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    were age appropriate and I am pretty sure they would not have been so passive if the found dismembered baby dolls in their daughter’s playroom. However, my parents were different… very different. Instead of watching the typical family movies such as Matilda and Toy Story, my family spent our weekends watching The Matrix Series and The Godfather Trilogy. While most may not agree with these customs, my seven-year-old mind was far more thrilled at hearing Marlon Brando saying “kiss the ring” rather than

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    In 1953 Lamb to the slaughter was lastly published by the author Roald Dahl. Initially Dahls short stories were rejected including Lamb to the Slaughter. Fortutiously Harper's magazine overlooked the short story lamb to the slaughter and published it as soon as possible. Dahl as a childrens book author wanted to demonstrate the ability aspects of human perversity, cruelty, and violence. After his return from war Dahl stories became very dull. This short story prefigures the abnormality seen in the

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    Americans during and after the civil rights movement. Rebecca Lee Crumpler impacted the civil rights movement by being the first African American woman to become a physician and earn a M.D. degree. February 8, 1831, Rebecca Davis was born to Matilda Webber and Absolum Davis in Christiana, Delaware 2. Davis was raised in Pennsylvania

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    Nell passed out trays to the customers, just like she usually did, but this time, it was quietly and sadly, not like her usual self. Even though the coffeehouse the packed full with men, the whole place was filled with sadness and despair. “Poor Mattie, why did she have to go?” cried Nathaniel, leaning over the ornate coffin. Today, there was only coffee, and no food for the customers. No one wanted food anyways. They were just too sad about their favorite waitress. “Alright, we are closing

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    Susan Brownwell Anthony is best known to others as the woman who started women’s rights movement for the feminists that came after her. Susan B. Anthony was a vital activist for her time, she was a member of the anti- slavery movement and helped create the woman’s suffrage movement. She spent her entire life fighting for what she believed was right; her determination and fight made her extremely successful in her work as an abolitionist and women’s rights leader, which is conveyed through her many

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    In the first 100 years of colonial Australia women of all status and race were a marginalised segment of society; considered inferior to and for the use and support of men (Summers, 1975), (Dixon,1999). It is not surprising therefore that historical accounts of women’s activities between 1788 and the late 1800’s, whether white, black, convict, or free, are much less documented than those of men. The accounts that have been recorded, however, point to women from substantially different ages, cultural

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    Writing letters gave him experience to write a book, especially about his life. He was a skilled writer, and had ideas flow in his head. Some of the events that contributed to his writing was his education such as him being caned which goes into Matilda, and him working as a chocolate tester helped him write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also had other experiences that helped him write boy, such as his motor car accident and his incident with his ancient half-sister’s manly lover. He as a

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    Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslin Gage published Volume 1 of the History of Women’s Suffrage, followed by Volume 2, 3, and 4 in 1882, 1885, and 1902. They published a total of six volumes from 1881 to 1922. These volumes had more than 5700 pages, and were the major source for

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    Sensations of the Sublime in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Fall of the House of Usher” utilizes the sensation of the sinister sublime to approach the circumstances of human mortality, to show how immense fear of death manifests itself into reality. Death is inevitable for all living entities; individuals should not live in a continuous state of terror of dying. One cannot live if they are ruled by fear. This is the case of Roderick Usher in “The Fall

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    Frankenstein and her efforts to distribute her departed husband 's works. Soon during the 1970’s her other novels were given recognition. Mary Shelley has an extensive list of novels, other than Frankenstein, some of which are mildly popular, Valperga and Matilda for example. Although Frankenstein is what makes her a well-known author today, she was an accomplished writer before the publication of that book. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later known as Mary Shelley, was born in Somers Town, London, England

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