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questions the reliability of the old woman who described Verloc and Stevie because it was a very foggy day. As if that was not enough to highlight perspective and reliability, the Assistant Commissioner ”moves across the room to the window.” (74) In The Secret Agent, windows are barriers that no one can truly see objectively through and limit the understanding in the observed subject due to its narrow scope. Therefore, not only is a person’s perspective skewed due to a window,…

This excerpt from Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively express the relationship between rivaling children and their mother. The excerpt has the children looking for fossils when Claudia, the girl, falls and gets injured while trying to get past Gordon. The mother then tries to sort out the incident. Lively utilizes tools such as varying perspective, dialogue, and description to dramatize the relationship of all three characters. In the excerpt the reader experiences the incident first from Claudia’s…

As I stated before, Willy is a very prideful man, and, according to Susan Koprince, author of “The Secret Life of Willy Loman: A Miller-Thurber Collection”, “Willy worries that he hasn’t left his mark on the world, that he has failed somehow as a husband, a father, and a family provider” (319). Throughout the play, Willy speaks of how important he feels…

As a longtime sales associate at Victoria's Secret, I decided to do my report about Victoria's Secret. Victoria's Secret is known for bringing a certain amount of class to female intimate wear such as lingerie. Every year Victoria's Secret releases a What is sexy? press release, which consists of what Victoria's Secret thinks of being sexy and they do this by using some of the sexiest actresses, models and entertainers in Hollywood as examples. For example, this year sexiest actress goes to…

Pay Secrecy The article that I found discussed all the different aspects of pay secrecy: what it is, what makes it illegal, what happens to employers that commit pay secrecy, and how employees can report it. The article also explained the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and how it protects employees about talking about pay at work place, which is legal. Also, President Obama has recently signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against employees who talk…

Each chapter of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees begins with an epigraph, a few lines taken from various books about bees. These are used for many reasons; to connect each chapter with the major motif of bees, to provide insights in to the events of each chapter, and to accentuate the ideas about women and mothers that resonate throughout the entire story. Chapter four begins by saying that “’Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. Each colony is a family unit, comprising a…

Lens Analysis: Literature Interpretation Literature can be viewed through various lenses as a way to see writing through a different viewpoint. The new historical lens is used to view writing through another time period while comparing it to the period the book was written. This lens can be interpreted as a way to “think about the retelling of history itself” (Brizee). It focuses on aspects like what language or events in the writing reflect the time period of the author (Brizee). The new…

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is an exemplary novel which reveals the racism, sexism, and overall discrimination that unfolded in the south. The Secret Life of Bees transports the reader to the year of 1964 in South Carolina, where racial tensions were almost as high as the temperatures and people were surrounded by oppression. During this humid summer a young girl named Lily Owens runs away from her abusive father T. Ray, in search of her mother's past and the truth behind her tragic…

There are three kinds of masks, the single face mask, the mechanical mask, and the transformation mask. The single face mask is a single piece of wood. A mechanical mask is built with strings or hinges (after Europeans), which might allow a mask to open and close it~s mouth or eyes. The transformation mask is the most complex kind of mask. It consists of an outer mask that opens up to reveal an inner mask form, which might also open up to reveal a third mask form! Transformations masks are…

I remember growing up watching The Secret Garden (1993) over and over again falling in love with the magic that seemed to be there. Taking two miserably selfish children and seeing them transform into laughing loving children and a father finally coming home to his son touched my soul again and again. It would leave me in tears each time and still does today. This adaptation follows closely to the original story The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It only changed in a couple ways that…