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    Judith Fetterley argued in her critical essay that Emily Grierson from a “Rose for ‘A Rose for Emily’” was empowered and victimized by her gender and class. However the girl from “Boys and Girls” and Gertrude from Hamlet had not been as lucky as Miss Emily. In a “Rose for ‘A Rose for Emily’” Emily Grierson was the daughter of Mr. Grierson, who was a respected man in Jefferson. After his death Miss Emily still conserved her title of a lady even if all the town folks knew that she didn’t have money

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    In 1928 Wichita began to promote themselves as the “Air Capital.” Most of the population agrees that Wichita is and always will be the “Air Capital of the World.” The way that we built the industry is amazing. Yet there are those few individuals who do believe that we should no longer name ourselves as the “Air Capital.” We have multiple aircraft factories and aircraft is the center of our employment. We have grown our industries and continue to produce more and more aircraft through the decades

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    Rapid City, South Dakota, February 24, 2015 /Newswire/ -- Southwest Montana Properties LLC has acquired Sundial Square Apartments, a 63-unit multifamily community built in 1992 and located in Rapid City, South Dakota. The property is centrally located, in close proximity to Rapid City’s employment centers and shopping destinations and is ideally situated across the street from a 28 acre public park and recreation area offering a wide array of public amenities. The property offers residents detached

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    Shakespeare’s characters in Romeo and Juliet were all memorable ones. The witty and loyal Mercutio is as memorable as any main character. Mercutio himself is a fascinating man in many aspects. A friend of Romeo's and relative to the Prince of Verona. Mercutio is involved in the feud between the Montagues and Capulets through his friendship with Romeo. Mercutio is utilized by shakespeare to have a comedic effect on the play along with diverting the seriousness of dramatic scenes. Mercutio’s wittiness

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    Boys and Girls, written by Alice Munro in 1931, is a short story that discusses the journey of a girl who transcends the concept of gender roles in her youth by believing herself to be characterized by not her gender, but instead her interests, capabilities, and responsibilities in regard to her support in running her father’s fox farming business at home. Throughout the story, the nameless narrator supplies the reader with a multitude of details that explain and explore the social constraints of

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    activation when the brain is storing and manipulating specific information over a short period of time. It was found that these differences in the hemisphere activation influenced the time and accuracy performances of males and females. As found by Hill, Laird, and Robinson, gender differences are shown in the two different types of working memory: spatial and verbal. The gender differences were evident in the brains of the participants. Different areas of the brain were activated, which demonstrated that

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    Gender Roles In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls”, the story is focused on a working class family who lives on a farm. A man’s role on the farm or in general is to work for the family and do the heavy work that a woman wouldn’t be able to do. The daughter in the story is very much inspired by the father and wishes to pursue in the activities that are being performed around the farm. The mother needs help around the house and that was the role many females took over for many centuries and generations

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    Efie and Colina are half-sisters. The girls were born to Fenella, a strikingly beautiful woman. Fenella was married to Wallace, Laird of Inverness and the father of Efie. He fell ill one day and withered in a week due to a mysterious disease. The Lair was soon succeeded by Derek, Wallace’s younger brother. Love blossomed between Fenella and Derek, something which did not come as a surprise to the members of the clan. Soon their union bore Fenella another daughter whom she named Colina. But 3 years

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    characters that have a lot of impact on the thoughts and actions of each other, with the exception of Henry who is the farmhand and more of a side, flat character. The characters include the narrator who is the protagonist, an unnamed young girl, Laird, the young girl's’ little brother,

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    the son, Laird gets bigger so he can do the chores outside and the girl can do the chorus inside with her. The mother states, “I just get my back turned and she runs off. It’s not like I had a girl in the family at all.” At this point the girl feels like she can’t trust her mother, she knows her mother loved her yet she feels like her mom is always plotting against her to keep her from working with her father. She didn’t expect her father to really listen to what her mother was saying, Laird, in her

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