Robin McKinley wrote the novel titled Rose Daughter. McKinley created this fictional novel in 1997. “Her 1984 novel The Hero and the Crown won the Newbery Medal as the year’s best new American children’s book“ (Wikipedia‚ 2016). “Beauty and the Beast is still my favourite fairy-tale; I can’t change that any more than I can change having grown up in the fifties when it was the only fairy-tale around that didn’t have the heroine waiting limply to be rescued by the hero “ (McKinley‚ 2017). McKinley
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The Good Daughter by Caroline Hwang is an essay about the author’s identity and dual culture as an American and her ethnicity as a daughter of Korean immigrants. She starts her anecdote with her trip to the dry cleaning store wherein she met a woman who is also of Korean ethnicity. She tried to identify herself as a fellow American-Korean by doing a customary Korean greeting. When the woman asks Caroline her name‚ she is inclined to ask if she is Chinese. The reason being is because Caroline mispronounces
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life that trigger change the responder is challenged to accept that knowledge is gained through change‚ and that change helps the development of a persons identity. The texts ‘’Looking for Alibrandi’’ by Melina Marchette and ‘’The Memory Keepers Daughter’’ by Kim Edwards both challenge the responder to enhance their understanding of change. Both Marchette and Edwards’s use several narrative techniques to convey change and effectively show the life challenges faced that develop a persons identity
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Rome and Han China were classical civilizations that built centralized empires‚ which eventually expanded. Both Rome and Han experienced unequal land distribution which led to political instability‚ and both suffered from invasions of nomadic tribes due to political instability which would lead to the collapse. However‚ only the western portion of the Roman Empire collapsed whereas the entire Han met its demise. Both Rome and Han experienced great times of prosperity. However‚ both regions also
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ANTIGONE The major characters are: Antigone oldest daughter or King Oedipus Ismene youngest daughter of King Oedipus Creon King of Thebes Antigone and Ismene lost both of their brothers in a battle against the City of Thebes. Eteocles is the younger of the two and Polyneices. Eteocles claimed his kingship after his father‚ King Oedipus was exiled from the City of Thebes for incest and patricide. He also exiled his brother. Polyneices was angered by these actions and decided to
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The fall of the Han dynasty and the fall of the Western Roman Empire do compare in some ways. For instance‚ they both faced internal oppositions. Notwithstanding‚ the Romans differentiate because they had been invaded unlike the fall of the Han. Furthermore‚ the empire of Western Roman did not dilapidate entirely likewise the Han. Both of them declined because of internal problems such as generals taking over when the empire was weak. The Romans had a time period from 235 to 284 C.E. where there
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advancements in technology included the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire. As the expansion of the empire increased‚ the Romans built roads that linked these regions together. These roads were built in such a way that allowed for easier travel: roads were paved and allowed for water to run off. In addition‚ the empire also developed the transportation of water throughout the city through the construction of aqueducts‚ which were canals. Likewise‚ the Han Dynasty made advancements in the distribution
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horse‚ Hans‚ stamps his hoof on the blackboard—on which the whole alphabet was written—in front of him‚ picking out the letters H‚ N‚ and A. The audience sighs in relief. Dohna—the name of the officer standing before Clever Hans and his owner Herr Wilhelm von Osten‚ and to whom they have been introduced earlier. Von Osten reaches out his hand to Hans to give the horse a treat. Everyone claps‚ but they look in bewilderment at each other as if to ask—how? Von Osten claims that he taught Hans just
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Both the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire were bureaucratic. The central rulers all eventually became hereditary and both empires had rulers that oppressed the peasants in order to boost political control. However‚ the two empires differ in that the emperors had varying justifications for ruling and rose to power in different ways. The Han Dynasty and The Roman Empire both were able to expand and develop their empires with their distinctive governing methods and control. To China‚ the centerpiece
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Analyze similarities and differences in methods of political control in the following empires in the classical period. Han China (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.-550 C.E.) During the Classical period‚ Han China and Mauryan/Gupta India developed many methods of political control. Although these empires were located in different geographic regions‚ they both used social hierarchy‚ language‚ bureaucracy‚ and religion as a means of political control. Many of Classical
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