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    stating “American girls are the best girls” (James, 330). He found her feminine beauty addictive, “he had not seen for a long time anything prettier than his fair countrywoman’s various features” (James, 331). He came to the conclusion she was a “coquette” who had a “spirit of her own…no mockery, no irony” (James, 331). As the story progresses, the reader begins to observe

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    shows that Rip did not listen nor felt the need to care what his wife had to say because women were inferior and men played the most important role in a family. To men, the thoughts of women seemed to be irrelevant. “She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms,” (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 6). This quote describes Katrina as someone who is very flirty and wears fancy dresses

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    The Innocence of Daisy Miller Essay

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    In 1878, Henry James wrote, Daisy Miller, a novella about a young American girl and her travels in Europe. Daisy Miller is a complex short story with many underlying themes such as appearance versus reality, knowledge versus innocence, outward action versus inward meditation, and Nature versus urbanity. In this short story, one is left to judge whether Daisy Miller, the main character of the story, is “a pretty American flirt” or a misunderstood, modern young woman. By probing into the complexities

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    The ravenous disease of rabies is present in all countries except Antarctica (“10 Facts on Rabies”). By looking at what rabies is, how to treat it and who created the rabies vaccine, one can learn that the rabies virus is very interesting and frightening. Rabies is a virus that belongs to the family Rhabdoviridae. Rabies can be found everywhere in North America except Hawaii (“Rabies Areas”). Rabies is also throughout the world but this virus is most common in Africa, Asia, India, Indonesia, Central

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    In In the Time of the Butterflies, there are three sisters who join the revolution against an oppressive government. When Dede is on a vacation to Spain, a Canadian man tells her “It is the sweetness in them that makes them burn” (Alvarez, 320). Dede connects these words to her sisters and why they joined the revolution. It is the sweetness of Minerva, Patria, and Maria Teresa that caused them to join the revolution. Minerva’s sweetness is that she cares. Not particularly about herself, including

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    Math And Science Dbq

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    It's is written in history that the field of Math and Science seems to be a more male dominant field. The evidence shows that years ago women were discouraged from pursuing the field. We learned about the Darwin theory which is based on the fact that men were inferior to women. A theory that to a point made society actually believes that because men's brains were bigger they were smarter than females. This matter on top of a society that already didn't treat male and female equal created more

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    The protagonist, Madame Hermet, is firstly described as “beautiful, a real coquette” and she is very admired by men (109). Therefore, her beauty is to her one of the most important things, which would consequently take up most of her time. She is a widow and has a son, whom she loves. One day, as her son got a deadly disease, she

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    Goldust Personality

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    ring for any promotion is made Goldust will feature on top of each and every one of those lists. In September 1995, Goldust debuted as a heel character that played mind games with his adversaries using his sexually suggestive antics. He used to make coquette and indecent advances towards his opponents during the matches. Goldust portrayed a character that was a drag queen. He always wore a golden jump suit and face paint with little splashes of other colours on the jumpsuit and a golden wig. In those

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    Connection Assignment

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    The woman must take care of herself and doll herself up. Theroux stresses “The nine-year-old coquette proceeds to become womanish in a subtle power game in which she learns to be sexually indispensable, socially decorative and always alert to a man's sense of inadequacy” (Theroux 3). A woman is taught at a young age what to wear and how to act. The

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    In 1787, Royall Tyler is struggling to find himself within the birth of the new nation, a little over a decade old, wrote this piece, comprehending on where he finds and defines himself. It’s a completely valid statement, as he uses typically English ways of writing this dramatic comedy; he uses the Elizabethan standard in keeping in time with Aristotelian thematics of drama in the unities of one day, one place, and one plot. He also keeps in mind of the Roman critic, Horace; his idea constituting

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