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    NOTE: Only one rescoring request per test administration can be submitted. Checks must be made payable to ETS-TOEFL iBT. NOTE: YOUR TEST CANNOT BE RESCORED. IF YOUR SCORES HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENTn No. 131414468 RT) H / QST (Reg.S 1087967545) toC ge ( T S and R T GNo. d d a aa da ‚n total TO AN INSTITUTION OR AGENCY. By sending your check‚ you authorize ETS to convert the check into an electronic funds transfer. Please be aware that your bank account may be debited the same day we receive your payment

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    . In "Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids" by Herman Melville‚ Melville exposes the differences between the occupations‚ status of wealth‚ and health conditions between "unmarried" men and women. Melville describes the life of a bachelor to be like heaven‚ while a maid’s life like hell. In the section of Paradise of Bachelors‚ Melville characterizes the modern day bachelors as templars‚ who were Catholic solider monks that protected people to get to the Holy Land. He then compares "...‚ the

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    In The Book of the City of Ladies‚ there are four main characters that all uniquely develop the utopian model of Christine’s "City of Ladies." The first character‚ and most important‚ is Christine de Pizan as herself who connects the real world that she exists in to that of an imaginative world and its city symbolic of phylogeny and the reality of a women’s virtue. In her fantasy world she is ignorant of women’s virtue and talent and asks the three virtues of the validity of male misogyny. These

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    249-003 30 October 2012 Visual of a Women‚ from Katherine Mansfield’s Point of View Obtuse‚ emotional‚ imaginative and lost are some of the characteristics Katherine Mansfield uses to portray her female characters. Even though she always goes against the current of life she never really finds herself and this insecurity she expresses in her works. In her short stories‚ “Miss Brill”‚ “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”‚ and “The Garden Party”‚ Katherine really shows how she thought of women by stating

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    The opening passage in Katherine Mansfield’s short story "A Cup of Tea" introduces the protagonist in a manner that will serve to underscore the importance of irony to the tale. What is easy to miss in this deceptively pedestrian opening is the invitation to the reader to become part of the storytelling process through an unexpected interrelation with the implied reader: "no‚ you couldn’t have called her beautiful." Not much later‚ the reader is again made complicit in the telling of Rosemary Fell’s

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    Her First Ball is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921‚ and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. Plot summary A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins‚ the Sheridan’s (who also appear in "The Garden Party.") As the story opens‚ they are going to a ball (A formal gathering for social dancing). Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there‚ she is both excited and terrified

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    The Grave "The Grave‚" by Katherine Anne Porter‚ is about two young children’s lives and how their past affected them while growing up. Both Paul and Miranda are related as brother and sister.Paul was a twelve year old boy who really enjoyed hunting and gathering skeletons.Miranda was a nine year old girl who use to like shooting targets‚ and grew up as a tomboy. They used to live in Louisiana and then later on they moved to Texas. After they moved down to Texas‚ their family purchased a small farm

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    silverware I washed… Anything that could be counted‚ I did.” (Katherine Johnson) Katherine Johnson was an amazing‚ African-American mathematician who contributed significantly to NASA and has received many awards on account of her contributions. To begin‚ Katherine Johnson was born in White Sulfur Springs‚ West Virginia‚ on August 26‚ 1918‚ to Joylette and Joshua Coleman. Katherine was the youngest of four children. As a child‚ Katherine was determined to excel in her education. For example‚ in the

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    Katherine Mansfield?s ?Miss Brill? is a deep illustration of delusional thinking when one is deprived of emotional human bonds. This short story paints a picture of an elderly woman‚ Miss Brill‚ who believes life is a walk in the park‚ until a couple leads her to believe life is not all fantasy. Although this tale develops gradually‚ Miss Brill undergoes a drastic transformation at the tale?s end. The change that Miss Brill is forced to undergo is understandable through symbolism‚ characterization

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    Lady Macbeth loses her sanity totally by act 5. Her insanity is foregrounded in the first scene of the act in Macbeth.The gentlewoman serving Lady Macbeth feels simultaneously sympathy and a sense of bitterness to such heinous path Lady Macbeth along with Macbeth chose to achieve success. In act 5‚ scene 1 of Macbeth‚ it is presented that Lady Macbeth has lost her senses‚ and suffers from sleepwalking. She seems to have also a mania regarding her feeling of having blood in her hands. In the beginning

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