THE CLASH OF CULTURES IN HENRY JAMES: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY‚ THE WINGS OF THE DOVE AND DAISY MILLER MASTER’S PROJECT UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANCE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY DEPT. OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE WRITTEN BY MONICA O. V. IKE 1st EXAMINER: Dr. M. REIF-HÜLSER 2nd EXAMINER: Dr. Prof. ASSMANN CONSTANCE‚ APRIL 1998 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I want to express my gratitude to all the people who somehow have been a help and an encouragement in this work. To my parents for allowing
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‘Chains’ is a novel about people breaking free of their chains in many different ways. However are these people actually breaking free because the slaves will always be slaves; wherever they go. Many people in this novel are chained; for example Isabel (the main character) is chained because she is a slave‚ Lady Seymour is chained because she is paralysed and Old Ben is chained because he is also a slave. But when they have ‘broken free’ are they actually free of their chains‚ because in reality
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Journal 174.3 (2008): 284-287. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. Power‚ Margaret. 2004. “More Than Mere Pawns: Right-Wing Women in Chile.” Journal of Women ’s History 16‚ no. 3: 138-151. Spence‚ Jack. "Class Mobilization And Conflict In Allende ’s Chile: A Review Essay." Politics & Society 8.2 (1978): 131-164. Historical Abstracts. Web. 5 Apr. 2013. Wood‚ Andres. 2004. Machuca. Chile: Menemsha Entertainment.
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1. “She kneels and kisses Belky and hugs her tightly… But Lourdes cannot face Enrique… His mother steps off the porch. She walks away. ’¿Dónde está mi mami?’ Enrique cries‚ over and over. ‘Where is my mom?’ His mother never returns‚ and that decides Enrique’s fate.” (Nazario 5) 2. “The hut was twelve by fifteen feet. It had one small wooden window and dirt floors. There was no bathroom… There was no electricity… Nine people slept in the hut. They crowded onto two beds and a slim mattress jammed each
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meeting with an OD practitioner‚ Isabel Galino‚ through a referral from friends. Isabel has been an OD Practitioner for 2 years too but she has a very good track record of helping pioneering companies. When Isabel listened to the initial conversation through the phone‚ she saw the big picture of the concerns of Leila and one of them is that she can only afford a low budget for this OD intervention project. So‚ they will be setting up for a meeting the next day. Isabel did research on the nature of the
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loves hosting famous‚ rich and interesting parties‚ the last thing he did in his life was to refuse an invitation. However‚ Elliott is nice to his family members‚ for example he traveled a long way to talk to his sister when she was sick. He provided Isabel and her family a shelter and a stable financial assistance when she left nothing after the stock market crash. Although Larry and Elliott seek different purposes in their lives‚ they all obtain happiness at the end each in their own way. Elliott
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just don’t fit in. Holden Caulfield‚ from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ and the characters from the movie The Misfits are similar because they all suffered a loss of the American dream and were alienated from society. Holden‚ Guido‚ and Isabel are similar because they all lost sight of the American dream. I believe that Holden lost the sense of the American dream before he even started writing the book. It happened
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The Philadelphia Experiment The Philadelphia Experiment took place in the fall of 1943 when a group of scientists funded by the U.S. government set out to turn a U.S. Cannon Class destroyer escort into an invisible war machine. The initial conspiracies surrounding the experiment were formulated by two scientists‚ William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz’. After extensive research‚ Moore and Berlitz’ concluded that The Philadelphia Experiment went awry when a U.S. Naval Destroyer was used to conduct
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Essay Assignment 3: Chapter 9 1. Live musical performances‚ in several aspects‚ are often associated with heavy partying‚ drinking‚ and promiscuity. Professional harpists are no exception to the pressure of caving to this kind of lifestyle. Don Cesar Muquinche explains in his interview that his father was subjected to a great deal of pressure to engage in heavy drinking that could last up to several days. Professional harpists were integral to a variety of celebrations and ceremonies in Tungurahua
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aged woman. This story is located in New York City‚ where Isabel‚ the main character‚ lives and works for a company as a typist. The author mentioned many areas from New York‚ such as Central Park‚ the Metropolitan Museum‚ Brooklyn‚ Manhattan or Queens. Isabel is an only child and an orphan and what she used to do was reading romantic novels‚ that is the reason of the title. Loneliness is present during all the story and suffered by Isabel. On the one hand‚ both stories present some similarities
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