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    The main theme of the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is about love and loss. In the novel, Offred, who is a narrator of the story, is one of Handmaids in the society of Gilead. Before she was a Handmaid, she had a little cute daughter with Luke, her husband. Offred had experienced some worst situations about losing her daughter in the past that became her nightmare forever. The first situation was when she and her husband were shopping at the supermarket, someone stoled her…

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    “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian novel concerning a woman living in the totalitarian and theocratic state of Gilead. Throughout Atwood’s novel, one is travelling alongside Offred, [a Handmaid to the Commander and Serena Joy] and is experiencing her journey as she is treated as political property. The Republic of Gilead is used by Atwood, to comment on the already existing radical feminism and religious rights trends within western society. Atwood utilises these trends…

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    INTRODUCTION My article of choice has the title of “Unlocking Paralysis” by Lisa Fitterman. Lisa Fitterman is a Toronto-based writer who is also known to be a reporter, editor, columnist and a freelance writer for a wide range of both national and international magazines. She has authored a variety of stories, ranging from profiles of women in the Russian opposition to immigration and racism in certain countries. In this article however, she talks about how a new invention, Endovascular…

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    Linda Howard’s Dying to please is an extreme nail astringent. This book shows how any innocent one can face trials in life from the society yet with the right person as your other half can help to combat those troubles. A young women with no intention of getting fame is suddenly in the eyes of the world. Sarah Stevens has to cope with the world’s pointing fingers at her for a crime that is darkening her world. Throughout the book , we see an undying passion between the detective called Thompson…

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    Jimmy’s unusual childhood in the book Oryx and Crake In Margaret Atwood’s book, Oryx and Crake childhood plays an important role in the lives of all the characters. Talking about Jimmy, there are constant flashbacks to his childhood which explains how his childhood shaped his whole life. The story takes place in the future where Jimmy lives with his parents in a special compound isolated from the rest of the world. His father works at OrganInc Farms and is a major part of the Pigoon project…

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    Outline why it is sometimes argued that the public and private sectors have converged since 1979 and consider to what extent you agree that this is the case Since 1979, there has been a global shift in the provision of public services, from solely public sector, to a greater involvement of the private sector. Until just over thirty years ago, the public sector was to abide by strict rules and codes of conduct with regards to management, known as Public Administration. However, it was recognised…

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    We all know the story of Pinocchio: the wooden puppet who becomes a boy. However, what parts of Pinocchio make him “human” and which parts held him back? Similarly, we find Offred in the beginning of the book as a puppet of the state and carved into their ideal version of a woman. Offred’s story in the book The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margret Atwood, is a story of survival in a harsh world where women are subjugated to the rules and standards of the government in Gilead. With no real identity to…

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    In the book Wit, by Margaret Edson, Vivian Bearing an English professor is diagnosed with cancer and decides to have an experimental treatment so doctors could learn about her disease. In this book Bearing has many goals she wishes to fulfil before her passing much like Faulkner’s book, As I Lay Dying. Much like Wit, Faulkner’s As I lay Dying follows an order of events that the ill mother, Addie and her loved ones needed to fulfil before death came for Addie. In both works an individual is…

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    Betrayal: “Lusus Naturae” and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” Betrayal is a violation of trust which creates conflict within a relationship. Margaret Atwood’s “Lusus Naturae” calls attention to a protagonist, who understands and copes with a disease which turns her into a ‘monster,’ and who forfeits her own life for the sake of her family. Similarly, in Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” the theme of betrayal is present when Claudette realizes her desire…

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    George and Margaret withheld information, changed the pattern of their behavior. They changed their attire, acceptance to an offer of wine, and they were punctual when they are usually late. These changes within a relationship’s “norms” can cause individual’s to become defensive, or suspicious. In the event of considering how George and Margaret controlled the conversation, and wasn’t honest with their friends from the beginning of the situation. The shift demonstrated by George and Margaret…

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