In Girl‚ Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen recounts her two year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness‚ she makes the reader consider how thin the line is between ’madness’ and ’sanity’. Susanna describes herself as "sane in an insane world". It does seem like it may be an insane world when we look at how society reacts to something they do not understand‚ fear breeds prejudice‚ "possessed by the devil" "bad‚ and must be isolated
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“Ambitious girl‚ I’d rather you tell me to hit you later Because you gotta finish a paper‚ Than to be in my face asking for a Rozay cup.” - Wale Not many young people worry about brains now a days‚ it’s more about beauty and outward appearance to try to fit it in. Most teenagers just want to have fun‚ party‚ and hang out with their friends. Focusing on school‚ setting goals‚ and being ambitious seems to be the last thing on a lot of teens’ minds. Being a girl that loves attention and
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Girl Underground – by Morris Glitzman Good morning/afternoon Miss Yanai and 7N. Girl Underground by Morris Gleitzman reflects the main themes of family morals. What is right and wrong‚ power and powerlessness of children and growth and change. Gleitzman has used a captivating story‚ a fast paced plot and an appropriate setting‚ humour and simple language to reflect these important themes. By setting this book in Canberra‚ a political position is achieved by using children as the main characters
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Prefect Choices: Head Girl‚ Deputy Head Girl‚ Head of School Council I would like to be a prefect as it would be a privilege to be elected to take the part of a key role in the functioning and representation of Marlborough Girls’ College. In addition to this‚ I would benefit personally by becoming prefect giving me the opportunity to be able to develop my public speaking and leadership skills‚ which will be useful later on in life. Another reason as to why I would like to be prefect is because
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unknown Girl Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan .Her father was Pakistani and mother English. She left Pakistan when she was a baby for England. The poet is thus caught between two worlds and her poems exemplify her quest for her cultural identity. The prescribed poem appears to be set in India. Pakistan was a part of India before the partition‚ therefore the setting may be a symbolic thirst for her motherland. The title of the poem is “The Unknown Girl”‚ though it may refer to the girl in the poem
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The film “Working Girl” illustrates the feministic fight and struggles of women in the work force in the 1980s to the present‚ every contradiction relates to the main problems that women face. The two main women characters in “Working Girl” represent the two types of stereotypes of women that establish themselves in the corporate world‚ Kathrine Parker and Tess McGill. Despite the film being an inspirational feministic story‚ the writer Kevin Wade created a love plot between the main character‚ Tess
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fragile relationship between the sexes is a dominant theme of the modern literature”. Evaluate this opinion by comparing and contrasting how relationships between the sexes are presented in the top girls and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Set at the time it was written‚ the early 1980’s‚ Top Girls is mainly concerned with two political agendas: feminism and socialism. It may seem surprising to us today that just over thirty years ago the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act came into
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Mass Media and Women Introduction: Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media is an autobiography written by Susan J. Douglas that outlines the impact mass media had on the second women’s movement in the United States. She presents the information in a very witty and entertaining way and does a very good job at getting straight to the point without sugar coating anything. She starts off the book by emphasizing the effects that TV and Walt Disney in particular had on our culture
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This is sometimes a very good thing – it may win you that extra minute of someone’s attention. But with some people‚ the same things can make you an island – not a tropical paradise but an Alcatraz‚ a place nobody wants to visit. As a Puerto Rican girl living in the United States and wanting like most children to “belong‚” I resented the stereotype that my Hispanic appearance called forth from many people I met. Growing up in a large urban center in New Jersey during the 1960s‚ I suffered from
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just normal books. Adding on to how children and parents sometimes have tension between themselves‚ the same concept is applied to the short stories‚ Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun. In both of these short stories‚ the parent and child are trying to connect‚ but are unable to do so‚ resulting in the child feeling unappreciated. In Confetti Girl‚ the narrator feels forgotten and not cared about by her father‚ resentment building in the tension. Whereas in the story Tortilla Sun‚ the narrator Izzy is
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