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    In Kate Chopin's short story ¨Desiree's Baby¨, Irony is the main point of the story. Situational Irony is shown throughout the story. This starts with the unknown past of Desiree and concluding with the realization of what Armand had done to his wife. In the story it is stated between context of how the racial superiority is for the family's name. Armand once said how much he adored and loved his wife, but later led her to kill herself along with their baby. ¨That is, the girls obscure origin.…

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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin Title The Awakening is related to Edna’s internal awakening that she has over the period of the book The Awakening was originally titled The Solitary Soul Setting New Orleans and The Grand Isle Genre Spiritual / artistic realization, romantic style Historical Information Kate Chopin 1850-1904 Father was Irish, Mother was French-American Bilingual- spoke both French and English Grew up in St.Louis Missouri Developed a passion for music at a young age Met and…

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    Atwood’s novels deal with the hidden subjugated world of women where injustice in society pushes them towards darkness. Margaret Atwood also depicts the internal urge of women to break all conventional identities in order to live with freedom. Margaret also shows many examples where a victim in the novel adopts the path of survival and later enables her identity or self-free from any sort of conventional clutches where woman is seen as an object for sexual pleasure or for doing monotonous house…

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    In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a lack of communication between Hester and her family, which causes weak relationships. Lacking communication is when people do not speak together yearly, clearly or publicly. Hester’s weak relationships from the absence of communication are shown when she fears her husband, her daughter acts questionably, and her partner becomes ill. Hester is cautious to communicate and meet her husband, Roger Chillingworth, because they have not met in…

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    Harry Harlow was a psychologist who ran test on Rhesus macaque monkeys. He originally ran test on the monkeys to see how the would maternally bond. He would arrange the monkeys with cones covered with towels. He would then have the “mother” shoot cold air or spikes at the infant monkey. This was to stimulate an abusive mother. The point of his original experiment was to see if a child relied on their mother for food or affection. Then in 1971 his wife died. This lead him to fall into a deep…

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    In the speech, Florence Kelley uses rhetorical strategies such as imagery, appeal to pathos, and appeal to logos to convey to her audience that child labor is pitiful, unfair, and hard on kids. Kelley uses imagery to paint the disaster that is child labor. She starts off with, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through…” When reading this, it is quote conveys how unfair it is for these young girls who work for us while we do…

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    Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” both focus on the feministic ideas and struggles of women through the use of irony and symbolism to help channel their message towards the audience. Both stories take place in the late 19th century, a time when women were oppressed and thought of to be below men. The main characters of each story, which are women in both, feel trapped their “illnesses”. Jane, the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, had a metal…

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    The scariest experiences can make the most important impacts. In “Prisoner of Tehran”, Marina Nemat utilizes setting and quotes to convey her many challenges that someone at her age should have never encountered. These challenges triggered memories of her earlier childhood before being arrested. In 246, Marina experienced discomfort and fear. In the different prison she met Taraneh and got to see her old friend Sarah. 246 did not have enough room for all the prisoners. “During the time of the…

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    In Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger” and Charlotte Stetson’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the protagonist is forced to conform to the society in which she lives. In “The Lady or the Tiger,” the king’s daughter must endure her father’s harsh laws, and watch as her lover is thrown into an arena, forced to randomly choose a fate: a life married to a beautiful woman, or a terrifying death by tiger. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the main character struggles with post- partum depression. Her…

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    Motorcycle Diaries Thesis

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    THESIS: * Directly answer question: 1 sentence * Thesis statement: - Through our own interactions with discoveries presented in texts across time, our perceptions of ourselves and others can facilitate a fresh and renewed understanding of the world and its people. -Through life we are filled with revelation as we are exposed to the ever-changing world, with this we are incited to grow physically, intellectually and spiritually, developing new ideas and perspectives. * Introduce texts: Ernesto…

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