PART I – AUTHOR/WRITER OF THE STORY Kerima Polotan-Tuvera (December 16‚ 1925 – August 19‚ 2011) * Was a Filipino author. She was a renowned and highly respected fictionist‚ essayist‚ and journalists‚ with her works having received among the highest literary distinctions of the Philippines. * Some of her stories have been published under the pseudonym Patricia S. Torres * She graduated from the Far Eastern University Girls’ High School. In 1944‚ she enrolled in the University of
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Analysis on the Short Story “The Virgin” by Kerima Polotan Tuvera * Based on the short story‚ the various personalities that the main character named Miss Mijares showcased were her stiff and aloof behavior wherein her superiority to herself makes her unfriendly and detached to other people. Also her attitude when it comes to dealing with people wherein she often humiliates them by asking them questions with regards to their standing in the society. Moreover‚ her life was effusively based
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A Character Analysis of Kerima Tuvera’s The Virgin Where Psychology and Personality Meet Jessica Brown E03 Introduction Through the use of theories based on psychology and personality‚ the characters in The Virgin will be analysed in this essay to show that there was development. To do this essay‚ I did extensive research on the types of theories that were floating about on the Internet such as the Psychoanalytic Theory of Freud. I also did in-depth research on the types of characters in literature
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Lady’s Choice (Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin: A Feminist Approach) Kerima Polotan Tuvera is a Filipino female author who wrote The Virgin which won two first awards in the Philippines. The story can be narrated both man and woman. The text shows that the character‚ a woman who likes to wear flurry-colored clothes‚ Miss Mijares—a 34 year-old submissive daughter‚ sacrificing herself (she spent most of her life caring for her ill mother that’s why she’s still a virgin). She is a spinster who
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A Character Analysis of Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The title “The Virgin” reflects the subject virginity which is an important and cherished value for Filipinos. A Filipina should be proud to have maintained her virginity but in the case of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares‚ she is ashamed of it. In her thirty-four years of existence‚ she had never been
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The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan’s "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity‚ female virginity‚ a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system‚ the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state‚ Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story’s eroticism is heightened by the lyrical‚ almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it’s
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Summary of the Virgin The story that was written by Kerima Polotan-Tuvera‚ “The Virgin” is a story about a woman named Miss Mijares that was about 34 years old. She was slimy and almost bony. She also knows how to dress herself to hide the small chest she has by putting puff and ruffles on her chest part. She was not an ugly person but not also beautiful. She was a woman that has full of priorities that she later realized that she was old enough to find a man that she can marry. Miss Mijares‚ a
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Consti 1 Tañada v Tuvera‚ 136 SCRA 27 (1985) Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Manila EN BANC G.R. No. L-63915 April 24‚ 1985 LORENZO M. TAÑADA‚ ABRAHAM F. SARMIENTO‚ and MOVEMENT OF ATTORNEYS FOR BROTHERHOOD‚ INTEGRITY AND NATIONALISM‚ INC. [MABINI]‚ petitioners‚ vs. HON. JUAN C. TUVERA‚ in his capacity as Executive Assistant to the President‚ HON. JOAQUIN VENUS‚ in his capacity as Deputy Executive Assistant to the President ‚ MELQUIADES P. DE LA CRUZ‚ in his capacity as Director‚ Malacañang
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Introduction Virgin Group LTD is one of the most well-known‚ respected brand and outstanding international investment group. Invented in 1970 by Richard Branson. Virgin Group became a widespread company and began to grow up in businesses such as: mobile telephony‚ travel‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ TV‚ music‚ holiday and health & wellness. It involved in the fields of airlines‚ rail services‚ and transportation services‚ motorbike and cruise packages. They also operate gym facilities‚ racing
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289 CASE EXAMPLE The Virgin Group Aidan McQuade Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. The group included‚ in 2006‚ 63 businesses as diverse as airlines‚ health clubs‚ music stores and trains. The group included Virgin Galactic‚ which promised to take paying passengers into sub-orbital space. The personal image and personality of the founder‚ Richard Branson‚ were highly bound up with those of the company. Branson’s taste for publicity has led him to
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