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    Handmaid's Tale

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    it. Angel’s are next because they are men so they are higher then all women. Their job is to make sure they are all safe and basically the police force. Men are the only ones who may drive cars‚ own property‚ have bank accounts‚ work‚ or even read from the Bible or any other text. The next highest up is the commander’s wife. She has writes and privileges about all other women. Aunt’s are responsible for getting the handmaids ready for their society. They pound the ideas of the new culture into

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    Canterbury Tales

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    Dyer‚ Tapestry-Weaver‚ Cook‚ Shipman‚ Physician‚ Wife‚ Parson‚ Plowman‚ Miller‚ Manciple‚ Reeve‚ Summoner‚ Pardoner‚ and Host. (He does not describe the Second Nun or the Nun’s Priest‚ although both characters appear later in the book.) The Host‚ whose name‚ we find out in the Prologue to the Cook’s Tale‚ is Harry Bailey‚ suggests that the group ride together and entertain one another with stories. He decides that each pilgrim will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back.

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    Ralph from Lord of the Flies by William Golding is forever an iconic character throughout novels. He is a character that has a good set of morales‚ leadership‚ and is quite handy at survival. He goes through an intense hero journey‚ and is able to survive until the bitter sweet end. Despite some critics questioning Ralph’s leadership‚ Ralph did everything he could to keep control and keep his friends alive and deter the division against his much more hardened enemy. BP 1- Call to Adventure Ralph

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    A Midwife's Tale

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    Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale‚" now a movie of the same name‚ made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. The film recounts the day-to-day events described in Ballard’s diary and expanded upon by Ulrich‚ based on some careful deduction‚ a little guesswork‚ and the occasional flash of realization. The film juxtaposes enactments of the events in Ballard’s life‚ enhanced by voice-over read directly from the diary and interviews of Ulrich

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    A Character Analysis of Willy Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman was published in 1949‚ and it is a story about a salesman named Willy Loman. The play ends tragically‚ reveals our lives‚ and it gives us a warning about the society that we live in. By reading this play‚ we can think about why we work so hard‚ and what will remain at the end of our existence. Even though this play was written in 1940s‚ the main character Willy Loman shows many examples of modern socialism in our lives. By the

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    Fairy Tale

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    Analytical Essay Snow White and the seven dwarfs is a fairy tale about a king and a queen who longed to have a child of their own and had tried for years but with no success. The queen makes a wish that she’d love to a have a child who is as white as snow‚ as red as blood and as black as the wood of the window frame she was sitting next to. With unexpected turn of events‚ she bares a daughter that had the same features as she wished for and she named her little Snow White. The queen dies soon

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    Hamlet's Many Revelations

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    Hamlet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ is full of many characters that often display many different archetypical characteristics. The main character‚ Hamlet‚ is one of the most complex characters in the play because he displays varying archetypes. In Act Two he is showing himself as mainly two different types of characters. Hamlet is shown as a son grieving his father and also as son who loves and respects his father. In Scene Two of that act‚ his two friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern visit

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    Character Relationships with Celie-from “The Color Purple” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” is a riveting‚ controversial novel about a woman named Celie‚ other African-Americans and the relationships between them that are either tested or brought closer together. Celie‚ a former slave‚ narrates this novel through her writing of letters to a person she loves and trusts the most‚ God. In these letters: Nettie‚ Albert and Shug are three dominant characters that surround and transform Celie’s life

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    Canterbury Essay One can often figure out what an author’s view is on a society through the voices of the characters he creates. In The Canterbury Tale‚ Chaucer uses many characters to voice his opinion about the church society. He uses many church subjects to voice his opinion about the church‚ such as‚ the Friar‚ the Pardoner‚ the Summoner‚ the Monk‚ and the Parson. All of these church subjects each have an aspect of either good or bad. Honestly I think that Chaucer’s opinion of the church is

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    The Handmaid’s Tale Response Paper The motif of time is very apparent in this section. Time‚ something are never thought much of before her new life‚ is now an object she thinks about frequently. “There’s time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for – the amount of unfilled time‚” (Atwood 69). “In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium…they were giving us a chance to get used to blank time‚” (70). “The clock ticks with its pendulum‚ keeping time my feet

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