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    THE WARS OF THE ROSES - THE CAUSES OF THE WARS Causes 1. Dynastic - a fight for titles 2. Economic and financial - a crisis in the nobility 3. Defeat in the 100 Years War 4. Long term - a shift in the balance of power causing lawlessness and disorder 5. Short term - the personal failings of Henry VI (1-3 are largely dismissed by Historians in the twentieth century but may still have a part to play) |Long Term |Short Term

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    Cruelty plays a pivotal role in main characters as they progress and mature throughout the plot and development of the story. In the epistolary classic‚ The Color Purple‚ author Alice Walker documents Celie’s experience from cruelty by her Georgia neighborhood‚ the people most closest to her‚ and the societal structure that impacts each of the characters. After being sent to marital consent by her stepfather‚ Alphonso‚ without her will‚ the fragile protagonist engages in friendships with powerful-minded

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    Literary Analysis Outline Title: Violence is Not the Remedy Introduction In Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple she uses violence to illustrate the main character Celie’s transition from being a weak character to a strong one. In the beginning of the novel Celie is abused physically and psychologically. Her father rapes and beats his children. Her father took her out of school at a very young age‚ due to pregnancy‚ which is why Celie has very poor english skills and is ignorant to the world

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    Alice Walker is an American author and poet. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She was the youngest of eight children‚ born in 1944 in Eatonton‚ Georgia‚ in the Deep South of the United States. When she eight‚ she was wounded in the eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers. This accident blinded her in one eye. As a result‚ she became more shy‚ thoughtful and studious; this is when

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    The character Emily Rose in "A Rose for Emily" is considered a static character because; her traits throughout the story do not change. In the story she is deemed as quiet‚ inhuman and‚ even mad. However‚ through further inspection; there are characteristics displayed throughout the story that can possibly prove that Emily was a dynamic character. Throughout the piece Emily changes both mentally‚ socially and physically. Miss Emily‚ the main character of this story‚ lives for many years as a recluse;

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    In the book “the color purple” by Alice walker she uses ironic devices to show that celie was abused mentally and physically. While she had endure the abuse it becomes worse as time passed and she felt hopeless in trying to protect herself. As shown in the book the main protagonist tells her story in a diary. In the Color Purple many ironic devices are used to show the true meaning of the book.The ironic that the author used are situational irony and symbolism. The situational irony plays a big part

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    People classify almost anything everyone. Three musicals that I feel show social classification are Hamilton‚ Hedwig‚ The Color purple. In Hamilton Lin Maranda‚ the director and face of Hamilton had a vison that was different from the normal Caribbean immigrant story. Hedwig is a musical on German male that is trying find his place in society threw his music. Color purple is a musical and a movie‚ it’s about 2 sisters that been through hell and back. All these musicals have the same value they made

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    Dave Bartleby Joe Nelson History of Rock 2 December 2012 Musical Structure Analysis Jimi Hendrix “Purple Haze” The three piece band that is the Jimi Hendrix Experience packed an explosive musical punch with “Purple Haze”‚ a track that is notable for its profound musical improvisation. Yet at the same time‚ the song does retain many supportive qualities that accompany the improvisation‚ such as a consistent bass groove‚ and a drum part which closely follows a pattern of cyclicity as it progresses

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    The history of the purple heart goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. Although it wasn’t called the purple heart‚ George Washington had established the badge of military merit‚ then established by the commander-in-chief of the continental army by the order from Newburgh‚ New York headquarters on august 7‚1782. Although the badge of military merit was only awarded to three revolutionary war soldiers it was never abolished but it was not proposed again until October 10‚1927. Army chief of

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    “The Street Of Purple Cloth” By Karen Conally. This poem is about a woman that went on a journey ‚ and found herself in the process . In the first couple of stanzas is where she starts her journey and gets lost but then she finds herself and that she found out where home is‚ home is where you make it. In the saying of “She has lost her way in the street”‚ means that she is lost‚ then this saying “For the first time‚ She understands the words means that she found herself and home. There are

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