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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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    Women are the receiving end in Indian society. They are will treated or tortured at every stage. A girl child is in bondage from her very childhood. She is under constant‚ vigil First by the parents‚ then her husband and finally her own children. Not only that‚ she is often condemned to death even before she is born. This is called female killing in the womb itself. In ancient India the birth of a girl child was hailed as auspicious. An old Indian proverb lies down that a home without a daughter is

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    Boys and Girls

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    boys and girls Bringing Boys and Girls Together: Supporting Preschoolers’ Positive Peer Relationships By: Hillary Manaster and Maureen Jobe November 2012 Teachers are in a unique position to cultivate children’s cross gender interactions and friendships. By intentionally planning and supporting certain experiences‚ educators can encourage children to build a social world characterized by meaningful relationships with peers of both sexes. To purposely increase engagement and interactions

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    feels he belongs. Inthe movie mean girls ‚ the main themes are belonging and changeas it shows the development of Cady Herron as she goes from ‘home schooled jungle freak’ to ‘cold hard shiny plastic’ to ‘actual human being’ and how she belongs to the groups of friends she makes. The Book ‘The simple gift’ Is about a boy Billy Luckettwho wants to find somewhere where he feels like he belongsafter years of abuse from his father he decides that its finally time to leave and runs away from homethe

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    The Shape of a Girl

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    Critical Analytical Essay Humans are constantly living under the presence of threatening forces. More often than not‚ human’s immediate reaction to threatening forces is to escape from it. In her play‚ The Shape of a Girl‚ Joan MacLeod demonstrates that an individual often reacts in an inhumane manner towards a moral issue when under the pressure of threatening forces in order to prevent any potential harm. Nevertheless‚ it is the fear of being harmed that ultimately causes greater damage to oneself;

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    Bad Girl

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    In the book “Bad Girl” by Abigail Vona‚ she describes her struggles while surviving in a mental hospital known as The Village. Throughout the story she dramatically changes towards being a better person. Abigail‚ also known as “Abby‚” longed for sharing her story in a book while being dyslexic. Fifteen year old Abby created idiotic adventures thinking all teenagers lived this way. She smoked‚ drank alcohol‚ ran away from home‚ went to insane parties‚ and snuck out of her home frequently. Clueless

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    Only a Girl

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    “Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger

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    The Crucible Girls

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    book The Crucible the girls portrayed a very demonic way of acting. They all claimed to be seeing spirits and they were controlled by Satan. Each girl followed the rest of the girls almost as if they were commanded to. They accused others for being witches and said that they were controlling them. This continues to go on until 19 people were dead by hanging and one pressed to stone. The girls presented their demonic ways of acting because they wanted revenge. The girls in Salem weren’t being

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    Boys and Girls

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    the theme of "Boys and Girls"? Explain what these stories suggest about the world she lives in and the world she would like to live in . 3. assume the role of the narrator and write the beginning of a short story (minimum one page) that serves as a sequel to "Boys and Girls" 1. The narrator of the short story “Boys and Girls” is a common farm girl who struggles to achieve a lifestyle not dictated by social expectations but in the end submits to the fate of being a girl. One thing that I can connect

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    Good Girl by Martia Conlon-McKenna Some people might say that the power of love can conquer all‚ but when religion and other factors come into play it tends to get more complicated. Falling in love is something that happens to all of us. Love is a certain kind of strength. Whether this strength is powerful enough to keep two people together despite different religious beliefs or political opinions depends on the two lovers. Religion is love. It brings people together and offers them strength to

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