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    injury such as a stroke in the right parietal lobe‚ because the right side is the main source of vision aspects or “searchlight’ to the left side and also the right side of the human eyes. As for the opposite side of the parietal lobe has the control of the right and also the ability of language. Moreover if the right side of the parietal lobe has been damaged it looses its searchlight entirely but the left side only compensates the right side of the vision since it has the ability to‚ making the patient

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    late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker are two women with two views that somewhat agree about this situation‚ with the goal of finding a way to use the limited resources that they have for the good of others. They particularly use women of their time-frame as the major examples in their essays. But it all comes down to this. Walker in her essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” agrees with Woolf that women’s abilities and resources of materials was scarce

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    essay‚ “The Death of the Moth.” Woolf recounts about a time she read her book in a quiet room and noticed a simple moth. Her calm‚ contemplative nature led her to examine that same moth which was aimlessly flying around a window that barred it from the outside. Eventually‚ she realizes its engagement in the struggle between life and death. Through her sympathetic and somber observation of that moth‚ Woolf reveals her perspective of the inevitability of death. Woolf initially shows an indifferent attitude

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    essaying Virginia Woolf transforms a prosaic experience into a deep philosophical meditation. Looking out the window of her rural home one day while reading‚ Woolf notices the exertions of a moth flitting inside the window. As she watches‚ the moth seems to lose its vital motivation‚ and eventually dies as the author watches. The sight motivated Woolf to write about how the moth’s struggle against death affected her and led her to a deeper consideration of the nature of life and death (Woolf). In doing

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    Virginia Woolf the reader is led to see how Woolf feels about the life of an insignificant day moth. Through most of the essay‚ there are reasons to believe that Woolf is led to a sort of vendetta against the day moth‚ exhibiting hatred‚ jealously‚ enjoyment‚ an almost sarcastic sympathy over the struggles of the day moth‚ and being responsible for its death. As Woolf’s essay begins‚ the reader immediately picks up on Woolf’s feelings of hatred against the day moth. The second paragraph has Woolf thinking

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    thinks easy minded of a goal‚ that goal can become a reality. In Virginia Woolf’s passage‚ “Professions for Women‚” Woolf targets women to inform them how limited they are in a population full of males. Her main idea is to not let your conscious or others hold you from doing what you want to do. Woolf uses metaphors and imagery to support her concern during her controlled era. Woolf begins by metaphorically describing a fisherman as if he was a girl alone next to a lake. She quotes‚ “I think of this

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    case on how women in the Elizabethan age would have never been allowed to write the plays or literature works of Shakespeare. Woolf talks about how it would have been impossible it would be for women in that time period to write. She makes some valid arguments‚ but overall the inequality of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos makes this article unpersuasive. Firstly‚ Virginia Woolf does not really use ethos in her article. The only credibility she has is that “she was a poet‚ essayist‚ editor‚ and a novelist”

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     life and death. In the story‚ Woolf follows the life of a moth. To analyze her theme‚ Woolf uses contradiction in the life of a moth. The moth has a life in front of it but it slowly forgets that it will die soon. Virginia Woolf use the theme of life and death to connect to the audience that as much as we forget about death it will soon happen. No one escape death. Woolf incorporates imagery‚ contradiction‚ and a dark mood to prove her rhetorical goal.     Virginia Woolf uses strong imagery to connect

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    represented in the canon of Elizabethan drama. To explore the issue‚ Woolf invents a fictional and mythical sister‚ Judith‚ for William Shakespeare and compares the barriers brothers and sisters would have encountered in achieving success as playwright. Imaginatively‚ Woolf despairs of Judith’s having possessed a genius equal to her brother’s‚ for her lack of education would have denied its flowering. Therefore as a feminist text‚ Virginia Woolf argues for a literal space for women writers within a literary

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    Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. In literature‚ the movement is associated with the works of (among others) Eliot‚ James Joyce‚ Virginia Woolf‚ W.B. Yeats‚ Ezra Pound and Franz Kafka. In their attempt to throw off the aesthetic burden of the realist novel‚ these writers introduced a variety of literary tactics and devices: the radical disruption of linear flow of narrative; the frustration

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