In Dalton’s Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal‚ there is an image labelled “Juang Girls.” This image portrays two young Juang females. They were described as “wild timid creatures” and the photographer‚ Tosco Peppe‚ stated that they were difficult to take pictures of. The two females are portrayed in front of a wooden‚ fence-like background
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Being Girl: A Sociological Memoir My first memory of kindergarten was this: dozens of tiny‚ petrified 5-year-olds being dropped off at their first day of school‚ and dozens of exhausted‚ overworked mothers consoling their weeping sons and daughters. I remember it vividly because‚ despite the terror and chaos‚ a single thought pervaded my mind‚ the thought that “these moms are not as pretty as my mom.” I wasn’t entirely biased‚ either. By North American standards
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Good Girl by Martia Conlon-McKenna Some people might say that the power of love can conquer all‚ but when religion and other factors come into play it tends to get more complicated. Falling in love is something that happens to all of us. Love is a certain kind of strength. Whether this strength is powerful enough to keep two people together despite different religious beliefs or political opinions depends on the two lovers. Religion is love. It brings people together and offers them strength to
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something soft. I took it from the ground. The doll. But‚ there was something strange about the doll‚ its eyes were blue like ice‚ just like the girl. Her bag lay by the ground‚ she was nowhere to be found. I let out a silent scream as the doll‚ somehow‚ was staring right at me! I dropped it. It’s all my fault‚ i thought. That i shouldn’t chase the girl and this wouldn’t happen. Was i going crazy? I picked up her bag‚ and rummaged through it. A dirty book with pictures that i found. I flipped over
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experience as an eighteen-year-old patient in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960’s. "People ask‚ how did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is‚ it’s easy" (pg. 5). The doctor who referred her diagnosed her with a borderline personality disorder within twenty minutes of interviewing her. The doctor also perceived her as extremely depressed with a pattern-less life. Recent activities
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LOLOB’S GIRL By: Joan Aiken (1) Some people choose their dogs‚ and some dogs choose their people. The Pengelly family had no say in the choosing of Lob; he came to them in the second way‚ and very decisively. (2) It began on the beach‚ the summer when Sandy was five‚ Don‚ her older brother‚ twelve‚ and the twins were three. Sandy was really Alexandra‚ because her grandmother had a beautiful picture of a queen in a diamond tiara and high collar of pearls. It hung by Granny Pearce’s kitchen
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Prefect Choices: Head Girl‚ Deputy Head Girl‚ Head of School Council I would like to be a prefect as it would be a privilege to be elected to take the part of a key role in the functioning and representation of Marlborough Girls’ College. In addition to this‚ I would benefit personally by becoming prefect giving me the opportunity to be able to develop my public speaking and leadership skills‚ which will be useful later on in life. Another reason as to why I would like to be prefect is because
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unknown Girl Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan .Her father was Pakistani and mother English. She left Pakistan when she was a baby for England. The poet is thus caught between two worlds and her poems exemplify her quest for her cultural identity. The prescribed poem appears to be set in India. Pakistan was a part of India before the partition‚ therefore the setting may be a symbolic thirst for her motherland. The title of the poem is “The Unknown Girl”‚ though it may refer to the girl in the poem
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fragile relationship between the sexes is a dominant theme of the modern literature”. Evaluate this opinion by comparing and contrasting how relationships between the sexes are presented in the top girls and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Set at the time it was written‚ the early 1980’s‚ Top Girls is mainly concerned with two political agendas: feminism and socialism. It may seem surprising to us today that just over thirty years ago the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act came into
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One of the book’s major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre‚ Clover points out that in most horror films‚ especially the slasher film‚ the audience‚ male and female‚ is structurally ’forced’ to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway). So while
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