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Atwood’s reading “Dancing Girls” shows some experiences and thoughts of foreign students living in a city and how their cultures mixed. The author tries to explain how difficult it can be for students to study in a place away from home, because of several circumstances such as where to stay or how abundant or limited opportunities will be when they finish their majors in the future. All of that is clearly expressed by a chronologic pattern found in the lecture. It is important to remark the different attitudes taken by Ann and Mrs. Nolan toward the new person in the building, and the ambition of Ann’s hard work, because she believed it would give her rewards. When the Arabian man arrived to the building Ann and Mrs. Nolan had different points of view about him. For instance when Ann first saw him she hoped he would be better than the man from before. Then when she b