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Blenda Femenías has over three decades of experience teaching and tutoring. Subjects include humanities and social sciences, especially at the college and high school levels. She is bilingual in Spanish and specializes in Latin American culture and history. Her expertise includes anthropology, art, drama, ethnic studies, museum studies, and women’s and gender studies.
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Answered a Question in Oryx and Crake
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Answered a Question in Michael Longley
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Answered a Question in The Dead
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in White Teeth
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in Bud, Not Buddy
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Answered a Question in 1984
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in The Custom of the Country
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Answered a Question in Sonnet 43
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Answered a Question in Heart of Darkness
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Answered a Question in The Princess and the Goblin
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Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
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Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
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Answered a Question in The Mortal Immortal
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Answered a Question in A Doll's House
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Answered a Question in Dry
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Answered a Question in Existentialism
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Answered a Question in Medicine River
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Answered a Question in A Doll's House
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Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown
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Answered a Question in Into the Wild
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Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
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Answered a Question in Alistair MacLeod
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Answered a Question in The Road
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in Measure for Measure
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Answered a Question in These Truths
In chapter 2 of These Truths, Jill Lepore explores the objectives and methods of the British Crown in its early attempts to colonize the East Coast of North America. She contrasts British... -
Answered a Question in Pamela
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Answered a Question in The Handmaid's Tale
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Answered a Question in The Tempest
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Answered a Question in My Dungeon Shook
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Answered a Question in Literature
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Answered a Question in Othello
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Answered a Question in The Garden Party: And Other Stories
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Answered a Question in Hamlet
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Answered a Question in Four Hundred Souls
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Answered a Question in Robert Burns
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Answered a Question in Albert Camus
The address that Albert Camus wrote for accepting the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature is usually known as the “Banquet Speech” because he presented it at the awards banquet, and the address contains... -
Answered a Question in A Single Shard
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Answered a Question in The Cocktail Party
Several types of love and relationships figure significantly in T. S. Eliot’s play, including self-love, romantic and sexual associations, friendship, and the love of God or spiritual connections....
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