It is because of this, it is such an important text for students to study. ... The text's target audience is teenagers and young adults. ... The title of the text, "Looking For Alibrandi" conveys Josephine's search for self-identity. Basically the whole text is based on this one issue and the conflicts Josephine has along the way. ... Marchetta has also used important issues of this day and age to make this text both enjoyable and a good text for students to read because they can easily relate to it, which is very useful when you are trying to get the attention of the young read...

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• Grade Level: High School

Good afternoon class: Appropriation is the translation of elements of one text into another text, in which the old elements are transformed to suit the responders of the new social context. ... As can be seen, the attitude to marriage in the 19th century context of Pygmalion contrasts sharply to that of Pretty Woman, a 20th century text. ... These are the main issues of marriage which have changed vastly from the appropriation of the 19th century text of Pygmalion into the 20th century composition of Pretty Woman. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This severe family disharmony is something that is implicitly challenged within the text by Aboriginal values. ... Contrast the way the novelist presents men and women in the text. Link this to a feminist reading of the text." ... She seems to be the most "feminen" woman in the text. ... Oriel has had many experiences by the river.The women in the text face a number of problems. ...

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The generation gap has undoubtedly led to some different thoughts concerning sex that are noticeable in the text. Firstly, there is something to be said about the insatiable female desire depicted in the text. ... Throughout the text women are continually being unsatisfied by men and are being overtaken by lustful desires. ... There have been three different worlds in the text; the authors, the storytellers, and the characters within the stories. ... The ideals of the plague, cultural norms, and the beliefs of Boccacio have all worked hand in hand in producing a very sexually laden text. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The text also explores the relationship between individuals and the authorities that have the power and the loss of individuality of inmates. The text also explores the concept of rehabilitation. ... Caitlyn is significant in that she offers the love interest for Brett in the text. ... Throughout the text, Monk uses the theme of power, and its abuse, through his various characters. ...

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What I was least attracted too was his usage of text in his still picture with a mask. I think when it comes to art it should be expressed without words or any form of text. Once text is used in art, the viewers ability to interpret becomes limited to the words. ...

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The leading text, and the only one introduced in Congress, is two sentences: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. ... But he said nothing in the text is meant to prevent state legislatures from establishing civil unions, as Vermont's did in 2000, or from conferring a range of domestic benefits on same-sex partners, as California lawmakers did this year. ... As a result, Daniels said, his alliance is working on another version that would make "minor changes in the text to make it explicit and undeniably clear that we are not seeking to inva...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many female characters in 19th Century texts are caught between a need for independence through working, and a need for security, through marriage and the taking on of domestic duties as a housewife. ... Female characters in 19th Century texts also need intellectual freedom. ... Female characters in 19th Century texts also need sexual independence. ... There are also female characters in 19th Century texts that opt for fiscal security, marrying in order to ensure a protected future for themselves. ... Here, the writers of 19th Century texts show that women were often condemned to discontented ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Desdemona Shakespeare's sweetest star A Outline of the role of Desdemona in the text : Desdemona is the sickly sweet innocent in Shakespeare's play Othello. ... C ) My impressions of Desdemona : When Desdemona first appears in the text she is defending her love for Othello to the senators. ... I changed my mind again by the end of the text to her being just plain stupid. ... E ) Text Analysis : 1) " l know't ; l thank you. ... It does not really let us see any other side of Desdemona's personality we have seen it all before. 2 ) " Alas the hea...

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The Song Related To The Section On Divorce In Family Studies Class The text book for the NFO OAC course states that divorce results from the failure of a marriage to meet the expectations of one or both marriage partners. ... The text also states that those who divorce once are more likely to divorce a second or third time . ... The text also says that most divorces occur within five to fifteen years of marriage. ... The text also contains a quote from Margaret Atwood who states that "divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there is less of you". ...

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James Joyce's short story, "A Painful Case" depicts the life of a Dubliner, James Duffy, at a specific period in his life. However, hidden in the lines of the text, there lies a tragic love story, and the "Carpe Diem" lesson that once again is learned a few moments too late. In the text, the death ...

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The text provokes in me the feeling that Zelda's only chances of achieving a certain degree of prosperity in her life is to marry. Obviously the text was written in period of time when women were much more disadvantaged than men. ...

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From this primary text, written by the speechwriter Lysias (c.440-380B.C.E.), one can reach a decent understanding of the gender roles within the Athenian society and the aspects of domestic life and public justice in ancient Athens. ... A valuable aspect of the text is found in how it presents women in Athenian society. ...

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We see examples of this in the text when we read from Link's perspective, "And he thought he had never seen one quite so beautifully put together - like a swimmer or a racehorse or an airplane, all the essential parts in the exact right place. ... The text states, "He looked back at Number Six and saw a pink light upstairs where the Powthers lived, dimly, through the branches of The Hangman. ... The text states "She had a long thin senseless scarf pale green in color, shot through with metal threads that glinted in the dim light."" (70) and " the pale yellow hair that had a silky shimmer...

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The sweet, unselfish and loving daughter named Belle can be turned into someone who we never thought when we're young that she can be. According to Derrida (1960's) Deconstruction is a method of reading which is based on the assumption that language is unreliable. The goal of a deconstructionist rea...

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We do not know how they lost their son, but the text tells in p. 3 l. 122-123: ''We attended a group for parents of children who died in preventable accidents'' that it was not a natural death (it never is when children die), but it must have been a terrible accident when they could have prevented it from happening, and they must have a lot of bad guilt in them. ... The text gives a lot of symbols of that; when he drives his new son to the arena, where the son is going to play lacrosse. ...

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While doing my ambulance clinicals in Indianapolis with Rural/Metro Ambulance I encountered many new experiences, but none quite the same or more impacting than the last call of my second night there. At about 2:30 AM on a Sunday morning the truck that I was working on was called as the fifth back...

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Anne Bradstreet was born in England. She married a man name Simon Bradstreet. Her and family were on the ship Arbella that was one of the first groups of settlers to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Her family was in government. Most of her writings were intended for her own private source; so th...

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And while poor treatment in Islamic cultures can be attributed to radical regional customs which are easily debunked by the words of the Koran, Hindu culture, with its lack of an offical religious text, has little to govern the treatment of women by, thus opening up the door for tradition and public opinion to serve as Hindu law. ... Hindu cultures, on the other hand, have no excuses as they have no defintive text to govern their behavior. ... According to traditional Hindu texts, there are three values relating to a girl when she is born: wedding gift, dowry payment, and abandonment. ...

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Margaret Sanger's "My Fight for Birth Control" is truly a moving and emotional text depicting the pregnancy/abortion related horrors women had to live through (and very often, died for). She had worked as a nurse, able to witness first hand the suffering of these mostly poor/middle class women and ...

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Two Portraits of women in Poe's tale Ligeia. Not only does Ligeia's unusual beauty represents the main theme throughout the story, but the text reflects Poe's rejecting the "ordinary", a common theme in literature. The writter rejects classical values and welco...

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Widowhood can occur anytime a married couple's life. However, it is more so for the man to die first than the woman in their later years of life. According to the text, men die an average of 8 years earlier than women and there are 4.4 widows for every one widower. But, in this article, we explain t...

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She tries to justify the way she acts by comparing it to the actions of authority figures and sacred texts. ... To support this, the Wife says; "After thy text, ne after thy rubriche, I wol nat wirche as muchel as a gnat." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The thoughts of Anuj aren't described in the text, which makes him quite flat as a character, as he is only described by his actions. ... The message of the text is how hard arranged marriages can be. ...

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However, with the clues given throughout the text and some imagination, it might be that the narrator's wife is having an affair with his pool partner. ... Upon reading the story for the first time, the reader may glance over the italicized text and not give it much thought. ...

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• Grade Level: High School