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    What I Want to Be

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    do you want to be when you grow up? Most children will say they want to be a doctor‚ teacher‚ police officer‚ etc. When i was asked what i wanted to be when i grew up‚ my answer would vary between giraffeopologist (the name i gave to people who studied giraffes)‚ a witch‚ or a mad scientist. My answer started to change the years passed‚ i grew older‚ became wiser and started to discover who i am and what i was really interested in‚ the human body and mind. At the age of thirteen i figured i had watched

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    I want to be an astronaut

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    difference is who is willing to take a chance.” I have always had a dream‚ which was something no one didn’t know anything about. A secret dream. A dream about become the first astronaut” astronåt" on Mars. Imagine how it will feel like to be the first human being in history to leave your footprint on the surface(søørface) of Mars? Just imagine looking up into the sky‚ and see that one of the “stars” is actually earth; the planet you were born and raised on. I have never told this to anyone‚ because at

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    I Want a Wife

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    the United States began during early 1960’s and lasted throughout late 1970’s. The purpose of the feminist movement was to have a right to vote and have the same equal rights as male citizens. Judy Brady’s essay "I Want A Wife" first appeared in the Ms. Magazine’s inaugural issue in 1971. I believe that genre of the article is a classic piece of feminist humor and is depicted as satirical prose. In this essay Brady aims to convince her readers to look objectively at a man’s viewpoints and expectations

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    What I Want To Be

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    Everyone wants to be something when they grow up. Not everyone gets the chance to be what they want to be. Not everyone is provided with an opportunity. I am lucky that I was given one and now I have to do my part by taking advantage of it. I know what I want to be and I’m certain that I want to be a successful computer science major. The moment I knew what I wanted to study in college was when my cousin Jonathan moved in with me and my family. I was eleven years old when Jonathan moved in

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    I want a wife

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    Vinton Dr.Burchfield English – 1301 September 21‚ 2014 I Want a Wife In Judy Syfers-Brady essay “I Want a Wife‚” she is explaining why she would what an ideal wife for herself. She starts explaining that the ideal wife will work‚ cook‚ clean‚ watches the kids‚ puts the husband through school and give pleasures to the husband when he wants. Everyone wants someone to do all things for them. She goes on to list all the specific things she would want from a wife for her children which include keeping

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    revolution is just a convenient one. In her first stories‚ Minerva constantly fights with her father. She says‚ "I has the one always standing up to him." (alvarez 12) She is talking about her father. Everything is a constant argument with her‚ and she never lets up‚ always finding new angles until she achieves her goals. When she is a loyal citizen in her innocence‚ she "defended Trujillo"(alvarez 18) even before Sinita had finished her stories. Her loyalty begins to ever so slightly waver‚ but her love

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    I Want a Wife

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    Judy Brady’s “I Want a Wife‚” speaks out against the stereotypes of modern society on women with a sarcastic humor. She wants the reader to respect the role of a woman. She emphasize how important a wife is to a man‚ she then went on to explain how men expect so much from their wives with nothing in return. Also how outrageous their task as a wife is‚ how some things are just too demanding and unfair. “I belong to that classification of people know as wives. I am A Wife. And‚ not altogether

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    I want a wife

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    I thoroughly enjoyed reading the essay “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady. I thought it was so interesting how she shared her feelings on a woman’s role in society by writing her thoughts in the form of a sarcastic and yet compelling essay. She was able to make her feelings very clear without writing in a format similar to a research paper‚ listing off the unfairnesses of the lives of housewives. Also‚ I felt that the style in which she wrote this essay was especially good because she was able to list

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    I Want A Wife

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    wife’s role in her essay I Want a Wife to expose what a man subliminally believes a wife’s role is. Although the man may argue against the idea‚ women’s expectations‚ opportunities‚ and positions have changed in a positive but minute way over the years due to the lack of acknowledgment of the issue on the mans behalf. In Judy Brady’s essay she eradicates the meaning of a wife from the man’s perspective. Brady uses personal reflection in

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    In Miss America By Day‚ Marilyn Van Derbur told her story of incest‚ that she experienced throughout her childhood. She explained how she was sexually abused by her father‚ from age 5 to the time she was 18 years old‚ when she was able to leave her home and go off to college. Marilyn wrote about how her father would come into her room‚ at least once a week‚ to molest or rape her. The visits became more frequent when she was a teenager. She would lie awake in her bed‚ curled up in a tight fetal position

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