Like many of Rossetti’s poems‚ a theme of betrayed love or unfulfilment of love is seen in this poem. She watches all her female friends walk by with full baskets‚ with neighbours "mocking her" because of her empty basket. The full baskets are teasing her "like a jeer." This is an example of pathetic fallacy. However‚ other friends are helped by "a stronger hand than hers"‚ like Gertrude. The narrator believes that the love of a man is more important to her than just about anything‚ including song
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Discrimination against Girl Child and Women Empowerment The status of the girl child is the key to achieving women’s equality and dignity which is‚ in many ways‚ a litmus test of the maturity of a society. Girls are to be the future mothers besides future policy makers and leaders. The importance of women hardly needs emphasis. Woman is the mother of race and is the liaison between the generations. Our culture attaches much importance to women‚ therefore‚ India has been symbolized as ‘MOTHER
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became inauspicious. In several parts of India‚ women are seen as an economic liability‚ even with the contribution of women in numerous ways to our economy and society. Early marriages‚ rape‚ molestation‚ sexual harassment‚ forced prostitution‚ eve teasing‚ etc are a common issue today. The crime rate against women is mounting at a startling rate. This essay depicts how women are being exploited and how their needs are being repressed in our primarily orthodox society. It also shows how it
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Have you ever felt like the underdog? Have you been treated like you were less than a person? Well take a lesson or two from Freak the Mighty. Our main characters‚ Max and Kevin‚ are a dynamic duo. We have Max‚ the Mighty‚ who is considered to be the stupid and strong youth that is going to turn out to be...eek‚ eek...his father‚ Killer Kenny Kane. We also have Kevin‚ Freak‚ the uber smart‚ crippled kids that moves in next door to Max at the beginning of their eighth grade year of school. Due
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Days after a Mumbai police constable raped a 17-year-old college girl inside a police chowki on Mumbai’s Marine Drive‚ people who walked the promenade or drove the stretch made it a point to stop‚ hurl the choicest of abuses at constables posted along the four-kilometre stretch before moving on. The men in khaki fought hard to keep their cool‚ grimacing at the dishonour brought on by one of their own‚ Sunil Atmaram More‚ on the afternoon of April 21. It looked like Marine Drive‚ the symbol of the
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concerns than did boys. Correlations suggested that girls’ experiences of body image concerns (body dissatisfaction‚ bulimia‚ and drive for thinness) were related to a number of factors (such as family history of eating concerns‚ peer influences‚ teasing‚ depression‚ and global self-worth) whereas boys’ experiences of body image concerns were related to fewer factors. On the basis of these findings‚ the assessment and treatment of body image concerns in preadolescent children (especially girls) are
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RACISM IT’S JUST NOT FUNNY We all know it. Racism is bad. We know that making a racist comment in class would probably end up in a visit to the principal’s office. Racism it’s just not funny. Teasing people because of their skin colour‚ teasing them because of their religion‚ teasing them because they come from another country -that’s NOT FUNNY Racism has ruined other people’s lives. It’s scarred them for life‚ its not like they would forget and not care. There’s been times when it’s resulted
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think twice. To think about what you are about to do‚ beacause teasing‚ name calling‚ and ridiculing can really hurt another human. The poem is maybe about a person‚ who have lost someone in a school massacre. He dont want it to happen to someone else‚ and therefore he is asking us to think twice. PLEASE REMEMBER by P.S. Walker P. S. Walker wants the reader to think twice. To think about what you are about to do‚ beacause teasing‚ name calling‚ and ridiculing can really hurt another human
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both texts show how Angela and Kylie cope with their situations. Angela just moved from South Korea to Detroit. She was the only Asian girl in her school‚ she spoke Korean‚ and she wasn’t that rich. That led to kids teasing and making fun of her. So Angela coped with it‚ and the teasing eventually ended. Angela coped with it by ignoring
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Technology is a broad concept. One of the concepts is the development and application of tools‚ machines‚ materials and processes that help to solve human problems. As a human activity‚ technology predates both science and engineering. It embodies the human knowledge of solving real problems in the design of standard tools‚ machines‚ materials or the process. The concept adopted in the international symposium in Paris in 1985 defines technology as “the science of knowing what to do and the creative
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