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    Educating Rita Essay

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    definition of a feminist text is that it highlights the inequality that women face; then they may show them breaking away from the situation that oppresses them. In the two texts, the females suffer many different types of inequality. Even though Educating Rita was first produced in 1980 and A Doll’s House in 1890. They deal with similar issues like challenging male superiority and do it by using mechanisms like irony and metaphors. Men in the plays restrict women and attempt to form them in a…

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    intentional or inevitable and they create and disconnect relationships, due to new perspectives. Transitions are explored within the drama Educating Rita by Willy Russell and the collage picture book “Windows” by Jennie Baker. The drama explores transitions through the relationship between Rita, a working class women and Frank a university professor, as Rita strives to break free of the class boundaries that restrict her and become educated, allowing her to create a new life for herself. The…

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    The Flower Girl’s Great Transformation “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” In George Bernard Shaw’s fictional play, Pygmalion, Liza Doolittle also known as The Flower Girl, is the protagonist and is under an experiment for six months. Liza lives with two old gentlemen, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering. She later discovers her new identity, a better lifestyle where there is education, etiquettes, social class, and fashion…

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    likely not the only person who identifies with those statements, but they will list them nonetheless. Generally the “I Am” statements that a person gives are the components of their identity that they cling to most strongly. In Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, Molly anchors her identity to the fact that she is strong and capable, her own hero. Ziggy, the main character of Try by Dennis Cooper, alternately places the fact that he is…

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    When one thinks of the word “desert”, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a sand landscape with saguaros and snakes. This image is very different to the reality of Tucson. One of the most notable things about Tucson is how it has lived under four different governments. Originally, it served under the Spanish government, but it became a part of Mexico, when Mexico declared its independence from Spain. Then during the Gadsden purchase, it was sold to the United States but was considered…

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    compensate for loss (e.g. blindness, deafness, learning disabilities). Or one can even rewire their brain to develop new abilities and modes of thinking. This capacity for the brain to change in a myriad of ways is called neuroplasticity. Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita was a pioneer of neuroplasticity. In the late 1960s he confirmed the brains ability for sensory substitution — the ability to receive information from one sense and interpreted as if it was coming through another sense. He did so by…

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    Text 1: Racism It Stops With Me poster Text 2: Rita Hayworth, still image, from the film Gilda (1946) A picture can tell a thousand words. The two given tests are photographs of two people from different positions: a prominent actress, Rita Hayworth, and a black man without any form of identification. While both texts purpose is to attract the attention of the masses, the manner in which the texts do so is greatly different. Whereas the Racism It Stops with Me poster creates an unnerving and…

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    One example is when Andy locks himself in a room and broadcasts opera music through out the prison. All the inmates stop to listen, mesmerized by the voice of the woman opera singer. Some of the men had not heard a woman’s voice for over a decade, and to hear one suddenly catches their attention, making the men feel free, giving them hope. Andy not only gives his friends and fellow inmates a sense of the hope that was neglected, but uses their hope to build his own. The opera music signifies…

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    A Pum Is A Bum Because It

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    setting to link songs with emotions and making it look natural. This musical film stars three fine actors: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak and Rita Hayworth. Frank Sinatra did a splendid job as Joey Evans, a lady`s man who dreams of owning his own night club. For the first time Joey had an opportunity at achieving his dream when Mrs. Simpson, acted out by Rita Hayworth came along, a rich widow and former prostitute. What Joey didn’t realize was that true feelings began escalating for the beautiful…

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    which even resulted in him sending Tommy to a different prison. Red was the man in Shawshank who could get things easily for the prisoners in Shawshank. Red was the cause of Andy’s most two important valuables; a rock hammer, and a Rita Hayworth poster. Andy’s Rita Hayworth poster was used to cover up the hole he made in the concrete wall to prepare for his escape. “He could muffle the sound of his work by wrapping the head of his hammer,” (King 98). Andy disposed of the concrete wall in the…

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