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    The film begins with Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon)‚ living repressed lives in Arkansas. Both women have stereotypical roles in this movie. As best friends‚ they decide to go on an adventure that takes a dramatic turn and ends up being an adventurous police chase to the sudden death. Thelma is an unhappy housewife who despises her husband (Daryl)‚ who is a bumbling‚ controlling and narcissistic. Her character is somewhat infantile‚ in that she relies completely on her husband for

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    Out Thelma and Louise is a 1991 film about two good friends who set out on a road trip to relax from their hectic lives‚ but find themselves anything than relaxed. They are tired of their boring‚ routine lives‚ and find excitement on the road‚ although not in the way they would have liked. Thelma is a push-over house wife with a controlling husband and Louise is a stressed waitress with a boyfriend who is unwilling to commit. In an attempt to rescue Thelma from a potential rape‚ Louise shoots and kills

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    Thelma and Louise (1991) The story includes the journey of two best friends who find comfort in each from their dreary and mundane domesticated lives. The need for escape and freedom is introduced right from the beginning when Thelma has to ask her husband to go away for the week. The desire for pleasure and escapism overwhelms them when they are away from the domestic sphere. They feel as if something is missing and want to have time by themselves to really figure out what that is. Thelma

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    "The Red Convertible" by Louise Erdrich In "The Red Convertible‚" by Louise Erdrich‚ the red convertible symbolizes the brothers relationship at different stages through the story. In the story Erdrich uses specific actions of the brothers to show change in their relationship‚ which corresponds with the red convertible. Erdrich uses scenes involving the red convertible to show different stages of the brothers relationships. The story begins with a road trip representing the boys closeness‚ then

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    The film‚ Thelma and Louise‚ centers on the friendship of two women and their adventures to truly realize who they are as women. Thelma and Louise’s road trip is a metaphor for the journey that their lives take through this film. The metaphor constantly seen throughout this film is empowerment‚ only gained through aggression. Most of this film is about the multitude forms that sexual violence can take. But‚ the further that Thelma and Louise travel on their trip‚ the more we can see them overcome

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    Louise Erdrich introduces several generations in the interrelated families living in and around a Chippewa or Ojibwa reservation in North Dakota. Love Medicine is told through the voices of a series of vivid characters‚ mostly Chippewa men and women who are caught up in the emotional tangle of their families’ histories‚ but who struggle to gain some control over their lives. In her uniquely poetic style‚ Erdrich creates an intense vision of a world that is at once violent and tender‚ ugly and lyrical

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    Thelma and Louise are two friends who decide to take a weekend trip into the mountains. However all does not go according to plan when in a diner parking-lot Louise shoots a man who attempts to rape Thelma. From here Thelma and Louise go on the run - robbing a bank and blowing up a gas tanker on the way. ’Thelma and Louise’ is essentially a road movie‚ which embodies the spirit of the crime‚ thriller and buddy movie as well. As the film progresses the pair become closer‚ revealing more to each other

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    Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Background: Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is a luxury resort‚ situated in the world’s most mesmerizing natural settings‚ within the Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains‚ overlooking one of the most photographed panoramic sceneries in the world. The resort hotel is owned and operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts of Toronto‚ Canada. Fairmont Hotels and resorts is a leading North American operator of luxury hotels‚ with properties in Canada‚ USA‚ Mexico

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    The Native Family Versus the Dominant Culture in "American Horse" by Louise Erdrich The current interest in what has come to be called "multicultural" literature has focused critical attention on defining its most salient characteristic: authoring a text which appeals to at least two different cultural codes. (Wiget 258) Louise Erdrich says she’s an emissary of the between-world. (Bacon) "I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life." Her stories unfold where native family

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