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    expectations are unsatisfactory‚ people face shame and rejection for deviating from the norm. This becomes further apparent in literature‚ where the authors use their platform to introduce abnormal versions of gender‚ in this case‚ masculinity. In the Moonstone‚ author Wilkie Collins acquaints readers with Ezra Jennings‚ a social outcast. As a sensation novel‚ it uses his role to understand the unfairness when being cold-shouldered by people. His physical deformities and female constitution are obvious

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    First impressions often predetermine your judgment of a person‚ without actually knowing the person at all. Such is the case with Ezra Jennings in the novel‚ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Ezra Jennings is a good person but he is looked down upon by Victorian society because of his appearance and his background. Even with society frowning down upon him‚ and although he does not have the life that he wants‚ Ezra Jennings proves to be a gentleman who truly values love and friendship. Ezra Jennings

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    The moonstone is called gem of the Goddess Diana. The ancient Roman believed that the moonstones is a trickle of moonlight. In Asia the moonstones is considered the jewel of luck. The Arab culture the moonstones are a symbol of fertility many Arab women sew them in there clothing so they can not be seen. It is said that it is an amulet for protection of the traveler’s. Goddess of the moonstones honors is Cerridewen‚ the welsh goddess of inspiration and knowledge she rules the gifts of prophecy and

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    MY commentary In my static image I chose to use the colours red‚ blue‚ white‚ purple‚ red and black because they all play an important part in the image. As some examples the parts in my image that are coloured in blue represent confidence‚ grey/black represents power‚ red represents determination and strength‚ purple represents ambition I also used white because it represents goodness and a successful beginning. All of these colours link to the main idea “overcoming challenges in life can be difficult”

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    commonly quoted aphorism states that actions speak louder than words. Who is to say that actions and words do not have equal value? In many detective stories‚ spanning from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes‚ to Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone‚ the detective weighs each witness’s actions and words equally and compare these two sets of information to see if the witness’s actions align with their account of events. Of course‚ the detective must possess keen observational skills in order

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    Commentary Essay Purpose: The purpose of commentary is not simply to report things but to give readers a way to make sense of them. A commentary will help you write critically about a topic and will help you analyze this topic within a larger societal context. Audience: Your audience for this paper should be one who has a stake in the topic. For example‚ if you are discussing your understanding of a topic like ISTEP testing‚ your audience could be administrators. Genre: For this paper

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    LIBERTY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY COMMENTARY SEARCH ON APORIA IN THE 21ST CHAPTER OF JOHN WRITTEN FOR PROFESSOR THOMAS CAMPBELL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE COURSE NBST 655 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN BY DENISE WATSON-SMITH #221890 July 15‚ 2012 LYNCHBURG‚ VA TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………...3 COMMENTARY ANALYSIS…………..………………………………………………..3 D.A. Carson……………………………………………………………………….3 W. Hall Harris III………………………………………………………………….4 Leon Morris………………………………………………………………………

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    Miranda Lucas L.A. Per. 2 June 5th‚ 2012 Social Commentary in Literature Characters in pieces of literature are often influenced by the societies that they live in‚ and many authors do this to comment on certain social ideas. The story‚ “The Bass‚ the River and Shelia Mant”‚ the author focuses on how people in society should be able to take pride in who they really are and not feel the pressure to be something they are not. The author of “The Handsomest Drowned Man” wrote this story to show

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    Kendra Lynch English 1302 Ms. Olsen 15 March 2011 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins’s famous detective novel‚ The Moonstone (1868)‚ takes place in the 1840s during the high-Victorian imperialist age‚ a time in which the British experienced a long period of contentment and prosperity. During this time‚ a strong sense of anti-feminism seemed to thrive in British society. Despite this fact‚ Wilkie Collins did not hesitate to make the women in his novel central characters that have a great influence

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    Lanark: Prose Commentary 1 Lanark  Prose Commentary Retno Widyanti This extract from Lanark ‚written by Alasdair Gray‚ is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies‚ Glasgow‚ the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self-belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post-modern style‚ it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced

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