“ugly” is defined as someone or something that is unpleasant and repulsive. For a black girl‚ the connotation of the word transforms from unpleasant to unworthy; repulsive thus becomes invisible. “Ugly” was initially written as a way for me to be in conversation with the Webster Dictionary word. However‚ over some months the piece began to be a conversation I was having with myself‚ other poets‚ and black girls in general. After ten months of working on this collection‚ I found myself in deeper thought
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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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Feminist drama Trifles is seen as an example of early feminist drama‚ because it is two female characters’‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale’s‚ ability to sympathize with the victim’s wife‚ Minnie‚ and so understand her motives‚ that leads them to the evidence against her‚ while the men are blinded by their cold‚ emotionless investigation of material facts. The female characters find the body of a canary‚ which had its neck wrung‚ killed in the same way as the deceased (John Wright)‚ thus leading them to
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Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl” is of a complicated relationship with her mother that comes out in the mother-daughter dynamic in the story. The mother‚ obviously a dominant figure in the young girl’s upbringing‚ informs the young girl of various duties associated with being a young‚ dignified lady. Her mother gives the daughter advice to make her the "proper" woman she should in fact be‚ and this advice gets more and more firm as the story continues. “Girl” is a very well suitable title
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Welcome to Stockholm‚ Sweden. This is the hometown of the author‚ and also the setting of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Like any large city‚ there are numerous people that resort to crime and heinous acts. Here in Stockholm‚ corrupt businessmen‚ neo-nazi nationalists‚ rapists‚ and misogynists hide in the darkest‚ most grotesque recesses of the city. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‚ Stieg Larsson attempts to exhibit the ideals and reveal the harsh atrocities performed by criminals in Stockholm
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“We Real Cool” What I like about this poem is that its meaning is relevant to any generation. No matter what is going on in the world there will always be kids who want to be rebellious‚ skip school‚ and do whatever they want with no regard for the consequences. One thing that caught my attention in this poem was the strange placement of the word “We” at the end of each line. At first this confused me but after hearing Gwendolyn Brooks read the poem‚ I realized that the placement of “We” created
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a factor which affects the ways in which students interact with each other. Rachel Simmons’ Odd Girl Out looks closely at adolescent female interactions and the way in which the internet has shaped them: the ability to always be in contact and to use this ability to gain social status is often exploited by girls. Boys‚ on the other hand‚ are less prone to use technology in aggressive behaviors. In Real Boys‚ William Pollack unpacks the male tendency to mask emotions when faced with bullying as opposed
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As a shy horticultural hobbyist and low-level British diploma‚ Justin Quayle is not a person to make fuss‚ until when he learns about his wife’s murder. Tessa has been murdered and left at the crossroad together with her driver. The first suspect is her doctor‚ Arnold Bluhm‚ on for it to be discovered that he was murdered the same day with Tessa. There is a circulating rumor that both Tessa and Bluhm had a love affair‚ and the murder is highly considered as a crime of passion. However‚ later discovery
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Any reader would thoroughly enjoy The Girl with Seven Names‚ as the storyline is truly eye-opening. As an American‚ we have never been forced to look at the freedoms we take for granted in such a light. One would be flabbergasted at the violent execution described‚ as well as the brainwashing that begins at such an early age. As Hyeonseo describes the horrors and joys of living in “the greatest country on Earth” it is impossible to process. The patriotism that comes from living in a country that
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