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    Girls are better

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    According to the National Association for Single S ex Education‚ there were only about twelve singlegender classrooms in 2002. However‚ ten years late r‚ in 2012‚ there were more than 500 public school s that offered single sex classrooms in the United States of America. Single sex education is quickl y taking over as the new ‘norm’ in education. Howe ver‚ separating males and females leads to gender stereotypes and inequality between women and men. Even though some students perform better

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    Title:Mean Girls Director: Type: Movie Genre: social realism‚ American teen The scandalous lives of a teenager was accurately portrayed throughout the movie ‘Mean Girls’ directed by: Mark Waters. The story follows a teenage girl named Cady Heron as she is starting her first day at high school after being home schooled in Africa for most of her life. Cady learns about the ins and outs of high school life and the cliques that are found throughout the school with the help of her two new friends

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    “Me‚ Earl‚ and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews is about a boy‚ Greg‚ and his friend‚ Earl. Greg likes to credit himself to “not being friends with anyone”‚ saying he is friends with all of the groups. However‚ there is one thing that makes Greg and Earl real friends‚ their love of film making. In the beginning of the story‚ Greg learns that his old friend‚ Rachel‚ is sick with leukemia. To try and “cheer her up” Greg begins to visit her‚ and they become great friends. Since Greg is such great friends

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    Life of a Girl

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    WILDE Therefore‚ do all girls think themselves blessed in this regard – they can hide their emotions‚ on the contrary it is a benediction that no one can read their feelings in their face. A woman’s life is itself so complex‚ so subtle‚ so precise and has a very microscopic dimension of vision. This I’ll spare your brain‚ every action of any or rather all woman is so carefully measured and discussed with such depths that I’m forced to call them “microscopic” analysis. On the contrary while I

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    Girl, Interrupted

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    In Girl‚ Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen recounts her two year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness‚ she makes the reader consider how thin the line is between ’madness’ and ’sanity’. Susanna describes herself as "sane in an insane world". It does seem like it may be an insane world when we look at how society reacts to something they do not understand‚ fear breeds prejudice‚ "possessed by the devil" "bad‚ and must be isolated

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    Farm Girl

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    Christina Anderson Mr. Kingsley Eng105 1 February 2012 Life Lessons from the Farm Jessica Hemauer’s essay‚ “Farm Girl‚” tells her life story of living on a farm through her eyes as ten-year-old child to the time of her early adulthood. The purpose of this piece is to teach the importance of life’s responsibilities to children‚ mainly female‚ and young adults who may not be familiar with the challenges life can bring and to promote the benefits you can gain by overcoming those obstacles. Hemauer

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    Girl‚ Interrupted” – Effects Mental Institutions Have on People Susanna Kaysen states that “[m]ental illness seems to be a communication problem between [two interpreters in your mind]” (pg 139). In Kaysen’s Girl‚ Interrupted‚ Kaysen is put in a mental facility at the age of 18 for a borderline personality disorder. The author is torn throughout the book if mental institutions are helping her and her fellow patients or bringing them down more. Also‚ the author argues that being put in a facility

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    The Shy Girl English Composition 101 Kimmey Wright   The Shy Girl Ever since I can remember‚ I was always quiet and shy. I constantly had to repeat myself because people could not hear me the first time. Even then‚ I seldom made eye contact with others. When I entered high school‚ nothing changed. Soon afterward‚ I disliked the way my classmates thought of me. If someone had to make an announcement in class‚ I was not chosen because my classmates believed I was not vocal enough. If someone

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    In Harriet Jacob’s novel‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Linda Brent (pseudonym for Jacobs) flees the prison of slavery under Dr. Flint’s authority‚ only to be trapped in a new‚ more physically constraining cage: the crawl space of a shed outside her grandmother’s house. For seven years‚ she remains here trapped like a bird in the cage‚ a precursor to the empty cage and free bird image‚ “The Pretty Robin”‚ that Ginsberg describes in her essay “Of Babies‚ Beasts‚ and Bondage” (86‚ 88). The

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    "Farm Girl"

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    Student Summarizing Jessica Hemauer " Farm Girl" Eng Professor 1-18-14 The essay read was "Farm Girl" by Jessica Hemauer. What I think Jessica was trying to tell her readers was tasks or situations you may be in that you may consider awful or just plan not fair can turn out to benefit you later in life. Struggling through these tough situations might just be worth it later on in life. I don’t believe that was Jessica’s only main point. Jessica also explained

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