In The Book of the City of Ladies‚ there are four main characters that all uniquely develop the utopian model of Christine’s "City of Ladies." The first character‚ and most important‚ is Christine de Pizan as herself who connects the real world that she exists in to that of an imaginative world and its city symbolic of phylogeny and the reality of a women’s virtue. In her fantasy world she is ignorant of women’s virtue and talent and asks the three virtues of the validity of male misogyny. These
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“They grew up on the outside of society. They weren’t looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.” ― S.E. Hinton‚ The Outsiders. The Outsiders is a narrative about two gangs‚ the Greasers and the Socs. They are gangs that fight each other and in worst cases sometimes they fight to the death. The tale is from the perspective of a Greaser boy named Ponyboy and his best friend Johnny. A couple of Socs had attacked Johnny and Ponyboy and since Johnny panicked‚ he killed one of the Socs named
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By Bluebird In Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority by Curtis Chang‚ he discusses the stereotypes labeled against Asian-Americans and explains how the U.S. Society sees them as the “model minority”. He goes to the core of the “model minority” assumption‚ and shows the reader how the media heavily influences these ideas. He shows how cultural patterns within the Asian-American society fuel these ideas. Chang uses very interesting ways of presenting evidence by putting quotes within his
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Introduction Koh Chang is the Thailand’s second largest island‚ after Phuket. named Elephant Island because it is said to resemble the profile of an elephant. Koh Chang is situated some 330 km East of Bangkok in the province of Trat and is some 40 kilometres long and 16 kilometres wide. It has only recently been discovered by non-Thais as ferry‚ road and now air access has made the island increasingly accessible (regular flights are now available from Bangkok to Trat). The island comprises of
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Religion and Beliefs in Myanmar Burma is a predominantly Theravada Buddhist country. An appreciation of Buddhism and its history in Myanmar is a prerequisite for outsiders wishing to better understand the Burmese mind. There are no totally reliable demographic statistics from Burma‚ but the following is an estimate of the religious composition of the country: Buddhists: 89% Animists: 1% Christians: 4% Muslims: 4% Hindus: 2% Most Myanmar are Buddhist of the Theravada stream. Central to their
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Relational Dialectics was originally proposed by Leslie A. Baxter and W.K. Rawlins but Leslie edited the theory with Barbara M. Montgomery. It is an interpersonal communication theory about close personal ties and relationships that highlights the tensions‚ struggles‚ and interaction between opposing tendencies (Baxter and Montgomery‚ 1998). Baxter and Montgomery elaborated on Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea that life is an open monologue and that individuals experience discourse between opposing desires
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Chang-e’s Ascent to the Moon Chang-e is the lunar goddess in Chinese traditional myths. In China‚ she is a widely known character. She is known as a very beautiful woman who is living alone in a palace in the moon called “Guanghan Palace”. Her story is one of the most famous tragedies in Chinese myths. Recently there are several “retold” versions of the story of Chang-e’s ascent to the moon in different media. In 2010‚ there was a teleplay named “Chang-e” that told about the love story
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Tenneyson tell the story in Lady Of Shallot? The genre of the poem at the beginning creates a fairy story/myth theme for the reader to base an idea on hoe the rest of the poem will flow‚ however as the poem goes on we see a more sad and lonely theme. In part 1 of the poem the setting is described as a rural and beautiful retreat and gives the reader a feeling of summer‚ although as part 1 goes on so does the change of setting. In part 4 we see the setting as confusion for the Lady of Shallot and create
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The story highlights crucial young ladies’ theories. The theories are portrayed in context of ethnicity and social class. Hypotheses sometimes influence a man’s choices on the best way to deal with treat young ladies inferable from the assumptions concerning them. The producer offers a subjective point of view on the issue by offering his thoughts with respect to female activities‚ how ladies tend respond to what he lets them know and how they should react in different circumstances. Diaz then offers
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Now‚ the VOA Special English program‚ AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) We present the short story "The Lady‚ or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. (MUSIC) STORYTELLER: Long ago‚ in the very olden time‚ there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer. One of the king’s ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished‚ or innocence was decided‚ by the result of chance. When a person
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