don’t seem to care. I‚ myself‚ am one of the people that don’t seem to care. The old saying‚ “Clothes make the person‚” is completely false‚ and I strongly disagree with it. Clothes do not make the person at all. No matter what I put on‚ I’ll always be the same person. In our society today‚ people judge others‚ and follow the crowd by wearing what everyone else is wearing. The clothes you wear everyday on the outside‚ have no effect on the person you are. Everyone should just be themselves and
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Appearances: They Say More About You Than You Think The term “homophobia” brings to mind individuals that hate those who are homosexual. Most of us aren’t ignorant to the fact that homophobia is a problem in America. These homophobic people call homosexuals “faggots” or “dykes” with no regard as to if these people are actually gay or not. We often believe this is as far as it is taken. Carmen Vazquez’s argument in her 1992 essay “Appearances”‚ slightly changes the definition of homophobia (Goodreads)
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Poetry Analysis I chose the poem Going Blind by Rainer Maria Wilke. Essentially‚ the poem outlines an observer’s thoughts about a girl at a party who is blind. My initial feeling during the first few lines was pity for the blind girl‚ as the poem talks about her hesitant smile and how she holds her cup differently than everyone else because she can’t see them. She tries to follow along‚ laughs when cued‚ is left behind as partygoers start to wander. But then the feeling changes during the last
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The movie Girl Interrupted is set in 1967. It is about an 18 year old young lady named Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was not encouraged by her parents to be an individual and she surprises them when she tells them that she does not want to attend college but would rather peruse her passion of being an independent writer. Susanna ingested an entire bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka and claimed that she was just trying to get rid of a headache. After the attempted suicide‚ Susanna self admits herself
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sorrow and can be representative of all the mistakes made. These memories can be very influential on essentially every aspect of one’s life‚ from emotional stability to decision-making abilities. Tennessee Williams in his contemporary play‚ A Streetcar named Desire‚ shows the significance of the memories of the past in the life of a young female protagonist. Blanche Debois’ past memories have contributed to her development as a character‚ her delusional behaviour and her foreshadowed demise as a tragic
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The 1993 classic Girl Interrupted‚ written by Susanna Kaysen‚ is a series of nonfiction pieces about her 18 months spent in a mental institution in the late 1960s. The pieces are mostly chronological‚ and in between chapters she shows real files from her stay at the institution (doctors notes‚ discharge papers‚ etc.). Throughout the fragmentary novel‚ Susanna questions her sanity and fights for self realization. James Marigold adapted the memoir into a film in 1999. The movie is loosely based off
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1. Try to summarize the plot. What happens in the book you have read? - I’ve read the book Girl Online‚ written by Zoe Sugg. It was about a girl named Penny‚ her blog where she writes about her family‚ friends‚ boys and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. Her parents are wedding planners and they get an opportunity to work in New York‚ and Penny gets to come with them. She meets Noah‚ a gorgeous American boy who plays the guitar. She falls in love and writes everything about
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Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Though all three women experience remarkably different environments—whether they are vast rooms of a lush or cataclysmic landscape‚ or a physical and mental prison—each woman shares a common victimhood to forces beyond their control‚ and which their environments dictate. An analysis of each woman’s environment
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So I Ain’t No Good Girl In the story “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” Written by Sharon Flake‚ I felt that the story could use way more conflict and feeling to it. It should make me feel the way the characters feel. So in the story they are going to school so they are waiting for the bus in a bus stop next to a donut shop. As they wait there is conflict between the girl and the other “good” girls the conflict was good but I wanted to feel how the girl felt towards the other good girls. As Raheem stared
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world was filled with men’s only. Just imagine? Most of the families in the world is run by men’s(father) in compare to women’s (mother)‚ as most of the people think that women are more weaker and less talented than men. There are some families in the world run by women(mother) but most of them may be either single parent or they might have adopted children. I belong to a developing nation(Nepal) and in my country‚ I have seen most of the families are run by the men‚ I have barely seen families run by
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