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    Shape of a Girl

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    Hierarchy of Monstrous Behaviour Adrienne represents "a monster in the shape of a girl‚" (MacLeod‚ P.40) by physically demonstrating a selfish‚ emotionless and unexplainable hate towards Sophie. Adrienne leads her friend Braidie‚ who contributes on a more subtle level to this motif of monstrous behaviour. Adrienne shows her sinister leadership by constantly instigating a form of abuse towards Sophie. "Adrienne leans into Sofie so that Sofie is squished‚" (P.42) causing apparent physical harm. Mentally

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    For Colored Girls

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    “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” ------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Structurally‚ For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems‚ collectively called a "choreopoem." Shange’s poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout their lives. It is performed by a cast of seven women characters‚ each of whom is known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow‚" "Lady in Purple‚" etc. The poems deal with love

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    The new girl

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    The new girl Author The story is written by Marc Mitchell (Florence‚ Alabama) in 2001. Title The new girl. The whole story is about this situation that changed the main characters life – the situation where he met this new girl‚ and acted terribly against her‚ which “haunts” him the rest of his life. Narrator The story is told with a 1st person narrator. We only see and hear the story through one set of eyes – we only see it from one perspective. (Examples from text: “I lived…”) Settings

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    Colored Girls

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    For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange Table of Contents for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Study Guide consists of approx. 53 pages of summaries and analysis on for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. Browse the literature study guide below:   Introduction [pic]   Author Biography [pic]   Plot Summary [pic]   Chapter Summaries & Analysis

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    Birthday Girl

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    “A Very Happy Birthday” A Critical Analysis of “Birthday Girl” by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami’s “Birthday Girl” is a piece that can take the reader into the past and help us analyze if any of our wishes ever came true. Hopefully we all reach those birthday milestones and we get whatever it is we wished for. The main character in this story has reached an important milestone birthday in Japan. At 20 you are a full fledged adult‚ a member of Japanese society so this

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    Professor‚ Thomas C. Foster reveals the implications that violence in literature poses about a character. Through a slave women’s suicide‚ Foster reveals that in some situations‚ "the only power they have‚ is that they may choose to die" (101). In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart‚ Okonkwo’s suicide‚ an act of self-directed violence‚ was his way of escaping from the control of the white missionaries and preventing himself from facing the fall of Umuofia. Okonkwo is an aggressive man who despises

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    An Unknown Girl

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    Imran Hyder      4th Period English An Unknown Girl An Unknown Girl is written by the poet Moniza Alvi. Moniza Alvi is a renowned Pakistani-British writer. Her mother is British and her father is from Pakistan. She was born in Pakistan and later moved to the United Kingdom. This could reflect why An Unknown Girl is about the struggle Alvi or The Unknown Girl has trying to relocate her cultural identity and cling onto it in a nation where the culture is slowly drifting away and being replaced by western

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    Glove Girl

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    QUESTION: What should Lancaster-Webb do about Glove Girl?Bloggers’ opinion can constitute an extremely useful tool for a company’s product or service. The reason for this is that people feel bloggers have no subsequent intention in recommending something. In other words‚ they do not have the feeling that the blogger is trying to sell them something but that they are otherwise giving their opinion from their own knowledge or experience with the product or service. In the article “A Blogger in Their

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    Girl Power!

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    TRAN HUE CHI Girl power! Boys and girls are co-existent in this world. They both have their own potential to make changes to our world. Boys (men) with their strength can do many masculine tasks which are usually considered important and crucial. Therefore‚ they are dominant to girls in many positions. Girls are believed to have less power and abilities than boys. However‚ as the new 21st century has begun‚ this perception changes. Girls (later are women) in have more power. They can do many things

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    drowning girl

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    The Case of … The Drowning Girl Abe took his daughter Jill and her friends Kristi and Chin to the lake for the day. While horsing around on the dock‚ Kristi deliberately shoved Chin into Jill‚ causing Jill to fall into the water. Jill landed awkwardly and sank to the bottom of the lake. Chin then pushed Kristi back‚ ignoring Jill’s plight (she was drowning). Hannah‚ a bystander and also an expert swimmer‚ glared at Kristi but took no other action. Abe confronted the group‚ demanding that they

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