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    At the same time, it seems impossible to deny Menagerie was in some way based on Williams’s life; he drew from his experiences in St. Louis crafting Amanda after his mother Edwina and Laura after his sister Rose. The use of his family members for models of this early work is undeniable. However, the over-emphasis of Williams’s use of autobiography helps situate Menagerie as naturalistic because Williams was drawing from real memories

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    that I have is, what motivates the twins’ mother to contact Wren and Cath? I believe that one reason the twins’ mother, Laura, may have had for contacting the twins is that there is little responsibility with them now. One reason that Laura had for abandoning them was that having kids was too much of a responsibility for her. With the girls in college and living independently, Laura is not accountable to

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    Laura's Glass Unicorn

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    Laura’s glass menagerie represents her own emotional spirit. Laura had a minor physical impairment. Because of her physical appearance, she had a fragile and delicate inner appearance as well, like her glass pieces. Appearing weak to herself, outsiders were not able to see her true inner self and who she really was as an individual. The glass menagerie is a good comparative to Laura’s feelings about herself and how those around her also feel. One piece in particular that was a suggestive subject

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    to survive against nature. This is significant because it sets up the main point of the plot for the entire book. “‘Pick up the pretty pebbles, Laura’ Ma said. ‘And another time, don’t be so greedy’” (Wilder 174). The speaker is Ma, and its context is when Laura socket ripped out of her dress because she collected too many stones. This shows how Laura is still struggling with immaturity at times,

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    Mary Frances Moss, better known as Laura Keene, is a British woman who took the American theatre business by storm. Laura Keene is truly an inspiration. With her roots as an incredibly talented actress, Laura Keene managed to branch out and accomplish many incredible feats that no one thought possible for a woman in her time. She was the first woman in the United States to manage her own theatre company, and although all of the odds were stacked against her, she came out triumphant. Her legacy is

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    How well connected is your assigned film to the current event we are studying? The three films that I chose for this final project are; Fahrenheit 9/11, CSI season 1 episode 22, and West Wing Season 3 episode 1. These films are connected because they focus on different aspects associated with the attacks on September 11, 2001. Fahrenheit 9/11 is connected to the current topic because it’s main plot point follows Michael Moore’s narrative of blaming George W. Bush, our president on September 11 2001

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    Laura Bohannan(1966) in her story " Shakespeare in the Bush" describes a tribe called Tiv. It is an ethno-linguistic group living in West Africa, occupying remote regions, difficult to reach even by foot. The members of the tribe live in homesteads. In the homestead described by Bohannan( 1966) there were about one hundred forty relatives living together; men, women and children. The elder men of the tribe hold an especially esteemed role. The oldest among them is the leader. Women do not hold the

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    “No matter how much people may talk about its artistic merit, it nonetheless objectifies and therefore demeans women by casting them in the mould of whore.” (Cox) The present statement is what Laura Cox, journalist at the Daily Mail, summarizes of “Pour it up”, the music video released in 2013 by Rihanna to launch her new song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcVomMexkY). The video is constructed on an extreme usage of female’s bodies and it poorly represents the image of women expressed today by

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    Book: Presidential Campaigns From George Washington to George Bush Author: Paul F. Boller Jr. Publisher: Oxford University Press Date: 2004 Pages: 479 The Author Paul F. Boller, Jr. was born on December 31, 1916 in Spring Lake, New Jersey. He received a B.A. degree in 1939 and a Ph.D. in 1947, both from Yale University. He served as a Japanese translator for the U.S. Navy from 1942 through 1946 and then as a civilian analyst for the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington, D.C. He taught history

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    Alyshia Sechoka Dr. Catherine Cox History of Literary Criticism 2 December 2014 Not Just a Pretty Face METHOD Despite how the word may sound, deconstruction means to deconstruct, not to destroy. Deconstruction is always simultaneously affirming and undoing. Deconstruction refers to a technique for reading and analyzing texts developed by Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and others; this, in turn, is connected to a set of philosophical theories about language and meaning. As a result of the popularity

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