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The Poem the Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Literature Essay
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White color symbolizes innocence. In this stanza, the author has used the word white chickens to indicate quite a good number of innocent people in the wheelbarrow. In this poem, the white chicken represents the children of farmers. The children are not the cause but innocent victims of the unfavorable lives of their parents.
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Vagina Talks & Bullshit Walks - The Storm by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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Queen Victoria had been a conservative in terms of giving women the right to vote, although she supported programs that improved the welfare of the poor, such as the Royal Commission on housing (The Royal Household). Beliefs in nature and the Church dictated gender rules (Guy 468).
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How Elizabeth Bishop Incorporated Her Life Experiences in Her Work Literature Essay
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The Prodigal centers on one period of the prodigal son’s journey. It was not the stench of his workplace or the difficulties he experienced in his life that made him come home. It was not his desire to have a better life that made him go back to his father. Instead, it was a realization that the world is at stake if he doesn’t change.
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Analysis of the Classification of the Web Literature Term Paper
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Results of a search are made possible by words as well as phrases that users type into the search engines. These terms and phrases match the terms being searched. Before any type of marketing of a search engine is conducted, one has to comprehend the target audience and be aware of the search terms being used
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Denver Art Museum Visit Literature Assignment
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The museum is located in Denver, in Colorado and serves as an art museum. It is privately owned educational resource center with non-profit making aims. The museum was started with the objective of improving the lives of the residents of Colorado. This was to be achieved through undertaking of various activities such as obtaining, preserving and presenting of works of art that occur in both permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.
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Fate's Role in Life Literature Essay
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 By critically examining the life of the people at large, it becomes crystal clear that destiny plays a vital role in everyday activities of humans, and haunt them for the mistakes they have committed even in the old past. The same could also be observed while going through several pieces of literature, which assert the significance of fate in life.
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Relationship between Parents and Their Teenage Girls Literature Essay
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Parenting is the process during which parents support their children physically, emotionally, financially and socially, right from infancy to adulthood. It is one of the principal challenges, especially when parents make efforts to be the best parents intending to bring the best out of their children. Parents bring into play many approaches while parenting.
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How Women Use Sexuality to Get the Power They Want Literature Research Paper
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All the aspects favour women to dominate especially over man’s minds. A woman’s intellectual skills must be present along with her sexuality to achieve anything. A woman has several attributes of sexuality that she uses to gain power; those include sexual desire and sexual behavior. These two broad categories are further divided into other factors too.
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The Cage Bird's Partner: the Combined Fight against Oppression and Neglect by Maya and Bailey Literature Research Paper
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It is the story of her abandonment, with her brother Bailey, at the ages of three and four respectively, and her struggle through life, with all of its hardships and its triumphs, until she reaches the age of seventeen. There are a wide array of thematic elements to this book, but the most prominent is the development of family bonds and struggles with racism.
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Oedipus the king Play Produced by Sophocles Literature Research Paper
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The play also depicts the theme of prophecy and predestination. According to the play, the people of Thebes believed that their gods predetermined their future. On the other hand, Oedipus believed that an individual had the ability to control his future through positive thinking. Thus, the play depicts conflicts between reality and prophecies.
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Compare and contrast Literature Essay
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However, even within an individual, of the true meaning of emotion and the notion of love meets some level of ambiguity. Shakespeare is perhaps the most notable poet who focused his works on love and romance as if he had some form of authority on the subjects.
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Public Library Collection Development: Weeding Library Collections Literature Research Paper
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Patrons expect an enjoyable experience that includes not only good services but also in terms of easy accessibility, display, and condition of books. There is no point in keeping an outdated and shabby collection focused on the needs of patrons from 20 years ago to modern-day customers whose tastes and aspirations vary vastly.
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The Glass Castle Literature Essay
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The Glass castle is a documentation of Jeanette Wells life. She is the second child of Rex and Rose Mary Walls. The book gives an account of Jeanette’s life since she was 3 years and how she fights her way out of poverty.
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An analysis of one of Henry V's speeches AND the response to it Literature Essay
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Set against the backdrop of an ironic date in English and French history, with the famous Battle of Agincourt looming ahead of them, against long odds of winning and almost certain defeat, the valiant King Henry lauds his men on to fight not for themselves, but for the glory of being part of something larger than themselves.
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Women's Role in Heian Japan in Tale of Genji Literature Essay
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Because of this, it might be supposed that literature from the time period always shows men to be right and women to follow them without any questions. However, in part due to the fact that women wrote many popular works of literature, that is not necessarily the case.
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William Shakespeare's Othello Literature Essay
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The play revolves around four major characters, who are Othello, who is the Venetian army General, Desdemona who is Othello’s wife, Cassio, Othello’s lieutenant, as well as, his trusted ensign, Iago. The play has various thematic backgrounds mainly love, betrayal, racism, and jealousy. The play is still performed in various theatres and learning institutions.
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Narrative Poem Analysis: Social Issues and Contexts of Iris Literature Essay
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Poetry as a form of literature has several features and components. One of such has to do with the reasons behind which a poet would choose a particular title, theme and poetic content. Whiles reading Iris by Mark Jarman, one gets a sense of strong purpose of writing for which the writer tries to use his work to address key social issues and premises.
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Unreliable Narrators Literature Essay
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Different writers employ different methodologies in their literal works with the goal of captivating their audience. This difference in artistic style makes the respective author’s work unique and captivating.  One of these distinctive styles is the use of confessions by a narrator. This is characterized by the description of a narrator’s life by confessing inner feelings and attitudes.
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Filipino/a Literature Literature Essay
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There was an indication that as the poet has opted to leave the country to live and work in foreign land; she saw herself as someone detached, but still a significant part of the Philippines, through sharing similar biological roots, having shared similar cultural orientation; eaten similar food; and being familiar with the way of life.
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Juliet's Relationship with Her Father Literature Essay
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Whoever came up with the choice theory did not stop to think about some of the things in life that we don’t get to choose but have a great impact on our lives. An example of such is our parents. A good example of how vital our relationship with our parents are is the play developed by William Shakespeare, namely Romeo and Juliet.
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Night by Elie Wiesel and The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick Literature Essay
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The night is much longer and complicated in terms of misfortune, and the number of stories whereas The Shawl is shorter and simpler. However, it is indeed, paradoxical, that despite having such a serious theme, Night has been written in a whimsical manner. The actual writing of the book is childish as if it is an account of kids playing soldiers.
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Essay
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The monster grows to despise itself and generates a lot of hatred toward its creator. In order to hurt him, the monster kills several people close to his creator, Victor, including his wife Elizabeth. The story is horrific in every sense of the word, and to have had such imaginations, Mary Shelley must have had various psychological issues.
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Drug Culture in Alex Garlands Novel The Beach Literature Research Paper
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The novel The Beach by Alex Garland was his first novel and has a major theme of drug culture. The setting of the novel is in Thailand, where there is no discretion in the use of marijuana. The author presents an entirely different world on the isolated beach, which is greatly influenced by the presence of a huge marijuana plantation. This sets the platform for discussions in this essay.
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Toms Character as a Modern Tragic Hero in the Glass Menagerie Literature Essay
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From the start, Tom’s character is shown to be frustrated and intolerant as he gets angry at his mother for reprimanding him about his eating habits. “I haven’t enjoyed one bite of this dinner because of your constant directions on how to eat it.”  (Glass Menagerie, 2013) In today’s world too no man like to be ordered and fussed around.
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Fighting Fate and Rewriting Destiny Literature Essay
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Throughout life, we realize that many of the realities we come to face are very harsh. You can never know what to expect and because of this, you never know what you’ll end up being happy with. Many of us face unhappiness at different points in our life.
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Why do people seek power Literature Essay
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This research aims to evaluate and present the role of power in literature particularly in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Generally in literature power is a theme that has negative connotations in the text as it appears to be a force of destruction. Howe and MacKendrick also state, ‘all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’
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Only Daughter and Mother Tongue Literature Essay
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Both writers acknowledge the contributions of their roots and family ties in the process of learning to find remarkable essence in English and love of communicating effectively especially with their parents who occur to be the primary concern in their attempt to simplify approach in writing.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Literature Essay
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The author states that Momma refuses to retreat inside their Store and show cowardice and accept defeat. Momma reacts to the girls with cool poise and maturity, silently sending her message that she is stronger and better than them. This reaction diffuses the white girls’ nerves, making them aware of how stupid and ridiculous their behavior is.
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The Common Wonders of Garcia Marquez's Recent Fiction Literature Research Paper
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The author states that in the short story we find the whole village admitting Esteban just because he is well-built and has a handsome face. Even though the villagers know nothing about the man’s personality, background, or character they assume good things about him just because he has a handsome appearance.
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The Environment and Human Experience as Explored in Three Poems Literature Book Report/Review
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 Poetry allows for a writer to examine themes through their emotional context in regard to topics that can be explored through the imagery that is evoked. In three poems that discuss the nature of human impact on the environment and within the environment, the negative role that humanity plays is revealed through the imagery of corruption, destruction, and decay.
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What is the significance of title of Sylvia Plath's novel 'The Bell Jar' Literature Essay
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The title of the novel is highly symbolic because besides representing the protagonist’s physical and spiritual isolation from the rest of the society it also suggests her confinement within a particular state of mind, which she could not overcome.
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The metamorphosis Literature Essay
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It was in the type of environment that Franz Kafka's seminal short story The Metamorphosis evolved. Published in 1915, The Metamorphosis – or Die Verwandlung in its original German – opens with the bald statement that “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin” (Kafka, 1).
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The Importance of Diet and Aging, application Antioxidant's and Inflammatory Compounds Literature Essay
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Their study reviewed the influence of both dietary and synthetic antioxidants. Found that vitamin E was a good anti-oxidant to add because it can help with cognitive functioning. Antioxidants such as vitamin E, C, and carotenoids function all support the immune system. The body can produce molecules called free radicals that are toxic to the body.
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Intellectual property Literature Personal Statement
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In the essays presented here from The Informed Argument, the five authors highlighted present the idea that intellectual property shared is intellectual property that is now collectively owned. While we should do our best to give credit where it is due and to be mindful to properly cite and give homage to the original author, it is often difficult to separate out which thoughts belong to the individual and which thoughts are now more collectively owned.
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Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream Literature Essay
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King is referencing the nature of the Declaration of Independence as proclaiming the inalienable rights of all citizens. The logical implication of such a reference is that in continuing to oppress African Americans, the United States is neglecting its very foundational elements. Ultimately, this is a highly effective use of logos.
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A Classic Way of Depicting Human Struggle Literature Research Paper
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A Classic Way of Depicting Human Struggle There are many literary works that depict the struggle for life in the middle of the ocean. Each of them provides the author’s view of human sentiments, motives, and actions. However, most works, especially films, tend to overemphasize emotions or digress from the main theme, thus lose the very essence of the story, that is, to depict the human struggle that is not common to everyone because of the setting.
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Understanding Raymond Carver Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the major theme of the story is the idea that life is nothing. The major characters of the story suggest that there is no real purpose of life and that the people are just a tiny part of the vast sea of nothingness. According to the waiter, even the religion had no meaning and hence the people's attempt to seek solace.
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Beloved by Toni Morrison Pulitzer Literature Essay
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As you read along, an understanding of the book and its relevance to the real world, aside from the fact that it’s based on the true story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, will be achieved. Morrison depicts the lives of Sethe, an African-American slave who tries to escape from her master, in a hypnotic and beautiful novel.
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Comparison on Ceremony by Leslie Silko and Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock Literature Literature review
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The books also differ in many other ways too: the books are set after different twentieth-century wars; one of the themes in Ceremony is Native American culture; in Grizzly Years the emphasis is on the culture of grizzly bears; and, Silko writes a fictional account while Peacock may (or may not) embellish the details some, his account is based on actual events.
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Metaphysical Poetry: Richard Wilbur Literature Essay
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The formal, witty and impersonal poems deliberately marked by a highly stylized rhetoric-elaborate wordplay, extended conceits, and intricate argument-¬seemed to signify the full fruition of the New Critical style. However, the popularity of Wilbur's poetry, has generally suffered-although his technical skill, unparalleled in twentieth century verse, continues to receive critical praise.
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The Frog King and Cinderella Literature Essay
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As the author of the text puts it, even in the high-tech twenty-first century, parents make use of these traditional tales to instill important lessons in their children – we have all, in part, learned decency from stories. "The Frog King", for example, teaches us that it is always worthwhile to keep our promises, even those made in haste.
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Later-20th-Century Poets Literature Book Report/Review
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The poem depicts how Clifton herself experiences the final stages of menstrual flow and personifies the last as a “girl” who is “splendid” in her “red dress” yet “never arrived” thirty eight years later. Marked by subsidence from the dynamic state of youth, the poet’s tone consoles the ensuing bleakness of the situation by justifying that at such point, somehow, there exists the absence of painstaking trouble in having to take care of periodic menstruation.
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The Dubliners by James Joyce Literature Essay
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The two stories have been found by critics to deal with death. In the first story, ‘the sisters’, death is maintained from the beginning to the end. In the second story, the author talks about death but mixes it with the joys of the occasion taking place at the scene. A reader is able to gradually realize and understand the theme of death.
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Conflicts in Kate Chopin's The Storm and Desiree's Baby Literature Essay
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According to the research findings, themes of feminism, social order, and race featured in many books by Kate Chopin, as she challenged the moral sense behind these societal impositions. The conflicting and ironic ways in which these themes revealed themselves to her main characters was also a Kate Chopin signature.
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Analysis of Iliad by Homer Literature Essay
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The father of Chrysies tries to beg the commander-in-chief to surrender the daughter in exchange for a huge ransom but the commander refuses (Homer, Fagles, Knox, 17). Chrysin being a priest of the god Apollo prays to Apollo for help. These prayers result in Apollo sending a plague to the Greek camp which leads to the death of many soldiers.
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A Raising in the Sun - Old and New Movie Comparison Literature Essay
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Achieving dreams becomes even more difficult if the dreamer is a single African-American mother living in America during 1960s. The newer version of the movie is closer to the original play written by Hansberry. Almost every individual has one or more passionate dreams in his/her life.
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the freedom is short-lived after the supposed dead husband returns unexpectedly; Louise dies of a heart attack when she sees her husband whom she thought was dead. Kate Chopin uses various stylistic, structural, and symbolic tools to bring out the subject matter of the story.
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Dr. Faustus and The Shoemaker's Holiday Literature Essay
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The author states that Dr. Faustus and The Shoemaker's Holiday utilized disguises in manifestly different ways. In Doctor Faustus, the use of disguise was more metaphorical and symbolic than literal, with the possible exception of Meph affecting a physical disguise at the first. The use of disguise was literal, and it was used as a way to secure love.
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Monkey Bridge and the Vietnam War Literature Essay
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The context of the Vietnam War is central to Cao’s novel. The novel employs, at a structural level, many of the ideas of guerrilla warfare. Just as the Vietnamese oscillated between the roles of soldiers, farmers and parents during the war, the novel investigates the quotidian, social and historic contexts of the protagonists’ lives.
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Discourse Competence: How to Theorize Strong Women Speakers Literature Research Paper
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Since women have proved to have equal or even better public speaking abilities compared to men, they should become more confident and bold in their involvement in public speaking. In addition, more women should get involved in public speaking activities thereby increasing the regularity in which society gets accustomed to their public speaking skills.
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