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    society's norms (Heaney ln 9-16). According to Enda Duffy, bogs or turfs are part of Ireland's landscape in which one can dig and find many treasures and other paraphernalia (Duffy 4/6/10). Heaney is relating his experience to Peter Glob's discovery of a woman's body at the bottom of a bog or turf. In both instances, women are seen as targets of death: one is sentenced to her death and the other is thrown away. Heaney is able to

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    Focusing on visual appeal, he uses personification towards her face and sweet thoughts. When Byron states “Or softly lightens o’er her face; How pure, how dear, their dwelling place”, he is talking about how the beauty of the woman’s expressions give readers the idea that her mind is pure and innocent. (11/12 byron) The beauty of her facial expression show how “serenely sweet” her thoughts are.

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    draw the viewer’s attention to the main area of interest. In this case, that is the connectedness of the man with his lover despite their separation. One example of a line is the woman’s golden hair floating towards him as a symbol of their love. Lines are also used to etch the man’s facial expressions and the woman’s lack thereof. But other than the two lovers, the nature in the background has a symbolic meaning. The crimson bush, the tree, the land, the sky and the water all help represent the

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    of society does want to allow these individuals to go into a public restroom to which they identify themselves as, but don’t because they don’t want for example a man in a woman’s restroom. I can see why this might cause a conflict in a woman’s point of view because we will feel uncomfortable or unsafe in having a man in a woman’s restroom. That is why some people in society want these transgender individuals to go through transgender surgery and have them go through a process in which they will be

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    Al Amira Headscarf

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    Figure 2. An Al-Amira. (“What’s the difference between a hijab, niqab and burka?” BBC; 18 June 2015; Web; 23 June 2016). As seen in the image above, the Al-Amira covers the head and the neck. Yet similar to the Hijab, this headscarf does not cover the face (“What’s the”). While similar to the Hijab, the Al-Amira is not as prevalent and many women do not wear this headscarf. The Al-Amira has no specific colour or fabric requirements. It is also worn in many different geographical locations. The Al-Amira

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    A woman's terrified shriek rang through the cobbled alleys, before it was abruptly silenced the black night was quiet once again. The person standing over her had a deadly, Cheshire Cat like smile. Their white teeth glowed in the dim light of the night. Blood splattered the brick wall and their dark clothing, staining both. The woman that laid lifelessly on the ground had the long knife still stuck through her head. The killer pulled the blade out tenderly, wiping it with a dark, bloodstained handkerchief

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    advertisements and is essentially the selling product for these companies and businesses. Women in society are told that they have to look like this idealized individual and are scrutinized if they don’t. They should aim to have her perfect body type and her face, despite what they have to do to achieve it. However, this woman isn’t real herself. This ideal woman is the result of hours of makeup, photo shopping, and photo retouching that comes along with digital advertising in the media. Typical women see these

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    Cunningham has even experienced this herself, from her friends and even her husband. One of her friends told her that they associate her with her smile, calling it her “essence” and that she should smile more (Cunningham 369). Her husband calls her smiling face unthreatening and because of that demeanor, people like her in a “fuzzy” way, despite that not being her goal (369). Not only with firsthand experience, Cunningham also pertains details from history, scientific evidence, and culture into her article

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    Being associated with the surrealist movement, and more specifically, an elite group of surrealists, Dorothea Tanning stands out. Her desire to create both poetry and paintings which can be interpreted as having no exit, is what makes her works different from other surrealists. With the ambition to create a piece that is interpreted as having no exit, Dorothea Tanning’s Birthday, 1942 the painting exemplifies an illusion of power and isolation. This self-portrait, Birthday by Dorothea Tanning is

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    Ray Bradbury’s use of diction creates tones that are hard-hearted, acerbic, and judgmental in Fahrenheit 451 when, the firemen show up to “fix” the old woman’s library. First, Bradbury creates a hard-hearted tone when he writes, “He sapped her face with amazing objectivity and repeated the question” ( Bradbury 33). Beatty slapped a woman to get information out of her. The author’s word objectivity create a hard-hearted tone when Beatty slapped a woman because Beatty did not even feel bad for hitting

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