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    Matthew Hernandez January 7‚ 2015 Gango – 2 Practice AP Essay In an excerpt from Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde‚ the playwright reveals the values and nature of his own society through the conduct of his characters. The author uses the lives of high-class people to demonstrate the underlying fancies and motivations of the elite society of his time. Wilde targets the society’s emphasis on an external show of good behavior‚ their scorning of the lower classes‚ and their vanity in living for the

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    In Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth calls on the conventions of gender during Elizabethan times to influence her husband Macbeth.  When Lady Macbeth first receives the letter from Macbeth detailing the witches’ prophecy‚ she says that Macbeth is "too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” (1. 5. 1-3)‚ meaning that Macbeth is too good to do anything and for him to follow his ambition.  So when trying to convince Macbeth to murder Duncan‚ she tells him that he would be considered "so much

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    Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ is a character who suffers greatly in because of her human weakness‚ which is her vaulting ambition. This ambition is not for her‚ but for her husband. This woman‚ who seemed so in control at the beginning of the okay‚ only cared for her husband and his success‚ later becomes so consumed with guilt and remorse that it results in her tragic death. Through the discussion of characterisation and lkey scenes‚ I shall reveal that Lady Macbeth’s human

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    Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. When we first see her‚ she is already plotting Duncan’s murder‚ and she is stronger‚ more ruthless‚ and more ambitious than her husband. She seems fully aware of this and knows that she will have to push Macbeth into committing murder.This theme of the relationship between gender and power is key to Lady Macbeth’s character.Lady Macbeth and also the witches are crafty women‚who use female methods of achieving power—that

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    Poem: Love and Old Lady

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    POEMS Practice 1 IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIP 1. Why were their clothes ‘soaky’? 2. Write down the line in the poem which reveals that this incident took place in a village? 3. What does the phrase “bloated carcasses” refer to? 4.   In your opinion‚ what kind of attitude do the last two lines imply? Explain. Practice 2: IN THE MIDST OF HARDSHIP (stanzas 1 and 2) 1. Write down the line which shows that they have been out for long hours? 2. The theme may not be exactly about hardship as implied

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    of the boundaries between social constraint and inner compulsion‚ Melville and Chekov reveal the restrictions forced upon one’s personal desires as they struggle to find a balance between conflicting values and social norms. Anna and Gurov in ‘The Lady with the Dog’ are restrained by the socially expected conventions in their marriages‚ inhibiting their ability to express their inner compulsion of desire. Chekov reveals their yearning to escape their individual lives as they cope with personal troubles

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    The story that am writing about is the The Lady or the Tiger. What I am going to be talking abuts is The Door of the Maiden. The story is by Frank r. Stockton. The story was wrote about a boy and a princess .I am trying to prove that the princess is pointing him to The Door of the Maiden. The princess was very beautifully .She was strong willed like her father .She touht he was the greatest man in the kingdom .She loved hem very much .He did not try to hide his love for her.

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    Una Lady Troubridge Essay

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    Una‚ Lady Troubridge: Fashion Contexts The focus of the portrait is in the eyes of the figure‚ slate grey and under furrowed brows. A look of intelligence and seriousness looks back at the viewer behind a monocle and is framed by a severe haircut (blunt bangs and a short bob). The gender of the figure is ambiguous; the only clues to her sex are the shape of the lips‚ pink and feminine. The diamond earring‚ too‚ lends to her identity as a woman. However‚ the rest of her attire‚ from the black top

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    formulating a comparison and contrast between two sculptures; the "Lady of Auxerre” created in the Daedalic Greek class‚ c. 650 to 625 BCE in limestone standing approximately 2’5” and the “Nike of Samothrace” created in the Hellenistic Greek class‚ c. 200 BCE in marble standing approximately 8’. The Lady was found most likely in a cemetery at Eleutherna on the island of Crete and the Nike at its namesake of Samothrace Greece. The “Lady of Auxerre” is a depiction of a woman possibly in offering to something

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    the Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima is a feature film made in 1952. It was promoted as a fact-based treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917. It starred Susan Whitney as Lucia dos Santos‚ Sammy Ogg as Francisco Marto‚ and Sherry Jackson‚ as Jacinta Marto‚ with Gilbert Roland as a fictional character named Hugo‚ a kindly but agnostic friend of the three children‚ who rediscovered his faith in God through the Solar Miracle of Fatima. The musical score by Max

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