The movie‚ ‘Easy A’ is set in present day in Ojai‚ California. It tells the story of Olive Penderghast‚ a high school girl whose situation mirrors the novel‚ ‘The Scarlet Letter’ which is a reading assignment for her English class. She tells a lie to her best friend‚ Rhiannon‚ that she had sex with a boy from community college. This lie quickly spread throughout the school causing classmates to treat her differently; the boys wanted to date her and the girls treated her unkindly. Olive decided
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THE RHETORIC OF AMERICAN BEAUTY: A VALUE ANALYSIS A Thesis Presented to The Graduate Faculty of The University of Akron In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Jessica L. Papajcik December‚ 2006 THE RHETORIC OF AMERICAN BEAUTY: A VALUE ANALYSIS Jessica L. Papajcik Thesis Approved: Accepted: __________________________ Advisor Mary E. Triece __________________________ Interim Director of the School Dr. Carolyn M. Anderson __________________________
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Turkle uses the second section of her book titled “Of Dreams and Beast” to continue to analyze how the computer programs are creating human-like experiences for its users. Turkle strategically examines this theory by making the claim that humans are unknowingly giving computers human qualities as we increase our usage of computer software. In order to efficiently deliver this argument‚ Turkle discuss how humans began to interact in the online communities called MUDs (Multi-user dimension or Multi-user
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Over the years‚ the Feminist Movement has been on the rise and has influenced much change in society in terms of female equality and empowerment. It has been at its highest point in recent years and has created the new concept of “Femvertising”. In short‚ Femvertising is taking a modern day feminist issue‚ such as body image‚ and portraying it in an advertisement. Advertisers will usually do this for one of two reasons: to sell a product or just to bring awareness to the issue. However‚ the main
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (BTVS)‚ as a character‚ though not a new one‚ was revolutionary. Challenging the preconceptions of traditional horror‚ comedy‚ romance and teen movies‚ Whedon has created a character and a show that provide a postmodern‚ feminist hero for a generation of girls. With themes of monstrosity set up to represent human fears and the potential monstrosities of society itself‚ set up against a supernatural background‚ with the typically
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Gabriela Rasuk English Composition II Melissa Juchniewicz Feminist Criticism 2/23/13 Hide the Hood Little Girl Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault is a story every child learns that is about a young girl with a red riding hood who goes into the woods to deliver some food to her very ill grandmother and in her journey she encounters a wolf who in the end wants to trick her into believing he is her grandmother. However children only enjoy a simple fairy tale for the fact of being
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Naomi Wolf‚ in The Beauty Myth‚ addresses the unrealistic standards of beauty that are placed on women. This book was written in the late 1900s‚ around the same time as the rise of third wave feminism‚ and was directed mostly toward feminists. Wolf wanted to inform how beauty standards hurt women in society. However‚ she loses credibility and is unsuccessful in achieving that purpose. In her first chapter‚ “The Beauty Myth‚” Wolf begins by comparing beauty to a currency system because both are “determined
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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa is a notable Chicana feminist‚ cultural theorist‚ and activist because of her many contributions to social movements regarding minority women. Not only did she impact this “renaissance” for Chicana literature through her own writings‚ but she also encouraged other aspiring minority artists and writers to help expose the diversity that was rapidly growing in the United States. Personally‚ Anzaldúa interested me because of her efforts in promoting feminism‚ so I wanted to
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is what makes New Orleans a great city. Sara Roahen is an example of an outsider that fell in love with the city and tried to fit the culture in all the possible ways she could‚ as it is illustrated in her story: "Crawfish: A Crawfish Is a Darned Beast!"
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Yellow Wallpaper.” In both stories‚ the characters seem to love the men that controlled their lives‚ but in they suffer from mental illness due to the restrictions that are placed on them by their lovers and society. These two stories also focus on a feminist perspective. In “A Jury of Her Peers‚” Minnie claimed that she didn’t know who killed her husband but she was arrested. Minnie’s husband abused her. Several symbols in the story led the women to believe that Minnie killed her husband. In “The Yellow
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