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    Mooney who runs the boarding house. She has had an unhappy marriage and it made her as sharp as an axe. When she gets rid of her husband she opens a boarding house. She has a son‚ Jack‚ who is "a hard case". She also has a daughter‚ Polly‚ a slim girl of nineteen who resembles a "perverse little Madonna." Mrs. Mooney is concerned about Polly’s marriage and she knows that most men are not seriously interested in her. So she decides to keep Polly in the boarding house and make her an attraction for

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    reasonable human being‚ just as you are – or‚ at all events‚ that I must try and become one” (p.76). What possible factors can influence a woman to leave her husband and children behind? In the play‚ A Doll’s House‚ Henrik Ibsen wants to prove the importance of people finding themselves. A Doll’s House demonstrates a woman who takes on her wifely duties and behaves as her superior initiates. After being emotionally sheltered her entire life‚ Nora Helmer finally finds inner strength and chooses to live

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    Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House (1879) is set Norway and focuses on the repression of woman. Mrs. Linde confronts and establishes Nora’s complicit acquiesnce to her own repression when Mrs.Linde says “Nora‚ you’re just a child.” Pg.667. This paper will chart Nora’s growth from ignorance to knowledge showing how the nineteenth century society has subjugated and indoctrinated women. Unfortunately in the nineteenth century society women were brought up to act as if they were weak‚ emotional‚ and docile

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    will be leaving the way you used to live your life. Without the parents’ daily advices‚ there are of course some decisions that are hard to decide whether you make this or that‚ there are circumstances after that. The students staying in boarding houses would be a little worry of their life in a place where he or she does not know anything to a person he or she will be living with for a period of time. (Lazarus‚ 1976). According to Lazarus (1976) many college students fail to achieve the maximum

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    Antisocial Personality Disorder Dr. Gregory House was born on the 11th of June 1958 from a relationship between Blythe house‚ his mother‚ and an unknown male. His mother was a house wife married to a marine pilot‚ John House‚ who was not present when House was conceived being on overseas active duty. His mother also had an affair with another man‚ Thomas Bell‚ who House mistook for his father because of the physical characteristics that they shared. House’s father was

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    Abby Kreczkowski Professor Galvez English Composition II 27 October 2016 “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen “A Doll’s House” is a play by Henrik Ibsen is about Nora Helmer‚ a woman who once secretly borrowed a large sum of money so that her husband‚ Torvald‚ could recover from a serious illness. She never told him of this loan and had to secretly pay it back in small amounts‚ using her allowance for the house. Nora’s husband thinks of her as careless and immature and refers to her as his doll.

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    Lipa finally arrived at the hospital they discovered the Lipa’s were part of the Romany Society and they had strong ties to the culture. Dr. House handled the testing and case reviews. Dr. House suggested that it was a Venous System low-pressure blood leak. The MRI testing didn’t reveal and leakage in the Venous System. This left the team and Dr. House baffled. As the team was still trying to figure out what was wrong with Stevie he continued having symptoms of

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    Reflective statement for WIT-Minal The topics discussed were: “ In what ways do time and place matter to this work?” and “What connections did you find between issues in the work and your own culture and experience?” “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen is a playwright based in Norway in the 1870’s. To some extent‚ time matters to this work because it brings up the issues of roles of women in the 1870’s. Women were not very independent at that time and had to take permissions from a male authoritarian

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    Many works of literature in the form of books and plays don’t usually get a big screen adaptation. However‚ A Doll’s House has been blessed to have two major adaptations as well as some minor ones. Of the two major ones‚ the one that is viewed as superior is known as the Anthony Hopkins version. This is of course because the biggest actor in the production was Anthony Hopkins so it is easy to label this version the Anthony Hopkins version. This version is superior because it gives the character’s

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    A Doll’s House‚ by Henrik Ibsen‚ portrays a young married woman‚ Nora‚ who plays a dramatic role of deception and self-indulgence. The author creates a good understanding of a woman’s role by assuming Nora is an average housewife who does not work; her only job is to maintain the house and raise the children like a stereotypical woman that cannot work or help society. In reality‚ she is not an average housewife in that she has a hired maid who deals with the house and children. Although Ibsen focuses

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