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realizes how weak she has become through the loss of Luke. She rebels against Serena Joy’s wishes to only have sex with Nick as a way to get pregnant, and instead, does it for pleasure. She does the same thing with the Commander through their nightly scrabble games, kissing ritual, and the trip to the Jezebels. All Offred wants is love; something that is illegal in Gilead. However, Offred rebels against this, and decides to risk her life, by falling in love. Offred uses love as a way to cope with her

She is kept alive for purely that reason in the first chapters, as the story progresses and she is invited into the Commander's office, where they play Scrabble and he reveals to her hidden or contraband aspects of the new society, such as fashion magazines and cosmetics, which he allows her to read, an activity otherwise prohibited for women. In these meetings Offred is treated more humanely than she has

Charmaine Holliway Professor McRae English 1102 March 10, 2012 Escaping Gilead In Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale, women are subjected to unimaginable oppression. Almost every aspect of their lives is controlled; they are not allowed to read, write, or even speak freely. Any type of expression would be dangerous to the order of the Gilead’s strict society, but the handmaids are conditioned to believe that they are safer and better off living there. However, not everyone is convinced

the cycle continued. So imagine my delight when I reached the age when I could use my parents as adversaries. Being academic parents, our go to became bananagrams. For those that don’t know, bananagrams is like scrabble on steroids. Nah scratch that, bananagrams is like giving scrabble a spiked coffee with a pinch of redbull to a sugar deprived 10 year old. Grandmas leisure game is leaving the old folks home! Every player starts the game by drawing 21 tiles at complete random. Part of the game is

Being sociable in life can be really difficult at times for certain people, this could not be shown more when director Craig Gillespie portrays this in Lars and the Real Girl. This movie is set up around one person and how their attitude on people greatly change. The main plot of the story revolves around Lars Lindstrom who is played by Ryan Gosling being one of these types of people in the start of the movie. In the beginning of the movie Lars is seen as a guy that doesn't like to interact with

specific tale of the Gilead society. What feelings have come up within Offred concerning the commander and are they good or bad? Offred is continuously showing patterns of confusing feelings she has for the commander. The commander lets her play scrabble. The commander also lets her read magazines. Offred states they had a new arrangement. Offred is getting closer to the commander than just the sex they have, she just does not fully understand what to define these feelings as. ¨But that night

will improve the brain capacity to a great extent. When memorization is done on a daily basis, it tremendously improves the mental skills and ability to learn new things. Playing brain exercise games is another way to improve one's mental capacity. Scrabble for example will not only improve your language skills, but your memory too. There are also many other games that are specifically designed to exercise the brain. By indulging in them, you open up your mental ability for improvement. The brain has

Just think about it! Them assigning shorter assignments for class and just less homework in general means that they will spend WAY less time coming up with school assignment ideas and grading, and will have WAY more time to play scrabble (or whatever teachers do).It will also save money too! When teachers print out their worksheets, that uses up A LOT of ink each time.That takes money, every printout. If we were to have less worksheets, than the school would save money and wouldn’t

atmosphere (figure 6–10). Old illustrations of leaves or technical drawings of lights and other devices hang on the wall. Heavy stone carvings sit on the tables. Large books with yellow pages that lost it’s binding, old New York Times, and antique scrabble game sets populate the empty surface of the furniture. Occasionally, a deer skull is mounted on the wall along with some fur throws thrown across the sofa. All these decorative elements can be summed into two groups. The illustrations,

First, to understand the dynamic between Africa and the exploitation of the Western world and examination of the scrabble for Africa must accrue. Before the 1880’s European empires controlled only ten percent of the continent, but with no more land to concur on the already inhabited continents and the spread of imperialism throughout Europe the only place left was Africa. A complete and utter invasion of Africa took place, in many ways resembling the colonization of the Americas. The spread of Christian