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    The motif of violence is manifest throughout Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, not only in the form of acts that are explicitly forceful and destructive, but in the implicit conflicts that are explored within the play, whether between men and women, light and dark, reality and fantasy or the Old South and the New South. Violence is most often associated with the character of Stanley, who progresses violent behaviour and exudes a sense of brutishness that contributes to the play’s overall…

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    Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. But literature can have a big influence on this. I think that literature can contribute to us being able to see things different by the way the show us real life situations. “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennesses Williams Blanche DuBois lives in a world of created fantasy in her mind. The theme of the play goes off of how she can never really distinguish her fantasy life from the reality of her life. She lives in a made-up world so that she does not have…

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    The Glass Menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams most famous and successful works. In his play Williams uses a series of characters and symbols to show people and moments in his own life. The mother figure in the Glass Menagerie Amanda is an example. As you read the play you will see how Amanda represents the stress, strictness, and the self-centered nature off Williams mother and father. Amanda is the mother figure of Tom and Laura in The Glass Menagerie. Tom works at a warehouse and…

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    Introduction: Tennessee, known for its stunning music performances. Located in the southern region of the united states, when it is 1:00 AM in California it is 3:00 AM in Nashville, Tennessee’s capital city. Tennessee borders eight states: Kentucky and Virginia to the north; North Carolina to the east; Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi on the south; Arkansas and Missouri on the Mississippi River to the west. Tennessee is 42,143 mi² in space. Its nickname is “The Volunteer State”. The nickname…

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    First off, I want to start by thanking you both for raising me to be the man I am today and always pushing me to go beyond my limits to succeed. But, now that I am transitioning into a young adult and starting college, my workload and daily schedule have altered from what they were in high school. With that being said, I am writing you both to ask that you let me quit my job that I have had since high school. I have brought up this topic to you guys on a couple of occasions and it just turns…

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    The 1920’s were a time when American culture exploded and ultimately transformed America from a young country to a world power. The American values of individualism and democracy were neither completely enhanced or diminished by modernity because while many strides were made to improve these qualities, the pre-World War I sentiment of reform was destroyed. All of the destruction caused by World War I scared the American people enough to halt the era of reformation and actually did diminish…

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    The running force behind our country is the government. There are two main branches of that force and that is the democratic and republican parties. Both parties have some similarities, but they mainly have a lot of differences. The Republican Party was formed in 1854 by former Whig party members to try and stop the spread of slavery into the west. The Democratic Party was formed around 1828. The two Parties started out as a single party, with a common goal. As the years went past the Party…

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    While researching texts and current events about our world, I found an interesting trend in today’s culture. There is an outbreak of misinformation throughout our society. Left and right there are different interpretations of the same information, minor or major details missing or being added. Also, at the top of social media there is an ongoing battle of what people feel and what they really mean. The number of incidents that are communicated in different façades and motives to spew people’s…

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    The Importance Of My Life

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    When people ask what I want to do with my future, I notice myself jumping to the thought of making my mother proud. Growing up, my mom had always taught me to be kind, have courage and conquer the world. Growing up, I was bullied. I was discriminated against because of my appearance, I was underestimated because I was quiet; I was hidden in the shadow of others. It wasn’t until when I was 9. My mom was diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis. Prior to the surgery, the surgeon warned my mom that…

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