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    A Midwife's Tale

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    Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had‚ to discover the unspoken realities of women’s lives written between the lines of Ballard’s diary. The result of Ulrich’s efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale‚" now a movie of the same name‚ made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. The film recounts the day-to-day events described in Ballard’s diary and expanded upon by Ulrich‚ based on some careful

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    The Pardoner's Tale

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    Marta Calise Per.6 Brit. Lit. 1-14/12 The Pardoner’s Tale: Review and Assess 1. Were you surprised by the fate of the rioters? Why or why not? I was not surprised by the fate of rioters because this is an anecdote from which we should learn a lesson‚ and I knew from the beginning that the Pardoner is preaching against greed and the horrible things that come from it. 2. A) When the story opens‚ what are the rioters doing‚ and what captures their attention? When the story opens‚ the

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    The Handmaid’s Tale Response Paper The motif of time is very apparent in this section. Time‚ something are never thought much of before her new life‚ is now an object she thinks about frequently. “There’s time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for – the amount of unfilled time‚” (Atwood 69). “In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium…they were giving us a chance to get used to blank time‚” (70). “The clock ticks with its pendulum‚ keeping time my feet

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    Canterbury Tales

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    Canterbury Tales Presentation Rubric | NAME: | PERIOD: | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Organization | Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information. | Audience has difficulty following presentation because student jumps around. | Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow. | Student presents information in logical‚ interesting sequence which audience can follow. | | Subject Knowledge | Student does not have grasp

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    The Handmaid's Tale

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    Darren Jacob Mrs. Jones English 1B October 31‚ 2013 The Complex Commander Offred says to herself‚ “What do you mean? The Commander‚ it must be. See me? What does he mean by see? Hasn’t he had enough of me?”(99). In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ The Commander is a man who expresses several sides of his character and personality. Throughout the book the Commander shows character traits of someone who is emotional and sympathetic. In their society‚ the Republic of Gilead‚ the Commander is one

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    The central social hierarchy within the novel is the gender hierarchy‚ placing men in a position of extreme power. This is evident in every aspect of the book‚ as the entire Gilead society is male dominated. The Commander is at the top of the hierarchy and is involved with designing and establishing the current society taking control of a nation of women‚ and exploiting their power by controlling what is taught‚ what they can teach themselves and the words that they can use. Soon all of the women

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    you. This is demonstrated through the resisting character of Lester Burnham. Alma De Groen’s Australian play reflects the dystopian genre to suggest the impossibility of achieving equality for all genders. The twentieth century novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Attwood confronts the features of a totalitarian society‚ as she is concerned with the objectifications placed upon women‚ and was written in conjunction with the 1980s

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    the viking tales

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    The viking tales‚ Jennie Hall The book has two parts‚ the first part is about king Olaf and his son Harald. The second part is about discorverers like discovering Greenland and Wineland (nowadays) America. Men of the country norway were great warriors and discoverers they have discovered Iceland en many more lands‚ but the old sages are the most populair . There are many stories of the old vikings who have live in Norway‚ old tales were told over and over until everbody knew them and loved them

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    The Handmaids Tale

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    Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and

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    Advanced English Assessment 2 A truly valuable novel is not purely based on content‚ but has the ability to challenge and spur readers into reaction based on construction and language of the text. Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale is a true example of such value‚ as her novel not only attracts readers but also warns us of the uncertainties and dangers of the future. She demonstrates how language can be used as a powerful tool for both manipulation and domination as well as how reconstructions of both fiction

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