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    are factors that influence compulsions of fulfilment in life. Compulsions, when intertwined with relationships provide an individual with a better understanding of oneself, due to the nature in which they come out as relationships grow. In The other side of the Bridge, Mary Lawson displays this central aspect of Ian 's relationships as compulsions that overtake his emotional and physical state which eventually better his understanding of himself as an individual. Ian’s relationship with Laura…

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    be a contract and common ground established. Coleridge illustrates an opposing view trough time and evolution of characters and tone. Her exclamatory endings speak volumes of plight that often plagues marriage in her time. In Coleridge 's "The Other Side of the Mirror”, we are immediately shown how the speaker feels about aging and Coleridge’s general idea on it as well. Aging is the death of a woman, "A face bereft of loveliness, it had no envy now to hide" (1410). Coleridge defines a woman’s…

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    misfortunes, and through all of her tribulations stayed strong for those she loved. “you're going to go through hard times- that’s life. But I say ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in Negative events” Joel Osteen. The Other Side Of The Sky: A Memoir was written by Farah Almedi, her book TOSOTS shows the world the troubles she had in Afghanistan, and the painstaking process of leaving the world she knew and moving to America. Farah Almedi’s past trials have affected…

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    He isn’t—the concept of this mirror phase is simply more applicable in other stages of life, rather than just between 6-18 months. He actually touches on this broadness, though not in the same direct manner, saying that “[i]t suffices to understand the mirror stage […] as an identification, in the full sense analysis gives…

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    child does not have the ‘truth’ of an adult to beget the disparity of reality, inversely, the adult does not have the ‘will’ of a child to overcome the immutability of reality. If only a child had an adult’s wisdom to dispel (im)possibility; if only an adult had the a child’s ‘unabashedness’ to explore (im)possibility. This ‘childish shame of depression’ is the alterity leading back to innocence. A child’s misfortune of encountering ‘monsters’, the adults’ for creating them. When one’s love of…

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    B. K. Ambedkar once said “Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” April and Cheryl are a literary representation of this ideology. Their ‘searches’ are similar in the sense that they are both trying to discover their true identities, however their struggles to find these…

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    meant when he said that the Other”results in us feeling excluded, or even disdained and scorned.” As a child I always felt as if I played the role of the other. I was different in ways such as loving to learn, and being an overly outgoing person with different points of view, and as a result; I found that other children were quick to single me out of their groups. Very few ever accepted me for who I was, and I was rarely included in any activities with others, unless it was forced…

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    I will tell you about the story called “Barrio Boy” by Ernesto Galarzo. Barrio boy is about this boy who just came from Mexico and is seeking for an American education his goal or mission is to learn fluent English. The other story I will give you a summary about is “The other side of the sky” by Tanim Ansary. This story is about this girl who is in the desert seeking for a better life since her brother and father died it's only her and her mother trying to survive to live a better life.…

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    lives. Many people have different missions than each other like, sometimes for achievement or even the care of others and they do this usually to complete their goal in life. This essay is on the novel The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi and Tanim Ansary and the essay New Directions by Maya Angelou. In the novel by Ahmedi and Ansary, the main character was Ahmedi and she had a mission to achieve to get to a better life in Pakistan. In the other essay by Angelou, the character Annie, has to…

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    Can the Marginalized Speak? Hearing Women Voices in Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side Of Silence -Dipanwita Mondal Marginality in the wider sense indicates a socio-cultural, political and economic situation, where disadvantaged people struggle to gain access to resources…

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