In Disney’s Alice in Wonderland‚ Alice starts off as a “bad girl‚” but eventually becomes a “good girl” via her actions. Thus‚ the narrative arc of the story is that she will conform to traditional gender roles; Disney states that a woman will only be able to thrive in society if she conforms to her prescribed gender roles. A “bad girl” is characterized as being violent‚ aggressive‚ worldly‚ and often monstrous; whereas‚ traditional gender roles favor a “good girl” who is identified as gentle‚ submissive
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One of my favorite pieces of art that we have studied so far is the statue Kritios Boy. I am very intrigued by the background history of this statue. It is believed to have been created by the sculptor Kritios hence the name of the statue. The Kritios Boy is one of the first statues to focus on how a person actually stands. The term for this is contrapposto. According to Google‚ Contrapposto is an Italian word meaning counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure with most
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Being Girl: A Sociological Memoir My first memory of kindergarten was this: dozens of tiny‚ petrified 5-year-olds being dropped off at their first day of school‚ and dozens of exhausted‚ overworked mothers consoling their weeping sons and daughters. I remember it vividly because‚ despite the terror and chaos‚ a single thought pervaded my mind‚ the thought that “these moms are not as pretty as my mom.” I wasn’t entirely biased‚ either. By North American standards
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Rising Legends from The South During times of common illiteracy‚ two adolescent Negro girls blossom with their profound ability to transcribe words like a rose growing out from concrete. Maya Angelou‚ the author of “Graduation”‚ and Alice Walker‚ author of “Beauty”‚ are two teenage girls growing up in the segregated south with similar struggles. The two essays by Angelou and Walker are about the harsh realities each encounters through racism‚ and how they each overcome hardships when the odds
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Colored Girls Opening: Four women who were prominent in our Black History stood up in opposition to the odds placed against them. Listen as they tell us about their lives‚ pain‚ and struggles on how it was to be colored (as they were labeled) during the years of segregation and the civil rights movement. I hope you get a message from this presentation and please enjoy. Teresa Hi – I’m Rosa Parks and I’m a colored girl--on Dec. 1‚ 1955 in Montgomery Alabama-- I refused to give up my
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Title: Lovely Bones Author: Alice Sebold Text Type: Novel Lovely Bones is a breath taking novel written by Alice Sebold. Through-out the novel Alice is portraying some disturbing and thought provoking ideas such as; Guilt and responsibility‚ memory‚ isolation and surviving grief. Lovely bones is a story of a teenage girl Susie Salmon who after been raped beaten and killed by her old neighbour Mr Harvey‚ watches from the in-between world her family and friends surviving the grief and struggle to move
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Approximately 26‚000 boys‚ during the late 1980’s‚ fled the southern part of Sudan in an effort to escape the violence that had consumed their country. With such an enormous amount of refugees fleeing Sudan‚ it was described as an “exodus of biblical proportions”(Corbett‚ 2001). These refugees were dubbed “The Lost Boy” due to the many similarities they had with the Peter Pan’s followers in the story Neverland. Like the fictional characters in the story‚ most of these boys‚ whose ages were all below
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Alice In Wonderland and a Curious Child Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland has entertained not only children but adults for over one hundred years. The tale has become a treasure of philosophers‚ literary critics‚ and psychoanalysts. There appears to be something in Alice for everyone‚ and there are almost as many explanations of the work as there are commentators. One commentary is A Curious Child by Nina Auerbach. Auerbach discussed how Alice is a representation of a middle class child
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The Scottsboro Boys All of us know the feeling of getting blamed for something we haven ’t done. With that in mind try imaging getting put in jail for years for a crime you didn’t commit. That was the case for nine black men in Alabama in the year 1931.There was so much physical evidence proving that the nine boys were innocent‚ however the extreme racism Alabama government officials had towards African Americans is arguably the biggest factor that lead to this injustice
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The “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur is a poignant poem. Richard Wilbur “said that he wrote the “Boy at the Window” after seeing how distressed his five-year-old son was about a snowman they had built” was stuck out in a storm (Clugston‚ 2010). Poignant can be described as an awareness of both beauty and loss through powerful feelings or pain. Poetry has this beautiful gift of being able to evoke strong feelings in the reader. In the “Boy at the Window” the poet captures the innocent nature
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