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    Rouni Haddad Ms.Garofalo January 5, 2015 The main character of the story is Pecola Breedlove because she is trying to grow as a person but here father and mother are abusing her. And they are not letting her grow into the woman she wants to be. Pecola goals is to have blue eyes because she thinks having blue eyes will help here look beautiful because she is not happy with who she is. The obstacles she has is that she is not happy to be around her mother and father And you cant blame her…

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    Bryan Alvizures March 6,2018 Mr. Amoroso. Period 9 Concept questions 3 In the play “Fences” by August Wilson, Troy(the main character) has a a type of dualistic nature within him. Sometimes he teaches lessons while sometimes he shows complete anger and no control. On page 66 he states “ I’m trying to find a way to tell you ...I’m gonna be a daddy. I’m gonna be somebody’s daddy.” Troy is showing himself as a person who doesn’t respect his wife and went out to have a baby with…

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    Gislebertus Analysis

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    Gislebertus, a french sculptor who made major contributions to the cathedral of Saint Lazare was the sole creator of the lintel sculpture Eve (Encyclopedia Britannica “Giselbertus”). Gislebertus was a well-known sculptor due to his exhibition of expressionism carving and technical proficiency. With the rise of religion and the wide growth of Christianity throughout Europe, Gislebertus had the demonstration of the expressive range relief of Eve. The discovery of Eve was at the north portal of the…

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    Struggles are a necessary part of life. Without them we would accomplish nothing. Merna Summers’ short story “The Skating Party” revolves around Nathan Singleton, and the story of a night in the past, told through the eyes of his niece Maida. At eleven years old she is told by her mother that Nathan’s fiancée Eunice and her sister Delia had fallen through the ice of the lake one November night. Delia was the only one of the two to survive the accident and when asked by Maida why he chose to save…

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    The play, The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams, the main characters in this play were Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, and Tom Wingfield. The play was about a memory of Tom. Tom’s father left him and his family years ago, and he had to work in a shore warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura. Unlike the other main characters, Tom stood out and he should be considered as the main character because he was the narrator and the play seemed to revolve around him.…

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    Najmah’s Characteristics The intellect and willpower of a human goes beyond the limits of nature as they have the ability to change their understanding of who they are when faced in the loss of their known world. This is displayed with the main character Najmah from the well-known book Under the Persimmon Tree as she took comfort in her family, allowing them to protect her from her consistent anxiety. Najmah becomes responsible when her father and brother were taken away from her,…

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    playwright The Glass Menagerie, each character has their own way of escaping from reality and finding a way to cope with their chaotic life. Since every character has his/her own way of somewhat abandoning the problems in life, Williams made the mother Amanda’s the least evident. She finds a way out of the troubles in her life by throwing herself into her children’s even though they are uneventful.…

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    Quoted from the play, The Glass Menagerie, the narrator states, “the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you do not plan for it (Williams).” When you read the play one can get the instinct that each character enjoys to live in the past and not the present because in the past each of them hold memories that are too good to let go. Although, I think the quote above creates the proof a reader of the play needs to realize each of these…

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    The metaphor of the glass ceiling was a term coined from the 1980s. Around the time women rights were starting to revolve, it has been noted that the metaphor of the glass ceiling “has been applied for more than two decades to explore organizational discriminative processes inhibiting the advancement of women and other discriminated groups into higher management jobs” (Bendl 1). One of the key theories of the metaphor breaking the glass ceiling is how statistics show that mainly only men are the…

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    Gothic cathedrals and Greek temples are both considered sacred architecture. Scared architecture (or religious architecture) is dedicated to the design and structure of places of worship. This beautiful type of architecture is developed in its own unique way that has spanned over years and years of time. Creative minds, hard working people, and the people of the time helped contribute to these magnificent buildings, and even today these structures are an important part of human history.…

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