Bhullar 1 Aziz Bhullar" Jaqueline Seydel" English 10" 29 May 2014 " The Survival of Tomiko Higa" " Tomiko Higa is the author of the book The Girl With the White Flag. The book depicts the realities of war through the eyes of the protagonist‚ who is a little girl known as Tomiko. Tomiko lives on the island of Okinawa and resides with her family. When the war of Okinawa starts‚ she is separated from her family and struggles to survive. She has to forage for food‚ shelter‚ and her lost
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Richard Prince took a photo of Brooke Shields at age ten in the nude‚ whose purpose was to “question sexualized advertising images”. The photo was censored as child pornography. However advertising‚ such the well-known illustration of the Coppertone Girl‚ depicts
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the situation- even though he seems eager to fulfil ‘spark’s into the ‘’lifeless thing’’. In relation to ‘Macbeth’- Shakespeare ties in inflicting pain with one of the major themes within the play- the supernatural. The characters of the three witches are used to present inflicting fear over the reader which enhances the theme of the supernatural due to their nature. This is highlighted by the link between the witches and pathetic fallacy ‘’When shall we three meet again? In thunder‚ lightning or
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane is a short novel about a young girl and the people in her life. Despite its brevity‚ this book displays many significant themes that its author intertwines in the story plot. Such themes are determinism‚ hypocrisy‚ false morality‚ self-deception‚ and appearance verses reality.<br><br>Maggie’s mother‚ Mrs. Johnson‚ is a symbol of hypocrisy in the story. She lost her husband‚ and had to raise her children by herself in poverty. She drinks to heal her pain
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Never before has the sexualisation of girls in the media been as prominent‚ explicit and had such lasting harm on girls and women. 9 out of 10 girls say the fashion industry and the media place a lot of pressure on teenage girls to be thin (spark summit video). Ladies and gentlemen‚ I am delighted to have this opportunity to present my seminar to you on how the innocence of young females is exploited and sexualised in popular culture‚ particularly in advertising. It is recognised that Australians
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Gossip Girl is a teen drama TV series based off of the book‚ Gossip Girl‚ written by Cecily von Ziegesar. Gossip Girl is six seasons long and full of the juiciest of drama. The background of the series is based off of Ziegesar’s own experience growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan‚ New York. Gossip Girl is about the lives of high school seniors whose parents happen to be some of New York’s most glamorous residents. The shows two central characters are Serena and Blair‚ who are best friends
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Hollywood’s idea of a teenaged girl is very cookie-cutter; phone in hand‚ eyes that are constantly rolling when they aren’t texting‚ and copious amounts of drama with other girls. This stereotype can be seen in films similar to Mean Girls‚ Clueless‚ and The Pacifier. Unfortunately for Hollywood‚ girls are more complex than this and can’t always fit into this stereotype. Teenaged girls like Malala Yousafzai‚ a Pakistani activist fighting for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize winner‚ have
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In the book Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree‚ Tracy is the protagonist. We are different in many ways. We both share different views of the world‚ are viewed by the world in distinctive ways and I would respond in a different way to the central conflict of the novel. As she grows she sees what is acceptable in life and what’s not. Tracy had her fair share in boys throughout her life. She was brought up in a respectable home. Tracy came along from her not liking boys to getting every boys she wants and giving
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Comparing “I am Nujood. age 10 and divorced” by Nujood Ali and “Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin These two novels trace the lives of women oppressed by their patriarchal societies‚ and their longing‚ courage and eventual struggles to regain control of their lives‚ freedom and happiness. Both are memoirs and‚ set in largely Islamic contexts with Nahid in Iran‚ and Nujood in Yemen. In Persian Girls‚ Nahid is taken away from her adoptive mother and stripped of her blissful Iranian childhood‚ to
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Challenges A Girl Faces In “What Is the Triple Bind?” Stephen Hinshaw describes all the obstacles and hard work that teenage girls have to go through. Girls get put down a lot and that’s why they feel under pressure when they are trying to do something. Some people are against girls when it comes to a job because of their weaknesses‚ but they never take a look at their strengths. Hinshaw explains girls getting plastic surgery because make up is no longer good for them to look pretty; therefore‚ girls absolutely
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