remember‚ I always had more guy friends than girl friends. I am not sure if girls intimidated me‚ or if I just got along better with boys. Hearing this from a girl might sound strange. Being older‚ I realize the reason I prefer to surround myself with boys is because they can be more laid back and less dramatic. While I do have a couple of close girl friends now‚ I still have a bigger group of close guy friends. Middle school is when I first realized how mean girls could be‚ forming cliques and teasing
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Summary of “The good girl”: The main theme in the short story is the relationship between the Catholics and the Protestants and how the conflict can affect an innocent girl. The story takes places in Northern Ireland and is about a girl named Chrissy. She is a catholic and is going on a date with a boy named Ian who is a protestant. When she is waiting to meet Ian‚ a girl named Eilish shows up. Chrissy do not like her because she and her cronies is always getting into trouble at school. Eilish tells
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considerable concern about poor families and how they would be cared for. But it was English policies‚ brought to America by the expatriate colonists‚ that set the stage for the approach to what were basically “child welfare” issues. In England‚ the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 was the most influential of the British approaches to dealing with the poor. The Elizabethan Poor Law directed parents to accept responsibility for the support of their children. Furthermore‚ the Elizabethan Poor Law not only held
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Visualize this‚ living in the poor side of town where most drug addicts hang around smoking and drinking.Picking up recyclable bottles along the way to sell and get a couple bucks to buy a beer and perhaps a bit of drugs to get their high of the day. Poor families see this on the daily which motivates them to continue with their education. Going far and becoming someone known due to the achievements they have accomplished. Stereotypes start with people inferring or assuming certain things of that
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The film “For Colored Girls” by famous and well-known director‚ Tyler Perry‚ is a 2010 drama film that deals with the incredibly intense issues about women in the society which we live in. It reveals the different issues that impact women in general‚ but colored women in particular. The film interconnects seven women‚ exploring their daily lives and struggles as colored women. Each film character deals with a different personal conflict‚ such as‚ rape‚ love‚ abandonment‚ infidelity‚ and abortion
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Option for the Poor and Vulnerable is concerned with people who are unable to work or find a job‚ and end up not being able to have enough money to provide basic needs for themselves and their families. Sadly‚ there are many people in this world who are not able to provide themselves with these needs. Personally‚ I feel my family and I have supported this catholic social principle. Last year‚ I volunteered at the food bank where I organized foods‚ making sure they were in the right shape‚ condition
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G 1 Gender Roles and Maturity Boys and girls‚ is a fictional short story‚ beautifully written by Alice Munro‚ about gender identity and stereotypes‚ as a young child moves into adulthood. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm in Jubilee‚ Ontario. During this time women were viewed as second class citizens but the narrator‚ who is also the protagonist‚ desires to be more than “just a girl”. Through the conflicts of the protagonist‚ Munro depicts the challenges of growing up with gender
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Critiquing Mean Girls The film industry into one of the highest grossing within the larger entertainment sector with companies investing millions of dollars on single releases. As a result‚ there is a need for the production firms to create a trailer that intrigues the intended audience into buying cinema tickets or the DVDs for entertainment. For example‚ an investigation on how a trailer of one of the most popular movies in 2004‚ Mean Girls‚ applied art and cultural values can show how a film can
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First of all‚ a similar representation of the group of ‘popular kids’ is evident in Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon. The popular kids are known to us as the ‘A group’ from the novel and as the ‘Plastics’ from the movie. To begin with‚ the people from the Plastics and the A group are represented in both texts as the cliché or stereotypical bunch of popular people. By saying this‚ it is being implied that they demonstrate the hackneyed qualities of people with popularity. Both groups are stereotypically
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Guerrilla Girls’ are a group of women artists and art professionals who fight discrimination and expose sexism and racism in the art world. The Guerrilla Girls’ provide a serious yet humorous approach to feminism. The protest group wears gorilla masks to keep the focus on the real issues and not their personalities or personal identities. Our society grows up learning about centuries of artists‚ but are limited to white male masterpieces and movements. The Guerrilla Girls’ ask us to rethink the question
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