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    children. Pocahontas’ Mother was in fact his favourite and she also had the nickname Pocahontas. She was known as “his wife of choice [and] the wife of love” , they were married before he became the paramount chief. Like in the film she had passed away, but through History we figure find that this happened during child birth. This is perhaps why the Disney films claim that she carries her mother’s spirit with her as historically they were very alike in personality. In the film and in real life…

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    “youse got yo’ womanhood on yuh...Ah wants to see you married right away” (Hurston 12). The ideal woman in twentieth-century America was one who internalized the norms of the patriarchy. At the time, Janie just did not want to be anyone’s wife, because she wanted love as well. According to Nanny “she just wants to hug and kiss around with first one man and then another” (Hurston 13). To Janie’s own surprise, when she ran away from Logan, it was with a man named Joe Starks. Although Nanny did not…

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    murderer, bringing out the misogynist point of view, with the soft aspect of her being a mother, gaining sympathy from the audience at the extent of her plight. She hadn’t minded isolation from the rest of Corinth, but was deeply against being sent away completely. However, the motherly part quickly disintegrates when she had murdered her two sons. The master playwright reveals his own conflicted nature regarding his interpretation of women in literature. Though, with enough substantial and…

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    The spirited paintings Emily painted were in response to the land of her birth using the shapes and patterns of the contours of the landscape as well as the cycles of the seasons and parched land of the Northern Territory (). Furthermore, she included the flow…

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    Common Core Tragedy

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    Common Core: A Nationwide Tragedy Common core began in 2009 as a set of standards created to get every student in the country on the exact same level. Common core was largely written by two men who were hired by the Gates Foundation, these men had no experience in K-12 teaching. The federal government believes that common core will unite the educational systems of the states and bring the students of the nation to an educational knowledge peak. Common core is a good idea in theory, but the…

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    Able Magwitch The Convict

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    anonymous donor and he is not allowed to ask about the person, it is at this point the anonymous donor, Able Magwitch, discloses himself to Pip. Magwitch tells Pip “Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend. When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like, I see yourn.” (Dickens 320). This is where Magwitch begins to…

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    Executive Summary: A toxic workplace is an organization that begin with the toxic employees of the provision. What can occur in a toxic workplace environment? Workplace bullying. Workplace violence. And, workplace incivility. Firstly, a workplace bullying can harm an individual physically or/and emotionally. Then, workplace violence. This action is done purposely by the oppressor; harassment, intimidation, or homicide. Lastly, workplace incivility that can be divided into three ways;…

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    “While modern interpreters may see Shrew as a high-spirited comedy about role-playing of game-playing, they suppress the knowledge that men, not only on stage, but off, wrote the play and assigned the roles, chose the game and made the rules” (Kehler 31). Shakespeare however, did not intend the message of…

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    Trojan War In The Iliad

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    Comparing the archaeological evidence that has been unearthed in the last 145 years in Turkey, Greece, and the Aegean to Homer’s Iliad will show that at some time in the Late Bronze Age a war or series of wars took place between Achaean forces and Troy. It was called the Trojan War. This war has defined the way people view ancient Greece. This story of mythological gods and heroic warriors has provided insight into the attitudes, customs, religion, and warfare of the ancient Greeks. The story of…

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    Commencing in the late nineteenth century, the modern era sought to discard the certainty of Neoclassicism, rigidity of Industrialism and the ingenuity of Romanticism while developing contemporary socio-cultural norms and attitudes capturing revolutionary expressions of artistic innovation. The philosophical movement saw society’s tenuous fear of technological modification arise from an existential crisis following the First War period, sparking a newfound physiological state centring on the…

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