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    Imagery in Bleak House

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    story’s theme or pulls together all the fictional elements providing unity & strength to the text. Symbols/imagery are often used to foreshadow later events in a story. Charles Dickens employs certain tools to create particular effects in ’The Bleak House’. A combination of these techniques allows for the semantics to be clearly expressed Charles Dickens characters are a very important part of his writing he uses his characters moods and emotions to create imagery He uses imagery to create the atmosphere

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    House Made of Dawn

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    Even though the novel House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday is a fictional story‚ it also can serve as a sort of ethnography for modern Native Americans. Momaday writes the book in a form that makes more sense when read out loud. This mirrors the value that Native Americans place on oral tradition. The various priests in the story also tell several stories from Native American tradition and they are passed along in this way in the book. Native Americans place great value in stories and this

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    Pygmalion and Dolls House

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    Stepping Stones of Oppression from Social Classes in Pygmalion and A Doll’s House The difference that separates humans from animals is the ability to make our own decisions and not be guided by simple instinct. People can choose who they are‚ what they want‚ and who they will become; humans are independent beings. In the books Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ both demonstrate the hard ships women had to persevere throughout each play. Women in no matter in what

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    Your House in the Future

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    Urban Space Pavilion Future houses now is dedicated to exploring ideas about better living in modernist family homes that are affordable‚ efficient‚ healthy‚ environmentally responsible and available. In the far future all the houses‚ Building‚ Stations and everything will be on space Stations millions of light-years away from our planet they will be suitable for everyone. It will be provided with everything a person would need from food and drinks to cinemas and all entertaining centers and the

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    growing within the cracks of the stones and decaying trees in the courtyard. In seeing that the house its self seems as if it’s about to crumble‚ we can infer that it will in the end of the story‚ just like the fate of the Usher family. 4. It was initially easy to differentiate the House of Usher from the rest of the world; the way the narrator describes the desolate house as “dank” “dark” and “tarn.” The House itself has a dark‚ gothic feel‚ which makes the narrator feel out of place. Great Awakening-

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    A Doll's House Women

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    A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen Norwegian nineteenth century playwright Henrik Isben was stirring the waters in many ways with his seminal work A Doll House. He fills his play with a realism never seen before and thus many people didn’t know how to react to a topic that everyone can relate to‚ such as the role of a women in the home. The women of A Doll House have a responsibility and personal power that was not seen any where in the 1800s. Nora‚ Mrs. Linde‚ and the nurse Anne-Marie all show an

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    Feminism in a Doll House

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    Samantha Nickell Professor Roberts English 102 27 May 2013 Feminism in A Doll House In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House Nora Helmer is a prime example of a woman’s role in the 19th century‚ that being that she was more for show than anything else. Nora’s husband‚ Torvald‚ treats his wife like a living doll and uses pet names for her rather than her actual name further establishing her position as nothing more than a toy. For Torvald. Nora’s purpose in

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    In the House of The Scorpion by Nancy Farmer‚ a science fiction novel‚ a boy named Matt lives a “normal” life in his childhood. On the other hand‚ the more he grows‚ the more he discovers new things about himself. Later on he discovered that he was a clone of a Man named El Patron. Matt starts to have a great relationship with El Patron‚ at least that’s what he thinks. Until later on after El Patron has a heart attack‚ Matt realizes he was only made for spare body parts even also realizes that El

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    Assumptions leads to destruction. An assumption is basically believing something is true without actually having proof. In the book The Kitchen House assumptions is a huge theme throughout the book‚ characters in the book held judgement on things they didn’t know the full facts about. These assumptions caused them to make decisions they would have thought different about if they knew the truth. For instance there was many examples in the book‚ for example when Lavinia first arrived at Tall Oaks

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    emphasizing what a certain historical event‚ personage‚ or situation enables the playwright to communicate. Discuss what effect the playwright’s transformation of historical reality has on an audience. Henrik Ibsen’s widely regarded work‚ A Doll’s House‚ was first introduced in 1879 as a theatrical presentation of human rights. Today‚ Ibsen’s work remains as such‚ although often conveyed as more focused on women’s rights. The Norwegian playwright’s vision of a seemingly common home is quickly translated

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