Loss of identity, self realization and identity reconstruction are common themes found in both of the novels , Sirens of Baghdad and The Attack by Yasmina Khadra. ... Regaining one's loss of identity is important for the characters within both novels to undergo. ... Identity or psychological identity is a person's capacity for self-reflection and awareness. ... These types of identity crises are evident in both novels, The Attack and Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra and Sirens of Baghdad. ... This sort of respect and pride is what plays a large role in shaping the narrator's ...

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Being gay is much more profound than simply a sexual relationship; being gay is part of that person's core identity and goes right to the very center of his or her being. ... Being gay is much more profound than simply a sexual relationship; being gay is part of that person's core identity and goes right to the very center of his or her being. ... Being gay is much more profound than simply a sexual relationship; being gay is part of that person's core identity and goes right to the very center of his or her being. ...

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The main character in the novel Jane Eyre is a strong, ambitious, self-sufficient woman by the name of Jane Eyre. From very early on Jane struggles to find her place in the world amongst a society who places a high value on social status. Despite three major challenges throughout her life, Jane Ey...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against oppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainmen...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is confined to a very secondary position. It is only through the advent of the rise in fiction by Indian women writers that the woman has been able to assume a major role in the novel. Many of the Indian women novelists focus on women's issues; they have a woman's perspect...

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Between his dependency and your "mission-, you have an identity and a sense of security, however skewed, which will eventually lead you to be nonsexually screwed.... And all in order to settle for fantasy versions of love, commitment, security, attachment, identity and purpose. ...

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Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. In her flashback, the heroine is working as the young traveling companion to a wealthy American named Mrs. Van Hopper . ...

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Jack and Algernon have a dual identity. ... (Act 1 page 7) Algernon and Jack take the business of having a dual identity very seriously, as it is their escape from the reality of the society in which they live. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The lecture by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in 1909 at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has introduced an American audience to the notion that sexuality is a central part of human identity and development. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states divorce as " an act of legally dissolving a marriage" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998). Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce" (Corcoran). While these figures are high, the divorce rate appears to be dropping. Studies from Dr. Kathleen O"Connell Corcoran Ph.D. show that "divorce is associated with an increase in depression: people experience loss of partner, hopes and dreams, and lifestyle". ...

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Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. The story is interesting and impressive because the heroine's personal character is quite different from the common run. In other novels, the heroines are always beautiful or powerful or rich, but Jane Eyre is only a short, penniless a...

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On D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers And the Oedipus complex [Abstract]: On D.H. Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers, the author in this thesis attempts to analyze the Oedipus complex how to appear, the concrete exhibition, the origin and the aftereffect. Meanwhile, introduce something about "Oedipus complex", in psychoanalytic theory and literature. ...

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The Bible refers to marriage many times throughout itself, whether it is direct or indirect. "God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God," is a quote Max Lucado had said when writing about marriage (Reference 3). ...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the ritual conducted when the couple decides to establish a marital relationship and through which they can win over the approval, recognition and protection of the community. The procedure of the wedding ceremony actually reflects the various social and cultural notions. The wedding customs in anci...

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• Grade Level: High School