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    Girl in the Window

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    5. This article differs from articles we have read so far because it is an investigative piece. It is the raw truth about something extremely unfortunate that happened. DeGregory gives both sides of the story but you always feel bad for the poor girl. 6. Qualities that this piece shares with others that we have read is the amount of detail and descriptiveness in the writing. 7. Tone and mood were two techniques that were utilized in this piece. DeGregory did a great job of using tone

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    Golden Girl

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    Golden Girl Gordon Lee McCallum’s perspective The drive to the school was quite smooth; the weather was nice‚ and there were no traffic. As I approached the school‚ I began to recognize a few of my colleagues’ cars. After having parked my car‚ as I got out‚ I noticed Miss Grainger‚ from the corner of my eye‚ waving at me. I waived back‚ and quickly joined her. She greeted me enthusiastically‚ and led me to the dance. Just

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    Slave Girl

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    In her slave narrative‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs makes the case that “[slavery] is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.” (Jacobs #) According to female slave narratives like Incidents and The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave‚ it is worse to be a female slave because‚ in addition to the brutalities endured by all slaves‚ enslaved women are also victims of a sexist and patriarchal society where they are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation

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    CASE APPLICATION: GOSSIP GIRLS: How many times a day do you gossip . . . .Either as a sender or receiver? Although you may think gossip is harmless‚ it can have some pretty serious consequences. It did for four former employees of the town of Hooksett‚ Mew Hampshire‚ who were fired by the city council for gossiping about their boss. They learned the hard way that the gossip can cost you your job. The longtime employees were fired because one of the woman had used derogatory terms to describe

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    Girl With A Kitten

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    For the Final assignment‚ the image I chose to analyze and critique was Girl with a Kitten by Lucian Freud. My first impression of this piece was that it was pretty perplexing. There is not much happening in it besides a woman who seems to be strangling a little kitten without what seems to be any remorse for doing so—so‚ naturally‚ I immediately had questions regarding what exactly is happening in this work. Though there is still so much to understand and comprehend about it‚ I initially

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    Gossip Girl

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    The Upper East Side 1. Gossip Girl ‚ “Gone with the Will” 2. Plot Summary The episode begins with Blair Waldorf and Jack Bass attending the will reading with Chuck Bass‚ who has recently lost his father. The late Bass wrote Chuck a letter before he died‚ and Chuck is presented with the sealed letter. Chuck becomes angry‚ and refuses to read the letter. He says that he does not want his father to call him a failure once again. Blair snatches the letter away from Chuck’s uncle‚ Jack. Blair reads

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    Girl Interrupted

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    The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline

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    School In Partial Fulfilment In Caribbean Examination Council Question: Theme 9 – Caribbean Society 1900-1985 What were the implications of being a member of the Rastafarian Movement in Jamaica during the 1960s and 1070s? Submitted by: Jade Eunis Centre Number: 100068 School: Manning’s School Territory: Jamaica‚ West Indies Teacher: Ms. Frith Year: 2014 Table of Contents Acknowledgement…………………………………………………………………..3 Ration………………………………………………………………………………..4 Essay…………………………………………………………………………………5 Appendix……………………………………………………………………………

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    Girl Interrupted

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    Ali Cox Psych 350 Steve Illardi 15 November 2012 Applied Paper For this applied paper I chose to read the novel Girl‚ Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. In her biography she writes about her time at McLean Hospital‚ a residential psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. She tells about the experiences she had there‚ the people that she met‚ and most importantly her diagnosis; Borderline Personality Disorder. Through reading her novel I was able to see what caused her diagnosis‚ the symptoms that

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    Jamaica Kincaid creates a motherly figure in her short story that is telling a younger girl how to act to be socially accepted in the Caribbean Islands. One point of advice that the motherly figure gives to the girl is “This is how you grow okra- far from the house‚ because okra tree harbors red ants” (Kincaid 171). In America we do not have okra trees therefore we do not have to worry about red ants. On the other hand‚ in the Caribbean Islands they do and younger girls should know were

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