the Radium Girls of Ottawa. This is a topic that I know much about; I did my 8th grade history fair project on this‚ read a few books about it‚ and even interviewed two of the radium girls. My three main points will be what the radium dial company was‚ who the living dead girls were‚ and the after effects of this tragedy. My first point is the Radium Dial company‚ according to the book Deadly Glow‚ in 1922 the radium dial company moved from Peru Il‚ to Ottawa and hired hundreds of girls to paint
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Creative Writing Reader Response # 3 Ranch Girl by Maile Meloy from Contemporary American Short Fiction The story is told in second person‚ which gives the reader a sense of being in the story‚ at the same time being an observer. It begins with telling you where you stand in the socio-economics’ and in the eyes of your peers. “If you’re white‚ and you’re not rich or poor but somewhere in the middle‚ it’s hard to have worse luck than be born a girl on the Ranch. It doesn’t matter if your father
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Hi‚ so welcome to my new story‚ I’ll be trying to update quicker and more often with this story. So the girl on the bottom is Lily‚ and her outfit is the yellow&white one‚ and the one on the top is Izabella‚ her outfit is the black one. Izabella is 16 and Lily is 14. I hope you like the story and umm adios! ••••• Izabella’s POV "Will all the girls starting from ages 12 through 16 come downstairs please! We have visitors‚ please dress appropriately!" Our orphanage director shouts through the loudspeaker
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Sarah Holtkamp Reading and Writing Workshop Mrs. Lair November 19‚ 2012 Victoria Beckham Many of us are familiar with the Spice Girls‚ who held many hit singles throughout the nineties. They were a rock sensation and had millions of fans supporting them through their music‚ their movies‚ and their performances. Out of the five Spice Girls‚ only one is still famous today‚ Victoria Adams Beckham. She is still known of course for her success with her Spice sisters‚ for owning her own fashion
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Women are the receiving end in Indian society. They are will treated or tortured at every stage. A girl child is in bondage from her very childhood. She is under constant‚ vigil First by the parents‚ then her husband and finally her own children. Not only that‚ she is often condemned to death even before she is born. This is called female killing in the womb itself. In ancient India the birth of a girl child was hailed as auspicious. An old Indian proverb lies down that a home without a daughter is
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The Unknown Girl By Moniza Alvi The title ‘unknown girl’ may suggest that the poetess is in search of her roots‚ culture‚ traditions and heritage. She is unknown to her country‚ the place from where she belongs. She is trying to find out more about her home-country. This poem is a first-person narration from the poetess’ point of view. It us a free verse‚ autobiographical poem which is written in a single stanza containing many local dialects‚ for instance‚ ‘bazaar’‚ ‘hennaing’‚ ‘kameez’ and
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Hierarchy of Monstrous Behaviour Adrienne represents "a monster in the shape of a girl‚" (MacLeod‚ P.40) by physically demonstrating a selfish‚ emotionless and unexplainable hate towards Sophie. Adrienne leads her friend Braidie‚ who contributes on a more subtle level to this motif of monstrous behaviour. Adrienne shows her sinister leadership by constantly instigating a form of abuse towards Sophie. "Adrienne leans into Sofie so that Sofie is squished‚" (P.42) causing apparent physical harm. Mentally
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Yde Girl Yde Girl‚ named after the village in which she was founded‚ is a human remain that had been founded in Stijfveen peat bog Drenthe (refer to figure one)‚ Netherlands in 1897. The Dutch peat cutters who had found her body first believing they had saw the devil‚ because of her red hair had had resulted in running away and returning a day after to cover her body with stacks of peat. Her body now in displayed in the Drents museum in Assen along with her modern reconstruction of her physical
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sister Josephine tells her that her husband Bentley died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard cries and mourns her husbands death but in the back of her mind‚ she is thinking she will finally be free. Although Bentley was always good to her‚ she can now have a life of her own without feeling oppressed. She feels that men and women oppress each other even if they do it out of kindness. She fantasizes about how her life will be without her husband and hopes that she will live a long life. Suddenly
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Boys and Girls‚ a short story by Alice Munro‚ deals with the theme of female role in society‚ but more so with the theme of growing up. The narrator’s journey to acceptance of her female role is more important in the sense that it is her transition into adulthood than for the exact role she is growing into. However‚ as the narrator’s role changes‚ conflict between masculinity and femininity occurs. Munro uses the narrator’s parents as symbolic of their sexes‚ where the narrator’s‚ the girl’s mother
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