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    outcasts however she is just as much as an outcast as the other 3 as she is the only woman on the farm and she isn’t capable of working with the others. She only has more mental power over the farm as she is married to Curley so she is the boss’s son’s wife so she can get anyone fired on the farm if she feels threatened by them. However she is not treated any better by anyone on the farm as she is a woman. Appearance: - “She had full‚ rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes‚ heavily made up. Her fingernails

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    Passage-based essay 2. The moment in which Elizabeth tells a lie in order to save her husband’s life‚ indicates dramatic irony. The playwright makes this happen when first John Proctor calls Abigail’s a whore and‚ in spite of the humiliation he felt‚ revealed his affair with her. As Danforth cannot believe the seventeen year-old girl is actually a “whore”‚ he asks Goody Proctor to come up to test the truth of this charge. Before she enters the court‚ John swears Elizabeth is an extremely honest

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    The Drover’s Wife The Drover’s wife‚ whose writer is Henry Lawson‚ describes a bush woman whose husband was away for droving. The story mainly shows about the challenging life of an independent woman with four children. One day‚ there was a snake entered the house while the children were playing about the house and she was cooking. Unfortunately‚ she could no nothing on the snake because it disappeared suddenly into a crack. To prevented safety for her children‚ she stayed awake all night long

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    Despite the fact that they were held to higher expectations in regards to their duties around the house‚ as a mother as well and as a wife‚ the value of a wife is unequal to that of a husband; no matter how many of their duties outweigh those of their significant other. Or so author Judy Brady believes. Brady addresses marital inequality in her 1970’s article “I want a wife” by approaching the subject from the perspective of a 1970’s bachelor. Upon first glance of the article‚ something that stands out

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    Astronomer's Wife

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    story titled Astronomer’s Wife‚ author Kay Boyle tells a superb story of Mrs. Ames a woman who has forgotten her strength and beauty‚ whose life is missing it’s true identity because of her husband’s control. Mrs. Ames tells the story in third person as the protagonist‚ with her being the main character. The plumber is antagonist‚ who brings changes into Mrs. Ames’ life giving her back her lost identity. Mr. Ames uses control through out the story by isolating his wife from the rest of the world

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    Irony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Throughout William Shakespeare’s play Othello the three main types of irony can be seen conveyed in numerous ways. Dramatic irony is the first where the audience understands the situation at hand but the characters do not yet understand. Situational irony is when something happens throughout the story that is incongruent to the plot. Verbal irony is when someone

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    Many stories contain foils or an opposing character so that the author can be able to make contrast with the main character and another so it highlights and sharpens their own characteristics. In the story “Astronomers Wife” we see a strong foil between two of the characters because of the protagonist‚ Mrs. Ames‚ who describes both men in very different views through their attitudes towards people‚ work ethics and their different intelligentsia. Another way that Mrs. Ames differs the

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    DEFINITIONS: Focus Charting - is a method for organizing health information in the individual ’s record. It is a systematic approach to documentation‚ using nursing terminology to describe individual ’s health status and nursing action. Focus • a key word or diagnostic category from a nursing diagnosis or collaborative problem on the plan of care (action plan)‚ i.e. skin integrity‚ coping‚ activity tolerance‚ self care deficit • a current individual concern or behavior‚

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    The Wife of Bath’s Faithfulness In The Canterbury Tales‚ Geoffrey Chaucer reveals the characteristics of the Wife of Bath through her tale and background. Chaucer portrays the Wife of Bath as a woman of faith through her religious actions and beliefs despite her human faults. Chaucer states in the General Prologue that “not a dame dared stir/ [t]owards the altar steps in front of her‚” meaning that no one stepped in front of her to receive communion (GP ll. 459-460). If one did go ahead of

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    Irony in Antigone: King Creon In the tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles pens a tale about a stalwart and distrustful king‚ Creon‚ and his misuse of the power he possesses. In the play he disregards the law of the gods to fit his whims‚ something that the heroine of the play‚ Antigone‚ wholeheartedly disagrees with; she disobeys his order to leave her dead brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied and sentences herself to death in the process. Antigone is engaged to Creon’s son‚ Haemon‚ who does not agree with his father’s

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