In line 8, the shape of Pleasure Mouse's newly shaped foot is described as 'the point of a moon sickle.' ... Also in paragraph two, there is a significant contrast between the names of the characters. ... The women then 'chanted' together, urging Pleasure Mouse to walk. ... The women tell Pleasure Mouse that she 'must walk or [she] will sicken.' ... When forced to walk yet again, Pleasure Mouse is 'grabbed' by Lao Bing and is 'shaken' by Lao Bing. ...

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During the Cold War, the world was engulfed in a game of "us- verses "them- ¯whichever superpower could gather the most countries, develop the fastest technology, threaten other nations with nuclear warfare, or walk on the moon first would win the race to superiority. ... When the Cold War ended in 1989 with the falling of the Berlin Wall, not only did Germany unite; globalization was introduced, establishing trade between nations: "Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent; for if one has an interest in buying, the other has an interest in selling; and thus thei...

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For the purposes of this essay I will be exploring the question of whether or not the formalities of literature have to be expunged so that adaptations can translate convincingly to cinema or can we see a much more fruitful relationship between these two texts, and one in which can grant Woolf a degree of prescience with which she is rarely credited. ... The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a M...

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