stories we learned about several instances where innocent people were portrayed as monsters. In modern society we do the same thing; we see someone that looks different than us and want to lay all our mistakes on them. In “Lusus Naturae” by Margaret Atwood a girl with a disease that makes her hairy with pink teeth‚ red fingernails‚ and yellow eyes watches a couple having intercourse in a meadow. She thought that they were like her because of the sounds they made and how they moved about. One day
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Write approximately 250 words stating what significant idea(s) are explored through this text‚ and how. Use quotes to support your points. The poem‚ "Solstice Poem‚" by Margaret Atwood is about a mother sharing her thoughts and asking herself how to raise her daughter well so that she will be able to look after herself when she is older. The 3 main ideas recognized in this poem are the innocence of her daughter/children in general‚ the protection mothers feel the need to give to their children
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"Our commonsense explanations of the world and ourselves are problematised by Atwood through her novel. Nothing is quite as it seems‚ when we look at anything (in a mirror‚ in the past‚ at others) it is refracted as if through water." Discuss the ideas and issues in the novel in relation to this statement‚ paying particular attention to the techniques and narrative elements used to show this. Our commonsense explanations of the world are based on the absolutes in our lives. Ways of seeing have been
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Handmaid’s Tale‚ authored by Margaret Atwood. Atwood manipulates language to show that it is used to oppress women‚ which causes a dysfunctional society. To start‚ Atwood’s female characters develop an inferiority complex on how they are viewed. Main character Offred reflects on the male thought process as seen in the following quote. “This is the kind of touch they like: folk art‚ archaic‚ made by women‚ in their spare time‚ from things that have no further use.” (Atwood 3). It is important to
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“Margaret Atwood” An honored Canadian writer who is globally recognized as a feminist and a role model for developing writers‚ you may ask who this person is; she is no other Margaret Eleanor Atwood herself. Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa‚ Ontario Canada on the day of November 18‚ 1939. Atwood was the middle child of her mother and father: Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa‚ Ontario Canada on the day of November 18‚ 1939. Atwood was the middle child
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in your mind. A successful speaker engages the audience in a discourse‚ which challenges and satisfies. This is evident through three feminist speeches Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women’ by Aung San Suu Kyi‚ ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ by Margaret Atwood and and “Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation” by Faith Bandler. All these speeches depict insightful techniques that demonstrate their ability to engage their audience. Delivered through video to the Fourth World Conference
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freedom? Margaret Atwood raises these questions and many more in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. She uses the character Offred to demonstrate passive behavior and acceptance of a totalitarian regime after the fall of the United States. In the new Republic of Gilead‚ Offred is a Handmaid‚ a surrogate for the government’s elite. Before Gilead‚ Offred was married with a daughter‚ her mother and best friend were both feminists and she had a decent job. Offred is a controversial character because Atwood makes
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Transcript Redfern Speech (Year for the World’s Indigenous People) – Delivered in Redfern Park by Prime Minister Paul Keating‚ 10 December 1992 Ladies and gentlemen I am very pleased to be here today at the launch of Australia’s celebration of the 1993 International Year of the World’s Indigenous People. It will be a year of great significance for Australia. It comes at a time when we have committed ourselves to succeeding in the test which so far we have always failed. Because‚ in truth
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Choose two prescribed speeches and write an essay where‚ through close analysis of specific aspects of the speeches‚ you demonstrate the speeches textual integrity. We Recognise a text as possessing textual integrity when we see form‚ structure and language producing a unified conceptual whole. The speeches ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ by Margret Atwood and ‘Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation’ by Faith Bandler‚ represent how a combination of structure‚ form‚ language as well as exploring the human condition
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I HAVE A DREAM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED 28 AUGUST 1963‚ AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL‚ WASHINGTON D.C. CONTEXT SOCIAL CONTEXT This speech was Martin Luther King Jr.’s most iconic and influential speeches. Delivered to a large gathering to civil rights marchers‚ this speech’s purpose was to press the US government for racial equality. At this point in history‚ "black" Americans were strongly racially targeted particularly in the southern states. Laws in these particular states forcibly segregated
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