"Don’t you belong in the kitchen?" "Shouldn’t your husband be home soon?" "That doesn’t really seem like a woman’s job does it?" As a woman‚ hearing any of these questions‚ or others like it‚ feels like a slap in the face considering the numerous leaps and bounds women have made as a whole towards equality. In the fiction text "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin‚ and the non-fiction text "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All" by Anne-Marie Slaughter‚ the concept of gender roles play a critical role
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story “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov To begin with I should say‚ that Anton Chekhov in his creative work paid a lot of attention to unpredictability of people’s actions‚ to unusual even absurd people’s feelings and especially to love. Anton Chekhov can be surely called “the descriptor of daily routine”. But although his works are realistic and truthful‚ they make you think a lot about the unpredictability and sometimes cruelty of real life. “The Lady with the Dog” is one of Chekhov’s best
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“With These Words I Can Sell You Anything” is an article written by William Lutz‚ explaining the tactics of marketers to sell their products. It is an excerpt from his book Doublespeak‚ published in 1990. William Lutz has been called “the George Orwell of the 1990s”‚ and indeed many of his books are titled in direct reference to Orwell’s works. Lutz claims in his article that there’s a big conspiracy where the people trying to sell us things are giving us ineffective products disguised as something
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How different is New Labour from Old Labour? The Labour Party was formed to represent the working class at a time when the franchise had not yet been extended to such groups. The party’s origins in the unions and socialists societies that meant it originally pursued an agenda centered on socialism‚ being more left wing on the political spectrum. However changes in the class and occupational structure of the nation since the 1960s‚ saw the party looking to broaden its appeal beyond this core idea
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How Can You Help the Earth to Survive? Try to imagine living in a world where weather conditions‚ like hail the size of oranges or hurricanes with unseen wind force‚ are reality. In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”‚ scenes with disastrous weather conditions like the one mentioned above‚ are shown as a result of greenhouse effect and global warming‚ if they continue to increase. Fortunately‚ what the movie shows us is not very realistic‚ and the outrageous weather conditions are most likely never
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October 2012 Civil W.P. No. 9902 of 2012 (O & M) The Judgment was delivered by : A. K. Sikri‚ J. 1. The petitioner wants this court to issue a writ of mandamus thereby directing the respondents to take appropriate measures to tackle the rising stray dog menace in the States of Punjab‚ Haryana as well as Union Territory of Chandigarh. The petitioner had also earlier approached this Court by way of CWP No.3653 of 2012‚ in the nature of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for the same relief in which orders
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Plants That Can Move Inspire New Adaptive Structures http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/02/23/plants-that-can-move-inspire-new-adaptive-structures Summary: Researchers at the University of Michigan and Penn State University have been studying a species of shape-changing plant that they believe can help them develop a new breed of structures that can twist‚ turn‚ bend‚ stiffen‚ and otherwise adapt to their environments. The Mimosa plant‚ which folds its leaves on contact through a phenomenon
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boy named Travis‚ and a brave dog called Old Yeller. Little Arliss’s hobby was to hunt small bugs and animals. But when a big yellow dog appeared in Arliss’s house they had planned to keep him home. Arliss didn’t like dogs so he called the dog Old Yeller. Arliss and Old Yeller had many exciting and dangerous adventures. In this story there were many main characters. They were Travis‚ Little Arliss‚ their mother‚ and Old Yeller the dog. Old Yeller was a big old yellow dog that was very close to Arliss
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think dog parks should be built in the city. Because it gives dogs a chance to be more social‚ healthy‚ and become more a benefit for the community than a burden. When I used to own a dog it was great. I had a german shepard‚ all grey‚ me and my older brothers would take it for walks maybe down the street or around the block for fresh air. However where I grow up in a busy urban area on street surrounded by loud sirens‚ passing cars‚ and apartment buildings. All major factors of why a dog park
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English 1A 25 June 2014 What Can College Do For You What do you go to college for? The argument of having a college education starts with some people agreeing that a college diploma will get the higher paying jobs‚ where others can do without higher education because it is simply not needed and is deemed useless. In the society today‚ students can not answer why attending college is beneficial‚ and most do not have a clue as to what they are attending for. Many people do not have the urge
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