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    Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career Topic: Give a detailed analysis of a key scene or passage from "My Brilliant Career" by Miles Franklin. The focus and essence of My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin is centred on the relationships and interactions of Sybylla Melvyn (the key character of the novel), towards other characters. The ways in which she reacts to different people and why she reacts in a particular manner, are perhaps more crucial and intriguing to the reader, than any distinct

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    Written explanation I wrote “the burden of being a woman” for my creative response to Miles Franklin’s novel My Brilliant Career, with the aim of replicating her egotistical views upon men and women whilst exploring her narrative structure, in article form. Franklin consistently drew her audience in with the reality of her work, her sense of independence shone throughout her novel, this was something that greatly interested me and by changing my work to fit a newspaper article I feel as though I could

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    I. Both Miles Franklin and E.M. Forster implement romantic humanist values throughout their novels to highlight the difficulties facing Victorian women in love. A. Miles Franklin embraces romantic humanist values in My Brilliant Career through Sybylla’s internal struggles as she decides her future. 1. Romantic humanism calls into question the social standings of morality and religion. It champions independent thought, both rational and emotional. It argues that society, and its rules, deplete originality

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    The differences in endings to the novels A Room with a View and My Brilliant Career are due to a specific branch of feminism’s influence on each of the authors. The struggles of Lucy in marriage are not the same as Sybylla’s due to the differences in their country’s form of feminism. To assume that both English and Australian

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    street I bump into Ms. Chong, my neighbor from across the hall. She asks me if I would like to eat some fish and rice later, but I decline, as I may be working late. I hurry to the station and jump on the crowded train and ride it towards the factory. Luckily I make it to work on time and change into my work uniform. My job at the television plant is to pour the foam packing peanuts into the shipping boxes after the finished televisions are put into them. My job is pretty monotonous, but

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    Personal growth is cornerstone to the evolution of a person. Sybylla Melvin, the complex heroine from Miles Franklin’s “My Brilliant Career” and William Thornhill, the protagonist from Kate Grenville’s “The Secret River” face differing demons. Sybylla begins as a charming 15-year-old tomboy who is a walking contradiction, at times. She craves the concept of being loved, but repels romance away whenever the opportunity arises. Given that her story takes place in 1890s Australia, there are implicit

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    Essay about My Brilliant Racing Career

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    As I enter my last semester of high school, I have to starting thinking about making a plan for the future. The problem for me was actually making a decision that would be right for me, I could not decide what I wanted to do until a few weeks ago. But I finally made my decision about what I think I will enjoy doing, and making a career out of it. There are many paths I can and could take, but the automotive area is the one that sticks out to me. The two technician schools I have chosen are UTI, Universal

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    show that turned my art enthusiastic self into a woman of gore. I am a daughter that comes from a brilliant father who gave me my love for medicine. One illegal, yet amazing ride in the ambulance made me realize that helping people was my way of success. I was thirteen, maybe fourteen and I experienced my first oral intubation, which is something not all young teenagers experience. Fear came across my blood drawn face, sweat dripped down the rigged bones of my adolescent back, and my head swarmed with

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    Radiologists is a challenging career that allows me the opportunity to help and maintain good health of my surrounding and community. The Radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x-rays, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography, and ultrasound. To begin a career in radiology is very interesting and hard because of the number of tasks and pressure

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    producers do without scriptwriters? A person with a camera can only do so much on their own; without a script — there is no story to build a movie up from. Essentially, an excellent script is the foundation for a brilliant movie. Furthermore, scriptwriting has been an interest of mine since my seventh grade year in middle school, which was when I was first exposed to drama. I was not a huge fan of getting up on a stage; however, I greatly enjoyed the writing aspect of the class. I connected with the

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