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…, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and Jane only 15 years of age, she soon married John…

…both in the Budongo Forest, Mahale Mountains and the Gombe National Park. In Jane Goodall's, May 1979 article in the National Geographic called "Life and Death at Gombe" it reveals the first time that chimpanzees who were always perceived…

…that her signature would one day make her an international figure. Though she was touted as a symbol of everything women could gain by being free to choose an abortion, the real Jane Roe was an embarrassment to the image that the Ivy League feminists tried so…

…of the two daughters so Shirley Temple (Bridget) and Jennifer Jones (Jane) could play the roles and romance could be introduced. Nineteen forty-four was quite the turbulent year for the American populous. The war was coming to a close, and America saw the return…

…or gendered readings. If we take the film Calamity Jane (Butler, 1953, US), we can see how mutilple meanings can be deciphered from a text. On one hand, as a mass produced film, we can see it as representing the norm and conventionality of the capitalist order…

…with Jane Gallagher. Although he cannot even get her name correct, Holden knows her well, for she lived next door to him several summers ago and they would play checkers together. Stradlater barely listens as he fixes his hair with Holden's gel. Holden asks…

…. The Archbishop of Canterbury bowed to the king's will by declaring that Henry's marriage to Anne had never been valid. Like her half-sister Mary, two-year-old Elizabeth was now considered illegitimate. Anne was executed, and two weeks later the king married Jane…

…produces the hateful insults that pierce into Pecola¡¦s very sense of being. The ¡§Dick and Jane¡¨ world also victimizes Geraldine in that she not only believes in the propaganda, which is a false representation of happiness, but also lives out the illusion…

…is an ensemble cast that includes Armin Mueller-Stahl (Avalon, The Music Box), Noah Taylor (Flirting, The Year My Voice Broke), Oscar-nominee Lynn Redgrave, and Academy Award winner Sir John Gielgud. The film was produced by Jane Scott from a screenplay by Jan Sardi…

…and images. “The Yellow Wallpaper” presents itself as the writing of a young woman, who along with her physician-husband and her sister-in-law is spending the summer in what she calls an “ancestral hall”. The narrator, Jane, that is suffering from…