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    The Handmaids Tale

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    Critique “The Handmaid’s Tale‚” written by Margaret Atwood is a fictional book that takes place in the near future when all of women’s rights were taken away. The book is from the point of view of a girl who just lost her family‚ all her money‚ her possessions and is later taken away to be a handmaid. This all took place because of the overthrow of the government. As a handmaid it is her duty to obey all new laws and to reproduce children for the “higher class” or she will face the wall (be hung)

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    Woodrow T. Wilson once said that “loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” Southern authors challenge this mantra of the importance of loyalty to one’s family or one’s cultural heritage in many tales. Two‚ southern short stories in particular exemplify how disloyal some people can be in today’s society: Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Flannery O’connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Both stories feature strong‚ female characters that are unfaithful

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    The Drover’s Wife by Murray Bail and The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson are stories that remind me of a conflict between two people. There are always two sides to every story. When I first read Lawson’s version of The Drover’s Wife‚ I felt remorse for the wife. It was heartbreaking to read about the horrific situations she had to go through. “She is used to being left alone. She once lived like this for eighteen months” (Lawson‚ 744). The description of her is an independent‚ strong woman. She became

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    The Pardoner's Tale

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    greed‚ sloth‚ wrath‚ envy‚ or pride‚ that person is known to face eternal death. These were not the only sins practiced in “The Pardoner’s Tale”. “The Pardoner’s Tale” was written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The most common motif used throughout this poem is sin. This piece is about sin because of the use of the setting‚ characters‚ and symbolism. “The Pardoner’s Tale” takes place in Flanders which is located in Belgium. The beginning of the poem takes place in a tavern. A tavern is a place where people

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    A Bronx Tale.

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    A Bronx Tale It’s the sixties. Racism is running hot through the streets of New York. One neighborhood in particular‚ where one group of boys makes the choice that will change their lives and everyone’s around them forever. These boys are young‚ full of talent and smart. These boys choose to take all of what they had and throw it away. What happens to these boys next is something that you would not want to wish on anybody. Here these young talented boys cram into a car and ride to the African-American

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    Bernie's Wife Monologue

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    My eyes flutter open and I look next to me‚ expecting to see my wife‚ Anne‚ still asleep. To my surprise‚ the bed is empty‚ and Anne is nowhere in sight. I immediately become concerned‚ as this is not like Anne to leave without waking me up first. I search around the hotel room a little more‚ then decide to go down to the lobby to see if she’s there. When I arrive at the hotel lobby‚ I find that she is still nowhere to be found. As I’m deciding that she probably just went to the beach for a morning

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    Curley's Wife Analysis

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    is Curley’s wife. At first‚ the book introduces her as a seductress who dresses extravagantly and wears too much makeup. The men on the ranch say she plays around and they call her names such as “tart” or “jail bait”. She is defined by her role in the book‚ Curley’s wife. In other words‚ Curley’s property. She is never given a name throughout the book‚ only being referred to as Curley’s wife. However‚ as the book goes on‚ the reader begins to learn the complexities of Curley’s wife. It is revealed

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    I Want a Wife

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    10 ‘I Want a Wife’ A In 1971 when the essay “I Want A Wife” was written it was the height of the feminist movement. During this time women were rising and speaking out about the classification of themselves as second class citizens to men. Inspired by the recent amendment giving women the right to vote‚ which was in the 1940’s‚ Judy Brady‚ wrote the satirical essay ” I Want a Wife”. The purpose of the essay is to give a blatant unfair depiction of the conditions of the common “wife” during this

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    Theme

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    AP World History-Theme Analysis Chart Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment. | * Like religious faiths‚ infections and contagious diseases also spread along the trade routes of the classical world. * The most disruptive of these diseases were probably smallpox and measles‚ and epidemics of bubonic plague may also have erupted. * During the second century C.E. epidemics reduced roman population by about one-quarter‚ to forty-five million. | Theme 2: Development and

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    Canterbury Tales

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    Katie Paschal After reading the Canterbury Tales and the General Prologue‚ I learned a lot about all of the Pilgrims. The pilgrim that I found the most interesting was the Pardoner‚ which is why I chose to use him for my project. The Pardoner worked for the Church and was despised by many churchgoers. In return for making donations to charitable enterprises‚ the Pardoner was licensed by the Pope to sell papal indulgences. People would give money in exchange for pardons and the Pardoner would

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