Yasunari Kawabata: The Dancing Girl of Izu My favorite author is Yasunari Kawabata‚ was born in June 14‚ 1899 and died in April 16‚ 1972. He is a Japanese short story writer and the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works combined the beauty of old Japan with modernist trends. Kawabata’s books have been described as melancholy lyricism and often explore the place of sex within culture and within individual lives. “The Dancing Girl of Izu” is a story like this‚ my
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Empowering the girl child | | | | Thursday‚ 19 July 2012 00:00 | View Comments arai Kuvirimirwa Features Writer With sacrificing family resources to educate a girl child and a potential future leader still a big societal challenge‚ any effort to see the education of a girl is a huge boon. So when millions of dollars are poured into the effort‚ the impact cannot be overemphasised. The Campaign for Female Education (Camfed)‚ introduced some few years back‚ has seen remarkable change of fortunes
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Stephen Crane wrote many short stories‚ one of which was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. His stories contained various aspects of Naturalism‚ a literary movement that sought to replicate a believable everyday reality‚ as opposed to Romanticism or Surrealism‚ in which subjects may receive highly symbolic‚ idealistic‚ or even supernatural treatment. Poverty‚ abuse and a survival of the fittest way of life created an environment which Maggie was negatively influenced by. Her environment is made up of
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Running Head: THE VAGINA GIRLS The Vagina Girls Some people believe that most of the mythological stories are based on some degree of truth. Legends and folktales evolve from small grains of truth and usually spawn from one’s own inner demons and secret fears. A common phobia that evolves throughout cultures is the myth of The Vagina Girls. The myth of The Vagina Girls is often associated with fear of castration in men. This fear highlighted because of the myths translation to film and seems
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One popular cultural myth about the mentally ill is the archetype of the "Sexy Crazy Girl"‚ which we’ve seen in movies‚ comic books‚ and music. Losing your grip with reality is not a glamorous subject‚ but that’s not what you get from Girl‚ Interrupted. It is apparent that all the girls in the movie had some type of dysfunctional personality‚ and bad things happen to some of them‚ but it just did not seem realistic. First off‚ most of the patients prtrayed were young‚ which made the care facility
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of Movement’: Video Games as Gendered Play Space” convinced me that 13 years ago there was gender segregation in the digital world of video games on who the games where made for‚ girls or boys. From my 15 year of experience playing hundreds of video games I never thought of games being gender biased till now. To me girls didn’t play them because they were just not into video games and would rather play with dolls. Jenkins states that traditional culture in video games is not fixing gender bias games
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Maggie: The Girl with no Control People in general like to think they control more of their lives than they actually do. The idea of naturalism has many different aspects to it. The idea is all about man’s internal struggle for power against nature. The novel Maggie a Girl of the Streets‚ written by Steven Crane illustrates just how ones life can be affected by the surrounding environment‚ and that person does not have a large amount of control over their life. Crane expresses that Maggie
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Ryan McNeal Professor Glover English 101 – Midterm 7 October 2010 “Three Girls” Midterm Joyce Carol Oates wrote the story “Three Girls” in 2002. The story actually takes place on “one snowy evening in 1956” (77). The initial characters in the story are “two NYU girl-poets” (77)‚ but later the reader is introduced to another character that changes the entire story. The two poets are the narrator and the reader who is spoken of using the word “you”. The point of view is first person‚ but can
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The Other Boleyn Girl/ Philipa Gregory: Summary: "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philipa Gregory is a romantic novel‚ based on true characters and events in history. King Henry the 8th is known for many things‚ one of which his numerous wives’ and mistresses. The king had six wives‚ only one of which managed to make it through the entire marriage. The first‚ Princess Kathrin was divorced‚ she was replaced by Ann Boleyn. Before Ann Boleyn‚ King Henry had a mistress- Mary Boleyn‚ Ann’s younger sister
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Dance‚ Girl‚ Dance is a film from the Classical Hollywood period that presents a complicated reading when viewed through a feminist lens. The 1940 film was directed by Dorothy Arzner‚ one of the most notable female directors and the only prominent woman in Hollywood at that time. Arzner presents her audience with an array of female characters‚ the main characters being Judy O’brien and Bubbles/Tiger Lily White. Judy is a dedicated dancer‚ honing her talents as a ballerina. Bubbles‚ on the other hand
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