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    we are affirming that the Supreme Court should rule with Jack Phillips. In a statement in a news conference after a session in the US Supreme Court, Phillips stated “One of my favorite parts of my job has always been designing and creating wedding cakes. They allow me to use my artistic vision to create works of art that are beautiful and distinctive and that mark the beginning of something sacred.” He would not, however, refuse to sell them any pre-made items in his shop.…

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    Janie is just an aging woman looking for happiness. When she finally found it with Tea Cake, she was forced to shoot him to save herself. Janie, to me, is an empowered woman. When she married her first husband she knew right away that she didn’t love him, once he started treating her poorly she got right out of that situation and found someone…

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    the other hand, Janie’s journey to find fulfillment is characterized mostly by her experiences with Tea Cake. By marrying Tea Cake, Janie, in effect, fuels her own self-discovery because he facilitates her individuality whereas her previous husbands, Logan Killicks and Joe Starks, kept her caged within their own boundaries of what they thought a woman should be. When the two first meet, Tea Cake…

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    relationship with Tea Cake – although their relationship is supposedly ideal, it is imbalanced and filled with inconsistencies. For instance, there is an unequal distribution of trust in Tea Cake and Janie’s relationship. When Tea Cake was insecure, he whipped Janie to reassure himself of his possession over her and “slapped her around a bit to show he was boss” (Hurston 140). Tea Cake beats Janie to establish his dominance and her dedication, but when Janie shows concern over Tea Cake and…

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    effort of one person hold a marriage together? This is not the case; rather, it takes love and hard work from both parties to produce a coherent relationship. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the behaviors of Logan, Jody, and Tea Cake played a huge role in the level of success of each of their marriages to Janie. Janie tried to make each of her marriages work. So, even though her actions played an important role, one might say that the deciding factor in the success or…

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    Are Nora and Janie similar By Janie’s husband Tea Cake, died from rabies and was shot by Janie. Nora left her husband after he married her for her looks. Nora and Janie were treated badly in their marriages and both were trophy wives at one point in their stories, but there are differences between them. Nora is from the book A Doll’s House and Janie is from Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie and Nora were very similar except for their realizations. They were both raised with more privilege…

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    loved and free while struggling to find a balance between the two. Since autonomy and constraint conflict, Janie struggles to find herself under Nanny’s authority; her relationships end due to her husband’s insecurities; consequently, her love for Tea Cake makes her reliant on him. Janie, the novel's main character, begins discovering her individuality and sexuality at a young age but is shut down by her grandmother,…

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    but once he proves that this is not what his intentions are, she feels relaxed and truly trusts him. While she is with Tea Cake, she finally figures out how it feels to be jealous. During the time they would work in the fields, Tea Cake would “overly-flirt” with a girl named Nunkie. Janie thought that Tea Cake did not love her, but he proved to her that he did. Also, with Tea Cake, she finally understood the sadness of losing someone she really loves. When she was forced to kill her husband to…

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    are Characterization, Imagery, and Allegory to advance the book. One of the elements Zora Neal Hurston is using is characterization. Tea cake husband of Janie that is dark toned describes Mrs. Turner to the readers. Mrs. Turner was a “milking sort of women that belonged to a child bed. Her shoulders rounded a little and she must have been conscious…” Tea cake ends up characterizing Mrs. Turner by describing what she look like. In criteria, Mrs Turners Least Favorite Topic was “Negroes.”(Hurston…

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    After both Tea Cake and Joe are out of Janie’s life, she realizes she is better off without a man hindering her from inventing herself. The most important lesson Janie and the reader learns is that there are “‘Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got…

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