Creative Writing Reader Response # 3 Ranch Girl by Maile Meloy from Contemporary American Short Fiction The story is told in second person‚ which gives the reader a sense of being in the story‚ at the same time being an observer. It begins with telling you where you stand in the socio-economics’ and in the eyes of your peers. “If you’re white‚ and you’re not rich or poor but somewhere in the middle‚ it’s hard to have worse luck than be born a girl on the Ranch. It doesn’t matter if your father
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“The Falling Girl” is abstract and artistic depiction of young woman’s journey to the ground after releasing her grip from the railing of a skyscraper. She does not fall in traditional fashion but rather floats at a decided speed waving to the skyscrapers tenants as she passes. Her descent marked with quick verbal exchanges and internal musings of the ever-changing social classes gathered on the various floors. Although outwardly she is falling‚ during much of the prose there is a deeper theme akin
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research question: Galileo’s experiment: Measuring from the motion of a cart on a track Student: Khaled Eltokhy Date: 03/10/2013 With lab partners: Hugo Valent Anders Dypvik Under the supervision of: Mark Sylvester Abstract: An experiment was done to determine acceleration due to gravity. A track was prepared to let a cart go upwards by a slight hand push and get backwards by gravity. The movement of the cart was measured by an ultrasound sensor. The sensor sent the data to a
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Carla Frank April 29‚ 2010 Dreamgirls (2006) depicts the rise to stardom‚ and all joys‚ sacrifices‚ and heartbreaks associated with it. Effie White‚ Deena Jones‚ and Lorrell Robinson are the Dreamettes‚ beautiful girls with beautiful voices‚ looking to make it big. With help from their ambitious manager‚ Curtis Taylor‚ the Dreamettes thrive under the spotlight. However‚ the popular film also shows the hardships of the 1960’s. Through the manipulation of cinematography‚ Dreamgirls exposes‚ in
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identity will be constructed and re-constructed as much by who she hangs out with as by what she does. Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters. The screenplay was written by Tina Fey and is based in part on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman‚ which describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. The film stars Lindsay Lohan and features a supporting cast of Rachel McAdams‚ Lacey Chabert‚ Amanda Seyfried
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The word “GIRL” Have you ever tried to say the word girl in a different pronunciation? Did people understand when you said it? When I took my first step into the United States‚ my biggest worry was pronunciation. In my entire life‚ this was the first time I took a journey to a different country. Everything was so new to me; white and black faces‚ tall and muscular people. Most of all‚ their eyes attracted my attention. I came to the United States seven years ago. Back then‚ I didn’t fully understand
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The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who‚ having lost her mother at birth ‚ lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada‚ an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death‚ through a variety of life-changing experiences‚ including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend‚ Thomas Jay. Through these experiences
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timefelt about their male-dominated society. The women were ready to break free andexperience a more equalized society. Jamaica Kincaids Girl is based on therough relationship she had with her own mother. The short story shows the way amothers attitude and language can affect her daughter. The storyalso shows how the way a child is treated shapes their future. In Girl‚Kincaid shows the world how she remembers being treated while she was growing upand how much it affected her.
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In the story “Golden Girl” by Gillian Chan‚ the protagonist‚ Donna‚ proves to be a very jealous character by her actions and by her words. Her jealousy for her best friend Anna becomes an overpowering quest to destroy any chance of Anna becoming popular again after she makes the mistake for falling for a student teacher. Donna first shows her jealousy for Anna when she says‚ “I used to hope that some of whatever she had would rub off on me. I mean‚ I deserved some pay-off for all the crap she dished
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Instant coffee‚ or soluble coffee‚ which is a beverage in liquid form made from coffee and can be soon reconstituted by adding water‚ has been a popular product for decades (Allwords‚ n.d.). People has gradually become so used to drinking instant coffee that some even did not know what the fresh-brewed coffee tastes like which was found as a result of tastes tests made by at least one manufacturer (Stacey‚ Blachford & Cengage‚ 2002). It would seem that the innovation of instant coffee could make
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