illogical. Battered wife syndrome (a condition created by sustained physical‚ sexual‚ and/or emotional abuse‚ which creates a variety of physical and emotional symptoms) has been used as a defence in murder cases in which women have killed or harmed their abuser. Although expert testimony regarding battered wife syndrome has gained some acceptance in the courts‚ it is questionable that it provides enough solid and substantive evidence to be used as a credible defence. The battered wife syndrome defence
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LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should
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to Curley’s wife as they all shut her out of their dream. She has no faith that they will reach it because she’s seen men with the same goal before‚ always longing to leave the ranch‚ but she knows that eventually these men will lose their money to a brothel or a poker game just like her husband has. Crooks builds his confidence dangerously high with the help of Candy and Lennie because in that moment he feels equal to them‚ he becomes angry and powerful and shouts at Curley’s wife‚ “You got no
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"Do you hear the people sing? Sing the song of angry men..." Perhaps many people are familiar with the song above‚ and this is from the movie called Les Misérables. The plot of the movie is based on the novel written by a French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. The beginning of the movie is set in the early 19th century France‚ in a prison. This movie is mainly about the main character‚ Jean Valjean‚ was sentenced to the jail for 19 years only because of having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving
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“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin is a story that starts off on a sunny day. The people in the city live in a utopia society‚ which can be defined as an ideal perfect place. However ideal means it’s not always true. The city is filled with smiles‚ music‚ horses‚ and parades. The setting seems so amazing that it isn’t real. However‚ there is an odd situation about this so called “perfect society”. Leguin states‚ “Do you believe? Do you accept the festival‚ the city‚ the joy? No
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Curley’s Wife is character that is portrayed by discrimination. In the novel‚ of Mice and Men‚ she is the only character that is a woman and does not have a name. This tells us that during this time‚ women were thought less of and considered less important because back in the 1930s‚ women were discriminated from jobs and had to stay at home and take care of the house on the ranch. On the ranch‚ she is also the only women and she does not have anyone willing to talk to her either. There is not much
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“Lot’s Wife” depicts the fate of a woman following her husband Lot on his departure of their native town Sodom. Sodom was a town that God destroyed‚ yet he granted Lot and his wife permission to flee the town before this occurrence. Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Akhmatova offer different versions and perspectives on the same story. Each of the authors use different elements of poetry to create two very unique poems that have several similarities as well as many obvious differences
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In Wife of Bath you can see that the male pilgrims and woman who are telling tales are totally opposite of one another. Males talk more about money and the Wife of Bath is one a more sensitive subject‚ which is how women are petard in marriages. A woman in the Wife of Bath are characterized lustful‚ greedy and a leech to their husband. When first reading the text you may perceive the wife of bath to be a good digger based on the number of husbands she had‚ but depending on how you look at the situation
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troubling events‚ there is a chance they can repress them to forget what happened. We do not completely forget them but simply put the thought in the back of our minds‚ only to be remembered occasionally. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”‚ by Ursula LeGuin‚ the people of Omelas know a child is locked in the basement by himself. They continue to believe his isolated suffering is the sole reason for their happiness‚ so they trap him there. Some citizens have trouble coping with this idea‚ and leave
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to have a person you can always rely on. I want my wife to be this person. She would be tightly connected with my life. I want to wake up by her tender kiss. The first thing I would see would be her smiling face. She would make a breakfast for us. We would call each other from time to time during all day. In the evening I want to have dinner with her‚ cooked by her‚ and fall asleep holding my arms around her. First of all‚ my future wife should be my best friend. I want to share all my troubles
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