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    fit in describing the middle of Janie and Joe’s marriage, which is where it sort-of starts to crumble and slightly uprights, before becoming completely destroyed. Tone/Mood: The tone of this song is hopeful (that things will/can change), and the mood generates a sense of urgency, as if the goal may not be accomplishable if not carried out soon enough. This would work very well with the middle part of Janie and Joe’s marriage, since it starts to go downhill, and Janie still believes that it can get

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    everything that they left with, such as clothes, a man, and belongings. Later into the story, we learn that the person is called Janie Starks and she had run away with a man named Tea Cake. She came back without him because he is gone but not for why everyone else is thinking. She then begins to tell her friend, Pheoby Watson, the story of where everything started. Janie starts off her story from when she was a child being raised by her Nanny and didn’t know she was white until she saw herself in

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    When Janie reemerges in Eatonville at the beginning of the novel, a disheveled, weary, yet contented spirit at peace in her heart, the presence of the porch sitters transform into the town’s obligatory witness who judges Janie’s transgressions and rebirth. As a result, the porch and its occupants merge into an integral, single identity and characterization of its own. One of the primary literary tools Hurston uses to tell Janie’s story is through the embrace of African American slave vernacular

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    Firstly, Janie and Gatsby both share similar paths to how they got their identity and social status and they both start the story as pretty average people, but by the end of the book they are both important people, knew who they were. Janie started out as a girl, who was raised by her grandmother, alongside her grandmother’s former owners, she was in turn, treated better than most coloured people, she was teased at school about living with the white people. “Us lived dere havin’ fun till de chillun

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    March 2017 Reaching Janie’s Own Horizon Zora Neale Hurston begins Their Eyes Were Watching God with Janie as a naive sixteen year old who dreams of falling in love. Over the course of her life, Janie has three different experiences of marriage, that shape her sense of self. She begins a dull marriage with Logan Killicks that she only agrees to as a way to appease her grandmother, Nanny. Leaving him, Janie marries an ambitious man named Jody Starks who she thinks will bring her happiness and love, unexpectedly

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    Janie went on a long journey to obtain womanhood. Janie grew up living with her grandma, who always wanted her to get married at a young age. Janie eventually did marry Logan Killicks when she was 18 years old. However, she hated living with him. He was described as a shallow, unlovable human being. This was when Janie became a woman because she realized that marriage does not assure love. Janie then married Jody Starks. At first, he seemed like a good person because he offered her a new life, but

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    Janie and Mrs. Mallard both lead distinctive lives due to their beliefs, environment and health. At an early age Janie married Logan Killicks because of her grandmother’s dying wish (Hurston, 15). Janie soon left Killicks and married Joes Starks a prosperous man who’s desire was to become rich and well known (Hurston, 29). Starks passed away and Janie married a younger man than her named Tea Cake (Hurston 116). Janie left her home town with Teacake and had the privilege to travel to new places and

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    Tea Cake was over with forced labor. He wanted to act as the free man he was. His love for Janie do not let him to think in other things but her. In addition, he knew that was not the life he deserved. Consequently, he decides to run away from work but also from that town. He knew it was not for him. Pheoby knows that you cannot overestimated a woman, and more if they have goals. She sees that Janie was experienced enough to make her owns decisions and that she might had her reasons, despite that

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    her second husband, Jody. This is how Janie understands the concept of self as a transaction and a product that grows physically, and cognitively, over time through experiences with the

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    Janine Starinsky is the administrator she earned a master's degree in health administration from the University of Scranton and she has been in the facility for 18 years advocating regarding the need of Alzheimer population and she is certified dementia practitioner as will as involving in Alzheimer association since 5 years. When I asked her about her leadership style she stated that her style is mix of different administrative style depending on the situation “ very directive when it is regulatory

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