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Unknown, easygoing, cheerful, and frail. These are all adjectives describing the way that women are personified in places like ancient Greece and in literature. Women are seen as nothing more than property to men. They are seen as frail and easygoing because they have no significant role. This is not the case in the Odyssey. Homer uses the idea of women being the property of men, and flips it to make the women seem more in control and powerful. Although this might be seen as a good thing,…

consistent pattern, which makes it fluent and makes sense. As a speaker I recognized that I didn’t use parallel structure I said it completely wrong! In class when we started learning about it I learned a lot from it. For some, all words must be adjectives or verbs to be called parallel structure. Ex: My mom cooks, cleans, and jogs is an example of parallel structure. Parallel structure helped me as a student because it told me how to state a grammatical form in a sentence. By…

English purism is the reduction of the use of foreign words in the English language and use of only English native words from Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Norse routes. One of the largest influences is Latin, and specifically French. Thus to understand The English language and to get a better understanding of English purism, it is necessary to analyze and identify major French influences on English. The major historical event that can be best concluded as to why French influence English so much,…

DreamsA. Dreams are real or not. B. Dreams can deceive us. C. There are no indications that distinguish dreaming(or sleeping) from walking experience(orbeing awake). II. SensesA. Senses can deceive us. B. Other senses cannot doubt our movements. III. Evil GeniusA. He is clever and deceitful and powerful. B. He directed his efforts to mislead us. C. Put all the knowledge about things as a deceptive gamesMeditation 2 I. Existence of the Self(Cogito Ergo Sum)A. Nothing is certain that has existed…

Reputation can be defined as a kind of rough measurement of how much the community trusts someone Famous People are known to have their reputations precede them but the process of gaining that reputation is not as simple as some normal people could think. The opinion that people have about someone or something can be considered as a kind of measurement or evaluation for that person or famous and well known character or product or any other things. It also means the quality or character as judged…

Steinbeck uses corresponding descriptions, literal sentence structure, and the literal meaning of select nouns to convey the strong contrast between the ideals of farmers who work the land they live upon and the “machine man” who shares no connection to the same land they work upon. Steinbeck first establishes notable parallels between the farmer, or the “man”, and the land. The biological makeup of both man and land are what they’re made of, however, this does not define what they are. Just as…

Quinn signifies the archetypal alpha female character in the television show UnREAL, in that Quinn as the alpha-female highlights an important theme: Feminism. Most notably, Caucasian males regulate the higher power hierarchies of the film industry. It is the point that Quinn blazed herself a path of success as an executive producer in the male-dominated industry of film that makes the television show UnREAL a venue for promoting the feminist ideology. Therefore, Quinn’s character exemplifies…

Question #1 My mother is a 58-year-old woman. She looks like she is in her 40’s and maintains an average weight and height for her age. She was born in the Dominican Republic and came to the USA when she was eleven years old. My mother has explained to me that she had a tough childhood; she has told me that her own mother was not very skillful with children and her father died when she was only an infant. I consider my mother to be a hard working and stubborn person. To my knowledge, she has…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, published in 1899, has been and continues to be received as a literary classic, taught in thousands of schools every year as a critique on European imperialism. There are however individuals that do not share this degree of admiration for the work, some of whom, such as Chinua Achebe, well learned and well respected. Achebe asserts that the book is “offensive and deplorable” (Achebe 7) and cites a plethora of textual evidence supporting claims that the text is…

“Summarise and evaluate the two papers. What are the implications of this work for Buss et al. (1992)?” This essay aims to further investigate sex differences in jealousy, using Buss et al’s 1992 study as a reference. Evaluating evolutionary psychology and using related supporting and critiquing research to consider a more reasoned analysis in response to the original theory and will subsequently lead to increased understanding and potential aid in scenarios regarding romantic infidelity such…