Why? When a girl child is born‚ Her family and parents mourn. Why? When a girl comes to earth‚ She is killed even before birth. Why? A girl is always ignored‚ Why not she is always adored? Why? The government doesn’t deal it with an iron hand And see to it that in latter and spirit it is banned Why? People are passive towards girls‚ I feel they are precious as pearls. Girl is an emerging soul of faith and light In her life she must have day and never night A girl’s life becomes difficult
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The Unknown Girl By Moniza Alvi The title ‘unknown girl’ may suggest that the poetess is in search of her roots‚ culture‚ traditions and heritage. She is unknown to her country‚ the place from where she belongs. She is trying to find out more about her home-country. This poem is a first-person narration from the poetess’ point of view. It us a free verse‚ autobiographical poem which is written in a single stanza containing many local dialects‚ for instance‚ ‘bazaar’‚ ‘hennaing’‚ ‘kameez’ and
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In her slave narrative‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs makes the case that “[slavery] is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.” (Jacobs #) According to female slave narratives like Incidents and The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave‚ it is worse to be a female slave because‚ in addition to the brutalities endured by all slaves‚ enslaved women are also victims of a sexist and patriarchal society where they are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
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Hierarchy of Monstrous Behaviour Adrienne represents "a monster in the shape of a girl‚" (MacLeod‚ P.40) by physically demonstrating a selfish‚ emotionless and unexplainable hate towards Sophie. Adrienne leads her friend Braidie‚ who contributes on a more subtle level to this motif of monstrous behaviour. Adrienne shows her sinister leadership by constantly instigating a form of abuse towards Sophie. "Adrienne leans into Sofie so that Sofie is squished‚" (P.42) causing apparent physical harm. Mentally
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Part One Essays CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE FORM OF LITERATURE a. Elements of Essays b. The essay and other forms of literature c. The essayist and the reader d. Four essays and commentaries • The essay as argument: Persuasion • The essay as story: history • The essay as poem: Meditation • The essay as play: Dialogue Total Essays 10 1. Cocksure
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“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” ------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Structurally‚ For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems‚ collectively called a "choreopoem." Shange’s poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout their lives. It is performed by a cast of seven women characters‚ each of whom is known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow‚" "Lady in Purple‚" etc. The poems deal with love
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The new girl Author The story is written by Marc Mitchell (Florence‚ Alabama) in 2001. Title The new girl. The whole story is about this situation that changed the main characters life – the situation where he met this new girl‚ and acted terribly against her‚ which “haunts” him the rest of his life. Narrator The story is told with a 1st person narrator. We only see and hear the story through one set of eyes – we only see it from one perspective. (Examples from text: “I lived…”) Settings
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In the story “Shunned‚” a girl is shunned from society because she is different and has gone against what everyone else believes in. She was shunned “to keep bad things from happening in a community. But it doesn’t correct [her] life gone wrong” (Hall 50). Society shuns all the
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“A Very Happy Birthday” A Critical Analysis of “Birthday Girl” by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami’s “Birthday Girl” is a piece that can take the reader into the past and help us analyze if any of our wishes ever came true. Hopefully we all reach those birthday milestones and we get whatever it is we wished for. The main character in this story has reached an important milestone birthday in Japan. At 20 you are a full fledged adult‚ a member of Japanese society so this
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Critical Analysis and Response Essay “Girl Toys‚ Boy Toys and Parenting: The Science (of) Toy Preferences in children” by Gwen Dewar examines factors that influence the toy preferences of boys and girls. Dewar’s argument focuses on how genetic factors affect sex-biased toy preferences for children by citing studies and experiments. However‚ studies and experiments given as examples detracted from the main argument‚ that “gender-typical” toys are partly a result of genetic factors‚ resulting in
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