A Dolls House Henrik Ibsen's "A Dolls House" is one of his best known plays. ... In "A Dolls House", Ibsen takes a look at the role of women in the late 1800's. ... Plot As we begin the play, we see Nora coming in to the house with packages from her day of Christmas shopping. ... She is seen at the beginning of the play as a playful doll in Torvalds house; a child that has never grown up. ... Rank visits the house everyday. ...

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This period saw several masterpieces like Ghosts (1881), Hedda Gabbler (1890), A Doll's House (1879), The Lady from the Sea (1888). ... This is as true of Nora in A Doll's House as it is of Hedda Gabbler. A Doll's House (1879) was a socio-drama on marriage in which a woman walks out from her seemingly perfect marriage following the desperational act of consorting to fraud in order to save her husband from critical illness. ...

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James Bulger Case Denise Bulger took James everywhere. She lost her first child during pregnancy and she did not want anything to happen to her precious son. At 25, she planned to have more kids, but for ...

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Bands like the New York Dolls, and the White Trash Debutantes dressed in outrageous women's clothing and played loud, distorted, simple progressions with hard, driving beats behind them. ... While it was open it housed several off-Broadway productions, including Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Proposition", a satirical review. It was also the launch pad for bands like the "New York Dolls," "Ruby and the Rednecks," "Teenage Lust," and Wayne County's "Queen Elizabeth and the Harlots of 42nd Street." On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar,...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim,...

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Besides the 32-years paleontologist was engaged with Ernestine, a doll of Victorian epoch. ... Ernestine becomes more and more "artificial", reminding Charles Olimpia, a mechanical doll from the story of Gofman "The Sand Man" - «Again, as recently at the concert, Charles had an idea that there is something flat in her, that wit of hers does not occur at all as follows in a literal sense, from the witticism of mind."" ...

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Both packages consist of theme appropriate entertainment (either princess bracelet crafts or a pirate game), a clown, a make-up booth (either princess themed or pirate themed) and a jump house located at a restricted birthday party area in a local playground. ... Party Package Basic (pirate or princess theme) Normal birthday cake Several snacks and drinks included No lunch included Small candy present for the kids to take home Party Package Broad (pirate or princess theme) Normal birthday cake Several snacks and drinks included Lunch included Gift package including candy, a pirate or prince...

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World is made of men and women. They are the two pieces of a puzzle without which life would be impossible. What is it exactly that makes the division between men and women? Scientifically, one responsible factor is a proper chromosome. But the truth is that it is not so much the matter of...

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In the second method Swift paints a picture of a war against the Irish population: But if they still continue to obstinate, or offer to raise Insurrection, he proceeds to the last Remedy, by letting the Island drop directly upon their Heads, which makes a universal Destruction both of Houses and Men. ... We as readers may think Gulliver is rather naiv to make such a statement, seeing the resemblance in his treatment to that of a baby doll. ...

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This imagination is vast enough to house fairy realms and the world of reality, including all the peculiar manifestations of either place. ... The lover's fall in and out of love like dolls, and like dolls...

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Computer Animation Introduction Computer animation has been around longer than I have. You may not realize it, but it was on the minds of film directors since the 1970's. Each director longed for an easier, more effective way to enhance the graphics of their film. Computers have been used in many films as an assistance for effects. The first movie where computers played a key role was the Young Sherlock Holmes 1 . ...

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Once his father was sent to hospital because of industrial injury, he said to his mother with joy "I'm the host in the house now. " In order to be "the host in the house ", he even prayed for his father's death. In this proud state, he enjoyed being the man of the house. ... She was only a doll, without any of her own idea. ...

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Vivian jumped, she didn't like being alone in the dark, musty house, especially during a thunder storm. She remembered when she and her husband, Jake, had first visited the house. ... They fell in love with the house from the moment they laid their eyes on it. ... I couldn't have just imagined the whole thing, Vivian thought to herself, someone came into the house I heard them. ... The house is too quiet Vivian thought to herself as she inched her way back to the staircase. ...

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Every family yearned for a white picket fence, a suburban house, and green lawns. ... His success was so great that the House of Dior was earning roughly $15 million a year and was 66% of the French exports. ... Still his assistant, Yves Saint Laurent had an immense success with his first collection from the House of Dior and continued with his success in the 60's. ... Balenciaga opened his House of Balenciaga in 1937. ...

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The strain of having limited and insecure affluence is the context of Peter Pan, which opens in the nursery of a house "at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury- (87). The house is so nondescript that Barrie advises, "you may dump it down anywhere you like, and if you think it was your house you are very probably right- (87). While this is a particular house, belonging to the Darling family, Barrie assumes that members of his audience recognize and identify with it because they, like the Darlings, are middle class: if they don't live in a house like the Darlings', they k...

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At the state and federal levels, as maintained by the North Carolina Board of Elections , the population of North Carolina elects members of the US House of Representatives (In North Carolina,12 members are elected), associate Justices of the Supreme Court (2), Judges of the Court of Appeals (5), District Attorneys (37), Judges of District Court (87), members of State Senate (50), members of the State House of Representatives (120), Judges of Supreme Court (Non Partisan) (31), local County Commissioners ( 5), a President and Vice-President, a Governor, a Lieutenant Governor, an Attorney G...

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You call in your son from his riding lesson and bring your daughter out of her specially made life sized doll house and bring her inside and out of danger. ... Suddenly you see a lantern turn around the corner from your driveway and start up toward your house. ...

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Where Twain and Buffalo Bill's writings deal with the emergence of the Anglo-American hero, John Ford deals with the manifestations of that hero in his film The Searchers. John Wayne, in his anti-heroic role as a bigot and intolerant, is a tragic, lonely, morally-ambiguous figure who is doomed to ...

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Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye provides insight into the injustices of racism and poverty in America in the mid-1900s through the perspective of nine-year-old Claudia and ten-year-old Frieda MacTeer. Living in Lorain, Ohio, with their parents, the MacTeers take in a young girl as a resident named Pecola. Pecola is a young black girl who throughout the story is critiqued, shamed, and virtually destroyed due to the corrupt morals of her society. Morrison describes how African-American girls during this time period were encouraged to aspire to be white. All of the female African-Americ...

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Its been dubbed as just another high budget sci fi. On the contrary The Matrix could very well teach us something about ourselves, and where we are headed. Hundreds of sinister, black towers fill the landscape. Each tower containing thousands of glowing orbs. Each orb containing a single human be...

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In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, but by being in the same orisha "house-. ... The godparents, who are also Santeria priests, guide the initiates and teach them the ways of their orisha house and other philosophies and practices of Santeria. ... Sometimes a santero will use a black doll as a dynamic representation of the eggun. The doll is the medium through which the eggun may be contacted. ...

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This is illustrated during the famous bobo doll experiment (Bandura, 1961). ... In her home environment she would first hear the shouting, hear the banging (doors slamming), see her parent upset see the one parent leave the house slamming the door behind him. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...

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Abstract The object of this study is to explore specific identity-formations that have occurred under specific cultural and socio-political contexts that have enabled women politicians in India to acquire political power. The paper will examine Indira Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta Banerjee, and Jayalalithaa, and try to understand what led to the personalization of power in all four cases. The idea is to analyze the relationship between particular identities that these figures have acquired in popular discourse and particular modalities of power. What do the invocation of mother or sister figures sig...

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