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    character, as seen in works such as Pride and Prejudice and Julius Caesar. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen makes use of character foil to accentuate qualities within its main characters. An important character who acts as a foil is Christine Linde. As the play progresses, Christine Linde acts as a foil to Nora’s character through her development from an object of pity to Nora’s ideal for herself. Through the foil, insight can be gained into the inner workings of the main character and also to foreshadow

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    people to have at least one person. Though I may be calculated into the mass of people who claim a friend to be their most admired person, I believe that Christine Ardans is someone who I admire most. I remember the first day I met her, she had already struck me as someone different and was not someone you’d typically meet on a normal day. Christine had a strong sense of ambition, had intelligence, and had the kindest heart and she does to this day. She was like an undiscovered book,

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    When high school teacher Christine Pelton realized that twenty-eight of her biology students had plagiarized semester projects she failed the ones responsible. After several complaints from parents, the Piper School Board requested that she lessen the severity of the penalty. While school board members did not want to “rock the boat,” Christine Pelton was displeased with the request and spoke out. The problem, however, appears greater than the school board’s less than severe punishment; the present

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    Christine M. Korsgaard argues in the article ‘PERSONHOOD, ANIMALS, AND THE LAW’ that non-human animals, although may not be categorized as ‘persons’, should be regarded as ends in themselves and the subjects of rights against human treatment. Korsgaard begins with explaining the tradition of Roman law, in which all the entities in the world may be categorized into ‘persons’ and ‘things’. However, since animals are being categorized as ‘things’, it is difficult to offer them legal protection despite

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    Pooh clearly has a problem. He is obsessed with honey and will do anything to acquire some. This is problematic since it interferes with his daily life. This can be called abnormal behavior, a behavior or even mental state that is different from what one can expect in a culture. Abnormal behavior usually comes from a psychological disorder (or multiple) where thoughts, feelings, and/or actions are distressful and dysfunctional. The symptoms of a psychological disorder have to interfere with one's

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    the male speaker. This is something that happens in Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “Porphyria’s Lover”. A poem in which a man strangles the woman he loves after she’s come to visit him one stormy night. I’ve analyzed two critics, Christine Maxwell and Christine Ross. Maxwell believes that the speaker of the poem has taken on the personality of Othello, in the drama Othello. Similar in the way that Othello kills Desdemona through suffocation. Maxwell argues that Browning has projected this kind

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    grandma, Christine Meyer, who was born on April 24, 1938, I realized that many of my views varied quite drastically from my grandma’s. Christine was born and raised in the country just outside of Bonfield, Illinois. It’s a very small town about 60 miles south of Chicago, Illinois. She had two brothers and two sisters, all of whom were all older than her. Her mother died of cancer when Christine was 20 years old and her dad then remarried. Her father didn’t pass away until 1980. Christine didn’t attend

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    term intersectionality is a concept that is new to me, but gives me a deeper understanding of how people are strongly affected not only by one form of discrimination, but by multiple forms simultaneously. The reading Intersectionality: A primer by Christine Emba defines intersectionality as a term used to describe and recognize how race, class, and gender are separate categories that can overlap and intersect (Emba, 2015). Many times these categories can merge with each other in ways that can marginalize

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    In the story provided, “The Bride” written by Christine Granados tells the story of an over analyzing sister who wants to have the perfect wedding when she grows up and realizes that it may not all be perfect in the end. The perspectives on this story can differ between the readers' point of view as well as the author's message that she’s trying to portray. One of the four perspectives that is represented in the story includes a historical and cultural point of view. Starting from the first paragraph

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    milestones such as learning to walk, learning to talk and their first day at school. Throughout all these stages parents are obliged to provide guidance, safety and support for their children as they learn to interpreate the world for themselves. Christine Jeffs’ visual text, Rain explores the story of thirteen year old, Janey whose parents are so caught up in self-absorption, they neglect their parental roles to both Janey and her younger brother Jim.This up-bringing of Janey and Jim leave the audience

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