Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Moral in "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood Thesis: If fiction is supposed to appeal to our ethical nature in Atwood’s opinion‚ what is the happy ending‚ or moral‚ we are being asked to look for and help society attain in “Happy Endings”? I. Obstacles are a natural part of life as seen with how Atwood portrays the lives of typical people as they struggle to overcome various obstacles. (a) While they all have individual differences‚ these plots ultimately end in the
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Speech One of my favourite dicta is that people should not be categorized as good or evil‚ wise or stupid. It would be much more sensible to divide them simply into learners and non-learners. In between the two extremes would be a broad spectrum graded on the degree to which individuals are capable of correct assessment and understanding of the learning material at their disposal. Here of course I’m giving a very broad definition to learning. It would involve much more than what
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MAKING FORMAL SPEECHES Often this is the most difficult part of oral communication for many people. Selection of the Topic This is the first step in formal speechmaking. You may be assigned a topic‚ such as to introduce a speaker. Here‚ you are likely to be assigned a topic because you have some knowledge of the subject matter (the speaker). In other cases‚ you will have to choose a topic by yourself. Do this using 3 basic factors: 1. background and knowledge (you need some knowledge of the
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Comparison of speeches This is a comparison of John F. Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King’s speeches. First I will analyze them individually‚ then I will compare and contrast the two different speeches. Kennedy’s inaugural speech establishes what his vision is for the world; global unity‚ supporting freedom‚ and human rights for all of humankind. He believes the world would be much stronger and could conquer any problem as a whole rather than being divided. In the beginning of Kennedy’s speech
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romantic novels‚ they often observe a tale full of adventure seasoned with conflict; however‚ other people‚ such as scholar Marcia K. Lieberman‚ ask‚ “to what extent [do] they reflect female attributes” (259)? The short story “Happy Endings‚” by Margret Atwood takes the reader for a ride through a myriad of scenarios: which consist of the American dream‚ as depicted in part A; the real-life endings‚ seen in parts B and C; and other non-typical scenarios viewed in scenes D‚ E and F. A common theme among
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is reveal. In The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood‚ Penelope faces this exact scenario when she is left behind in Ithaca as Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan war‚ losing the only person she can trust. In the absence of Odysseus‚ Penelope’s complex character is revealed. Atwood effectively uses diction‚ point of view‚ syntax and tone to characterize Penelope as a skeptical‚ needy and loyal character. The first person perspective used by Margaret Atwood in The Penelopiad gives us valuable insight
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Only a handful of authors have been as successful as Margaret Atwood. She was born November 18‚ 1939 in Ottawa‚ Canada. As a poet and novelist she ’s won over 55 awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award‚ the Governor General ’s Award and the Booker Prize five times (“Margaret Atwood”). Though she ’s written over 40 novels and collections of poetry‚ her most notable works consist of The Handmaid ’s Tale‚ Oryx and Crake‚ The Edible Woman‚ The Blind Assassin‚ and The Year of the Flood. She writes
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and Margaret Atwood are two amazing authors with different style of writing. King talks about writing process in the interview “The Atlantic” and his nonfiction memoir “On Writing.” Basically‚ a manual book is for those who choose to write. Atwood sharing her experience of writing in the poem “The Page”. She expressed felling‚ frustrations and anxieties using metaphors. They celebrate the fact that writing is important component of our life. The poem “The Page” by Margaret Atwood is a philosophical
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Margaret Atwood is a well-known Canadian author and poet; she has written more than sixty novels and collections of poetry (McMahon 12). She is also a businesswoman‚ environmental activist‚ and the inventor of the LongPen (“Margaret Atwood Biography” 1) (Christensen 1-2). Growing up during the 1940s and 1950s meant that women were expected to stay at home and take care of the house and children. After reading about Atwood’s background‚ there are three major reasons that explain why she writes. The
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HaidMaids Tale The novel‚ The Handmaid’s Tale‚ by Margaret Atwood focuses on the choices made by the society of Gilead in which the preservation and imprisionmeny of mankind is more highly regarded than freedom or happiness. I think that Ms. Atwood believes that the possibility of our society becoming as that of Gilead is very evident in the choices that we make today and from what has occurred in the past. Our actions will inevitably catch up to us when we are most vulnerable.In The Handmaid’s
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