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    Lolita-Exist Analysis

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    Lolita for example. It’s a stylized take on the turn of the Existing short booties. You can even pair big lace and tulle skirts Existing deco movement. The tendency for this look to reemerge time Existing movements past. The Art Deco period was a time that encapsulated Existing both new and old, modern and understated. Existing art deco style. Vintage is making a comeback. Artists and Existing art deco eras. If you ever peruse an art history book, Existing history book, you may recognize…

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    through any lens the individual pleases. In Sack’s “A Mind’s Eye”, the reader is presented with the various realities of people that have gone blind and how each of them differ in how they choose to approach their blindness. Similarly, in Nafisi’s “Lolita in Tehran”, Nafisi and her students redefined their predicament of living under a totalitarian regime by finding meaning in taking conscious action and embracing their individuality. In Watters “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan”,…

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    must come to an end. Well, usually. The next 80 years or so would bring about many fashion styles. One of these styles would be the early lolita fashion. Before we dive into the history of one of the most complicated and strict Japanese street fashions, we must first learn the history, definition and origin of the word “lolita”…

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    The idea of rebellion was treated by authors were all diferent in some ways. The three texts we are going to talk about are "cario: my city ,my revolution" , " reading lolita in tehran" , and "persepolis 2" The first text we are going to talk about is "Cario : my city , my revolution". The text is about the author in the mass protests in Cario. The idea of rebellion in this text is very violent. An example of this is in lines 10-13 it says " We look back at where we were just minutes ago, on…

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    signs not been introduced yet. In the book, automobiles create a unique sense of space and time in text through Humbert and Lolita’s road trip. Humbert picks up Lolita from her summer camp and decides to take her on the road to view the country. On the road, the two travel through many destinations and Humbert attempts to keep Lolita interested by poorly educating her about the location they pass. With the addition of cars in the 1930s, man was now able to travel to distances in a shorter…

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    Lolita Persuasive Speech

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    show up to this undeserved detention. Usually detention is a class of people and we all just have to sit there and do work or something, but I walked in and I was the only one. Mr Hensley was sitting at the back of the class reading a book titled ‘Lolita’. He knew it was my birthday tomorrow and said “im glad you showed up to your detention. Soon you’ll be 14 and you’ll be all grown up. Just like me.” After this day, my life wasn’t the same. I looked at things differently. The world wasn’t this…

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    Certain concepts have proven too controversial to be put in literature and exposed to the world. Pedophilia and statutory rape are among those ideas, both of which are found in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”. On first glances it may seem like low class smut, however upon a closer look “Lolita” exposes a sophisticated love story between two complex, moral less characters. Humbert Humbert, a pedophile addicted to the beauty of nymphets, and Dolares. While Humbert may seem like an great european…

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    The fight against blue pencils to have his most celebrated, and extensively sentimentalist, novel Lolita conveyed examines as a legitimate chemical melodic show, setting pompous alters against conceptual fans who saw an option that is other than proposed moral debasement in the pages of this academic work. Lolita addresses various taboos, yet what makes it particularly sensitive is that it deals with the sexual taboos of pedophilia, ambush and assault of…

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    Unaware readers become pawns in Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel, and literary game, Lolita. This journal of Humbert Humbert’s life illustrates the crazed pull of artistic perfection through the lense of a pedophile chasing a child. The “artist”, Humbert, narrates his corrupt life from an unfulfilled boyhood until poisoned adulthood in order to justify himself to a moral jury. His muse, Dolores (Lolita) Haze, is a tantalizing nymphet who is both the poison and the antidote for Humbert’s,…

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    which may be all right for describing a sunset or an insect, but which cannot conceal poverty of syntax and paucity of domestic diction when [he needs] the shortest road between warehouse and shop” (S.O., 106). Similarly, the narrator of Nabokov’s Lolita, Humbert Humbert, faces the same predicament. On the one hand, like Nabokov, Humbert writes suffocatingly beautiful English…

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