came in the form of an essay‚ and then a criticism of analysis of said essay. Peggy McIntosh’s 1988 essay “White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women’s studies” on the topic of white privilege was put under the lens in “McIntosh as Synecdoche”. Critics viewed it as incomplete and not productive in solving the problem of racism in the world. While there was much left unsaid about white privilege in her essay‚ it could be viewed as an important
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It is perhaps uplifting to have a teenage heroine who purges her precious hair because it gets in her way living in a world of teens obsessed with their self-image. Kristin Cashore’s unconventional and engrossing first novella‚ “Graceling‚” has such a heroine. Katsa is hard-hitting‚ stubborn‚ beautiful‚ and consumed by unrelenting ethical concerns. She is particularly serious; one could say she lacks a sense of humor. The story is set in a rich fantasy world where children born with extreme aptitudes
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which he believes is a better match than Medea. Later‚ Medea gives Jason a gift to give to the daughter of Creon. But that gift is poisoned and it leads to the death of Creon’s daughter‚ Glauce. In the play‚ Medea‚ the protagonist is Medea. The characters at the beginning of the play talk about Medea and discuss about her sadness. Euripides uses characterization in order to create the deeper effect of the attitude of Medea when she is revealed. The Nurse in the play talks about Medea at the beginning
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whom he perceives as a danger to his marriage. The narrator in this story is a good example of an anti-hero showing negative characteristics while never actually being a bad guy. This gives the idea that he is very humanistic character. That being said‚ he is a flawed character who is just trying to please his wife while not giving up what he wants. In the end he realizes that he can have both revealing a very enlighten experience. Over the entire story the narrator is confronted with different moments
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A thirteen year old boy named Brian who crashes and lands in the Canadian and has to survive on his own. Brian didn’t know what to do when he crashed. Brian accomplished a lot of things after he like‚ how to make his own shelter( (pg.130)‚ how to kill a rabbit with his own bow (pg.138) and many other things. Brian went threw a lot things like‚ he cut himself because‚ he saw a plane had fly away‚ so he let the fire go out that was burning and didn’t even eat he also tried to kill himself by cutting
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Mila is a young girl from London. She has the unique ability to read a room by extracting clues from it‚ enabling her to detect the moods of humans and their emotions. This innate ability may help when a problem arises involving her father’s friend Matthew. Gil‚ Mila’s father‚ has a friend named Matthew who lives in America who has supposedly gone missing. Mila and her father were already planning a trip to America to visit Matthew and his family before the news of his disappearance. Mila and her
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In the story Otomen the readers were introduced to a very interesting character named Asuka. This character is a very popular high school student who is very athletic‚ and smart. He was famous with the name "the men’s man " At first he acted very mature and manly in front of everyone around him. He joined every sports club in school and usually won many sports prizes‚ he got good grades‚ and always avoid sweets because he thought that eating sweets would make him look less manly but no one know another
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and mutual respect. On the other‚ we have Kathy‚ spiraling back into the bottle and clinging -- because she has nothing else -- to the demented schemes of Eldard’s unhappily married deputy‚ who’s as bent on self-destruction as she is. I guess his character is supposed to be a cipher‚ but the part is undercooked to the point of rawness‚ and Eldard’s male-model blankness makes him seem more like a leftover cyborg from "Terminator 3" than a plausible loose-cannon
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the heros and the good guys. In fact there’s this hero‚ Bilbo‚ who has a dark side of his own. There are many protagonists and antagonists in The Hobbit‚ but let’s face it‚ the only real problem and solution is the main character‚ Bilbo himself. Bilbo is not only the main character in The Hobbit‚ but also is his own protagonist and antagonist. Throughout the book‚ there are multiple ways all these sides of Bilbo are shown; the attack from the spiders‚ escaping the goblins‚ and helping the dwarves
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Ophelia is a young woman who is the daughter of Polonius and the sister of Laertes. In the play‚ Ophelia is caught between her obedience to her father and her love for Hamlet‚ which results in tragic consequences. As a character who perfectly represents the “good girl” schema‚ Ophelia is the quintessential obedient daughter‚ a role demanded of all young women in the early 17th century. Her obedient nature can be seen in repeated quotes such as – “I shall obey my Lord‚” as she complies with her father’s
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