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    Latin Girl

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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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    Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film “Rear Window” demonstrated a suspenseful and terrifying storyline‚ which captured the attention of a variety of audiences. The film focuses on James Stuart (Jeff) and ultimately his neighbors who live around him. Stuart is crippled from the beginning of the movie and is unable to leave his apartment. Due to his immobility‚ he remains confined in his home with a broken leg and begins to watch his neighbor’s particular behaviors and routines. The film progresses into

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    ------------------------------------------------- CIN 375E: formal notes for Novermeber 8‚ 2010 Part 2;  Prepared by:  Sivfong Liu (Siv) We began the second half of the class discussing about the film Rear Window. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a movie about an injured photographer’s (Jeff) accounts and observations of his neighbor’s daily activities through the windows of his confined New York City apartment. After being injured during an auto race accident‚ Jeff’s left leg was encased in castings up to his waist‚ leaving him immobile

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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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    Farm Girl

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    Christina Anderson Mr. Kingsley Eng105 1 February 2012 Life Lessons from the Farm Jessica Hemauer’s essay‚ “Farm Girl‚” tells her life story of living on a farm through her eyes as ten-year-old child to the time of her early adulthood. The purpose of this piece is to teach the importance of life’s responsibilities to children‚ mainly female‚ and young adults who may not be familiar with the challenges life can bring and to promote the benefits you can gain by overcoming those obstacles. Hemauer

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    The Lost Girl

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    The Lost Girl Everyday‚ someone tortures themselves relentlessly; although they may or may not truly believe their anguish to be self-inflicted. Some‚ superb pretenders (even to themselves)‚ consider themselves perfectly fine‚ and erect an elaborate façade of not having a care in the world. Others can distinguish that they are not okay‚ but meet difficulty in voicing their concerns. Loved ones who recognize their struggles‚ often do nothing. It seems that in most cases‚ people are fearful because

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    A Slave Girl

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    The basic plot of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as an anti-slavery text and the typical plot of the 19th century genre of sentimental fiction are alike in that just as the 19th century genre did‚ Harriet Jacobs made a plea to the Northern‚ white‚ female listeners during a time when "true womanhood" truly meant chastity and virtue. Harriet Jacobs pushes the message that slavery makes it totally impossible for a black woman to live as a virtuous or chaste person. As she supports some of

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    Girl Monologue

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    The girl had begun to eat one of the child’s eyeballs‚ allowing her eyes to roll back as she savored the warm juices inside. I leapt at her‚ claws out and cut deeply into her cheek. The cut bled ferociously and she cupped it with one hand‚ the other on her mouth to muffle her cries of pain. She ran away as fast as she could‚ as I cried over the body. I ran to the house where I had seen the boy playing and scratched at the door. A kind looking woman answered it. I sadly saw the

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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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