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    Speak is a teen novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ it’s the story of freshman Melinda Sordino. Everybody in her high school doesn’t like her because last summer she went to a party and called the cops. Ever since she doesn’t speak and has no friends because she doesn’t want to tell anybody the truth. She later on gets the courage to say something because one of her ex-best friends is going out with popular senior named Andy Evans. We find out later in the book that Melinda was raped by Andy

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    three women‚ simply because she was not prepared for her choice of lifestyle. Enda was raised in Kentucky as a Presbyterian‚ and moved down to the Grand Isle later on. “Though she had married a Creole‚[she] was not thoroughly at home with the Creoles”(Chopin‚ 12) As such‚ she is innately opposed to their alien lifestyle. Edna is not confined‚ but she longs to be separate‚ distinguished from them: an individual. She recognizes the importance of her identity in saying‚ “ I would give up the unessential

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    Movie Review of Eat‚ Drink‚ ManWoman After the viewing of Eat‚ Drink‚ ManWoman‚ in class I have come up with my own thoughts on the movie. First‚ this is a foreign film so in order to understand it‚ subtitles were used. Personally I do not like having to read and watch the movie at the same time. It is jut something that I do not find enjoyable. Other than that problem for me‚ I thought the movie was actually pretty good. The main characters of the movie are Chu‚ the

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    Directly from the start of this passage men are shown to be more courageous and powerful than woman. The conversation that the young girl has with the colonel shows how society idolizes men to always be a better than women‚ the term she uses to describe women being inferior “jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era” is a very common and coherent example all of us have been hearing for a long time. The colonel debates that women don’t have the “actual nerve control of men”. This clearly shows

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    Kate Chopin: Woman Before her Time “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all‚ even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” These are some famous words of a woman ahead of her time‚ Kate Chopin. Kate wrote many stories about women and their sexual appetites and cravings for independence‚ which made her stories taboo during her time. Her stories focused mainly on the lives of sensitive‚ intelligent women. She simply wrote life as she saw it. According to her website‚ she

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    saint. whose every deed and word and wish is golden- whose every action is good a wingless angel who can do no wrong - a saint go! - i am no doll to dress and sit for feeble worship- go‚ i am not someone to play with and sit to worship you. if that be what you ask‚ fool‚ i refuse you! Or if you think in me to find- if you think you will find// a creature who will have no greater joy - a person who will be happy than gratify your clamorous desire‚- giving you sex my skin soft only for your fond

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    The Black Woman & Her Fight for Respect For thousands of years women have been fighting for many things‚ one of the most important being respect. Some people may think respect for a woman is simply holding the door for her as she walks through‚ pulling her chair out for her before she is seated‚ or maybe just standing when she leaves the table; but respect is so much more than that. Respect is a feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by their abilities‚ qualities‚ or achievements. Respect

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    The Man Who Was Almost a Man Character Analysis In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”‚ there is only one main character‚ Dave Saunders‚ and a handful of secondary characters. Dave Saunders is a seventeen year old‚ “long‚ loose-jointed limbed” African-American boy living in what seems like the South‚ either in Alabama or Louisiana‚ judging from the fact that the Illinois Central railroad runs through the area where he lives. Dave is struggling with growing up and is trying to achieve

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    Becoming a Man Coming of age is a young person’s transition from adolescence to adulthood. For most this can be a very difficult time and can cause a lot of pressure‚ especially for teenagers. In Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man‚ the main character‚ Dave‚ thinks he is ready to show everyone that he is a man. Dave wants people to give him more respect and treat him like a man; however‚ his actions seem to backfire leaving him with less respect than he had before. In the beginning

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