GD GOENKA WORLD SCHOOL Extended Essay What is the role and significance of women in Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbevilles’ and George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch’? Candidate Name: Jaee Sherlekar Candidate Number: 002279-104 Session: May 2011 Subject: English A1 Level: Higher Level Word Count: 4000 Supervisor: Ms. Jyoti Ahuja Abstract: In this essay, I have attempted to bring out the reality of the “glorious” Victorian Era. An era which is said to be the time when the world took its
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Final Exam: Sociology 1. What might a sociologist say about why an individual chooses a particular person to marry? A. B. C. D. In the case of love, opposites attract. There is no accounting for personal feelings like love This shows that peoples actions reflect human free will This shows that the social world guides human behavior 2. Which discipline defines itself as “the systematic study of human society”? A. B. C. D. Psychology Economics History Sociology 3. By saying
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Kara Vedros 03/06/2014 HUMAN 1113HYB03 “ORDINARY PEOPLE” The film “Ordinary People” is story about the Jarrett family, an upper middle class family living in the picture perfect suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois. The story begins shortly after the tragic and untimely death of the oldest son, Jordan (also referred to as Buck), who died in a boating accident, that his younger brother Conrad, survived. When a traumatic event such as this occurs some families unite and battle the grief and heartache
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Statement of Intent: Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata entails a story of two characters who struggle to escape the influence of their deceased parents. As Kikuji and Fumiko attempt to dictate their own lives, they quickly “sink into the meshes of the curse” (145) left by their parents. With a reputation that becomes stained by her mother’s disgraceful actions, Fumiko falls as a victim of the Japanese shame culture. My World Literature 2 assignment consists of a series of diary entries
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Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 7 | Issue 2 Article 7 Nov-2005 Prostitution in Bangladesh: An Empirical Profile of Sex Workers AKM Ahsan Ullah Recommended Citation Ullah, AKM Ahsan (2005). Prostitution in Bangladesh: An Empirical Profile of Sex Workers. Journal of International Women's Studies, 7(2), 111-122. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol7/iss2/7 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater
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hours of the morning. But it got me to thinking how many timeshave you heard someone say they had to put their pet to sleep because they were sick and suffering, in pain, there was nothing left to do but be merciful and put them out of their misery. Why is it that we, as human beings, have more compassion for our animals than we do for our loved ones? Through advanced directives and Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of 1985 aperson is allowed to declare a living will specifying that, if the situation
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Gun Control No matter where you are in the world you are bombarded with issues that can raise a debate. Anything from same sex marriage to global warming you will hear about it. One of the biggest ongoing debates of our time that does not seem to have a solution to its end is gun control. While most topics have three sides of supporters: those who are for it, those who are against it, and those who are in the middle. Gun control seems to only have two sides. The National Rifle Association who
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PSYCHOLOGY REVISION Eating behaviour * Attitudes to food and eating behaviour * Explanations for the success and failure of dieting * Neural mechanisms in eating behaviour Cognitive development * Paget’s theory of cognitive development * Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development * Applications of cognitive developments theories to education Relationships * The formation of romantic relationships * The maintenance of romantic relationships * The
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The Character of Kadiye in Sawmp Dwellers: A Symbol of Religious Hypocrisy Wole Soyinka’s Swamp Dwellers, a play built on the rural setting, is a blunt exposition of the religious hypocrisy,typical in a culturally and economically backward society in any parts of the world. Wole Soyinka, the most distinguished playwright of Africa, exposes the irreligious acts of the religious men in a very Chaucerean way.The character through which he dose it is obviously the Kadiye who reminds us about Chaucer’s
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