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    “Finding Her Way‚” is Korean. She came from Korea into America where she didn’t think that as much would happen as it really did. When she came to America‚ she was the only Korean kid in her class. Everybody else was American‚ and spoke English. She didn’t fit in the way everybody else wanted her to. Around school‚ Angela was bullied and teased because she was different. Most of these bullying events would take place on the playground where the teachers would not hear about this all. She was made fun

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    In Anne Bradstreet’s poem "The Author to Her Book‚" the controlling metaphor is the image of a baby being born and cared for. This birth imagery expresses the complex attitude of the speaker by demonstrating that the speaker’s low regard for her own work and her actions are contradictory. The first effect of the birth imagery is to present the speaker’s book as a reflection of what she sees in herself. Unfortunately‚ the "child" displays blemishes and crippling handicaps‚ which represent what

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    McCorkle describes many of her parents’ traits and beliefs that lead to how she viewed the world. From the start you can tell that her mother has a very conservative opinion. Jill goes on to explain why they stay in the little town when they go on vacation. Instead of the big cities they used to visit. "We had stopped going to Ocean Drive and Myrtle Beach‚ which had become a haven for teenagers and college kids who wanted to party." (McCorkle pg.46) Jill notes that she and her sister had heard all about

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    “A Jury of Her Peers” Women are generally guided by emotion‚ and Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are no different. When discussing certain situations with a woman‚ it is likely that emotion will come into play at one point or another. In “A Jury of Her Peers” the women are no different; they stick together and struggle with the knowledge they have to decide whether or not to reveal evidence of motive. When two women discuss the motive for murder‚ they take seriously into account the emotions involved

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    Clarissa Rhule Linda Bove‚ you may know her more commonly as the librarian on Sesame Street. Linda Bove in a famous deaf actress who appears in many shows and movies. She was born on November 30‚ 1945 in Garfield‚ New Jersey‚ to two Deaf parents. She attended the New Jersey school for the Deaf. She then attended Gallaudet University‚ graduating in 1968‚ and receiving a bachelor’s degree in library sciences. She first got into acting in 1967 when she performed for the National Theatre of the

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    Abigail Adams: Her Contributions Though quiet‚ sickly‚ and shy‚ Abigail Adams‚ the wife of second president John Adams‚ helped plant the seeds that eventually led to the concept of women¹s rights and women¹s equality with men. For a country which had been founded on the idea of independence for all‚ these concepts were still considered radical and even ridiculous. Abigail believed that a good education was just as necessary for girls as for boys. This was a departure from the prevailing

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    What are your impressions of Mrs Tilscher and her classroom? Mrs Tilscher seems like a very kind‚ caring teacher and her classroom brings warmth to the children. The classroom is described as “better than home”. Home‚ to many‚ is a warm and safe place‚ and for a classroom to be even better than home‚ we can tell that the students enjoyed attending Mrs Tilscher’s classes. “The classroom glowed like a sweetshop.” Sweetshops are many children’s favourite place because children enjoy sweets‚ and the

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    Hearing Her Play the Harp” for the first time‚ I got surprised of the fact that the poem has only four lines and that the words were pretty simple and easy to understand for first time readers but in fact the poem had a deeper and a more interesting meaning behind it. At my initial reading with no little or no research at all‚ I visualized everything as a white young pretty woman who comes from a rich and powerful family because of the fact that she is playing a “golden –fretted harp and as she plays

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    Susan Glaspell expertly employs symbolism to a great extent in “A Jury of Her Peers” to demonstrate the complexity of determining guilt. In writing‚ a symbol “is something that means more than what it

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    playful‚ yet sardonic stories. The films of Her by Spike Jonze and Worker Drone by Sharat Raju are postmodern works that share the universal themes and characteristics of the implementation of hyper-reality‚ ambiguity‚ and the development of characters in inescapable situations. Postmodern works allow the audience to interpret the story through different lenses. For example‚ an editorial article by Reykjavik Boulevard‚ a magazine publisher‚ argues that while Her is a love story‚ it is also “a philosophical

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