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    An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow-Les Murray. In Les Murray’s ’An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’‚ there is a clear unconventional portrayal of the hero‚ and he shows many heroic concepts as a result of the dramatic techniques used to convey the notion of the weeping man not being society’s ’conventional perception’ of a hero. The poems persona is simply an un-named ’observer’ who tells the story‚ in a third person present tense narrative form ("they") which assists in portraying the notion that a weeping

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    Ordinary Men is regarded as seminal in Holocaust studies‚ as micro-history in its own right‚ and valuable for studying authoritarianism and indoctrination on individuals and collective groups. Tracing a single German unit‚ Reserve Police Battalion 101 (henceforth RPB-101) throughout their military duty as they are instructed to kill innocent Jewish men‚ women and children face-to-face in Poland‚ Browning documents their transition from men originally deemed unworthy of conscription to efficient killers

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    Ordinary People In chapter 22 where Conrad fights Stillman because Stillman couldn’t keep his mouth shut it made Conrad explode. I personally can relate to Conrad because people like to piss me off to the point where I would get into fights with them. Sometimes there are words that are said that just makes the situation even worse. “Someone says‚” Shut the fuck up‚ will you?” (pg. 178). And when someone else butts in the conversation that doesn’t involve them irritates the living crap out of me.

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    New American Woman The “Roaring Twenties” was a huge decade for the American woman. Women transformed from being completely covered up to wearing only a short skirt and tank top. The “Flapper” style came complete with a bobbed haircut‚ bound breasts‚ and short skirt. The flapper was a symbol of women gaining the right to vote‚ becoming more active in the workforce‚ and being equivalent to men in the political sense. All of these things led to what people called “The new American Woman.” Margaret

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    to reform. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is Gilman’s most popular short story that highlights her life through a real experience and uses symbolism to highlight other aspects of numerous women’s lives during that time. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman

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    Woman Images in the Media

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    Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women and their body parts are used to sell everything from food to cars. Popular film and television actresses are becoming younger‚ taller and thinner. It’s common for these girls to faint on the set from not eating. Women’s magazines are full of pieces trying to pressure that if they can just lose those that last twenty pounds‚ they’ll have it all. They will have what they think is the perfect marriage‚ they will have loving children‚ and a successful career

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    used to develop themes in at least two poems you have studied. *No Ordinary Sun & Rain‚ by Hone Tuwhare* Hone Tuwhare uses symbols and figurative language to develop themes in his poetry. Tuwhare’s strength is his ability to use effective imagery and symbols to develop persistent ideas that‚ in the poetry I studied this year‚ relate to the purity and beauty of natural things. Rain‚ an apostrophe to a "rain god"‚ and No Ordinary Sun‚ another apostrophe to a tree and Tuwhare’s protest against nuclear

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    KAVITA BE A POWERFUL WOMAN What Makes a Woman Powerful “A powerful woman doesn’t have to prove she is powerful.” Women who feel the need to prove their power usually worry‚ secretly‚ that they hold no power at all. Deep down‚ they’re trying to prove something to themselves. And the more they continue down this path‚ the more they prove their doubts correct! If you find yourself trying to prove your power to others‚ stop. Let your power make itself known‚ through your quiet‚ calm confidence

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    The Hero’s Journey is a really difficult role to play. The hero is obviously the protagonist of the Ordinary World which he has to face the challenges of the story. The Ordinary World is where the introducing of the hero is and the beginning of the story. Every story has a conflict that the hero has to resolve. There’s one person that tries to disrupt the hero from solving the conflict‚ it’s called the Call of Adventure. The hero may need a succession of calls before realizing that he has to face

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    Bronwen Wallace’s poem‚ "Common Magic‚" and Rabindranath Tagore’s poem‚ "An Ordinary Person‚" reveal how ordinary people and events can be special and extraordinary. Additionally‚ both poems concern specific people to prove that within everyone’s live there can be elements of magic and mystery. In Wallace’s poem people are transform through a variety of human experiences‚ where in Tagore’s poem one seemingly ordinary person is changed through poetry. In both poems authors’ ideas are expressed through

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