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    The Mirabal Sisters are seen as huge icons in the novel in real life. They showed that regular people can end a difficult empowerment to save a nation. It had all started with one sister, and her name is Minerva Mirabal. Minerva was the kind of girl who wanted to do good for others, in the novel and the history books. She encouraged people to join the underground to end the regime that transpired in the Dominican Republic. In the novel, she finds out that Trujillo is an atrocious man from her…

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    hurt me, but I don’t feel lonely, it is like she is still with me. Hopefully father returns soon... My father has finally returned, and he has brought back a woman with him, she is soft in the face and she has two daughters. I have always wanted sisters, and now I have two. They are beautiful, and posed. My new stepmother seems to love him from the way she is acting, but I cannot see much from the upstairs window. After meeting her, I wish my father had never picked a new wife. She is cruel and…

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    Success is best described as the act as a group or as an individual to achieve a set of goals, target or purpose. Success comes when legal hard work has been made known in a career. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah, a book about the daughter of a big drug lord growing up in a very materialistic, proud, and troubled lifestyle. Materialism, beauty and pride led Winter Santiaga sticking with the wrong set of people. The amount of wealth her father had made their family’s name stay at the…

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    he can find a wife. All eligible maidens to attend. That’s sexist because it’s targeting one type and that’s single ladies who are of marrying age. Internalized privilege because the step family believe that they are amazing and that one of those sisters will “woo” the price and fall madly in love and inherit a kingdom. Lastly, I wanted to add Patriarchal because the king wants to arrange a marriage for his son, and wants so badly for grand children? Keeping the bloodline strong is keeping the…

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    the gap. Introduction: One surprising moment on a bride's wedding day left the audience completely stunned. Most brides wait their whole live for the father-daughter dance at their wedding. In an amazing moment, Michaela gave up her dance to her sister. The selfless act for her dying father left everyone in tears, but this was not the only secret in the works. A few weeks before the wedding, the daughters found out that their father, George, had only three…

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    Most people have read or heard of the stories of Cinderella or saw a movie of the traditional princess story which always seems to have the same cliché “happily ever after ending.” In the poem “Cinderella,” written by Anne Sexton, she switches up the old-fashioned mythical story by adding in a touch of mockery and telling the story with her sense of reality. Sexton’s sarcastic tone being used in the poem causes the readers to identify and get a sense of the message the version of her story gives…

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    The Three Sisters Chekhov

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    The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a play that takes place in a 19th century rural town in Russia. The Prosorov siblings, Olga, Masha, Irina and Andrey are unsatisfied with their life in this provincial town, so they dream that one day they will return to Moscow. Moscow symbolises hope for the Prosorovs. They identify Moscow with their happiness in which they feel they can fulfil their dreams. But their constant fantasizing of Moscow makes them neglect their present. There are references to…

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    tearful needy people. It was her birthday, and she wanted to relax. She wanted to feel loved.” Rachel is also looking forward to her mother’s birthday. She buys a dress, which she really wanted to wear on her mother’s birthday party. Flora, Rachel’s sister, steals the dress. She has an Italian boyfriend and she wants to impress him. She knows that Rachel wants to make her mother happy with the dress but she does not care about Rachel, her mother or the family in general. Flora acci-dently…

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    The Disney Film Cinderella

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    they live happily ever after. The movie stars a young girl named Cinderella that lives with her evil step mother and step sisters, who treat her very poorly and as if she’s the house maid, living in the attic. Her father passed away after remarrying a woman and moving in with her and her two daughters. Cinderella spends her days cleaning up after her step mother and two step sisters, getting through her days by singing and hanging out with the animals she had befriended. One day, she heard about…

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    The book, In the Time of the Butterflies, opens in the Dominican Republic with Dede Mirabal preparing for an interview. The four Mirabal sisters each write from their perspective about living in a time with the dictator Trujillo. The story follows the start of a rebellion that the sisters become the leaders of. Three of the sisters, Maria Teresa, Minerva, and Patria, join the rebellion along with their husbands. Dede is the only one who does not join the rebellion, partly because her husband…

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