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    deprivation and ambivalence. Reid successfully illustrates the misperceptions of Roger Prynne’s character and establish his fatherly role in Pearl Prynne’s life in order to accurately understand the transition of Pearl from a wild ‘witch-baby’ to a lady heiress and to emphasize the typical bias of perspectives through a certain…

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    In 1992, Mary Fisher gave a speech to the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, entitled “A Whisper of AIDS”. In this speech, Mary Fisher shouted out to a nation that was allowing AIDS, the enemy, to win because of prejudice and politics. Mary Fisher wanted to “lift the shroud of silence” (Fisher) against the AIDS epidemic, by reminding her audience that AIDS does not discriminate and neither should we. With her powerful and moving speech, she accomplished this by using statistics…

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    The Co-Dependent Novel Imagine you are in a bookstore and it is overflowing with amazing literature. How many of these novels can stand on their own as a story to tell? Do some of these novels require prior text to understand certain aspects, such as a second book in a series? This brings forth the idea of intertextuality in which it is defined as reference of a text which is mirrored and reflected in another text (Eyvazi 155). Jean Rhys took it into her own hands to create a novel on Bertha…

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    In Emily Budick’s “Hester’s Skepticism, Hawthorne’s Faith; or, What does a Woman Doubt? Instituting the American Romance Tradition”, she discusses how Hawthorne created the American romance tradition in The Scarlet Letter by breaking down Puritanical control of society through the unknown lineage of Pearl. She states, “In Hawthornean romance, doubt is the condition of our lives in this world. Faith is the willingness to entertain and keep alive our skepticism alongside our commitment to thinking…

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    The Nefertiti Bust

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    smoothed over the wrinkles and bump to reflect the “aesthetic ideals of the era," said Huppertz, whose research appears in the journal Radiology. Carved on to a rock formation called The Boundary Stelae of Akhetaten is a eulogy to Nefertiti: “And the Heiress, Great in the Palace, Fair of Face, Adorned with the Double Plumes, Mistress of Happiness, Endowed with Favours, at hearing whose voice the King rejoices, the Chief Wife of the King, his beloved, the Lady of the Two Lands,…

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    The Latinos in the United States is a dense process that enabled the U.S to expand towards the South and the West. And so, with the annexation of Texas and California it created a variety of push and pull factors that enabled the United States to thrive and grow exponentially. Therefore, it is helpful to understand the annexation process in order to analyze the effects the U.S had in South America. Consequently, this enables us to understand the Puerto Rican and Mexican migration towards to…

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    It is often the case in revolutions that many partnerships who take a lead role in shaping a new society do not continue to work together after their goal is achieved, that is exactly what happened to James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who had risen to prominent positions within the new nation of America as delegates for their respective state. Both would be each other 's support for fighting for a new and ratified U.S. constitution. Although their partnership falls apart, they are truly…

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    Is Hester Prynne ultimately a heroic figure? Make sure to support your argument with textual support, as well as a clear definition of what it means to be a hero. Hester Prynne ultimately becomes the symbolism of a heroic figure. A hero is “a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities” according to Merriam Webster. Hester Prynne displays brave qualities with the will to survive under the weight of the Scarlet Letter. An ancient proverb says, “the greatest pains are on the…

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    Frank Durrenmatt Morality

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    The Mutation of Morality into a Commodity in the Visit The play the visit is a thrilling tale of a corrupt town anIn the play The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt, the motif of justice is mutated into a commodity instead of defined as a moral standard, this is shown through foreshadowing, symbolism and the evolving actions of the characters throughout the three acts. Claire Zachanassian uses her wealth to act as a diety over a small struggling town, she makes them an offer that is hard to…

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    Roger Chillingworth’s Story At a glance, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter may look like it surrounds Hester Prynne as the story’s main character, but this is not nearly the case to anyone who delves deeper into the novel. A large majority of the main plot line is tied together by Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s old, bitter, and vengeful husband. The book presents him as the epicenter of events on multiple occasions. Chillingworth definitely is not the hero of this story, which is most…

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