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    altered. II) THESIS: This brings me to my topic Google Glass. While looking through the glasses‚ you can access the web and research all the information u need by voice commands. III) PREVIEW STATEMENT: Today‚ I will briefly introduce you to Google Glass. I will tell you about its benefits and future implications. But first of all let me start off talking about its design and features BODY I) According to TNW Academy‚ Google Glass looks like a pair of normal glasses but the only difference

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    Glass Menagerie The difference between appearance and reality creates an ironic gap in the play The Glass Menagerie. Many of the characters live in the fantasy world of their own. They cage themselves in a different world where things are different and that they control to protect and to keep themselves away from reality/truth. This is because for all the characters in the Glass Menagerie‚ the truth/ reality hurts‚ and they all want to escape from what is real to them so they run from reality which

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    Glass Menagerie Outline 1 Summarizing Sentence: Amanda Wingfield is the most prominent and dynamic character in the play. I. Amanda begins the play with the first impression of being overprotective and critical of her children A.In the play she appears to be a constantly worried about her families future. 1. She comes up with foolish ways to some how secure their lives. a. She asks Tom to find Laura a gentle man at the factory B. Even as grown ups she would try to control them and teach them

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    about many problems. When it comes to alcohol abusers‚ it is not uncommon to see important responsibilities be neglected‚ increased violent behavior‚ driving while under the influence and/or even getting in trouble with the law (What are the…). In The Glass Castle‚ Rex Walls suffers from alcoholism and like most alcoholics‚ his addiction has a huge impact on his family. His heavy drinking has crippled his family financially as well as made Rex incapable of holding a steady job to provide his family with

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    Discuss the glass ceiling in the United States‚ giving your ideas and suggestions. “The glass ceiling” is a concept that betrays America’s most cherished principles. I can describe it as the unseen‚ yet unreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder‚ regardless if their qualifications or achievements. United States is the country where millions of immigrants like myself come to make dreams come true. Unfortunately the glass ceiling denies

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    The Values of a Society: The Glass Menagerie Set in the American south during the Great Depression‚ The Glass Menagerie is a powerful tale narrated by character Tom Wingfield‚ who reflects on his memories of family life and the events leading to his departure from the Wingfield home. Tennessee Williams writes the story‚ set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. It deals with a Southern family living in a city tenement in St Louis‚ Missouri. The story reflects the values of the society

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    Title The Glass Menagerie‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ is a play about a damaged family lost in its own hopelessness. Throughout the play‚ Williams uses a plethora of symbolism to illustrate the lives and personalities of his characters. The mother‚ Amanda‚ is stuck in her vivacious past that is symbolized by the picture of her ex husband on her wall. Her daughter‚ Laura‚ is painfully shy and all she cares about is her glass menagerie‚ which symbolizes how she is fragile and lives in her own world

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    from reality. Discuss this evaluation of the characters in The Glass Menagerie‚ making careful reference to the text.</b></center> <br> <br>In Tennessee Williams’ play‚ the glass menagerie‚ all four members of the Wingfield family have chosen to hide from reality. Amanda tries to relive her past through Laura‚ and denies anything she does not want to accept. Laura is terrified of the real world‚ and choses to hide behind her limp‚ her glass menagerie and the victrola. Tom hides from his reality by going

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    Amanda Wingfield In Tennessee Williams’s 1944 drama “The Glass Menagerie”‚ Amanda Wingfield is the main character and the story is of her raising her two children. Amanda Wingfield was raised as an affluent‚ prominent Southern Belle‚ but her husband was an alcoholic and left her with no money. For Amanda‚ less money meant a decline in societal class. In “The Glass Menagerie”‚ Amanda found it extremely difficult to accept her new social class because she was raised to value social distinction

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    A Chip Of Glass Ruby Written Responses 11. I would describe Bamjee as aloof and proud. Aloof because he doesn’t show his emotions very much or say how he’s feeling or talk to his stepchildren very much. Showing his true feelings only this one time‚ Bamjee reveals his opinions when the police come to arrest his wife for participating in and promoting a cause that he is opposed to. Before and after that outburst of his though he really is rather distant and detached from his family

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