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    was published in 1982. Through a journal written by the narrator, the reader learns of the story. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a woman who has recently given birth and is on a little break from her home life. Her husband tags along on her 'escape ' for the summer at an ancestral hall while their home is undergoing renovations. This 'escape ' is to help her supposed nerves and anxiety. It is also for the narrator to rest until she is well again. Although the narrator 's husband was a…

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    Burnard and Ordinary People by Judith Guest, female characters play a crucial role in overcoming two separate tragedies. In the face of tragic events, the female protagonists are the ones who must anchor and sustain their families. They become the family pillars because of detached males characters and the reliance of their children. In the end, this strength comes at the cost of personal sacrifice and loss to both of them. The two female protagonists are relied on by their husbands because…

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    I thought then what did she want to get from this long journey at this age? But she had stamina and even greater and she proved it. She traveled again and much later to USA and because she was traveling I believed she was well and she also had guts. I admired her courage. In this trip she visited her great grandchildren. Grandmother Alexandra in America, with her great granddaughter, Olga History repeats itself. Just like Alexandra 's mother, the great grandmother to me, had managed to keep…

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    Self empowerment. Self success. Self dignity. Many believe that the ability to achieve goals in life independently and hold pride in one’s own name is what defines a successful person. At a young age, kids are taught that they are truly “grown-up” when they can fend for themselves, or live their own life and achieve their own goals without the help of their parents, peers, or teachers. In society, success is only truly someone’s if they completely earned it by themselves. The competitive nature…

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    horizontal bands, solid construction, craftsmanship, and restraint in the use of decoration.” Frank also created a philosophy called Usonian, which is a term that usually refers to a series of approximately sixty middle-income family homes designed in 1936. These houses were single story without much storage area. The houses have large overhangings for natural cooling and lots of windows for natural lighting. He was awarded AIA Gold Medal Award in 1949 and he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal…

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    I’m the King of Castle is a gothic novel about ‘a victim and a tormentor’. Two boys, Edmund Hooper and Charles Kingshaw, were forced to live in an isolated castle together by their single parents. To a great extent, Susan Hill makes main characters difficult to admire, especially Edmund Hooper and Mrs. Kingshaw who is the mother of Charles. In the novel, Hill focuses on establishing Edmund Hooper’s sociopath and Mrs. Kingshaw’s poor parenting and superficial and self-centred behaviour. Susan…

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    “In 2015, Facebook had 17.93 billion dollars of revenue, employed 12,691 people, with 191.3 million users in the US alone. As of January 2015, Facebook had more than 1.59 billion global monthly active users, including over close to 1.44 billion mobile monthly active users.” (https://www.statista.com/topics/751/facebook/) Facebook is a massive industry with a massive impact on its users. Social media itself was designed to bring people together, but it may in fact be doing the very opposite and…

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    As an adolescent girl on her way down to Dunedin for her first year of University I told my parents’ not to worry too much about my grades, because I was going to find myself a top-notch husband in the years I was studying. We all laughed about it like I was kidding, but the truth was, ever since I was young I dreamt of coming to University and meeting guys who all looked like the lead male role of a Rom-Com film and they were perfectly going to balance study and a social life like I was going…

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    Introduction There has been significant changes in family life structure in western society particularly in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Divorce, separations and children born outside wedlock have been on the increase and as a consequence there is an ever increasing number of fathers who live their lives outside the family realm (Martin, 2005, p. 33). The area of social policy has for a long time now focused, in the main, on initiatives and research to support mothers and their…

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    Introduction This story relies on the $64000 life experiences of individuals UN agency were the victims of 1984 riots. the author witnessed all the destruction that was happening at that point. a picture still haunts him, even once such a lot of years. Not solely the author, however individuals living in several places specially those that live within the streets of city area unit still beneath a trauma. These riots befell within the country following the murder of Indraji. The Prime Minister of…

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