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    Age Cannot Wither Her‚ Nor Custom Stale Her Infinite Variety In the production notes of Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon‚ the writer uses a Shakespearean quote to describe Emily‚ “Age cannot wither her‚ nor custom stale her infinite variety”. This quote is actually from William Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra‚ Act II scene ii‚ used to describe Cleopatra’s agelessness and the many intriguing qualities she possesses. In this essay‚ I will aim to analyze the reasons behind the writer’s choice

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    Where Have You Been?”‚ the main character‚ Connie‚ is on the brink of adulthood and is experimenting with the sexual freedom that comes with it. On the weekends‚ Connie and her friend go to the mall or the diner and pursue older boys with which they will slip into dark alleys or cars. One night‚ when leaving the diner to go hang out with a boy‚ a man in a gold convertible catches Connie’s eye and says to her‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby”. Later in the story‚ Connie is tanning outside while her family is

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    Emily Dickinson was a 19th century poet from Massachusetts who did not become famous until decades after her death. Looking back at her poetry‚ she was especially infatuated with death and religion. It would make perfect sense then that her poetry was influenced greatly by her own feelings of depression and loneliness. Emily Dickinson’s work is unique because of the poetic devices she uses‚ like irony‚ symbolism‚ connotation‚ imagery‚ and personification‚ and the recurring themes of death‚ religion

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    that it had wreaked “destruction” on [Tommy’s] hometown‚ Luton.” (confere) Still‚ his defense claims that “he has nothing

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    Through the speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”‚ Martin Luther King Jr. wants to give hope to the audience. It is very important to notice the style‚ imagery and structure he uses throughout the speech in particular the way he ends his speech‚ by leaving the audience at the climax. The first paragraph of this passage‚ consists of two long and complex sentences. These two sentences are very biblical. “[...] view of the whole human history up to now‚ and the Almighty said to me [...]”. This line

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    home life of Melinda is after school she goes home and her parents leaves her a note for her to get food or something she needs to do. “Pizza. 555-4892. Small tip this time. There is a twenty dollar bill clipped to the note”(Anderson pg.14). I say that Melinda doesn’t get enough social talk with her parents instead they talk with notes. This is bad because then she can’t have a relationship with her parents. Melinda orders her pizza and eats alone at her house on the couch even though she isn’t

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    How have aspects of gender been represented through music? Literature and visual art are almost always concerned with the organisation of gender and the construction of gender. Since listeners know how to explain how it creates its effects‚ music gives the illusion of operating independently of culture mediation. Music based on gender and how that is seen or heard is able to contribute heavily (if surreptitiously) to the shaping of individual identities: along with other influential media such

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    Away From Her Analysis

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    REVIEW Away From Her is a touching Canadian film starring Gorden Pinsent‚ Olympia Dukakis and Julie Christie about the effects of Alzheimer’s on an aging couple married for 44 years. Christie gives a powerful portrayal of a woman who slowly succumbs to the effects of this dreaded disease. Pinsent is also as effective as the helpless feeling husband who has the indistinct and difficult task of putting her into a home where he later learns that her memory is deteriorating. She begins to not recognize

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    His Talk, Her Talk

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    It is no secret that men and women have marriage problems. A big source of that happens to be communication issues. Men tend to not be interested in what the women wants to talk about. Same goes with women‚ they may not be as interested in male conversations or men do not give as much detail as the women would like. That is why many are attending marriage counseling. For couples in marriage counseling a good essay to read is “His talk‚ her talk”‚ by Joyce Maynard. It talks about how there are different

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    She Gotta Have It Analysis

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    sexuality in African Americans based on the movie “She gotta have it”. The author illustrates an African American female named Nola‚ who is sexually attractive and a dependent young lady. She had three lovers and did not know who to choose among the three of them as husband. She had difficulty in choosing one of them‚ so she decided not to get married‚ but rather have an affair with all of the three men at the same time. All the men she was dating knew they had one sex partner which is Nola. At the end one

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