Tessa Fraser Composition one Ms. Dundas 1/31/13 The Halot‚ Elizabeth-Jane and Their Gender Roles “Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.”-Jeanette Stanley. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy introduces the readers to Elizabeth-Jane and Lucetta‚ two girls of both different means personalities. The comparison by Thomas Hardy of Elizabeth-Jane and Lucetta reveals two different sides of the gender barriers that faced young women in the 1800’s. This comparison shows that
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English+ assignment: Girl culture In a hundred years a lot can change. Take a look at young women ‚ or as we call it : girl culture. Threw time society changed and girls were exposed to a lot of commercial forces and media. However this exposure wasn’t without consequences. When we look back in time the differences in girl culture are remarkable. In 1900 family‚ school and community shaped a girls’ mindset. However a hundred years later this doesn’t apply anymore. They made place for commercial
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The Case of … The Drowning Girl Abe took his daughter Jill and her friends Kristi and Chin to the lake for the day. While horsing around on the dock‚ Kristi deliberately shoved Chin into Jill‚ causing Jill to fall into the water. Jill landed awkwardly and sank to the bottom of the lake. Chin then pushed Kristi back‚ ignoring Jill’s plight (she was drowning). Hannah‚ a bystander and also an expert swimmer‚ glared at Kristi but took no other action. Abe confronted the group‚ demanding that they
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Maria Gurung Dianne Jhonson 26th Sep 2012 Girl Trafficking in Nepal Specific Purpose To inform my audience about the trafficking of innocent girls from rural area of Nepal to India for prostitution. Central Idea Girl trafficking is a major social issue and a major crime but is a profitable business in Nepal. Innocent girls from rural area of Nepal are lured by traffickers and sold into brothels of India.This problem must be solved as a result we must be aware of the causes‚ the situation
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Farm Girl English Composition Oct 27‚ 2012 Abstract As I was reading the story “Farm Girl”‚ I realized that the author Jessica Hemauer wrote an essay to let people know they can never forget where they come from. Some people may have to work harder than others to get what they want; but it can happen. Yes‚ we are all different and it is okay. In the essay‚ “Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer‚ Jessica shares her background of working on a farm as a child‚ and how her long hard days on
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through films you can see many sociological themes. I chose to look at “Mean Girls” and pull the sociological themes out. Mean Girls is a movie about a girl‚ Cady‚ who moves to the US from Africa and starts at a new school. She immediately befriends two outcasts‚ who explain the school ’s social scene. There are a group of three girls (the “Plastics”) who are popular‚ malicious and rule the school. As a trick‚ these three girls befriend Cady. Her outcast friends encourage her to hang out with the Plastics
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the Radium Girls of Ottawa. This is a topic that I know much about; I did my 8th grade history fair project on this‚ read a few books about it‚ and even interviewed two of the radium girls. My three main points will be what the radium dial company was‚ who the living dead girls were‚ and the after effects of this tragedy. My first point is the Radium Dial company‚ according to the book Deadly Glow‚ in 1922 the radium dial company moved from Peru Il‚ to Ottawa and hired hundreds of girls to paint
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he International Day of the Girl Child initiative began as a project of Plan International‚ a non-governmental organization that operates worldwide. The idea for an international day of observance and celebration grew out of Plan International’s Because I Am a Girl campaign‚ which raises awareness of the importance of nurturing girls globally and in developing countries in particular. Plan International representatives in Canada approached the Canadian federal government to seek support for the initiative
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Advanced English Assessment 2 A truly valuable novel is not purely based on content‚ but has the ability to challenge and spur readers into reaction based on construction and language of the text. Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale is a true example of such value‚ as her novel not only attracts readers but also warns us of the uncertainties and dangers of the future. She demonstrates how language can be used as a powerful tool for both manipulation and domination as well as how reconstructions of both fiction
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Yde Girl Yde Girl‚ named after the village in which she was founded‚ is a human remain that had been founded in Stijfveen peat bog Drenthe (refer to figure one)‚ Netherlands in 1897. The Dutch peat cutters who had found her body first believing they had saw the devil‚ because of her red hair had had resulted in running away and returning a day after to cover her body with stacks of peat. Her body now in displayed in the Drents museum in Assen along with her modern reconstruction of her physical
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