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    and her adventures in Europe. Oppose to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by Stephen Crane was about the story of Maggie and her family‚ who lived in the Bowery district in New York‚ which is a rough neighborhood.Both authors were a famous in their own style. They both had a different style of writing and social issues that they represented in those two books. In Daisy Miller‚ Henry James was more about American versus European society‚ wherein Maggie Crane was emphasizing on the harsh live people

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    have hope when you’re going through a rough time in your life‚ you’ll always have something to believe. Two works that support this quote are The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and Of Mice and Men by John Steinback. Two literary techniques that both of these authors use are irony and characterization. In The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza and her family moved around incessantly from one apartment to another. They moved so much that Esperanza can’t even name all of the

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    its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice” (1116). The author then goes on to describe the location of the play‚ “a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields (1116) - the name of the street where Stella and Stanley Kowalski live. According to the mythology‚ especially the Book VI of Virgil ’s Aeneid the Elysian Fields was in fact the underworld – a transient place for the souls who would

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    the Streets Culture in urban communities‚ also referred to as inner-cities‚ are growing increasingly violent. In the article‚ The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson‚ he begins to take an in-depth look at the root of the evil. He deduces that economic factors‚ parenting and the troublesome environments largely influence the violent norms within this culture. Anderson notes that two groups coexist simultaneously in the inner-cities which he labels as the “decent” and the “streets.” Although

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    Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street is a coming of age story‚ written from the perspective of Esperanza‚ a 13-year-old Xicana writer living in a poverty-stricken Latino community in Chicago. Esperanza’s story is told in a series of vignettes over the course of one year. During this time‚ Esperanza reveals her aspirations and describes her journey into adolescence. Along the way‚ she finds herself in the world of women where women do not belong to themselves‚ but rather‚ their men. Esperanza’s

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    is still prevalent in today’s society. Gender roles played a huge part in women’s rights specifically in different cultures. Feminism is fighting for women’s rights on the grounds of political‚ social‚ and economic equality to men. The theme of feminism in the Hispanic culture appears frequently throughout Sandra Cisneros’s‚ The House on Mango Street because of the time period she’s writing about‚ traditional gender roles are present. In The House on Mango Street‚ the theme of feminism is portrayed

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    Even though The Great Gatsby and The Wolf of Wall Street took place approximately sixty-five years apart‚ both books display similar themes such as greed‚ wealth‚ love‚ adultery‚ and corruption. Jay Gatsby and Jordan Belfort used illegal methods to build their fortunes; ones desire was greed‚ and the others was love. The Great Gatsby and the Wolf of Wall Street both utilize setting‚ conflict‚ and symbolism to prove that wealth and class don’t mean anything without love. One of the literary elements

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    PROLOGUE The crowd occupied several blocks from the Tokyo side street. The organizers had negotiated with the authorities and were committed to minimize disruptions to the countless pedestrians‚ drivers of cars‚ motorcycles and bicycles and neighbors. The vast majority of attendees were young men dressed in black or dark suits using generally no tie‚ although there were some in leather jackets; there were many veterans‚ eager to remember the glorious hours of the organization occurred of course

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    In the book‚ House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ Esperanza the main character faces a lot of conflicts throughout the book. However‚ I think the one that caused the greatest change in her was the external conflict of what society and men expect of her and other woman. She found out that love was nothing like she thought it would be‚ and that woman are thought of as objects and not people. In the first part of the book Esperanza was confused about what love was. As the book went on she

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    July 2012‚ Terengganu‚ Malaysia Sustaining Penang Street Food Culture and the Reasons for Its Popularity M.Shahrim Ab Karim‚ K’ng Yee Wen‚ Mohiddin Othman‚ Hazrina Ghazali and Nurhasmilaaalisa Abd. Halim Department of Food Service Management‚ Faculty of Food Science and Technology‚ Universiti Putra Malaysia‚ 43400 UPM Serdang‚ Selangor Darul Ehsan‚ Malaysia. Corresponding author’s e-mail: shahrim@putra.upm.edu.my Abstract Penang street food culture has been one of the main tourism attractions

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