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Introduction The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Bath by Janet Frame both show the extraordinary loss of freedom humans can suffer in their lives. These talented writers have portrayed this theme through skilful use of characterisation, setting and imagery. In dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, antagonist Offred is stripped of her freedom by a theocracy. This government demand single women to be surrogates for rich, barren couples. In the short story, The Bath by Janet Frame, a…

John White Dr. Mills English 121-117 5 October 2015 Drinking Poison? I remember when I first heard about it. I was living in Provo Utah at the time and I had seen several picket signs that had been thrust into the lawn outside of Utah Valley University. Each sign painted an eerie picture as it contained an image of a skull and crossbones within a water droplet leaking out of a water faucet. Beneath the haunting image was a caption that read, “We are drinking poison!” There was a small group…

Dearest Friends and Family, I hope this letter finds you well. I write to you today to talk about an amazing opportunity and to ask for your support as I take the next steps in my pursuit of college. With less than a year left to apply and decide what university I will attend, I am trying to take as many new opportunities that emerge. Since around two years old, I have held an interest in medicine. To my mother’s horror, I tried to always make her feel better while she was battling cancer.…

It is disappointing if individuals and groups cannot gain access and are threatened by the poison. A reason why hunters and farmers stand against 1080 is because it’s effecting wild deer population. A 1080 operation that took place in the South of Dunedin showed that there was a 75% decrease of the number of wild deer after an 1080 aerial…

The rule was established in case of Plumb v Cobden Flour Mills Co Ltd. in which Lord Dunedin distinguished between prohibitions which 'limit the sphere of employment', and those which 'only deal with conduct within the sphere of employment'. He then stated that only a transgression of the former class carries an employee outside the scope…

children, living with poor access to necessities. As well as this, 15 percent of the country receive a low yearly income. Statistically, these high levels of poverty are linked to the high numbers of domestic violence cases in New Zealand. The ongoing Dunedin life-course study of 3,000 New Zealanders suggested that a person from a low socio-economic background is three times more likely to commit a crime that a person from a wealthier…

was quite hectic for the first day, and we had to figure out how to get around when we didn’t have a vehicle. I went into CCW with low expectations of how the week would turn out. On the first day travelling to CCW, it was miserable weather from Dunedin to Palmerston North and onwards to our point…

backgrounds. This flexibility is essential to all educators in Aotearoa, and their teaching practices. Aotearoa’s first early childhood service was a public act of charity out of concern for the poor (Stover, S. (2010)). In 1889, poverty was prevalent in Dunedin; mothers who had to work in poorly-paid jobs usually had no choice but to let their…

Ashlynne Darling World Religion Dr. Pratt 4/26/18 Jainism Religion is universal. Plain and simple. Different religions exist across different areas of the world. It is crazy to think how many different religions there are, and that there is a possibility that some religions aren’t even accounted for. While religion is universal, religious beliefs vary depending on what religion one is practicing or observing. One religion, such as Christianity, is going to have a whole different set of beliefs…

A Life Well Spent David Newman had countless ventures over his life time, moulding him into the man he is today. He has always cared about the people around him before himself. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand on the 29th of March 1937, he was a very curious young boy, always saying to his mother Violet “I want to travel the world and see all it has to offer”. His father was sent to fight in World War 2 and David didn’t know him until the age of seven. After his father returned, the family…