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    Girl, Interrupted

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    Girl interrupted is about of girl named Suzanna who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital where she becomes friends with a sociopath and is roommates with a pathological liar. The main focus of this paper will be the symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment that Suzanna goes through in the movie. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time. This is often accompanied

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    Relationships with Technology Everyone has their own relationship with technology. After careful observation of my Hendrix community‚ self-reflection‚ and analysis of reading selections from Turkle’s Alone Together‚ I noticed some of the advantages of technology. It can help us make connections‚ stay connected‚ and escape. Even with these different advantages‚ we must realize the importance of not allowing technology to overpower our lives. If we allow ourselves to become engulfed in technology

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    Lemonade Stand Case Study

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    In an ideal world kids running a lemonade stand would never be hassled about whether they had a peddler’s license. But planning commission member Clayton Preble says they are there to create regulations that offer protection in a “not normal world.” The issue arose Monday when Planning and Development Director Richard Osborne presented a relatively brief and simple ordinance to handle peddlers’ licenses. These are permits to sell things door-to-door or from a regular‚ non-permanent location like

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    I Stand Here Ironing

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    “I Stand Here Ironing” Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing addresses the issue of a mother’s guilt over how her child turns out and develops into a grown woman. Although she blames herself for the daughter’s problems‚ is it really her fault? While this short story is obviously about the mousy daughter‚ the mother often mentions how she feels guilty for the way her daughter Emily is‚ for the things she (the mother) did and did not do. The ideal mother-daughter relationship is not like the one

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    Education Girls

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    High bride price and low intellectual capabilities Girls are a source of instant wealth‚ therefore‚ are retained at home for bride price. Research confirms that parents value most of their young girls like gold‚ coffee and other commodities to be traded at the immediate market value. They are only few and scarce that their value has soared recently. This is even worse around Ialibu area and some parts of Central Province. Some young girls can cost around K20 000. Women are used as the medium

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    Mean Girls

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    Monstrosity and Celebrity Culture in Mean Girls Mean Girls‚ written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters‚ takes its viewers through high school from the perspective of Cady Heron‚ a young girl who never known what “high school” genuinely meant. Upon arrival‚ she makes friends with Janis and Damian‚ who were in the stereotypical “unpopular” crowd. They warn her to stay away from “The Plastics”‚ an exclusive clique that includes three drama-filled girls who are superficial‚ spiteful‚ and have vicious

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    Girl, Interrupted

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    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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    Matchstick Girls

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    The Workers of Bryant & May’s matchmaking factory have made a stand and have walked out‚ they have decided the pay and conditions aren’t reasonable and they want fair play. On June 23rd Annie Besant wrote an article ‘White Slavery In London’ in her newspaper ‘The Link’ after witnessing Clement Black’s speech in London on female labour. ‘I had heard of the Pay and conditions in Bryant &May’s Factory and decided that these girls needed to be heard’ Annie Besant told us. She also told us that the

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    Confetti Girl

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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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    Girl‚ Interrupted: Borderline Personality Disorder Girl‚ Interrupted is a thought-provoking film that accounts the struggles of a teenage girl‚ Susanna‚ who is trying to come-to-terms with her illness in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital when she tried to commit suicide. The film portrays her relationships with her distant parents and intense relationships with other patients while she is hospitalized. She encounters many troubled

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