taken from the story “A Member of the Family” by a famous award-winning Scottish novelist Muriel Spark. The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945" The fragment is about two women with the desperate mood Gwen and Trudy who spend their leisure time in a cheap lake town. Sometimes they argue and discuss the weather outdoor. The extract under analysis belongs to the belles-letters functional style‚ the main aim of which to give the readers aesthetic pleasure
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Sex Trafficking in Connecticut The Girls Next Door It is hard to imagine that in our own backyards‚ there are people being demoralized and abused for sex. An industry where mostly women are exploited for their bodies and used for profit‚ more and more women are entering the practice of prostitution‚ unaware of the risks involved. Promises of a glamorous lifestyle‚ lots of quick money‚ and rights of being your own boss‚ are beliefs among the women entering this trade. Unfortunately‚ this is a
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Discovery allows main characters to gain sight or knowledge into themselves and others. This is evident in Michael Gow’s Away‚ as seen through the characters of Gwen‚ Coral and Tom. The three gain sight and knowledge into their lives through the different perceptions and ideas of discovery. Similarly‚ in The Book Thief‚ Liesel gains sight and knowledge into the world around her‚ with the help of books which allow
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Journeys. Today the meaning of journey has been lost in many forms of literature. Every single author creates some sort of journey in the stories that they write‚ no matter what form or medium it is in‚ there is always a journey being taken. There are three different types of journey; they are inner‚ physical and imaginative. By categorising different forms of literature into these three options‚ the meaning of journey can be easily derived and the techniques in which they are constructed can
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Expendable Dolls The Thirteenth Amendment promised freedom by abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude. Many today believe this to be true‚ however‚ slavery from the past has taken on new forms and meaning into the present. Freedom remains to be elusive to countless of people in two simple words: human trafficking. In today’s globalized society‚ the immoralities of human trafficking are entrenched in lives of people that most will not detect. Those who are victims to the transformed slavery
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Surrounds 3 families Roy and Coral – lost their son in the Vietnam War (resort = wealthy) Vick‚ Harry and Tom – dealing with Tom’s Illness (camping ground in tent = average) Gwen‚ Jim and Meg – Gwen is head of the household (Caravan Park) Away is about reconciliation and the power of healing through love and compassion This play is about the experiences of a dying school boy‚ it is a celebration of life and the power to heal through gaining insight. At the end‚ the characters accept their
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and how can a person return the dog’s love. Let me introduce you to Stephen and Gwen Huneck. They are a couple‚ but not just any couple. They strongly believe that a relation between human and dogs is more than what it actually seems. Stephen and Gwen Huneck have Sally‚ a black Labrador. But they faced a TRAGIC incident.
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us and life in general. This is particularly evident in the prescribed text “Away” by Micheal Gow in which the characters go through much pain and suffering to ultimately be cleansed by the natural world surrounding them. Characters such as Coral‚ Gwen and Tom find themselves taking journeys “away” from their usual existence and learn much from this. Micheal Gow is well able to express these journeys through his elaborate use of technique in representing the ideas of his play. This essay will explain
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Chapter 1—Innovative Management for Turbulent Times MINI CASE: Hector‚ who is a Hispanic‚ has been working for a promotion for a long time. He works for a shipping company on the loading dock. The company is located in rural North Carolina. His job has been to drive a forklift and to occasionally load by hand boxes into large trucks. He reports to a loading supervisor who coordinates all the work of four forklift operators and makes sure the loads are accurate and
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Australian families to help the audience understand the concept of change. There are 3 main characters that Gow portrays change through during the play; Gwen‚ Tom and Coral. In the beginning of the play‚ Gwen‚ wife of Roy‚ mother of Meg‚ is known as a nagging housewife who didn’t have the greatest upbringing and has an obsession with Bex powder. Gwen has an opinion and if she does not agree with something‚ she is not afraid to say so. This shows in the way that she brings up meg. They have a very prosperous
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