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    Muddy Colored Maddie Do you ever get so close to someone you can feel them mentally like if something bad happens to them you can feel it even if they don’t tell you. Yeah I had that. Goodbye is such a weird word isn’t it. I mean what it it is saying is the bye is good when it’s not at all bye isn’t a good thing. But somehow saying goodbye makes it better. It doesn’t because if you say bye or even goodbye it means that something or someone is leaving which is never good. What happened it you don’t

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    Papago Woman‚ written by Ruth M. Underhill‚ is an ethnography of the life of a native american woman named Maria Chona‚ a member of the Southern Arizona Papago people located right outside of Tucson‚ Arizona on a reservation. Ruth lived among the Papago from 1931 till 1933. She studied the life of the Papago with her main subject an older Papago woman named Chona. She says at one point how she learned amongst these people and Chona‚ “I feel‚ nevertheless‚ that out of all this flurry there came the

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    O. McIntosh Ap Language & composition December 2‚ 2012 How It Feels To Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston Hurston refused to be defined by the stereotypes of her time and times long gone. She often pushed the boundaries of what was customarily done‚ thought or expected by people of “color”. Hurston redefines and restructures the reality of being colored by the use of Satire‚ Imagery‚ and Personification. Hurston uses these strategies to lightheartedly yet emphatically

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    THE OTHER WOMAN Group 8 3 – D Pharmacy Members: Sta. Ana‚ Axelle Anne Tan‚ Rhey Antoanette Tiu‚ Chrisanthydel Uy‚ Philene Victa‚ Ma. Nerissa Diane Villaflor‚ Ruby Anne Mae Ysit‚ Raymond Ivan I. Author of the Text Norma O. Miraflor graduated with a degree of AB Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas. She received various awards from the Philippine Free Press and Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature. She and her sister are poets and fictionists. Due

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    Brianna Abanira 3/20/12 M/W 8am Prof. Robert Bond Lessons for a Woman 1) The author is Nancy Lee Swann‚ and the speaker in the text is Ban Zhao Pan Chao‚ a member of the Han dynasty. From the introduction we learn that she was the daughter of the writer Ban Biao and was very well educated and came from a good family‚ where she was married and basically went from being extremely well taken care of to just another house wife. When her husband died‚ she didn’t remarry but instead took up

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    Pretty Woman. The quintessential romance Pretty Woman (1990) staring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is essentially a modern day fairy tale where the underprivileged young woman meets her handsome prince and lives happily ever after. The film resonates the same narrative formula as classic fable Cinderella‚ in that the film’s protagonist Vivian (Roberts) plays a prostitute who is bought for a week by wealthy businessman Edward (Gere) for everything but the standard reason‚ sex. Pretty Woman contains

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    Often times‚ we endure problems within ourselves that can either be solved or left alone to embrace. Whether it is mental or physical‚ many of us find it natural to undergo inner-conflict. In the two passages‚ “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “Quicksand‚” the authors provide the audience with a theme that connects them both. After uncovering their internal conflict‚ they eventually decided to unknowingly distract themselves from the issue. This includes the way the authors utilized the

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    1 “I remember it all very well lookin’ back it was the summer I turned eighteen” you can tell she is a young lady‚ and as you continue through the lyrics you acknowledge that “Fancy”‚ her mother‚ and young sibling live in a “rundown shack” and her father had left them. She continues to tell us that her mom buys her a dress and sends her out to the streets due to her being sick and the baby being hungry. Throughout the song her mother states‚ “Here’s your one chance Fancy don’t let me down” illustrating

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    dieting tricks that promise to shave off weight within weeks‚ to the constant gossiping of the fashion trends of a femme fatale‚ the message is clear: the appearances of women matter. Especially prevalent for the past few decades‚ the pressure for young women to meet a certain physical standard has been growing ever since. Through the influence of the media and the scrutiny of others‚ women face the stress of carefully choosing each change they add to their appearance‚ going so far as to permanently

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    There have been some comments about how Ntozake Shange has unfairly demonized black men through her choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf.” Such as saying that the work is portraying black men as "Satan’s gift to black women." Though out this choreopoem there are definitely some serious situations between the female and the male where the male is what you might call the “bad guy”. While this happens‚ Shange addresses these conflicts without making an assumption

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