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    The biggest challenge of making a film based on a novel is keeping important content‚ while appealing to the audience. In 2009‚ author Kathryn Stockett wrote The Help‚ a New York Bestseller. Stockett was born in 1969 in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ where the novel takes place. The film was later turned into a film in 2011 by independent movie director‚ Tate Taylor. Taylor has also directed other small movies‚ such as Get On Up‚ Pretty Ugly People & Winter’s Bone. Overall‚ the movie adaptation of the novel

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    Kong‚ Filipino maids make up 3% of the population. They are especially common amongst families who prefer an English speaking maid. Hong Kong people utilize maids for household management and supervision of the children while both parents have full time jobs. In many situations‚ the maids will spend far more time with the children than both the parents. Thus‚ the management of children in Hong Kong is highly related to the amah in the family. There are certain requirements of maids before employment

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    Cinderella In The Odyssey

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    Everyone knows and loves the fairytale “Cinderella” where Cinderella starts out as a maid‚ wearing nothing but rags‚ and doing nothing but chores. She desires to go to this ball‚ but her nasty stepmother sends her to work right away‚ without allowing her to go. Fortunately for Cinderella‚ her fairy Godmother transforms her into a beautiful princess and lets her go to the ball‚ where she meets the price of her dreams. He is astonished by her beauty and in the end of the fairytale they fall in love

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    The Help

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    actually a novel first based on a book written about African American maids around the time of the civil rights movements around the fifties and sixties. Those maids where called “the help” by their white bosses. This movie showed how an aspiring female writer who thought differently than most other white women in her time‚ had the courage to interview the black maids to bring their story out about what it was like to be a maid in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Since this was around the time of the civil rights

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    And anyway‚ I’m freeing you. From everything. Complete freedom on both sides. See here’s your ring. Give me mine (The Norton Anthology of Drama‚ 247). The fact that Nora has the audacity to walk out on her children and husband even though it goes against nineteenth century views of women it shows the audience how Nora is a strong‚ powerful woman who does not need a husband to control her. The original A Doll’s House by Henrik Isben got a lot of reviews after the world premiere in Copenhagen

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    a dietary aide at the nursing home. 3) Explain some of the behavior rules that the management of “The Maids” has for the employees. What do you think they are intended to accomplish? 4) Explain how Ehrenreich felt The Maids’ cleaning methods were lacking. 5) Choose one co-worker who interested you. What makes him/ her differnent? 6) Describe one difficulty of working as a maid that Ehrenreich found surprising. 7) What did Ehrenreich find when she looked to community charities for

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    Haddawy's The Three Apples

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    The stories that we read from Arabian Nights portray a large variety of how women are seen and treated in early Islamic society. Throughout the stories‚ many women are slaves who are owned by men and must obey them in order to live. Shahrazad‚ for starters‚ is the one who ultimately spares the lives of the women in her village. "Scheherazade possessed courage‚ wit‚ and penetration. She had read much‚ and had so admirable a memory‚ that she never forgot any thing she had read. She had successfully

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    The Help Racism

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    Given the relationship between a black maid and her employer‚ which is founded on the distrust of one another‚ but also a dependence‚ maids such as Minny unnaturally rely on their employers not to fire them. This contrasts their employers’ reliance on the maids to tidy up their house and create food for them. As a result‚ in the society of Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ black maids are the lowest part of society‚ and often silence themselves‚ in fear of speaking

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    The Help Movie Review

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    Kathryn Stockett‚ a story of three women who take extraordinary risk in writing a novel based on the stories from the view of black maids and nannies. Set in Jackson‚ Mississippi in the early 1960s‚ a young girl sets out to change the town. Skeeter‚ who is 21 years old‚ white‚ educated from Ole Miss‚ dreams of becoming a journalist. She returns home to find the family maid‚ Constantine‚ gone and no one will explain to her what happened. Skeeter acquires a job as a columnist for the local paper at the

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    Minneapolis: City of Lakes Web site: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/business/ City Of Portland‚ (2009). About Portland. Retrieved March 24‚ 2009‚ from Portland‚ Maine Web site: http://www.portlandmaine.gov/ Day‚ David (2009) 25‚ 2009‚ from The Maids Home Service Web site: http://www.maids.com/ Floridakeys & Keywest‚ (2005). Welcome to Key West Paradise. Retrieved March 22‚ 2009‚ from Keywest Paradise Web site: Retrieved March 23‚ 2009‚ from Dayton Business Journal Web site: http://www.bizjournals

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