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    Latin Girl

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    This is sometimes a very good thing – it may win you that extra minute of someone’s attention. But with some people‚ the same things can make you an island – not a tropical paradise but an Alcatraz‚ a place nobody wants to visit. As a Puerto Rican girl living in the United States and wanting like most children to “belong‚” I resented the stereotype that my Hispanic appearance called forth from many people I met. Growing up in a large urban center in New Jersey during the 1960s‚ I suffered from

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    Confetti Girl

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    just normal books. Adding on to how children and parents sometimes have tension between themselves‚ the same concept is applied to the short stories‚ Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun. In both of these short stories‚ the parent and child are trying to connect‚ but are unable to do so‚ resulting in the child feeling unappreciated. In Confetti Girl‚ the narrator feels forgotten and not cared about by her father‚ resentment building in the tension. Whereas in the story Tortilla Sun‚ the narrator Izzy is

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    Farm Girl

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    Christina Anderson Mr. Kingsley Eng105 1 February 2012 Life Lessons from the Farm Jessica Hemauer’s essay‚ “Farm Girl‚” tells her life story of living on a farm through her eyes as ten-year-old child to the time of her early adulthood. The purpose of this piece is to teach the importance of life’s responsibilities to children‚ mainly female‚ and young adults who may not be familiar with the challenges life can bring and to promote the benefits you can gain by overcoming those obstacles. Hemauer

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    Journa 1-Analyzing Fiction Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and “A Rose for Emily‚” written by William Faulkner are two short fictional stories. By reading these two pieces of literature‚ the speaker’s language seemed to me very confusing‚ because of symbols‚ rhythm‚ and words‚ which authors are using to reach the audience’s attention. In order to understand the significance and the value of the stories I had to read it more than once. My understanding of the stories in general is

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    The Lost Girl

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    The Lost Girl Everyday‚ someone tortures themselves relentlessly; although they may or may not truly believe their anguish to be self-inflicted. Some‚ superb pretenders (even to themselves)‚ consider themselves perfectly fine‚ and erect an elaborate façade of not having a care in the world. Others can distinguish that they are not okay‚ but meet difficulty in voicing their concerns. Loved ones who recognize their struggles‚ often do nothing. It seems that in most cases‚ people are fearful because

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    A Slave Girl

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    The basic plot of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as an anti-slavery text and the typical plot of the 19th century genre of sentimental fiction are alike in that just as the 19th century genre did‚ Harriet Jacobs made a plea to the Northern‚ white‚ female listeners during a time when "true womanhood" truly meant chastity and virtue. Harriet Jacobs pushes the message that slavery makes it totally impossible for a black woman to live as a virtuous or chaste person. As she supports some of

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    Girl Monologue

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    The girl had begun to eat one of the child’s eyeballs‚ allowing her eyes to roll back as she savored the warm juices inside. I leapt at her‚ claws out and cut deeply into her cheek. The cut bled ferociously and she cupped it with one hand‚ the other on her mouth to muffle her cries of pain. She ran away as fast as she could‚ as I cried over the body. I ran to the house where I had seen the boy playing and scratched at the door. A kind looking woman answered it. I sadly saw the

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    Girl, Interrupted

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    Girl interrupted is about of girl named Suzanna who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital where she becomes friends with a sociopath and is roommates with a pathological liar. The main focus of this paper will be the symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment that Suzanna goes through in the movie. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time. This is often accompanied

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    Mean Girls

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    people want to make friends‚ and “up” their popularity status‚ they are nice to others. In high school‚ it seems that girls do this the opposite way‚ and are mean to one another in order to bond with friends and become more popular. This paper will discuss reasons why adolescent girls tend to put down others‚ rather than be nice and respectful. It seems that the number of mean girls are increasing every year‚ and high school seems to be a connection. Schools all around the country are dealing with

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    Girl Stereotypes

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    heard the term “you throw like a girl” used when someone throws soft and weak. This is a representation of society’s views on girls and women‚ that they are weak‚ bad‚ unintelligent. The life of being a girl is waking up knowing as soon as you walk out of the house your are going to face these stereotypes. These stereotypes plague girls life at school‚ at work even at home. I don’t believe that girls are weak or stupid‚ when I hear the word girl I think warrior. Girls are tenacious‚ intelligent individuals

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