In her novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood uses symbolism to illustrate the handmaid’s role in the society of Gilead. The handmaids are the women who had broken law of Gilead‚ and were forced into the role of a surrogate mother for a higher ranking couple. The handmaids had no rights or free will. They were under constant surveillance and this caused them to be very cautious. The author characterizes most handmaids as a tentative and distrustful‚ which is perhaps why Offred never puts in words
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Why men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Are there any differences on how women and men talk? This is a question many people ponder on everyday. It is easy to assume that because English belongs to the person who uses it‚ men and women would likely to talk the same way but that may not be the case. Linguistics experts had proven that shown that men and women communicate in different ways. Speech style‚ word use‚ and body language are apparent between men and women. Women focus more on making
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Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ ________________________________________ 1. Atwood uses a personal anecdote of herself as a child‚ and then her daughter‚ which becomes an intriguing motif throughout her speech 2. Atwood frequently adopts an ironic tone in order to appeal to both Logos and Pathos. She uses logic (Logos) to undermine logic (appealing to Pathos) and this can be shown in the paradoxical line ‘We con-artists do tell the truth’. Overall this paradoxical voice and polyvocal
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Trace the development of the bullying. How convincing are the situation and Elaine’s feelings are portrayed. -How it changes and increases We are first introduced to Cordelia and prepared for the future conflict between the two girls when it is mentioned‚ "The third girl doesn’t wave". This lack of warmth towards Elaine is a premonition of what is to come‚ and is at the same time believable- new girls are often wary of each other‚ uncertain of what the other will be like. This key moment also
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excerpt from the 8th up to the 16th music scale has been rendered into a midi file by Ian-James R. Andres‚ which is embedded in this page. Antonio Molina composed "Awit ni Maria Clara"‚ which became popular with the version recorded by the Tres Rosas Singers for Villar Recording company in the 1960’s. The midi Although Julio Nakpil never called his "Amor Patrio" a kundiman‚ it could very well have been one‚ as the words echo the love of country in the traditional kundiman songs‚ evident from the full
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Margaret Sanger (1879 – 1966)‚ Birth control Margaret Sanger was born as Margaret Louisa Higgins on the 14th of September 1879 in New York. She was one of the 11 children born to Catholic working-class Irish American family. Her mother went through the 18 pregnancies (11 live birth and 7 miscarriages) in 22 years so that means that every 1.2 year she got pregnant. She died at the age of 40 (some sources say at 50) of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. The family lived on poverty because of father’s
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Elijah Jones Jones 1 Senior Literature Mr. Adams Man From The South The story took place in Jamaica. The narrator was at a hotel and had just bought a beer and went to go relax by the pool and smoke some cigarettes‚ it was around six o’clock. “There were plenty of deck chairs around the swimming pool and there were white tables and huge brightly colored umbrellas and sunburned men and women sitting around in bathing suits.”(Dahl 1) There were men and women in and surrounding the pool having
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“Dreams of the Animals” by Margaret Atwood represents the nature of animals’ dreams. They mostly dream of other animals “each according to its kind”‚ moles dream of “mole smells”‚ and frogs dream of “green and golden/ frogs”. The word “mostly” is used here. Why? That’s because there are exceptions. The poem later states that “certain mice and small rodents/ have nightmares of a huge pink/ shape with five claws descending”. The word “nightmare” doesn’t only mean a bad dream when sleeping‚ but also
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the State (c) Amount (d) Stock as on 31st Mar. last (b) Lists appended To be given with return for 31/3 to return LP-1 LP-2 LP-3 LP-4 LP-5 LP-6 LP-7 3A. (a) Description Aggregate of price/value of goods‚ – (1) Purchased outside the State (for sale outside) (2) Purchased in the course of export out of India (3) Purchased in the course of inter-State trade (4) Purchased in the course of import into India (5) Imported into State (6) Received for sale from dealers regd. under VAT (7)
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ASHITABA PLANT (Jonathan O. Dela Cruz III-Courage) One of the oldest and prominent herbal plants native to Asia‚ grown in rich volcanic soil is Ashitaba. The herbal plant described like "celery - like vegetable". In China medicinal properties of the plant date back 2000 years‚ during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) and Shogun warriors (1192 -1867). A Chinese book written by Dr. Lee (1518 - 1593) first describes the medicinal value of Ashitaba during the Ming Dynasty. Ashitaba known to purify blood
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