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    voicing of her fight against her society. Being a part of the partition of subcontinent‚ Naheed witnessed harassment against women and its effect is greatly reflected as we see women subjugation the main focus of Naheed’s poetry. Naheed’s poems “I Am Not That Woman” and “The Grass Is Really Like Me” voice the lack of dignity and respect felt by the females and how they come to terms with it. Feminism being Naheed’s forte is the main theme of the two poems. Naheed highlights how females are reduced to mere

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    Expo- WIW Response Paper Dr. Johnson 4/1/12 Sojourner Truth‚ “Aint I A Woman?” Sojourner Truth’s speech‚ “Aint I a Woman‚” is an in depth‚ personal account of slave life and the cycle of self-discovery by which Truth acknowledges the ills and dynamics of race‚ class and gender have upon an African American woman living in America. She intersects axes of analysis and questions the dominant image of femininity which was limited to the most elite‚ white women in society at that time. Throughout

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    Hook Ups Culture

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    we were young‚ we learned how a good friend and lover should act; such the case that now with reality tv shows we tend to compare our friends to them. Certain shows like jersey shore had morphed are views on life‚ and has influenced the culture of ‘hook ups’: sex without commitments or any further relationship. As an academic‚ this study will focus more on how “media twists love to look like a flurry of overwhelming passion”‚ while influencing the action of break ups‚ because of unhappy ideals based

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    This analysis will examine the following focal points‚ panopticism‚ scoptophilic instincts‚ and visual pleasure. First‚ the analysis will examine panopticism in relation to embedded “secret politics” within the film‚ The Day I Became a Woman. Second‚ the analysis will compare both scoptophilic instinct with visual pleasure. In Chapter Five‚ Panopticism‚ which appears in Visual Culture: the reader‚ Michel Foucault explores the‚ “generalized model of functioning”‚ when defining panopticism. Foucault

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    The World Health Organization has defined drowning as "the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid." While life jackets are not the most fun and comfortable part of swimming for children‚ drowning can be avoided if more children wear them. There are styles that allow for comfort as well as safety. They have pink fish‚ blue fish‚ sharks and even mermaids. All of these styles are made to make it fun for kids while giving parents peace of mind. There are

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    Hook Up Culture

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    College and universities have made great strides over the years. The campuses have grown‚ and the resources have improved tremendously. However‚ it is questionable if that social scene on these campuses has changed for the better over the years. “Work hard‚ party hard” has become the motto of college students to live by. Students spend the week focused on their academics‚ striving to grow as intellects. However‚ the weekend becomes the time when students look to go out and socialize at the various

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    slam, dunk, and hook

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    “Slam Dunk & Hook” Basketball isn’t just a sport‚ it’s a lifestyle. It requires you to push yourself again and again and not give up until the final buzzer sounds. Basketball requires a lot of teamwork and that team is like your family. Working together like a family helps push every player to do their best and make each other proud. In the poem “Slam Dunk & Hook” the author Yusef Komunyakaa uses metaphors‚ allusions‚ and imagery to illustrate basketball which offers escape and triumph for

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    The Sandy Hook Analysis

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    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few‚ in my personal opinion. This‚ I believe is because we need to understand that the fate of a society could depend on this maxim. This question made me think‚ a lot. Before I finally decided my side‚ I really thought about real life situations and what needs to be done to help the most people‚ and that is helping the many. In Sandy Hook‚ a teacher hid her students and put herself in the fire just to save the many. Of course she had family‚ but

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    many of them do I look up to? Of course the most obvious person is my very own mother‚ but that made me think who else deserves to join this circle of reverence. Some names entered my mind‚ but do I really admire them? It is clear that women that enter my daily life like Oprah Winfrey have an impression on me‚ but impact and admiration do not always go hand in hand. Then I realized who I really admire: Britney Spears. <br> <br>The teen pop idol singer Britney Spears is a woman that I look up to for

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    The Bell Jar

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    stated in the novel‚ author of The Bell Jar‚ Sylvia Plath addresses societal influence by exposing social pressures on people‚ particularly women. Esther Greenwood‚ the main character of the novel‚ is the victim of the heavy weight of other people’s opinions; which in the end leads to her deteriorating mental instability. She attempts to live the life that is expected of her‚ but in the end she can not fulfill these requirements. The book describes that being a woman of this time already places standards

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