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    Girl Interrupted

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    Girl‚ Interrupted Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric illness. People that are diagnosed with this disorder suffer from an intense pattern of affective instability‚ extreme difficulties in interpersonal relationships‚ problems with behavioral or impulse control‚ and disrupted cognitive processes. The estimated prevalence of BPD in the general adult population is about 2%‚ mostly affecting young women. Susanna Kaysen was born on November 11‚ 1948 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts

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    The Girl On The Train

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    THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN an original screenplay by Larry Brand 8180 Films P.O. BOX 975 Leland‚ MI 49654 Copyright 2011 Larry Brand THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN WHITE SPACE and the distant WHOOSH of the WIND. A few beats‚ then: MAN’S VOICE (OVER) You’re not real.... WOMAN’S VOICE (OVER) How do you know? MAN’S VOICE (OVER) Weren’t your eyes blue? A WOMAN’S EYES HOVER huge and luminous before us. Light brown. Haunting. THE MAN is OUTSIDE and VERY HIGH UP. A distant matrix of BRIDGES frames him like a

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    Eng305 Prompt 3 November 13‚ 2013 The Flapper Girl and the Gibson Girl At the end of the nineteenth century and into the early part of the twentieth century there were two predominant styles of dress and manner for women. The Gibson Girl was popular from about 1890 until the end of World War I which then gave rise to the Flapper Girl of the 1920’s. They were different in most things‚ except that they both promoted the sense of what the time thought the “modern woman” was. They both

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    Tom Robinson Innocence

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    by the prejudice and racism displayed towards people of colour. Particularly‚ Tom Robinson‚ an innocent man‚ slain by the caste system when he later is found guilty of rape‚ resulting in preconceived antipathy towards Tom because of his colour. His innocence of the crime he’s accused of suggests a relationship to the mockingbird for they both provide no harm. Considering the irrationality of the townspeople‚ killing Tom Robinson brought forward no good or prevented no evil‚ just like a mockingbird

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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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    Tom Finder Quotes

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    Whilst reading the book Tom Finder I found myself fascinated with the topic and theme of the book‚ Homelessness. There were also many things that I wondered about. Also‚ I have seemed to have found many flaws in society as a whole. This essay also touched many subjects in our day to day “real” lives. This essay is mainly to talk about these wonders and flaws. Although the topic of homelessness does not affect me personally I often see homeless people around downtown Brantford and I start to wonder

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    In Gordon Wood’s analysis of the American Revolution‚ he takes a more radical view of the period in contrast with the view of other historians‚ who see this period as more conservative with no major social disruption‚ especially compared to the radical and brutal rebellions of the French Revolution just decades later. In the early days of colonization‚ those who settled in America had no wish to create their own identity that wasn’t British‚ but with time and lack of interest from the crown and Parliament

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    Contempt For Tom Buchanan

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    difficult for readers to feel anything but contempt for Tom Buchanan? 21Marks We are first introduced to Tom Buchanan as Nick comments on his enormous wealth‚ ’various physical accomplishments’ ‚ and that he was a ’national figure in a way’. What stands out about this first introduction is the first thing Nick comments on is his ’various physical accomplishments’; the use of the word ’physical’ gives the impression that Tom is a man who is fit and very physical. Furthermore‚ his ’various’ achievements

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    Girl Stereotypes

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    heard the term “you throw like a girl” used when someone throws soft and weak. This is a representation of society’s views on girls and women‚ that they are weak‚ bad‚ unintelligent. The life of being a girl is waking up knowing as soon as you walk out of the house your are going to face these stereotypes. These stereotypes plague girls life at school‚ at work even at home. I don’t believe that girls are weak or stupid‚ when I hear the word girl I think warrior. Girls are tenacious‚ intelligent individuals

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    Goodnight Mr Tom

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    In the essay‚ I have to describe and explain the character that I liked and disliked in the text and a response to both parts of the question. The title of the novel is called “Goodnight Mr Tom” by “Michelle Magorian”. The character I liked in the novel the most is Willie. This young boy came from the city side where he is treated harshly by his parents. This “thin and sick-looking pale with limy sandy hair” boy is called Willie in the novel‚ which he was evacuated out of the city from the causes

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