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    Shape of a Girl

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    Hierarchy of Monstrous Behaviour Adrienne represents "a monster in the shape of a girl‚" (MacLeod‚ P.40) by physically demonstrating a selfish‚ emotionless and unexplainable hate towards Sophie. Adrienne leads her friend Braidie‚ who contributes on a more subtle level to this motif of monstrous behaviour. Adrienne shows her sinister leadership by constantly instigating a form of abuse towards Sophie. "Adrienne leans into Sofie so that Sofie is squished‚" (P.42) causing apparent physical harm. Mentally

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    As You Like It

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    In the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare‚ love portrays and presents itself differently and in many forms to each character. The diverse attitudes towards love in this play are due to the dissimilar lifestyles‚ the court and nature‚ and backgrounds of each character The romantic notion of love is thwarted by Touchstone and Audrey‚ as their marriage is basically a contract. Audrey is attracted by courtly manners and as soon as she meets Touch stone she finds her way to court; and decides

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    As You Like It

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    Act 1 scene i Analysis Shakespeare begins his play with a pair of dueling brothers‚ an amendment of his source material—Thomas Lodge’s popular prose romance‚ Rosalynde—that allows him to establish‚ with great economy‚ the corrupt nature of so-called civilized life. Oliver’s mistreatment of his brother spurs Orlando to journey into the curative Forest of Ardenne as surely as Frederick’s actions did his own brother Duke Senior‚ which immediately locates the play in the pastoral tradition: those wounded

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    The Final Girl

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    argues that‚ in particular the slasher film disturbs the traditional model of spectatorship and identification. "As the character who lives to tell the tale of horror‚ the final girl‚ Clover argues‚ must be accessible as a point of identification to male viewers. For this reason the final girl ’s gender is ambiguous. The final girl is boyish says Clover and she adds‚ what filmmakers seem to know better than film critics is that gender is less a wall than a permeable membrane. Using appropriate references

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    Girls Trafficking

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    White 4. Our Graves in Gallipoli(Essay as play): E. M. Forster 5. Death of the Moth: Virginia Woolf 6. Shooting an Elephant: George Orwell 7. The Figure a Poem Makes: Robert Frost 8. Once More to the Lake: E. B. White 9. Autobiographical Notes: James Baldwin 10. Marriage a La Mode: Russell Baker INTRODUCTION: THE FORM OF LITERATURE Literature begins in the creative possibilities of human language and in the desire of human language and in the desire of human beings to use their language creatively

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    Star Girl

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    Template Paragraph #1 Title: Love‚ Star Girl Author: Jerry Spinelli Type of book: Realistic Fiction Book Report Template Paragraph #2 Main Character: Star Girl Describe this character: Star Girl is fascinating in her own way. She is a very caring girl. She makes friends very easily. Star Girl is a mysterious‚ wonderful girl. The main character changes from sad to happy by the end of the story. The main character does the right thing when: Star Girl has definitely done many good things.

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    Ranch Girl

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    Overly Attached Daughter In the short story‚ “Ranch Girl” by Maile Meloy‚ the author illustrates a very ordinary girl who is not given a name. The author shows that once you are a ranch girl‚ you are a ranch girl the rest of your life. Here‚ the story clearly demonstrates that the people who live in the ranch settings are all overly attached to their roots‚ and cannot let go. The main character is a very smart girl academically‚ has the opportunity to go out to live in the city and pursue a better

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    James Hall.Chapter16

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    CHAPTER 16: TEST BANK SOME ANSWERS AND COMMENTS ON THE TEXT DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Replacing the progressive rate structure of the federal personal income tax with a proportional one would make the tax more regressive (or less progressive). However‚ the various exemptions‚ deductions‚ and credits must still be considered. Many people who support a proportional rate structure do so as a means of simplifying the personal income tax. It is really only simplified if the number of exemptions

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    Girl Culture

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    English+ assignment: Girl culture In a hundred years a lot can change. Take a look at young women ‚ or as we call it : girl culture. Threw time society changed and girls were exposed to a lot of commercial forces and media. However this exposure wasn’t without consequences. When we look back in time the differences in girl culture are remarkable. In 1900 family‚ school and community shaped a girls’ mindset. However a hundred years later this doesn’t apply anymore. They made place for commercial

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    For Colored Girls

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    Colored Girls Opening: Four women who were prominent in our Black History stood up in opposition to the odds placed against them. Listen as they tell us about their lives‚ pain‚ and struggles on how it was to be colored (as they were labeled) during the years of segregation and the civil rights movement. I hope you get a message from this presentation and please enjoy. Teresa Hi – I’m Rosa Parks and I’m a colored girl--on Dec. 1‚ 1955 in Montgomery Alabama-- I refused to give up my

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