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    Teresia Teaiwa portrays many ideas relating man to violent natures in a few of the readings done thus far. She does no different in “Real Natives Don’t French Kiss (When They’re Making Love)” when she discusses French kissing and its relation to disease and cannibalism. Through her relations‚ she brings to light the negativity and negative influences of French kissing in Oceania. After the two young girls witness the couple on the beach rolling around and French kissing and then the girls do it

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    Julia Serano talks about the idea of gender determinism and gender artifacualism. She explains how both method is wrong and she provides a better view that she believes helps eliminate double standards‚ sexism and marginalization. She first focuses on “gender determinism” which is how an individual gender is determined through biology. Serano states that gender determinists typically believe that women are programmed to be feminine and men to be masculine. And society determines gender according

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    In the essay titled “The First Kiss‚” author John Updike portrays baseball as a love-hate relationship with its fans. Updike effetely conveys his message by appealing to pathos using metaphors‚ personification‚ and rhetorical questions. He begins with a metaphor stating‚ “The many-headed monster called the Fenway Faithful yesterday resumed its romance with 25 youngish men in red socks who last year broke its monstrous big heart.” He describes the fans of baseball as a many-headed monster implying

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    Ae Fond Kiss is a movie directed by Ken Loach. It describes a love story of Roisin and Casim. Their relationship is very complicated‚ because they are from two different worlds. Roisin is a Catholic‚ ho works in a Catholic school‚ and she cannot imagine changing her belief. However‚ Casim is a Muslim and his life is subordinated to the religion. Being together involves continuing struggle with the rules imposed by the society in which they live. One of the most significant problem described in this

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    In‚ In the Time of the Butterflies written by Julia Alvarez shows that ordinary lives can lead to heroic action. This fascinating story that shows the true story about the love between four sisters‚ and their families. Julia tells all in her heroic story through one of the Mirabal sisters‚ Maria. Maria Teresa Mirabal the youngest of the sisters was very passionate about what she believed in. Maria always looked up to her older sister Minerva and decided to join her sisters in their political activities

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    In the book “Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart‚” the author‚ Julia Cameron‚ shares series of healing tools which are from her teaching experiences to guide readers towards creative perceptions. She believes that it is possible to develop the future by looking at the past. One of its chapters‚ The Kingdom of Sight‚ introduces how visualization helps to figure out oneself and to heal the self. To find one’s true self‚ she suggests to take time to look a life to see how it actually looks

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     "The Daughter of Invention" is one of the stories from the novel "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents "(1991)‚ which relates the experiences of the author’s experience of her family’s immigration from Dominican Republic to America‚ the author‚ Julia Alveraz‚ uses her personal experience to show the intercultural idea of identity formation‚ the struggles an immigrant family do to the new culture‚ and the internal and external conflicts such as the change of people’s minds‚ people’s minds toward

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    innocent to fathom her own fate. “Dear Little Book‚ Minerva gives you to me today for my First Communion. You are so pretty with a mother of pearl cover and a little latch like a prayerbook. I will have such fun writing on your tissue-thin pages” (Alvarez 30) Maria Teresa‚ or Maté‚ receives her first “Little Book” from her sister Minerva and does not grasp its purpose‚ and does not take it as seriously as Minerva expects her to. Although she is told that these entries are meant for reflection‚ and

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    Katie Davis wrote the New York Times Bestseller Kisses from Katie in 2008 to share how her life changed from growing up in an affluent neighborhood in Brentwood‚ Tennessee to moving to Uganda at the age of eighteen to become a missionary. My view on the world has changed drastically after reading this book mostly because I can relate to the beginning of her story as she begged her reluctant parents to allow her move to Uganda to serve the less fortunate. I also have been tasked with the same trials

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    Jordan Isaac Mr. Hardy English IV AP 4th 17 May 2017 In their stories‚ both Lady Macbeth and Julia can be seen as the essential figures. In both Macbeth and 1984‚ Lady Macbeth and Julia are seen to have sway over what Winston and Macbeth do sometimes. Lady Macbeth and Julia may have been made a vital characters in their stories so that a woman figure can keep the other characters and the stories as one cohesive unit. William Shakespeare and George Orwell have made both characters similar in the

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