those caverns and meadows to no avail. Then rounds near the lake and the top of the mountain. He goes everywhere and can’t find her. Eizen feels like screaming by the end of it because Edna is missing and he knows the mountain is dangerous. There are scattered

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    Drama Spring Awakening

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    Drama Essay: A Review of “Spring Awakening” I will be reviewing the play titled‚ “Spring Awakening” by Fred Wedekind. This play was produced by The Department of Performing Arts and Humanities of the School of Liberal Arts at and directed by Robert W. Oppel. I saw the play on March 20th Q Building Theatre. The play was excellent and exceeded all expectations due to the professional way the story was presented. “Spring Awakening” is a musical concerning teenagers who explore their individual

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    Democracy and Education

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    Democracy and Education” The most interesting argument of Booker T. Washington’s speech‚ “Democracy and Education” is that instead of hating the white men‚ Washington not only forgives them‚ but sympathizes with them. In his speech‚ Washington says‚ “I thank God that I have grown to the point where I can sympathize with a white man as much as I can sympathize with a black man. I have grown to the point where I can sympathize with a Southern white man as much as I can sympathize with a Northern

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    understand that‚ “[a] victim mind-set causes people to focus on what they cannot do instead of what they can do. It is a recipe for continued failure” (Maxwell). Tess Durbeyfield‚ in Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy‚ and Edna Pontellier‚ in The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ develop a victim mind-set and shape themselves around inadequate men more deeply than Dominique Francon‚ in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Tess Durbeyfield becomes a victim of the inadequate men surrounding her: John Durbeyfield‚

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    The Awakening: Public Controversy The Awakening‚ written by Kate Chopin‚ was a book that was truly ahead of its time. The author of the book was truly a genius in her right‚ but yet she was seen as a scoundrel. At the time‚ it was "a world that values only her performance as a mother‚ whose highest expectations for women are self sacrifice and self-effacement." ( ? ) The people of that era were not ready to admit or accept the simple but hidden feelings of intimacy or sexuality and the true nature

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    American Democracy

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    Taft believed that the president could exercise no power unless it could be traced to or implied from an express grant in either the constitution or an act of congress. The president’s personality‚ like the style‚ worldview‚ and character will influence the president. For example‚ FDR was skilled at using rhetoric‚ direct bargaining and intense analysis of details of policy to pass his preferred policies. Presidents who see human nature as inherently evil‚ for example‚ will probably have a hard

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    in a female-centered household. She lived with her mother‚ grandmother‚ and great-grandmother” (Tolentino 6). Most authors immerse themselves in their books. Whether a planned or subconscious action‚ they use their own experiences to influence their works. Kate Chopin’s household experiences‚ as well as‚ the progression of feminism‚ society in Louisiana‚ and Creole standards directly influenced her novel‚ The Awakening. Kate Chopin lived a bittersweet young-adulthood. In addition to the death

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    Russian Democracy I find Russia to be an interesting democracy because it transformed from a communist country living underneath a series of dictators for the better part of the twentieth century to electing their first president ever by popular vote in such a short period of time. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the Soviet Union began to rapidly collapse. By 1991‚ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first ever president by popular vote. On December 8‚ 1991 Yeltsin and leaders of the Ukraine and Belarus

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    The Second Amendment

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    The Second Amendment and the right to bear arms has always been a part of American culture and history‚ the right to bear arms is as American as apple pie and westerns‚ but it has and always will be a hot topic and the wording and meaning of the Second Amendment comes into question frequently. The currently accepted meaning of the Second Amendment is that it gives militias and individuals the right to bear arms‚ the right to own firearms (“Second Amendment to the United States Constitution”). However

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    The Awakening “The only person you will ever have to lean on for the rest of your life is you.” -Anonymous Everyone at some point feels loneliness and it is when we are lonely that we truly discover ourselves. The title of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening is appropriate and foreshadowing of the protagonist’s journey into self-discovery. Edna Pontellier is forced into self-discovery when she finds herself in solitude throughout the novel. Edna’s husband‚ children‚ friends and lovers are scarce

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