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    After reading a description of the portrait painting, such as the one written above, or simply by looking at it, one might be confused as to how Nancy Parsons in Turkish Dress displays this person’s role as a courtesan. This is due to the fact that there are no overly overt signs for the modern viewer to understand immediately without some in-depth research. For instance, she is not shown partially or completely nude to indicate her selling of sexual services. Yet, when one understands the traditional

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    especially true in the case of Tonya Harding. Harding is a former U.S. figure skater whose reputation for being the first American woman to complete a triple axel is far overshadowed by her assumed participation in an attack on fellow Olympic skater, Nancy Kerrigan in 1994. Harding and Kerrigan both participated in the 1992 Olympics, where Kerrigan placed third in the figure skating competition and Harding placed just behind her in fourth. The two women competed against each other again in 1994 as they

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    pedagogical approach the United States federal government took in light of the War on Drugs on the wide public education on drug use. I will examine two different articles from Think Progress and The Guardian that argue against the 1986 initiative by Nancy Reagan that became one of the most subtle but destructive aspects about the War on Drugs. She started an country wide program aimed at educating the youth. More specifically on being able to prevent drug use in teenagers. However, there were unintended

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    The comic Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth and the retro audio podcast Nick Carter: Master Detective starring Lon Clack portray the different roles of women in detective fiction. Nick Carter was on the radio from 1943 to 1955, and represents more traditional roles for gender. Over the 125 episodes, the radio show followed detective Nick Carter and his female assistant, Patsy on different crime scene investigations. Carter was also able to solve seemingly impossible crimes by looking

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      Predictive Probes Summary Nancy Wexler’s Mother died of Huntington’s disease it is hereditary, fatal, and happens in midlife. Ms. Wexler is a 38 year old woman and is the president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. She is not sure of her own fate in life, because she doesn’t know whether she has inherited the same deadly gene that killed her mother. The uncertainty could be solved by a test to see if she has inherited the deadly gene. Nancy is in a dilemma within herself whether

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    The protagonists are the most important characters of the stories. They play an essential part in building the story to its climax. The protagonists encounter with different characters and their experiences with those characters became paramount in developing the outcome of the story at the end. Sometimes we overlook the significance of non-protagonists. Many non-protagonist characters have a significant impact on the protagonists. In “Shiloh” written by Bobbie Ann Mason, Norma Jean and Leroy are

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    When looking into the progression of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen’s relationship, it is not a wonder why it ended in death. Looking in from the outside, with the media as your only source of information, you start to make assumptions about the musician and his girlfriend. It isn’t until you dig deeper into their separate pasts, that you can really see the full picture. It becomes clear that love may have never been a part of their lives, but a relationship of need. A place where a mentally disturbed

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    the name Nancy. When Nancy was born her father left her and her mother. Nancy’s mother Edith, who was a young actress, sent Nancy to go live with her aunt and uncle in Maryland. Here she attended a community school titled Sidwell Friends School. Nancy would regularly travel with her aunt to see her mother in New York City. Nancy’s mother would go on to marry a very prominent neurosurgeon from Chicago. Nancy would then move back in with her mother and her new stepfather who adopted her. Nancy now went

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    been reading Nancy Drew for eighty-seven years, she is a staple in most households with elementary age girls. For me, Nancy represented everything I wanted to be at 18, she was intelligent, fearless, beautiful, and she had a car. I never compared myself to Nancy, she was what I aspired to be and what I expected to be when I grew up. She was one of the first feminist role models I had as a child and I believe she was pivotal to my foundation as an independent, outspoken woman. I see Nancy herself as

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    the greedy side and saw a chance to farm out his writing responsibilities to capable young writers to produce the Nancy Drew Series. This gave him a very lucrative business (Rehak

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