) After discussing why Offred was strewn in the cupboard Cora showed some defiance of Gilead and really took a chance by offering to Offred a plan of deception . They ll want to know why the extra eggs. Unless you could do without. She looked At me sideways, slyly, and I saw that it would be better if we could both pretend that I d eaten my breakfast after all.
(Piercy, Woman, Pg., 142.
) The fact that Cora was willing to lie for Offred gave them a special connection and could probably be a small step towards gaining back women s liberation.Likewise, Connie has a way about her which others find appealing. The upper-class people may not see it, but Connie s determination and refusal to give up positively affected Lucienete, and Sybil, (A friend in the mental hospital). Lucienete was after Connie for purposes of preventing the bad future from becoming reality.

Chaucer’s audience could work through the same issues presented in the Consolation and see how the are dealt with in a classic story. And even today, modern readers can draw the same conclusions from this timeless tale of love and fortune. BibliographyBoethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. V.
E. Watts.

He viewed the check as an investment that would result in riches such as “a plain black Chrysler a Cadillac convertible” (pg. 232), and his own gardener. These contrasting motivations demonstrate Mama s and Walter s values; Mama saw the check as money and nothing more, while Walter saw it as wonderful riches and power.Walter s and Mama s reactions to another incident, the loss of sixty percent of the money to a thief, is a second example of the two character s different motivations caused by their different values. Walter s reaction of tears and hysteria to the loss of money are emotions caused by the loss of his hope for fame, riches, and power. Mama, on the other hand, expressed anger and sadness at the loss of the money because it represented the “working and working and working (of her husband) like somebody s old horse” (pg.
247), and now all these hours have been for not. She was not mad at the loss of money that could make her rich; she was horrified at the wasted hard work of a family member. Also, she is angered at the loss of money that would go to pay the college education of Benetha, another family member.
Walter, on the other hand, only sees the loss of wealth as the issue. In addition to conflicting motivations, different value systems cause Walter and Mama to have extremely different actions.

What has not emerged is a broad consensusamong citizens that private school choice is an appropriate and acceptablealternative to public education. Although citizens support the conceptof public school choice, they do not support the use of public funds tosupport private sectarian or nonsectarian school choice. Parents of publicschool students continue to be supportive of the teachers and schools theirchildren attend (Elam, Rose and Gallup, 1994). This generalization erodesin urban communities facing growing economic stress.The concerns of parents in urban areasare driven by the flight of large corporations from the city. The erosionof an economic base which is fundamental to the maintenance of healthyfamily and community structures has left the public schools as the mostvisible remaining community institutions in urban settings. Communities,families, and the schools that serve them simply cannot endure and thrivein a climate of economic abandonment. Private school choice is a diversionsponsored by those whose collective economic decisions have made life inour urban community a daily struggle for survival.ReferencesChubb, John E. and Moe, Terry M.
Politics,Markets, and America’s Schools. Washington, D.

The houses are ancient, prominent families in the city of Verona, Italy and their names are Montague and Capulet. These two families desire to dominate as the most wealthy and influential house in Verona. In West Side Story, two opposing street gangs, consisting of family who all roughly have the same age represent the opposite groups.
Consisting of a home grown New York gang, the Jets, a gang of Puerto Rican immigrants and the Sharks. The two become bitter rivals, battling for superiority and domination of New York s street territory around the middle of the twentieth century. There is very little difference in the desire that these rivals have in the two stories.
The families desired control and strength of the territory in the city. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story find happiness together only to meet with tragedy.Among the two plays consist similarities of costume design, staging, setting, and vocabulary. In Romeo and Juliet, the clothing appeared like what they would have been in Shakepeares time. The Montagues wore black and blue and the Capulets wore orange and red. This provides a sharp contrast to distinguish the difference between the two families and also helps the audience to quickly ascertain the identity.