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    eradicate normal human activities of the pre-war period. Atwood infuses the scene with sights and smells and sexuality of teenagers of the past era by emphasizing sense imagery. Harking further into the past to medieval times, when women were immured in convents, the reference to palimpsest recalls the copyists' method of erasing old…

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    Women in Medieval society did not have as many rights and responsibilities as women do today. Women in the Middle Ages mainly had household responsibilities. In the small rural areas, women had many domestic responsibilities, like watching the children, preparing the food, and tending the livestock, when it was not busy. However, when it became busy in the year, they would help their husbands in the field. If women had jobs they worked in the cottage industry, which was brewing, baking, and…

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    Church is the Christian church whose head is the pope 23-the exercise of the censorship is to control over books, news, and films 24-official census is the counting of the population in a country 25- The parliament of the USA is the congress 26- A convent is a community of nuns who live together serving and worshiping God or byworkings 27-Literary Criticism is the art of the judging, valuing of a piece of writing 28-ecology is the study of the relationships between planets and animals…

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    the Ballet Company, Charles trained and performed with Edouard Borovansky’s ballet company. Following his training with Edouard he moved to London and continued his study in dance at Sadler’s Wells Ballet School, later joining The Royal Ballet, Convent Garden. Charles established the Lisner Ballet Company in 1960 after moving back to Australia in 1953. The company was renamed in 1962 called the Queensland Ballet Company. This was the first ballet company in Australia to tour around the…

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    Eclipsed Script Research Danai Gurira author of the award winning playwright, The Eclipsed was born in Iowa on February 14 1978, then until the age of five when her parents decided to move to Zimbabwe where she was raised there for most of her life. She was raised during a time where the country was granted their independence and was a just starting out as new nation. The economic status of the country was low because they had just come out of a war and was trying to rebuild. Her economic…

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    semester because it was to difficult for them. By researching about this topic I came across some important information. By getting an education while being a woman during the colonial or early national period you had to be wealthy to attend to convent school to learn the basics of reading and writing or be taught by governess. Middle class they could only afford to teach their own children and lower class normally did not get any education. Woman’s job options…

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    Explain how Shakespeare uses literary elements (irony, tone, mood) to develop two or more themes in the text. Use evidence from the text to support your explanation. Has your heart ever been broken? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, how could Hamlet be so cruel to Ophelia? Ophelia told Laertes that Hamlet was touching her waist and kissing her. Later on Hamlet told Ophelia that he no longer loved her. Throughout the play Shakespeare uses irony, mood, and tone to develop the themes of unrequited love…

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    movement without emphasizing the strength and character of the women who were prominent in it.” In order to understand the case of Port-Royal, one must examine issues of gender because they directly and significantly impacted the persecution of the convent, the methods of defense employed by the nuns and Jansenist sympathizers, and, after the convent’s destruction in 1709, its…

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    was not going to run away because he learned something about Matt that may or may not have been true. Another way to portray this would be Maria, the sweet little girl who Matt had come to know over the years. When he finally sees her again at the convent where she has been living, her reaction illustrates everything she feels for him: “They were interrupted by a shriek. A girl in a white party dress streaked through the door and threw herself into Matt's arms, ‘Oh,…

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    Sample Outline Introduction Hook (1 sentence) The Crown had big developments made throughout the years of Colonisation to facilitate the white population, and this caused problems for the natives. Road Map (3-5 sentences) The economic changes, like the taxes and the introduction of mining, put the natives in a difficult position. Political acts taken upon the country, for example the reforms and the ruling of the viceroyalties, were extensively focused on the well-being of the Spanish and the…

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