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    Location- REHAB CENTER - AFTERNOON Funny Lincoln park zoo exhibit cleaner MRS. MILA KOLAS is arguing with funny psychiatrist MR CRAIG ROLAND. MILA tries to hug CRAIG but he shakes him off. MILA Please Craig, don 't leave me. CRAIG I 'm sorry Mila, but I 'm looking for somebody a bit more brave. Somebody who faces his fears head on, instead of running away. MILA I am such a person! CRAIG frowns. CRAIG I 'm sorry, Mila. I just don 't feel excited by this relationship anymore. CRAIG leaves. MILA

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    Men and women are constantly debating what their true role in life is. In a family, the women were expected to do the laundry, cook, and clean, while the men went to work and made money for their family. This idea has changed drastically over the years. Women are now able to get an education and work if they’d like. Sixty years ago, this would not have been possible. Most men and women now share the housework, and both have full-time jobs. In Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Trifles by

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    In Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola uses specific scenes in order to convey and communicate explicit concepts from which the reader can extrapolate key themes in the novel, and the Morgue scene of Chapter XIII is an excellent example of this. Such scenes also offer a comprehensive depiction of the times and the Morgue scene gives us a slice of Parisian life during the 19th century. Across the span of this chapter, Zola’s unflinching depiction of the morgue, the bodies lying on the slabs, and most importantly

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    Varda And Ozu Analysis

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    Society and Self-Service: Key Thoughts of Varda and Ozu A sound comparison one could make between Agnes Varda’s and Yasujiro Ozu’s masterpieces is that each presents a question key to feminist theory through the lives of their singular female protagonists: what is the effect of societal pressures on a woman finding her identity? As the titular character Cleo in Agnes Varnas’ Cleo a 5 de 7 rejects her role as an object of the public gaze, and Noriko of Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring grapples with her

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    What happens to a dream deferred? In Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun”, dreams are often challenged and sometimes even deferred. The characters are faced with challenges that delay them from living the life they want and achieving their dreams. Walter Younger, the father of the family, is an envious, hopeless, and immature colored man living in Southside Chicago during the 1950s. He has multiple sub-dreams throughout the play, but his overall hope seems to be a comfortable life for

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    Williams of Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Douglass High School and furthered his education at Georgia State University, but later dropped out to explore a new talent. Williams took a specific interest in music, pursuing a career in radio and managing a band. Williams’ educational background and career both were pivotal to his defense. In 1979, children and teens seemed to simple vanish. Each child met certain criteria: young, black, and from Atlanta. The first two victims, Edward Smith

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    other fiction. Much of her work deals with the role of white women in society, especially involving the Cult of Domesticity or True Womanhood. Sedgwick managed to incorporate her unorthodox views on women’s behavior, relationships, religion, and people foreign to her culture, while still appealing to a broad audience. Her novels, A New-England Tale, published in 1822 and Hope

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    Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec (1965) explores consumerism through the lives of a young couple, Sylvie and Jerome. The novel looks at their growth, from college students to part-time surveyors to faceless employees, always looking for fulfillment via the newest trend. Whether it is an abundance of vases, or living in Tunisia, Perec shows how influential the language of advertising truly is. To feel like their life has meaning, Sylvie and Jerome spend money and energy on intrinsically

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    parents is mainly during its teenage years. These are times of rebellion, disagreement, strong emotion, psychological changes and sexual experimentation just to name a few. In Mary Gaitskill's short story "Tiny, Smiling Daddy", the main theme "of how people seek intimacy but don't know how to achieve it" (Gaitskill, 289) is conveyed by the author through the characters, symbolism and setting and imagery. Firstly, the two main characters in this story, Kitty and Stew, are crucial elements of the story

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    poetic comparisons. Phillis Wheatley and Edgar Alan Poe’s writings in many ways reflect the unique lives that they lived, and having an understanding of the two poets’ backgrounds can assist a reader in dissecting their manuscripts. Comparing works from the two is an easy task to handle if an avid reader decides to pursue it, and even though they lived under adverse conditions they have a way of shaping history into an intricate fashion of delicate, dark and sophisticated writing. Phillis Wheatley

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