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    Scene 13: Waters Rising – Outside the ball Errol inquires Dolly to run away by him to the city to become married‚ Dolly is furious with the notion and refuses as she never desires to leave her family. Errol sulkily walks back home through the dark‚ lonely night in a confused and distressed state. I don’t understand I for one assumed she would adore the idea‚ the life I acquire to offer her‚ one including me. He kicks the soft wet ground with rage. Most of the argument remained bewildering; I stood

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    Disaffected employees at the government`s GCHQ`s electronic spying headquarters began to leak information about intelligence and secret service dirty-tricks operations against NUM leaders to the Guardian in the winter 1990-91. Whistleblowers alleged that Margaret Tatcher personally authorized a „Get Scargill“ campaign during and after 1984-85 strike and ordered an unprecedented mobilization of British and American electronic surveillance networks . There had been direct media campaign against

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    401 days since Tamir was killed. I sigh‚ sitting down one last time behind the Rice family. Samaria glances back at me‚ providing a longing smile. I return it‚ yet I can feel the pain in her eyes. Here we are once again‚ after more than a year‚ still fighting for the death of her son. My eyes shift around the room. Court has become like a home to me‚ ever since I found my way out of Alabama after Scout and Jem moved away. The church-like pews line the carpet‚ yet this is no place of worship. Everything

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    communication and understanding‚ much is still needed to be done and improved upon. Colette Dowling is a well-respected author on women’s psychological issues who uses her personal experiences and insights to enlighten women about themselves. In Dowling’s excerpt of The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence‚ she provides a clearly written and rational explanation on the psychological issues of dependency women exhibit‚ but lacks in supporting evidence and examples. One night she is lying

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    “Place of Sorrows” In the excerpt “Place of Sorrows” from On the Road with Charles Kuralt‚ by Charles Kuralt‚ there it explains the battle of Little Big Horn and all the unfortunate event that lay there during it. Three main literary styles used in this excerpt are diction‚ syntax‚ and organization. The name of this excerpt shows that it will be saddening and sorrowful type of story. The author uses sorrowful diction that contributes to the saddening tone of the excerpt. Such as‚ “defending a nameless

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    2. In referring to Appendix B‚ the “Excerpt from Taxi Tales”‚ discuss race‚ ethnicity and culture in Singapore. Race‚ ethnicity and culture are independent of one another. Even if ‘race’ is defined to be encoded (i.e. genetic)‚ culture (how one lives and the practices involved) isn’t. The concept of race is rooted in biological classification and more of ‘attributions’. Ethnicity on the other hand emphasis more on culture rather than biology and incorporates the idea of social grouping and their

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    In the excerpt from the novel “Moon Tiger” by Penelope Lively‚ a brother and a sister are searching for fossils while their mother waits nearby. The speaker uses an array of literary devices such as imagery and dialogue to dramatize the complex relationship among the three characters in the except. Lively illustrates to the readers that situations are translated differently to different people. The author introduces siblings as they are outside looking for fossils. The conflict is initially presented

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    In "I Stand Here Ironing"‚ by Tillie Olsen‚ Olsen uses the symbolism of the iron‚ specific historical allusions‚ and condemning emotional tone to characterize the mother and her doubtful attitude towards her daughter. Olsen uses how and what the mother is Ironing need to symbolize her feelings for her daughter. When someone irons a piece of clothing‚ it is usually to get out the wrinkles and to make it look almost perfect to wear into the world. This idea is similar to what the mother is doing to

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    “Nonconformity is the basic pre-condition of art‚ as it is the pre-condition of good thinking and therefore of growth and greatness in a people…conformity is derived from the wholly venal business of catering to a popular market” (The Shape of Content‚ Ben Shahn). This piece of writing speaks of how the general public is in love with works of art‚ yet at the same time loathes the artists that created them‚ merely for being a little different than the norm. If art was about “cookie-cutter”

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    Any poem respected by Edgar Allan Poe to the extent that he would include it in his personal explanation of poetry should be exceptional‚ but ’Bridge of Sighs’ by Thomas Hood is with certainty the best poem I have ever read. A reflective work‚ it tells the story of a young woman without a love in the world‚ but suggests there was a passion behind her dramatic suicide. The narrator blames the girl’s self-destruction on her being a fickle woman‚ ’One of Eve’s family’ (l. 27)and implies that her death

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