Margaret Thatcher‚ from 1979-1990 is the first and only woman thus far to have served as Prime Minister for the United Kingdom and dealt with many unique challenges as a result of her gender. First‚ a female‚ showing an interest in a career in politics in the 1950’s was very unusual and often considered aggressive by both male and females. As the movie showed‚ she was an outsider not only to men but also to women. As a female M.P.‚ Leader of the Conservative Party and then Prime Minister‚ Margaret
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The poem The City Planners is a poem written by Margaret Atwood. It starts off about the poet driving around the streets and describing what she sees‚ some things are praised‚ but there is also a list of complaints. Then the poet describes the City Planners‚ which I think they are builders or architects and their so-called constructive work. In the view of the poet it seems that they are building very tidy and smart buildings but they are actually destroying nature and the environment. The first
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Thatcher‚ Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher‚ Baroness Thatcher‚ Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher‚ Baroness‚ 1925‚ British political leader. Great Britain’s first woman prime minister‚ Thatcher served longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th cent. In office she initiated what became known as the "Thatcher Revolution‚" a series of social and economic changes that dismantled many aspects of Britain’s postwar welfare state. Thatcher studied chemistry at Oxford and later became a lawyer
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Nicu is a good choice of husband for Margaret Nicu and Margaret are one of the most significant couples in the novel. The novel is about the difference of the people brought by different class. Nicu is in lower class‚ his family does not earn much and they rent farms from Chisholm’s family. Margaret‚ in the other hand ‚ is in higher class‚ she herself is in Chisholm’s family. If this young couple want to be together‚ their love should be proved. There are some reasons why Nicu is a good choice for Margaret. First of all
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Margaret Bourke-White was a well known photographer and was known for proving that women could do the same thing as men in the field of photography. She photographed Gandhi minutes before his assassination‚ covered the war that followed the partition of India‚ and was with U.S. troops when they liberated Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp. She was the iconic photographer that caught everyone by surprise. Margaret defied what everyone thought that a woman was capable of doing in the world of
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In this ever-changing society in which we live in‚ is centered around many norms. A norm that has taken a large leap over the years deals with college education. In Margaret A. Miller’s “The Privileges of the Parents‚” she discusses the impacts that a parent’s education has on their children. She does that by referencing the difference in the economic benefit received by individuals with a variety of educational backgrounds. To support her claim‚ Miller centered her essay around an old folk saying
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Too Jaded to Write about Love An allusion is a casual or passing reference to a famous historical or fictional character. In poetry‚ allusions are often used to help reinforce a point or characterize the speaker or the addressee. In the case of Margaret Atwood’s poems‚ “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing” and “Sekhmet Lion-Headed Goddess of War”‚ allusions are used to empower and change the way we view the female speaker. This is especially obvious in “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing”
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photography as Social Commentary Born in the Bronx‚ New York in 1904‚ Margaret Bourke-White was one of the best-known photographers of the twentieth century who was known for her fearless and dramatic photographs. She graduated from Cornell University and started her career as an industrial photographer at a steel company in Cleveland‚ Ohio. In 1929 she got hired by Fortune Magazine and traveled to the Soviet Union to photograph its industrial development. Bourke-White then
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published in 1992 in England. The story is about a couple who married without love‚ but parent’s wish instead.The husband named Henry Tillotson and the wife named Margaret Tillotson. Henry got married to Margaret because it was his father’s wish and to save her from going to prison. Henry brought Margaret to his farmhouse in Cotteshaw. When Margaret got there‚ she went straight to her bed and rarely got up. Margaret’s favorite and only hobby was redecorating the bedroom. She kept changing the color from
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A 1991 play‚ Wit written by Margaret Edson explore a women’s life‚ Vivian Bearing‚ is suffering from the final stage of ovarian cancer and being treated with a full dose chemotherapy experiment for eight months. She finds out she has cancer and has to deal with it all by herself with no family members and not many friends. Vivian is a literature professor of seventeenth century poetry and also specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. (Edson pg. 5) She understood her life in an analytical security
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