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    Former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, delivers a powerful eulogy to former President Ronald Reagan. In her eulogy she cherishes the greatness of her dear friend, Reagan, and she celebrates the astonishing achievements that Reagan accomplished. Thatcher uses a plethora of rhetorical strategies such as repetition, exaggeration, and she also creates a sense of pathos to the audience. Margaret Thatcher employs the use hyperboles throughout her whole speech. She says "When the…

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    “Cheerful”, “invigorating”, “large-hearted magnanimity” - these are the remarks Margaret Thatcher delivers to the American people in her eulogy honoring their former president and her close friend, Ronald Reagan. Her familiar tone, repetition, and use of juxtaposition help commemorate Reagan's life and legacy: hard work and devotion towards his country. In the passage, Thatcher begins with “ We [the American citizens and herself] have lost great president, a great American, and a great man”.…

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    had the ideas that could. The personality type that I got was ENTJ or E (extrovert), N (intuitive), T (thinking), J (judging). This personality is the “Commander”, the natural born leaders. I was shocked to see that Gordon Ramsey, Steve Jobs, Margaret Thatcher, and Whoopi Goldberg were a few people in which I share common traits with. An ENTJ has very specific ways that they live their lives. Their personalities greatly affect their friendships, relationships, and their workplace habits. They…

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    Margaret Thatcher for example was one of these women. She was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Nicknamed the “Iron Lady”, she left a huge impression on nations worldwide and her legacy has paved the way for other female political leaders (Ponton, 2010). Margaret Thatcher deliberately set out to excel in characteristics that were traditionally associated with men: authority…

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    Butterfly Shaped History Reading Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher shed an interesting perspective on the effect of Margaret Thatcher and her politics on her people and provoked us to wonder about how her assassination would have changed how history perceives her in particular and maybe Britain’s place in the world political stage in general. This counterfactual literal piece brought to mind the concept of “The Butterfly Effect” and the domino of events that had prompted this…

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    Academic historians have a real problem on their hands with Margaret Thatcher’. Firstly, the essay will explore M. Thatcher becoming the Prime Minister; secondly it will discuss why did people split into a haters and lovers; thirdly it will examine her and historian’s relationship and her approach to history and what made her hard to study and understand. 3rd May, 1979 was a big day for Conservative Party and especially its leader Margaret Thatcher who became first female Prime Minister in…

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    wasn’t a physical connection between her and her husband, but since she knew there were people out there that were at risk, she wanted to help them. Also she wanted women have control over their bodies and so they can prevent unplanned pregnancy. For Margaret Sanger, after the death of Sadie Sachs, she was so sad and mad and she knew that she couldn’t continue like this, she needed to find a way to help mothers from having too many children and so risking their lives. She knew that it was…

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    Margaret Sanger helped thousands of women by combating laws that controlled women’s access to birth control. Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic in New York attracted women from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts (Wardell 740). Now thanks to her efforts women across the country have access to birth…

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    The novel of Oryx and Crake is a science fiction developed by Margaret Atwood in 2003. It describes a possible future of human beings associated with the elements of misusing bioengineering science powers, death of literature and post-apocalyptic scenarios. It can be identified as an anti-utopia novel that believes an ostensibly peaceful society with various kinds of uncontrollable evils inside. The stories of this novel unfold with the two-clued structure associated with the interactions among…

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    The Struggle of Women In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the women in Gilead appear to have diminished rights and a limited amount of freedom. These women have lives that resemble a lifestyle similar to the women who lived prior to women’s suffrage, even though this novel takes place in a futuristic time. Some of these women, like Offred, remember the past and long for a time when they can be free again. However, for many of the women, they will never understand what it is…

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