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    Juicy Juice Ad Analysis

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    draw in people to buy their product and some do not draw people in honestly. Ads make people weak and desperate so they will go buy the product they see. The ads that are being examined in this paper are Juicy Juice and Minute Maid. Juicy Juice is more persuasive to Minute Maid because it catches people’s attention with the bold colors all throughout the ad and the happiness of the little girl. Juicy Juice ad used bright colors like green‚ yellow‚ pink‚ red‚ and blue because those colors will

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    through eyes of women. The timeless story of Odysseus‚ overflowing with phallocentric ideals and the traditional patriarchal discourse‚ is undercut to give voice to Odysseus’ wife Penelope and her twelve maids - characters who rarely receive mention in Ancient Greek literature. With Penelope and her maids now playing the protagonists‚ Homer’s story has been revised to declare those who have been overlooked by history. The Penelopiad has successfully empowered those who were once marginalized through the

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    The Help

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    The Help go through. The main characters of the film are black maids in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ where injustice against the black people has reached a tipping point. While most of the white people in the town believe that what is going on is right‚ recent college graduate Skeeter identifies that what is going on is wrong. When she was a young girl‚ she had a maid who essentially raised her. While most of the children who are raised by maids end up turning against the love they have for them and follow

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    Summary The Help is not just a book about a white women in the 1960s trying to make a difference it is about so much more. The story begins August 1960 with the colored maid‚ Aibileen‚ raising her seventeenth white child - Mae Mobley. Aibileen lost her own boy Treelore months before she started working for the Leefolt residence. One day when Ailbileen is serving lunch at the Leefolt’s residence she overhears the conversation

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    and cooking and cleaning most of her life since her teen years. Her mother worked as a maid and Grandmother was a slave. Aibileen took care of 17 babies her whole life the 17th baby was Mae Mobley‚ baby to Miss Leefolt. Aibileen has been a maid to white families since her teenage years. Not living a regular teen life she had to take the path of a maid. Following her ancestors footsteps. Her mother was a maid and her grandmother and so on were enslaved. She currently worked for Miss Elizabeth Leefolt

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    and capture discrimination between white people and black . The story wrapped with conflicts that the characters dominated by the woman in a town called Jackson. Every scene in the movie tells about their unpleasant behaviour (white people) to their maids (black people). The story begins with flashback scene that represent the interview a housemaid with the black skin.

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    hometown’s inequitable treatment of the black domestics‚ primarily the female maids in the employ of her friends. Skeeter both admires and fears disappointing her mother and her friend Hilly‚ yet she pursues completing a manuscript called Help with primary assistance from her good friend’s maid named Aibileen. She also seeks the reason her beloved maid Constantine abruptly left her family’s employ. Aibileen Clark – A maid and nanny in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Aibileen is the first narator‚ a middle aged

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    Miss Hilly Holbrook and Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan are two important foil characters in The Help. Miss Hilly is a wealthy Jackson socialite with two children‚ Heather and William Jr. Miss Skeeter is a 23 year old wealthy socialite who lives with her parents at their cotton plantation. Miss Skeeter and Miss Hilly have many similarities and differences. Miss Hilly is president of the Jackson Journal League and many of the women in Jackson look up to her. Hilly issues a Home Help Sanitation Initiative

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    Helen In The Penelopiad

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    tries to portray herself as the good one in the story but she is almost just as bad as the others. She tries to describes and persuade the reader to make her seem innocent but she is really not. The character in the novel that I most admire are the maids because of what they had to go through pertaining to the brutal orders that Penelope gave them. The person who I most despise in this novel is Helen which Penelope had a strong hatred toward. This story brings out everyone worst image but I truly despised

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    based on Penelope’s life experiences. Penelope‚ Queen of Ithaca‚ provides this information while in Hades‚ but speaks as if she were from modern times. Most of The Penelopiad is about Penelope’s life; however there is another major story line. The maids that assist Penelope in her everyday work also voice their hardships they are subjected to throughout their lives. The reader gets both Penelope’s and her maid’s points of view on Penelope’s actions in her husbands absence. These points of view differ

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