Davidson Clark English 1301 16 June 2011 Popularity: Doing It the Right Way Girls in today’s society feel the need to fit in amongst their peers. They often search for ways to have more friends in school. A person involving themselves in school or community activities is the healthy way to do so. Ways such as the ones seen in the modern day movie‚ Mean Girls‚ unnecessarily corrode a person and the people around them. Girls feel the need to degrade others‚ in order for them to come out on top. This
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Movie Analysis: Girl‚ Interrupted. Brittany Clontz Nursing 114 Girl interrupted is a gripping tale of a girl’s maladaptation to the challenges of life. The movie focuses on a young girl named Suzanna Kaysen growing up in the 1960s and struggling with the world around her. Suzanna is admitted to Clarmoore institution after she consumes a whole bottle of aspirin and alcohol to deal with her pain. When admitted to Clarmoore she claims she was not trying to commit suicide‚ but that she just had a headache
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Searching for Summer ‘Searching for Summer’‚ a story about a couple‚ Tom and Lily who seek for brightness for their honeymoon in post-apocalyptic England. During their search‚ both follow up on a forest to return an envelope to an old lady who drops an envelope. On the search‚ both find a cottage that is encircled in sunlight and color. The two settings‚ England and the cottage‚ exemplifies the moods that the story portrays. In ‘Searching for Summer’‚ it was said that England hasn’t seen the sun
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Since that time‚ the image has been republished frequently in diverse contexts‚ it’s meaning altered and augmented with reincarnation. The photograph and the photographer gained fame‚ even as the girl survived seventeen years of repatriation‚ unaware of the use of her image. The second photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ of Florence Owens Thompson a 32-year old mother of seven. This photography of Thompson and her children became a key symbol of the Great
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patriarchy. Patriarchy is men-as-a-group dominating women-as-a-group; authority is vested in males. This goes well because if the female doesn’t not have a boy the men will shame them. There are 13 million more young boys in china right now than girls. If women do not have a boy the husbands tell them that they will send them away. It is very hard for women to talk about having a son because of all of the pressure they are under. Another reason people prefer boys is because boys
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The naked nine-year-old girl in the iconic Vietnam War photo used to hate the picture -- until she began to think about what the photograph could give rather than what it could take away‚ then later found that it was a "path to peace." "I realized that if I couldn’t escape that picture‚ I wanted to go back to work with that picture for peace. And that is my choice‚" said Kim Phuc‚ the girl in the iconic photo‚ according to a report from CNN. On June 8‚ 1972‚ AP Photographer Nick Ut photographed
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usually considered children’s stories‚ they often contain messages or lessons that can be taught to any reader. “The Goose Girl” and “The Raven” are just a couple of examples where this is the case. This essay will cover a short synopsis of both tales along with the lesson and how that could be taught to today’s modern audience‚ more specifically today’s modern teen. “The Goose Girl” is the story of a young princess promised to marry a young prince. Pretty typical‚ right? Except in this story on the
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Girl‚ Interrupted (1999) directed by James Mangold is largely based on a semi- autobiographical book by the same title. The movie chronicles eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen’s experiences surrounding her stay at a mental institution. It is 1967‚ a time of social change and unrest. Susanna makes a half-heart attempt at suicide‚ ingesting a bottle of aspirin and chasing the pills with a bottle of vodka. She is taken to the emergency room‚ her stomach is pumped and she survives. Afterwards she meets
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Soaked‚ little‚ and naked is how the viewer finds Susanna in the middle of Girl‚ Interrupted. Or rather‚ soaked‚ little‚ naked‚ and hysterical. A state James Mangold utilizes to further illustrate his message. The film serves as a vehicle for Mangold to discuss madness and the society it exists within. Valerie‚ the asylum’s registered nurse‚ throws Susanna‚ the film’s suicidal protagonist‚ into a tub filled with water in order to snap Susanna out of her depressed state. Susanna lashes out at Valerie
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In Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s play‚ The Roaring Girl‚ Moll is presented as a symbol to combat the patriarchal order both within the play and in English society. Moll is given a level of agency that is vastly greater than all the women in the play. She is not restricted to the typical patriarchal order that was present in English society at the time. Moll also constructively uses her agency to challenge the patriarchy‚ where she not only wins‚ but emasculates her male oppressors. It is in
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