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    Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie Jim as a Representative of the American Dream and the Ideology of Optimism and Progressivism “He is the most realistic character in the play‚ being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. . . . he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.” (Williams 5) – Jim’s first introduction by Tom as a narrator is a crucial one‚ as it points to the ambiguity of Jim’s character. For the

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    Competency Goal 3

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    emotional security for each child and help each child to know‚ accept‚ and take pride in self and to develop a sense of independence. This is done by placing several photos around the room. Artwork is always displayed around my room‚ dangling from the ceiling‚ or taped to the wall at their eye level. Children have many things of their own to look at daily. Children in my care know that everyone is special and welcome. Functional Area 9: Social One of my goals in the functional area of social

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    Preludes, T. S. Eliot

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    In a thousand furnished rooms. III You tossed a blanket from the bed‚ You lay upon your back‚ and waited; You dozed‚ and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images Of which your soul was constituted; They flickered against the ceiling. And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters And you heard the sparrows in the gutters‚ You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands; Sitting along the bed’s edge‚ where You curled the

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    dreams that you wish you could have pursued in vain?” She pressed‚ eyeing him with vague interest from her seat behind the large‚ white desk that separated them. She leaned forward‚ and the jewel on her jacket glinted as it caught the light from the ceiling. His gaze remained fixed on the brooch as he shook his head‚ slowly. “Excellent!” Her exclamation had caught him off guard‚ and he nearly jolted in seat‚ but managed to avoid such a silly display. It wouldn’t help his case‚ considering that his

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    My Ideal Room.

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    sliding glass and two wooden shutters with delicately carved geometrical patterns. A ribcage of thin and neatly welded iron bars run horizontally across each window. The curtains are silk‚ off-white with vivid floral designs. All the doors are of teak wood painted milk white. The floor is tiled with red and white marble in an alternate‚ chessboard-like way‚ covered over by a gray carpet with blue zigzags. The walls are covered with light blue wallpaper with textured design. The ceiling is white

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    Price Ceiling

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    A price ceiling is a government-imposed limit on the price charged for a product. Governments intend price ceilings to protect consumers from conditions that could make necessary commodities unattainable. However‚ a price ceiling can cause problems if imposed for a long period without controlled rationing. Price ceilings can produce negative results when the correct solution would have been to increase supply. Misuse occurs when a government misdiagnoses a price as too high when the real problem

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    The Ceiling Sparknotes

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    I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger

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    How do rites of passages effect a novel? In a good book‚ the main character or characters have to go through many rites of passages to get through conflict or any other troubles. The author uses rites of passages to Frank Beddors’ novel‚ The Looking Glass Wars‚ uses rights of passage to get Alyss through her struggles to become queen. In the novel‚ Alyss and the characters goes through rites of passages to help them through their conflicts. In the beginning of the novel Alyss is characterized as

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    "The Glass Menagerie" is about a dysfunctional family that consists of a mother‚ and her two adult children‚ Tom and Laura. All of them dream to seek comfort and to escape reality because none of them enjoys the life they lead. Similarly‚ in "Rose-Colored Glasses"‚ the narrator of the poem is inclined to dream rather than to face reality because she has not overcome the transition from one big happy family to getting kicked out of her old home and having divorced parents. These two families are reflections

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    senseless world is creatively put together by Lewis Carroll to become a very imaginative plot of entertainment‚ yet is has yielded a variety of concerns that relate to life throughout the novel. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass relate to a dream-like world that is full of adventures that of which a young girl‚ Alice‚ accompanied by various animals‚ insects‚ and imaginary characters experience. Carroll has not only created an abstract character group‚ but has also taken Alice

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