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    that is similar to what is described by Judy Brady in her satirical essay, “I Want a Wife” but also different to what she describes. An example of how she is different and also similar in the essay by Judy Brady would be, “I want a wife who cooks the meals, a wife who is a good cook. I want a wife who will plan the menus, do the necessary grocery shopping, prepare the meals, serve them pleasantly, and then do the cleaning up while I do my studying.” (590). While she is a housewife, she is not a…

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    Salem witch trials that had took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692. The play revolves around a female teen named Abigail Williams who was insanely in love with a married man named John Proctor and turned to witchcraft to kill John’s wife. Abigail is also extremely controlling over the other girls who had been apart of the witch trials. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller tries to use details to explain actions and emotions from all the characters. Abigail Williams was one of the very…

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    Madame Loisel is the protagonist to the 1884 short story by Guy de Maupassant. In this essay I will be analyzing Mrs. Loisel character from the beginning and through the story to find it’s abundant change. I will provide text evidence and my final opinion on how Madame Loisel’s character acted in that moment to the story. Enough explaining now it is time to officially begin my character analysis of Madame Loisel. In the beginning, The author develops characterization in Madame Loisel by showing…

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    ENGLISH ESSAY -THE POEMS IN THE WORLDS WIFE REFLECT DUFFY’S OWN, VERY FEMINIST, VIEWOF THE WORLD- This paper presents Carol Ann Duffy as one of the biggest talents in British poetry, whose poems in the Worlds Wife reflect her very feminist point of view; this aspect helped her to become the first woman appointed poet laureate in Great Britain in 2009. First and foremost, the author´s use of images and literary devices to show man and woman relationships in which she is treated like an object…

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    different, yet the same. Jane Austen and Charles Darwin are two very different people with different interest, but through their works of literature, they share various similarities. In this essay I will discuss the similarities of how Darwin and Austen analyze their specimens to gather information. In addition, I will discuss the similarities in which Austen and Darwin present their discoveries to their audience. Darwin’s specimens are animals, and he analyzes them to the core to focus on…

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    emotions, awe of nature, imagination, fixation on/analysis of death, etc. Some great authors include Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and many more. Throughout this essay I will do an analysis on these stories: The Devil and Tom Walker, Thanatopsis, and section 33 from Song of Myself. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, is about a common man who lives in the woods far away from society. He had a wife who was just as miserly as he was. They had…

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    In Brian Johnston's essay, Realism in a Doll House, he discusses many points of realism. Although all of the themes are relevant, one in particular sticks out. Gender seems to be a major theme throughout both A Doll House and Antigone. This topic is continually evident, creating an interesting view of society for readers. Both of these dramas have strong female characters, which provides an opportune example of the discrimination that occurs. There is a major leap between Nora and Torvald’s…

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    Jeremy Bentham. Philosophers have also contemplated over the value of life, as is seen in ethical theories such as utilitarianism, to help answer existential questions. Merriam-Webster defines existentialism as a “philosophical movement… centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free”. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we see Hamlet struggle to answer questions regarding the true meaning…

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    aim to bring in the everyday reader to understanding female sexual exploitation on screen. Elber couples quantitative analysis and prime time television shows to highlight the degree of sexual exploitation and how it’s humoured on television. Elber’s study…

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    attracts over 3 million visitors every year from all over the world. The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal whom he loved dearly. The emperor wanted intended for this Taj Mahal to be one of the most beautiful structures as he promised her to act as a memory for his beloved wife. Up to 20,000 stone carvers, masons and artist from all over the world under the leadership of Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, were asked to build the Taj Mahal on…

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