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"In the Time of the Butterflies", 2007.
This paper discusses the role of Catholicism in Julia Alvarez' "In the Time of the Butterflies."
1,259 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper relates that Julia Alvarez' novel "In the Time of the Butterflies" is based on the real story of the four Mirabal sisters, who take an active part in the Fourteenth of June Movement against the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The paper discusses how Catholicism is a very important element in the novel and demonstrates how religion shapes the very culture and identity of the Dominican nation.
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"The main functions of the church in human life are those of kerygma or witness, litourgia or worship and diakonia or service. All of these three functions indicate the roles that the Catholic Church should play in the life of man, namely to witness the religion of Jesus Christ and to perpetuate it, to worship God as the sole divinity and to do service to men, that is to protect and support them at any time. In Alvarez' novel, the Church fails at the beginning in its main functions, as it becomes involved in the political game of power. When the Catholic Church backs the regime of Trujillo, it forgets the essential duties to God and man: it no longer acts as a witness to God when it comes to obey a single man, the dictator."
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"In The time of The Butterflies", 2006.
Examines this novel by Julia Alvarez about life in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The novel "In the Time of the Butterflies" is a fictionalized biography of the lives and fate of a family of sisters who were killed in 1960 during the political turmoil in their native Dominican Republic. The paper shows how the author, Julia Alvarez, a Dominican by repatriation, celebrates the lives and murders of the Mirabal sisters, who are referred to as the Mariposas or butterflies, recreating historical events while recounting some of her own experiences in that time and place.
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"Around the time that their second daughter was born, the Dominican Dictator, Rafael Trujillo, pretended to reform his government. He invited dissenters back to participate in the political process and promised that he himself would not run in the next election. The couple returned with their two daughters. Consequently, Julia Alvarez spent ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic under the repressive regime."
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Butterflies, 2002.
This paper outlines teaching about butterflies.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is a research project "thesis" and a literature review for an environmental science unit for children about monarch and swallowtail butterflies.
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The Mirabal Movement in the Dominican Republic, 2007.
A discussion of the novel, "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez about the courage of the Mirabal sisters.
1,248 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper portrays how Julia Alvarez's novel, "In the Time of the Butterflies," employs brilliant descriptions to depict the severe reality that Trujillo's regime imposed on the Dominican Republic from the 1930s to the 1960s. The paper illustrates how Julia Alvarez humanizes the story of violence and injustice in the Dominican Republic and opens doors into the souls of the Mirabal sisters. The paper highlights how Alvarez stresses the need to see the Mirabal sister personalities as leaders of revolution, as people who fight their own fears to fight injustice in the Dominican Republic.
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"Of all the Mirabal sisters, Minerva is by far the most confrontational. Minerva has no fear and stands up to anyone, no matter what his or her position of power is, in this case Trujillo's regime. She is the one most identified with the resistance against Trujillo because of her beauty, her public rebellions, her conspicuous intelligence, and her leadership in the underground movement. Alvarez exhibits these same attributes in her Minerva, especially her vehement, outspoken hatred of injustice in any form. Often Minerva's rash actions are a problem to her goal to end the dictatorship of Trujillo."
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Women in Literature, 2002.
A comparison of the lives of women depicted in "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez and "Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina" by Rita Arditti.
1,612 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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Many times the element that makes a book a classic is the fact that the human element become involved and therefore the reader gets attached to the story and the characters that are in it. This paper reviews "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez and "Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina" by Rita Arditti and shows how the authors draw the readers in until they become attached to the ladies of the stories. It examines how the commonalty of the stories is the fact that the protagonists have a serious life filled with struggles because of their presidents and how the struggle of one person against something as strong and powerful as a president is a story that can draw out the most maternal and paternal instincts in the most stoic reader.
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"In Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza De Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina by Rita Arditti the reader has a different approach all together. Instead of getting attached one by one the reader only has to get attached to the cause. It is a noble cause however and the grandmother?s search for their grandbabies is heartbreaking to say the least. Each of the books provides an accurate accounting of the way the lives were for the protagonists and the readers are drawn to the plight of all involved. However there are different levels of concerns with each story. In the Butterfly story the sisters are portrayed as those who actually plan to overthrow the government while the story in Searching For Life is about grandmothers challenging the dictatorship."
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An Elder Tale: The Woman Who Raised Butterflies, 2002.
This paper contains an "elder tale" composed by the author, based on the work described in Allan Chinen's "In the Ever After".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper presents an original "elder tale" and than analyzes the tale. The author highlights the importance of solitude in the 'elder' stage of life and the symbolism of butterflies in the 'fairy tale' at the beginning of the paper. The paper deals with the Jungian archetype of the Hermit, an important facet of elders' lives and their perception in culture. 8 pgs.
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In The Time of Butterflies (Julia Alvarez), 2001.
Analysis of novel based on Mirabal sisters' fight against Trujillo regime in Dominican Republic. Human rights issues.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 47.95
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The story told in the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is a true one, based on the Mirabal sisters, well-known in the Dominican republic for their heroic stand against the Trujillo regime and for what happened to them. Alvarez was born in the Dominican Republic, but she never knew the Mirabal sisters, as she explains in the postcript to her book where she notes that she and her family arrived in New York City in 1960 as exiles from their native land because of the Trujillo regime--her father had participated in an underground plot that was discovered by the country's secret police. Three of the four Mirabal sisters had been murdered some four months before that in what was deemed an "accident," though clearly it was not. Alvarez was a young girl at the time but could not get this story out of her mind, and she sought out more information..."
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"In the Time of the Butterflies" ( Julia Alvarez ), 1999.
Critical review of fictionalized account of three sisters killed in Dominican Republic in 1960 by dictator's secret police.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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" Julia Alvarez, in her novel In the Time of the Butterflies, presents a fictionalized account of the lives and murders of three sisters who were in fact tortured and killed in 1960 in the Dominican Republic by the secret police of dictator Trujillo for their opposition to his tyranny. A fourth sister survived and her fictional spirit contributes to the telling of this enraging, heartbreaking, and finally inspiring story of tragedy and courage.
As Alvarez writes in the postscript to the novel, she and her own family were exiles from Trujillo's tyranny, leaving the country less than four months before the murder of the Mirabal sisters, known as Las Mariposas, or The Butterflies. In fact, the author's father was active in the underground resistance to Trujillo, along with the four sisters. Alvarez says that she.."
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The Beauty of the Monarch Butterfly, 2002.
This paper is a detailed essay about the Monarch Butterfly and the problems of preventing its extinction.
2,745 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 82.95
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This paper describes the Monarch Butterfly in great detail, such as why does it have the bright colors and what do they mean? It states that the life of a Monarch Butterfly is quite complicated. The Monarch Butterfly is watched closely to prevent it from being extinct.
Table of Contents
Butterflies are Invertebrates
The Monarch?Danaus Plexippus
The Life Cycle of a Monarch
Lincoln Brower and the Monarch Butterfly
Brad Darrach and the Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch Butterfly Will It Be an Endangered Species?
The El Rosario Monarch Reserve
More Monarch Butterflies Killed and Solutions
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"The butterfly comes from the Lepidoptera, which is a Greek word meaning that the wings are covered in scales. Butterflies have compound eyes on either side of the head. The eyes are and made up of thousands of lensed-eyes called ?ommatidia?. They are not able to see fine detail, but are able to detach if they have a predator."
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Madame Butterfly, 2001.
Sight and blindness, reality and constructions in Hwang's "M. Butterfly".
2,255 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 69.95
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The paper discusses figures of sight and blindness used in the play "M Butterfly" examining Gallimard and Song's relationship in the greatest detail. A look at the Western depiction of Eastern women.
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"David Henry Hwang uses figures of seeing and not-seeing to depict the relationship between the East and the West in his play M. Butterfly, an inversion of Puccini?s opera Madame Butterfly. Gallimard can turn a blind eye to the fact that Song is a man in disguise because of his deeply-ingrained, stereotypically Western fantasy of Eastern women as submissive, fragile ?Madame Butterflies.? Gallimard is so enamored of the Madame Butterfly fantasy that he cannot see past it, and he is blinded to the obvious fact that his ?Butterfly? is a far cry from the original."
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The Metamorphosis of the Butterfly, 2006.
An overview of the four stages of a butterfly's metamorphosis.
1,609 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that there are four concrete stages of metamorphosis in the life of a butterfly, listing these stages as the egg stage, the caterpillar/larva stage, the pupa/chrysalis, and finally the butterfly stage in which the complete butterfly emerges. The paper describes the processes and changes that take place in each of these stages and points out how the final stage of the butterfly's metamorphosis has become the universal image for various transformations.
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"The lifecycle of the butterfly, namely metamorphosis, is a symbol of transformation. The process of Metamorphosis has four stages; each stage can be used to symbolize the life process on a diacritical level. The essence of this change of form can clearly be seen when one observes an ungainly, crawling caterpillar morph into a delicate, brightly colored flying butterfly. It is crucial to note that not only is this process beautiful, it is complex as well. Metamorphosis is controlled by a blend of genetic messages and hormones residing inside the organism, though it can also be influenced by environmental factors such as diet and temperature (Metamorphosis, 2). Additionally, Metamorphosis is defined as a marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of an animal occurring subsequent to birth or hatching."
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"M. Butterfly", 2007.
A discussion on the exotic, feminine Orient in the Western imagination, as depicted in David Henry Hwang's drama "M. Butterfly".
1,228 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The paper discusses how "M. Butterfly" is a play about the power of stereotypes to do harm, both to the person and the culture they are inflicted against, and also against the people who hold such stereotypes. The paper describes how, at the end of the play, Gallimard is destroyed because he realizes his life was based upon a lie, just as China was harmed by the lies and exploitation of Western colonialism. The paper examines how the conflict of gender, national, and identity issues are dramatically depicted in David Hwang's "M. Butterfly," when the French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with a feminine image of the East, in the persona of the actress Song Liling.
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"Gallimard has a psychological as well as a national and gender based need to see Song as feminine. Thus, the gender disguises of the play do not merely invert stereotypes of male and female, Asian and West. They also destroy the security of Gallimard's own identity as a strong, male Westerner with power. Song Liling is not only a man. Song uses Gallimard's own cultural stereotypes to exploit the Frenchman. Gallimard begins the play thinking he is the Western, White man taking advantage of the virginal 'Oriental' maiden. But like the opera's "Madam Butterfly," Gallimard ends the play abandoned, disgraced, cut off from his countrymen and finally suicidal. Thus Gallimard's own secure identity as a powerful man has been so undercut, he cannot live with himself, because he no longer knows who he is as a person."
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The Theme of Seduction in "Madame Butterfly", 2002.
An exploration of the key relationship in "Madame Butterfly" with a focus on the theme of seduction.
1,324 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper focuses on the theme of seduction in the play ?Madame Butterfly?. The writer concentrates on the complicated relationship between Gallimard and Song. The author indicates that while it appears to be the story of a man being tricked by a woman, it later becomes known that Song is actually a man trying to save himself from the new Chinese communist government. The paper concludes by highlighting how the themes of seduction could be accentuated in a production of the play, through the set, lighting and music.
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"In the play the character Gallimard, is seduced by both Song and by his own idea of Song. The seduction of Gallimard is a seduction perpetrated by his own stereotyped ideal of what an Asian woman is and can be for a white man mainly, submissive and by his actual seduction by Song the actor. In the very beginning of the interaction between Gallimard and Song there is the hint of a deception. Song laughs at him when he tells her that she made a convincing butterfly. ?Convincing as a Japanese Women?? she says. (Hwang, 1988 17) Yet, Gallimard must have given her some real indication that he believed that she was a woman, or she was just desperate to win the favor of someone who could give her the information that she needed to save herself".
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Madama Butterfly, 2002.
Historical account of Giacomo Puccini's careet in relation to his famous opera, Madama Butterfly, with comment on the opera's strengths and weaknesses.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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The popularity of Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly has endured for nearly a century, despite both positive and negative views expressed by critics. This paper traces the evolution of Puccini's career in relation to this composition and describes the history, strengths, and weaknesses of the opera.
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"M. Butterfly", 2002.
A review of the play "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper shows the sexual gender and stereotype roles in the play "M. Butterfly" by David Hwang.
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