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    Bertha Mason

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    place in the presence of Bertha, and her features evidently displays signs of a ghostly being. Gilbert and Pollock’s opinions parallel each other once more, deeming Bertha as merely a figment of Jane’s imagination, acting as the accumulation of her adverse thoughts and emotions. Described as a “fearful and ghastly” (27) demon, with pulsating red eyes, Bertha metaphorically expresses the amplified “demons” Jane wishes to release, but cannot, due to expression being suppressed to meet society’s…

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    dangerous. Marijuana’s immediate effects include increase in heart rate, relaxed breathing passage, and bloodshot eyes, but these short-lived effects have no long-term consequences. Marijuana can be consumed or smoked. Consumption has no specific adverse effects, but smoking can cause coughing and lower the lungs’ immune response. This allows for easier infection of respiratory illnesses. The reason people use and enjoy marijuana is because the effects include euphoria, relaxation, heightened…

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    The Country Wife Analysis

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    Deception and cuckoldry enable instability in the traditional home in Wycherley’s The Country Wife. He examines desire and how it affects every aspect of social life. It can cause adverse reactions such as paranoia, fear, jealousy, creativity, anger, deception, and idolatry. It is clear that through the idea of possession and desire, Wycherley exposes harmful gender roles, oppressive institutionalized practices, and the conflicting quality of competition. He depicts a gender war throughout his…

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    Honor In The Iliad

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    Honor is very prevalent throughout The Iliad. The text demonstrates that honor is necessary to Greek heroes because it is the foundation of society and family in Greek history. In The Iliad, honor guides peoples actions, decides the fate of themselves and others and their responses and homer gives us the perfect example of that. The author of The Iliad, Homer, places special value on the importance of proper burial. This is because it shows a strong sign of honor to the deceased and the…

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    The Great Gatsby Happiness

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    person’s overall happiness. The most accepted view is that happiness can be bought with a sufficient amount of money. However, numerous people neglect to see that happiness is neither determined by one factor nor does it correspond with material possessions. First, it is clear that humans are one of the only species that create such complex social networks. Given this, it isn’t any wonder on how our social relationships are a strong influence on our happiness. That is, it…

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    they made about someone are wrong. The author also uses various poetic techniques such as irony and contrast to create meaning in the extracts. In the opening sentence Austen says that “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” However the extracts suggest that it is actually the women who are in want of a rich husband. At the dance it is not as much the men who are looking for a suitable partner, but the women who are…

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    gender. In The Lady’s Not for Burning by Christopher Fry and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, both of the playwrights use the attributes and ideologies of the characters to demonstrate the frailty of masculinity and shed light on its overwhelming adverse effects on equality of men and women. In both plays, certain male characters exemplify masculine attributes, such as aggression, callousness, impulsiveness, ambition,…

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    Within a society dominated by a hierarchical structure of riches and poverty, purity and defilement, and honor and shame, the message in Luke calls for a reversal of such values. Throughout his Gospel, Luke employs a plethora of literary techniques in Mary’s Song, Jesus’ initial Sermon, and the parables and stories of the Rich and the Kingdom of God, the Rich Fool, the Shrewd Manager, and The Rich Man and Lazarus in order to portray a theme of universality and to call followers to live simply…

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    Safety Process: Six Rights and Three Checks The administration of medication is an integral component of the healthcare provision in the modern world (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). It is necessary for nurses to understand the fundamental ideals that seek to safeguard patient safety and ultimately ensure safe outcomes in relation to the administration of drugs (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). The observance of the Six Rights and Three Checks principles are an example of measures that are…

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    Last year nearly 701,000 people were arrested for marijuana related offenses. That equates to roughly one arrest every 45 seconds (Marijuana Legalization 2015…). Too many Americans are behind bars for trivial offences, in this case, possession of marijuana. Marijuana should be decriminalized in Minnesota because it would free up police resources to deal with more serious crimes, fix the problem that more harm is caused by the criminal prohibition of marijuana than by the use of marijuana itself,…

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