Megan Buxton Professor Stockton Communications 297 11 May 2012 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo In Stieg Larsson ’s novel‚ The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‚ his first novel in the Millennium series‚ and a number one national best seller‚ danger and suspense lurk around every corner as Larsson portrays a dark and mysterious crime thriller that differs from most. Mikael Blomkvist‚ a recently discredited journalist‚ is enlisted to the aid of Henrik Vanger‚ an influential business mogul‚ to find his
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Iris Marlon Young was a feminist and a philosopher that wrote an essay titled “throwing like a girl” which was published in 1980‚ “We often experience our bodies as a fragile encumbrance‚ rather than the media for the enactment of our aims. We feel as though we must have our attention directed upon our bodies to make sure they are doing what we wish them to do‚ rather than paying attention to what we want to do through our bodies” (146-7). She is making a generalisation about western women as a whole
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Generation to generation they passed down different cultural traditions like in the article by Jamaica Kincaid "Girl". this is the way you set a table for tea‚ this how you set a table for dinner". Originally were brought up to be house wives and care takers. Their jobs were to clean‚ cook‚ do the laundry." Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone
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In the essay “Highway of Lost Girls” by Vanessa Veselka‚ she talks about her past events that took place when she was a runaway teenager and the time she came face to face with a serial killer. She supported her claim by using anecdotes to prove that her story is true. It was first published in The GQ magazine‚ New York‚ October 24‚ 2012. She is a novelist‚ union organizer‚ and author‚ which gives her the authority to write on this subject. She wrote this essay for the general public to read about
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This documentary is about eight women that share their experiences of what they have faced in their careers. It opens by one of the actresses saying that this industry is male dominated‚ and all opportunities are given priority to males then females. Another actress discusses in the documentary that the pay is lower for females and higher for males. In certain cases‚ females have to live off that allowance until they get a new cast. Other females take even lower pay just to have that role in the
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The Lords and the Mill Girls is a chapter in the Portrait of America book that details how democratic ideals do not mix well with the profit motive. One such example of this was the Lowell Mill in Massachusetts; originally it was a famous international attraction‚ a model of enlightened industrial management. Unfortunately‚ Lowell mill changed. It gradually became like the everyday grim and crowded mill town‚ another "squalid slum." Women getting the short end of the stick has been a prominent
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Film Paper Lars and the Real Girl Lars is a lonely‚ shy and socially awkward man living in a converted garage behind his brother and sister-in-laws house. He develops a relationship with a life sized sex doll that he ordered online named Bianca‚ causing him to detach from reality. Since Lars is convinced that Bianca is a real person‚ his brother Gus convinces Lars to take Bianca to see a family doctor who is also a psychologist. Through the treatments for Bianca‚ the doctor is able to diagnosis
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from is Mean Girls. I have changed and transformed the title to Nasty Boys. I have used big bold white font to make it stand out. It is positioned on the top of the page to attract the audience. It is a teen comedy. The back ground is blue to represent boys. The central image is of Cody Heron‚ the main character with his white shirt unbuttoned and his pants sitting low. His body position looks like he is posing with his hands behind his head and his abs facing towards us‚ every girls dream guy. He
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Similarly‚ in the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid mother wants her daughter to follow up all the rules and regulation that she had told her to do. She wants her daughter to be well prepared for her future as she wants her daughter to well behave‚ know how to serve guest‚ how to
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The movie Gone Girl‚ can be analyzed through van Gennep’s theory‚ rite of passage. Throughout the movie‚ the experience of the main character Nick‚ has three stages which match the theory’s threefold scheme that consist of separation‚ liminality and incorporation. The first stage begins at the beginning of the movie‚ as the wife of Nick‚ Amy goes missing. Nick’s life as a husband has ended as he is separated from his wife and his marriage becomes incomplete. Nick’s situation perfectly matches what
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