The Legend of Mulan: A Heroine of Ancient China Hua Mulan (花木蘭) was a legendary heroine from ancient China. She disguised her brother in order to take her father’s place in the army‚ bravely defending her country and gloriously returning home. Her story comes from a legend‚ which was passed down and retold over many years‚ so I still can’t decide whether or not Mulan was a historical person. However‚ I found that some of the facts in her story are based on historical events that date to the Northern
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The woman I am in my Dreams Lexi MacConnell 1.) What we can infer about the narrator based on the contrasts she reveals is that she is a short woman‚ who wears sensible average clothing‚ she is unconfident with lack of sex appeal. 2.) The woman in the narrator’s dreams is a tall well-dressed woman who is very social; she is concerned with her own needs. This woman in her dreams is very confident‚ she is able to overcome obstacles and it’s her way or no way. We know this from the poem
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Bronte’s‚ Jane Eyre‚ is an autobiography that focuses Jane Eyre’s past and her search in finding love and acceptance. The inception of Jane Eyre’s quest begins with her infancy and continues all throughout her adult life. She is presented with new obstacles as she ages all which test her vigorously. Her successes present themselves during her stays at Gateshead‚ Lowood‚ Thornfield‚ and lastly the Moor House. Jane experiences different types of triumphs throughout her quest that allow Jane to become
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I stand before you today‚ the representative of a family in grief‚ in a country in mourning before a world in shock. We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so. For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her‚ feel that they‚ too‚ lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable
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Mersadie Tallman DezureAP Lit 21 October 2014 In the mid-nineteenth century‚ a woman would have carried the burden of "staying in her place." In other words‚ she was subject to the generally accepted standards and roles that society had placed upon her‚ which did not necessarily provide her with liberty‚ dignity or independence. Yet if Charlotte Bronte’s character Jane Eyre had truly existed in that time period‚ she would have defied most of these cultural standards and proved herself a paradigm
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Women in India have attained greatness through the ages – in political‚ academic and spiritual spheres. They enjoyed freedom and equal participation in public life in ancient India. In the Rig Veda‚ women are placed at the highest pedestal – ‘Yatr nariyastu poojayante ramante tatr devah’ or where women are worshipped‚ Gods preside there. The Taittriya Upanishad teaches us ‘Matridevo bhava’ or ‘Let your mother be God to you’. Swami Vivekananda rightly said‚ “All nations have attained greatness
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Woman is the magnificent creation of god‚ a multi faceted personality with the power of benevolence‚ adjustability‚ integrity and tolerance. She is companion of man‚ gifted with equal mental faculty‚ a protector and provider‚ the embodiment of love and affection. The role given to women in a society is a measuring rod and true index of its civilization and cultural attainment. Woman by nature is a peace maker. She is blessed with the’ tact and skill to convince and drive the argument in her favor
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Jane Goodall Jane Goodall is one of the world’s most admired women‚ acclaimed scientist‚ and conservationist (www.nationalgeographic.com). The work that she does is called ethology‚ which is the study of animal behavior. Such a successful woman has numerous admirable qualities. She has contributed greatly to society as well as to the animal kingdom. Her research paved the way for countless primate studies‚ and has changed the way many people view chimpanzees. Trying to narrow down only three
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and Samantha Minio Mr. Burrows Sociology September 13‚ 2012 Jane Addams Jane Addams of Cedarville‚ Illinois‚ is anything except ordinary. She was a member and founder of the Settlement House Movement. Along with her companion Ellen Starr‚ Addams founded the Hull House‚ which is located in Chicago. If that is not enough‚ she was also the first woman from America to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. You may wonder how this woman was able to fulfill all of her achievements‚ being a girl from a
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Jane in the Wallpaper In reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” I found the perspective of the woman’s mind-set towards the wallpaper to be out of the ordinary. At first the room and wallpaper were viewed to be “repellent‚ almost revolting” by the woman but later she grows “fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper”(Gilman 222). The woman goes back and forth from hating the paper to then becoming intrigued with it when she sees another woman within it. Her
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