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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Despite all tall claims by the government and nagging by voluntary organizations‚ a vast majority of the girls are yet illiterate in India. During the last four decades since independence‚ much is being done to emancipate women. Education of girls is one of the basic features of the plan. Many schools and colleges are founded for girls. Even co-education has received considerable support from the public‚ and although orthodox parents still view the system of co-education with suspicion‚ a large
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Narratives of Different Importance The appearance of many different narratives in one novel is nothing really new or existing but the importance of the specific nar4ratives are very interesting when it comes to fully understand the novel. Usually the narrator‚ often an unreliable person appearing himself in the story‚ is more or less interested in all narratives of a novel similarly. And as the narrators attention is leading for the reader’s attention there are no differences of importance to different
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Nearly half of India’s children are girls. However‚ the girl child is considered a lesser child in our society. Irrespective of class‚ caste and economic conditions‚ she is discriminated against and neglected at all the levels. This result in the denial of basic services required for her survival‚ welfare and development. The girl child is perceived as a burden to be passed on to another family. Her contribution in the household economy is not acknowledged. Various factors contribute towards
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“Dark Girls” The 2012 documentary Dark girls‚ is a fascinating and controversial film by American filmmakers‚ Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. It goes underneath the surface to explore the prejudice‚ dark-skinned women face throughout the world. It explores the roots of classism‚ racism and the lack of self-esteem within a segment of cultures. Dark girls shows the many struggles which women of darker skin face. It allows women of all ages to tell their stories of the damage done to their self-esteem
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Through exploring connections between Shakespeare’s Richard III and Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard the values of the era are often a product of the context of the text. However‚ through studying the theatricality of man and the pursuit of power‚ it is clear these notions transcend time and context. Shakespeare valued the way an actor could act within a play and theatre was valued in this context. Shakespeare also demonstrated how Richard pursued political power‚ whilst Shakespeare himself pursued
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female child in society‚ what her human rights are as a human being and a number of sensitive issues.This issue is important because there is nearly universal consensus on the need for gender equality.[1] Gender based discrimination against female children is pervasive across the world. It is seen in all the strata of society and manifests in various forms.[2] As per the literature‚ female child has been treated inferior to male child and this is deeply engraved in the mind of the female child. Some
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Colored Girls Opening: Four women who were prominent in our Black History stood up in opposition to the odds placed against them. Listen as they tell us about their lives‚ pain‚ and struggles on how it was to be colored (as they were labeled) during the years of segregation and the civil rights movement. I hope you get a message from this presentation and please enjoy. Teresa Hi – I’m Rosa Parks and I’m a colored girl--on Dec. 1‚ 1955 in Montgomery Alabama-- I refused to give up my
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The narrator in "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a low class working citizen telling the reader‚ in detail‚ about a distinguished gentleman named Richard Cory who eventually "put a bullet through his head." Almost everyone‚ including the narrator‚ would stare at him with awe every time they saw him. He was "imperially slim"(4)‚ always charismatic and well-dressed. He was extremely courteous and polite. He would please everyone’s heart with a simple "Good Morning." Then the narrator soon
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The Whisperer in Darkness Lovecraft‚ Howard Phillips Published: 1930 Categorie(s): Fiction‚ Horror Source: Wikisource 1 About Lovecraft: Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy‚ horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts‚ entities or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds‚ and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has
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