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    In the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the language established in Gilead promotes conformity. This language utilizes biblical and neologism appeals to get their citizens to conform and follow the new regulations. To begin with, the novel is littered with biblical names and phrases: “Jezebel”, “Martha”, “Milk and Honey”, “All Flesh”, “Lilies” and many more. All of these appellations come from the bible and are used to name the shops that the handmaid’s daily shop at, the housemaids, and the…

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    Margaret Atwood emphasises through her novel possible negative outcomes that may occur when an individual or society continuously live negligent lives in the twenty first century. This may include negligence of the environment, physical health, and toxic chemical usage. She uses narrative construction in The Handmaids Tale to depict one of the many grotesque situations which may arise in the upcoming future; a formation of a totalitarian theocratic society which controls political, social, and…

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    Every year up sixty-two percent of women in the United States use some form of birth control, according to a 2006-2010 study (Jones). In 1950 a lady in her late eighties, named Margaret Sanger, wrote the research for the first human birth control pill, raising up to fifteen thousand dollars for the research for the project. The first oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA ten years later. In 1972, The Supreme Court legalized the use of birth control for couples who are married in the United…

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    Jannelly Figueroa Mr. Sieker 1520-2150 20 March, 2016 Religion, Colonialism, Modernism, and Feminism in a Dystopian Society In the book, A Handmaid’s Tale, the author, Margaret Atwood, shows what a dystopian society consisting of very distinct classes is like through the eyes of a handmaid named Offred. Little by little, readers are informed on what has occurred in this state, how an act of rebellion led the breakdown of a whole nation, and to what extremes the whole formation of the society…

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    In Margaret Thatcher's eulogy in honor of our former United States president Ronald Reagan, Thatcher describes to us that he is a great president, a great man, and a great American. Thatcher is very respectful throughout her eulogy and shows us a side to this that we would have probably never would have guessed. Thatcher calls Rageon by the name of “Ronnie”, in line 23 letting us know that she was very close to him. When Thatcher uses the word choice ‘Ronnie”, it shows how credible and…

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    The John Major Years and Maastricht: 1990-1997 In November 1990, Margaret Thatcher was unexpectedly forced from power by her own party in a no-confidence coup led by Michael Heseltine and Geoffrey Howe, after a surprise year-long turnaround in her public popularity. Against a difficult backdrop of increasing euroscepticism amongst one wing of the party, a resurgent Kinnock-led Labour, and unsteady poll ratings, David Davis pledged his support to John Major as the best candidate to replace her.…

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    of the most influential women, maybe in all of British history, Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a great influence on British politics and she served as prime minister longer than any other person in the 21st century. During her term in office, she took British policies and reshaped them in every aspect to revive the British economy, reform outdated institutions, and energize the nation’s foreign policy. Since the Second World War, Margaret challenged and did everything in her power to pursue…

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    Peter C. Herman who has a PHD in English and comparative literature, starts off his essay by explaining the transition of the power from Henry VII to Henry VIII. Herman, as described throughout his essay to the readers, describes Henry VIII implementation of chivalric imagery to be a successful king over his father’s idea of leaving the court the same. I agree with Herman’s suggestion, that Henry VIII implementing of Chivalric Imagery is what made him a better king than his father as ill discuss…

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    The desire for social bonding is a natural instinct discovered in human beings. Particularly, female to female relationships are extremely important and valuable for development. Arguably, a female to female relationship is one of the strongest human bonds. Moreover, a positive female role model plays an important role in shaping a female’s perception on life. In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, he demonstrates the strength a female may develop through the bond to another female.…

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    In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margret Atwood explores the limited freedoms available to women in the newly formed dystopian society of Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, the protagonist and a Handmaid in Gilead, a society that assigns roles and divides women from one another. Gilead values women solely for their ability to fulfill certain roles assigned to them by the men. These include the ability to reproduce, and fulfill stereotypically feminine roles, such as doing housework or being a…

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