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    Jessica Valenti Sparknotes

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    The book by Jessica Valenti was released in 2009 and asserts that people in America are fanatical about the concept of “virginity.” It scrutinizes the effect of the Americans’ fixation of virgin/ whores and how these thoughts are affecting the women of all ages. Valenti thinks that virginity and feminism have become too much of an issue; celebrities seeking to invigorate their vaginas and keep their hymen intact even after losing their virginity is a clear manifestation of the obsession for virginity

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    The Beauty Myth‚ which is an obsession with physical perfection‚ confines the modern woman in an endless cycle of hope‚ self-consciousness‚ and self-hatred while trying to fulfill society’s impossible definition of being flawlessly perfect. In this reading‚ Naomi Wolf explains how she spoke out about how these standards for women were unfair. In response to her opinions‚ she was told that her actions were “un- feminine” and “un-american”(Wolf). This proves how obsessed

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    intriguing facts‚ personal accounts‚ and varying opinions of women’s value and the influence culture plays in self-definition. In 1976‚ Chinese-American writer‚ Maxine Hong Kingston‚ became a significant voice in this discussion in her seminal work‚ The Woman Warrior: A Girlhood Among Ghosts. This memoir enticingly blends Kingston’s youth as a Chinese-American girl and the stories she developed from Chinese myths her mother retold. Kingston recounts a variety of talk-stories from her mother‚ Chinese

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    The Lucky Ones Sparknotes

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    The book‚ The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America‚ shed light upon the Chinese Americans and their migration to America around the 1860s. One of the most prominent ports of entrance into America was out the port out west in San Francisco‚ California. The port is where JEU DIP came through on a ship. Along with JEU DIP‚ many of these immigrants suffered through countless fates. These outcomes were bad or sometimes good‚ but Chinese people struggled to overcome

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    In his two past journals‚ Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation‚ Rodriguez explained the meeting of his private presence with open issues of class and ethnicity. With Brown‚ his considered race‚ Rodriguez completes his "arrangement of three of American open life." In Rodriguez‚ darker sink is not specific shading. Darker is verification of the mix. Brown skin is a shade made by yearning

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    Ruined The Play Sparknotes

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    Lynn Nottage Authors are advised regularly to "show not tell;" however in theater‚ one needs to show on the grounds that their gathering audience won’t have the capacity to peruse script immediately afterward. Reading play that is meant to be seen is altogether another experience‚ in this case‚ the playwright must ‘tell’ for it to be seen by the reader. Dialect and punctuation must be utilized particularly‚ so the readers can translate and decipher motives or personalities of character in the

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    The story of Pocahontas is about a young Native American women who had a very big impact in history. Pocahontas was not the average Native American girl you’d hear about in history‚ she was different. Pocahontas who was the daughter of the native chief Powhatan was one of the first Native Americans known in history that had a connection with a European who is known as John Rolfe. The Europeans who had come to the New World and in this case Jamestown‚ Virginia where Pocahontas was because they wanted

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    No Longer Yours Sparknotes

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    problems. Even with the problems‚ the book rose to a spot on the New York Times bestseller list within the first weeks of it being published. This was probably mainly due to the advertising and premise of the book surrounding a forgotten figure in American history that had been practically lost to time. Though it was only on the list for one week and

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    think they have to look that way to be beautiful. Society has the concept of beauty all wrong. Rosen‚ Christine‚ a senior editor at the New Atlantis magazine: “Beauty is what we are granted‚ through no effort of our own‚ at birth. “. Therefore beauty shouldn’t be about looks but that’s what society has made it up to be about. Today “What’s natural is declared a flaw when it’s airbrushed out of photos‚ where a woman’s waistline is tweaked before her picture is approved for print” (Spenceley). Today’s

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    Beyond Borders Sparknotes

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    book to have a stronger argument with credentials. The author created a better understanding of Mexican Immigration and its conflict with the United States. He answered all the questions; who‚ what‚ when‚ where‚ why‚ and how for both Mexicans and Americans. Both perspectives are clear and

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