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    in Thomasheen. The former enjoys talking about the County Home to terrify Nanna. Mena’s controlling manipulative behaviour has a destructive effect on the family relationships and creates a toxic atmosphere in the household. Mena has strong abjections to Sive getting an education. Mena is more motivated by jealousy and spite. On the opening of the play‚ “Out working with a farmer you should be instead of getting your head filled with high notions”. Her resentment is palpable when

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    Yishan Shan ENG-101/H. Nand Comparison and Contrast Paper 11/06/2012 Homelessness is more than missing a house We always encounter these types of people: A man who is shaking a cup and trying to present a smiling face to you on the side of the street‚ his coins are striking against each other‚ and his clothes were tatty and his shoes unmatched. Or at night‚ a crew of people who sit or sleep in front of a store with some filthy blankets on. We don’t know what kind of causes affect their homelessness

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    Jared Shadkin September 19‚ 2013 Period 6 Note Cards (About.com) Source A It devastated the economy and was a key factor in the beginning of the great depression. Known was Black Tuesday and the Great Wall Street Crash of 1929. A lot of people started to invest in the stock market‚ which cause stocks to rise. Many people wanted to buy the stocks‚ but some did not have enough money to. Banks placed customers money in the stock market without their knowledge‚ which caused problems. Everyone

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    ’" Tulsa Studies in Women ’s Literature 3. 1–2 (Spring-Fall 1984):61–77. Johnson‚ Greg. "Gilman ’s Gothic Allegory: Range and Redemption in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper. ’" Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 521–30. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Trans. Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia UP‚ 1982. Kristeva‚ Julia. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. New York: Columbia UP‚ 1980. Tripathi‚ Vanashree. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper ’: A Gynograph

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    Richard Petaccio 11/17/10 Dirmeyer My thesis focuses on the social commentary found in the second entry of George A. Romero’s “Living Dead Tetraology" Dawn of The Dead (1978)‚ specifically on issues of the representation of race‚ class‚ culture and violence in the four films‚ and how these representations‚ along with the social critique evident in Romero’s work‚ change in response to the upheavals and developments which have occurred in the American social‚ cultural and political climate

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    Japanese Butoh versus Western Modern Dance Ankoku Butoh –– or “Dance of Utter Darkness‚” is a Japanese dance form that emerged from a restless post-World War 2 Japanese society. The dance form is deeply influenced by Western thinkers‚ philosophers‚ and artists who adopts dark Gnostic principles‚ such as Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud1. Butoh consistently focuses on themes considered taboo such as sexuality‚ eroticism‚ and other dark explorations of the dark soul. The art form surfaced because

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    Sabrina Huwang Mr. Maiore AP English Language 9 June 2014 Alienation as the Embodiment of Self-Preservation in The Catcher in the Rye Written in 1951 during Post-World War II America by J.D. Salinger‚ The Catcher in the Rye details the deteriorating psychological state of the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ a pessimistic misanthrope who is convinced that the adult world is spurious and full of “phonies.” Throughout the bildungsroman‚ Holden’s various interactions with incommensurable individuals

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    with nothing‚ everything seemed tedious and normal‚ and there was nothing unique and special. I reached the end of the collection‚ and there was nothing....nothing in the British Museum collection that I thought was worth writing about. In utter abjection‚ I meandered on through the museum‚ and I found myself on the second floor. Having been to the Walters several times‚ I had seen their collection of Egyptian works‚ but something bid me stay. So I followed the feeling‚ and finally found the

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    Tearra Daniel Philosophy 1030 Plato 2/20/2013 Plato was a well-known wrestler‚ and the name by which we know him today was his ring name. Plato means broad or flat: presumably in this case the former meaning‚ referring to his shoulder. At his birth in 429 B.C. Plato was given the name Aristocles. He was born in Athens‚ or on the island of Aegina‚ which lies just twelve miles offshores from Athens in the Saronic Gulf. Plato was born into one of the great political families of Athens. His

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    Do you watch horror film? What type of horror film do you watch? Horror films always possess dominant cultural insights and provide a public discourse about femininity in every different period of time. Within the horror film genre‚ a possession film is a type of film which showcases a “display of aberrant feminine behavior which is depicted as depraved‚ monstrous‚ and perversely appealing” (Creed 31). This genre is populated by female monsters‚ including many types of monsters such as witches like

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