Thatcher‚ Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher‚ Baroness Thatcher‚ Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher‚ Baroness‚ 1925‚ British political leader. Great Britain’s first woman prime minister‚ Thatcher served longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th cent. In office she initiated what became known as the "Thatcher Revolution‚" a series of social and economic changes that dismantled many aspects of Britain’s postwar welfare state. Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford and later became a lawyer
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Too Jaded to Write about Love An allusion is a casual or passing reference to a famous historical or fictional character. In poetry‚ allusions are often used to help reinforce a point or characterize the speaker or the addressee. In the case of Margaret Atwood’s poems‚ “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing” and “Sekhmet Lion-Headed Goddess of War”‚ allusions are used to empower and change the way we view the female speaker. This is especially obvious in “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing”
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Psychosis Leads To Murder Throughout In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote writes on the events directly before‚ during‚ and the happenings after the brutal murdering of the Clutter family in the quaint town of Holcomb‚ Kansas. The actions Dick Hickock and Perry Smith attracted Capote and led him to ultimately report on the entire ordeal. Throughout Capote’s masterpiece‚ In Cold Blood‚ Hickock and Smith’s deranged and psychotic actions directly correlate to a deep psychosis they both suffered for multiple
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Margaret Bourke-White was a well known photographer and was known for proving that women could do the same thing as men in the field of photography. She photographed Gandhi minutes before his assassination‚ covered the war that followed the partition of India‚ and was with U.S. troops when they liberated Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp. She was the iconic photographer that caught everyone by surprise. Margaret defied what everyone thought that a woman was capable of doing in the world of
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Margaret Sanger: The Mother of Preventing Unwanted Motherhood At the turn of the 20th century‚ the toll that years of injustices took on American minority groups rose to a breaking point. The plethora of new technology which arrived post-civil war led to many unaddressed socioeconomic issues (“Progressive Movement.”)‚ which caused many discontent individuals to unite to form malcontent groups. Known as the Progressive Era‚ the first 20 or so years of the century consisted of movements led primarily
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What leads to Success? Nowadays‚ the topic of “what leads to success” becomes more and more popular in society. What characteristics or specific skills help those great people to make achievements? How are they different from others? As opposed to the traditional theory‚ which mainly focuses on the importance of natural intelligence‚ the majority of people now put more attention on something else. Cherry Cherniss and Malcolm Gladwell believe that emotional intelligence plays a critical role of achieving
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of the human mind. The environment of a household and the time period of a century are examples of the influences that affect a human beings psyche. In the novel The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood depicts the lives of two sisters‚ who demonstrate the pain of dishonesty and the effects of a person’s chosen path. Atwood conveys the conscious‚ preconscious‚ and the unconsciousness of Iris Chase through her memoirs. The early childhood development‚ adolescents of a society‚ and the need for achievement
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"Anyway‚ tomorrow is another day‚" is the last sentence that Scarlett says in Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell has encouraged me when I encounter difficulties after I immigrate to the United States. Sometimes when things do not have smooth processes‚ I try to think everything should become fine‚ and do not let frustration make me give up. I have learned it from Scarlett‚ whose daughter dies‚ and her husband leaves her. No matter what she experiences‚ she tries to cheer up a little glimpse
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photography as Social Commentary Born in the Bronx‚ New York in 1904‚ Margaret Bourke-White was one of the best-known photographers of the twentieth century who was known for her fearless and dramatic photographs. She graduated from Cornell University and started her career as an industrial photographer at a steel company in Cleveland‚ Ohio. In 1929 she got hired by Fortune Magazine and traveled to the Soviet Union to photograph its industrial development. Bourke-White then
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ideas and true innovation‚ you need human interaction‚ conflict‚ argument and debate” Margaret Heffernan. Conflict is a disagreement or argument and comes in many forms such as leadership‚ historical‚ family or relationships. Conflict never has a consistently positive or negative outcome in every situation. There are a broad number of results that may fit into the positive or negative classification but conflict may lead to the continuing of the conflict or a situation that may never change. Change may
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