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    Gloria Nguyen Period 5 2010 February 24 A significant symbol in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen are the macaroons that show up several times within the course of the play because it shows that Nora is not truthful to Torvald and that their household is tangled up in a web of deceit. “She slips the bag of macaroons in her pocket and wipes her mouth...”. Nora knows that Torvald dislikes her spending money on guilty pleasures like macaroons so she tries to hide them‚ just as she tries to hide the

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    Stenbock House is a prominent neo-classical building located on Toompea hill‚ Tallinn. It is the official seat of the Government of the Republic of Estonia.The history of the Stenbock house in Tallinn goes back to the 1780s‚ when the Russian Imperial administration of what was then the Governorate of Estonia launched a scheme to erect new buildings for administrative purposes. Originally‚ the building was intended as a courthouse.[1][2] Count Jakob Pontus Stenbock‚ a member of the local nobility

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    White Fang

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    Title : White Fang Author : Jack London Date of Publication : 1992 Plot: The story is about a wolf named White Fang who had to find his way in the world. He was very curious of his surroundings and went exploring as a cub. He went in search of food and stumbled upon an Indian camp. The man most interested in White Fang was Grey Beaver. A man named Beauty Smith forced Grey Beaver to sell White Fang to him. Beauty Smith had evil plans. He forced White Fang to fight against a bulldog and placed

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    Home vs House

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    people viewed as a house‚ but the bench near Carl’s Jr. was considered his home‚ a place of comfort and value close to the heart. “Homeless” an essay written by Anna Quindlen‚ focuses on the people who don’t have that sense of place‚ “a place of certainty‚ stability‚ predictability‚ and privacy” (Quindlen 528). “Homeless” is not about the people who are living on the streets‚ but the people who never had a house to call their home. The difference between the two is that a house is a possession that

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    Moving to a New House

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    pregnancy was quite an excitement‚ yet I knew I would have to discuss with my mother why I believed it would be of essence to move to a much bigger house‚ this would mean that the new triplets would have a room of their own‚ and my brother Alex and I could have one as well. I informed my mother of the three important differences between our real house and our dream home would be the size‚ amenities‚ and location are more important factors with a larger family. One important difference between our

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    A Haunted House Essay

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    "They’re looking for it; they’re drawing the curtain‚" one might say‚ and so read on a page or two. "Now they’ve found it‚’ one would be certain‚ stopping the pencil on the margin. And then‚ tired of reading‚ one might rise and see for oneself‚ the house all empty‚ the doors standing open‚ only the wood pigeons bubbling with content and the hum of the threshing machine sounding from the farm. "What did I come in here for? What did I want to find?" My hands were empty. "Perhaps its upstairs then?" The

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    A Doll’s House Essay I can never really trust my eyes to tell me the unguarded truth if someone wishes for the truth to be concealed. The line between what is real or not real is often misconceived‚ especially in a society such as the one in A Doll’s House. Henrik Ibsen‚ the writer of this enthralling play‚ intended to show just how obscure the lines were in Victorian society. A Doll’s House is a story about how a young woman is so dazed by her society’s expectations that she doesn’t even

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    a painted house analysis

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    Book Review: A Painted House by John Grisham by victoria.lai,on August 9‚ 2012 [March 25‚ 2001] John Grisham’s latest novel‚ it is a breathtaking story starts off during September of 1952‚ and takes place in rural Arkansas with an extremely poor family. A Painted House is a nostalgic coming of age tale‚ the whole story is revolves around a young boy Luke who lives with his grandparents and parents on a large cotton farm. In order to make money‚ they grow cotton every season and sell it to the

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    Snow White

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    The fairy tale Snow-white and Rose-red‚ by the Grimm brothers‚ is an excellent example of a conservative‚ adult-centered text. In this text‚ the agency is with the adults and the children are seen as nostalgic images of childhood. Snow-white and Rose-red prove that children are good and follow the direction of adult figures even when the adult may not be present. The conservative nature of this text is overwhelming. The author is not challenging children to do anything; but rather

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    The Use of Symbolism in A Doll House Author Margaret Trudeau once said‚ “I can’t be a rose in any man’s lapel” (“I Can’t Be”). This quote expresses exactly what was going through many women’s minds during the 1800’s in Norway. Women had let their husbands control their lives for ages before the 1800’s. Soon‚ they could no longer stand being the rose in their husbands’ lapel. The women of Norway longed for freedom and began to rebel. Henrik Ibsen’s play‚ A Doll House‚ displays what women were going

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