the Radium Girls of Ottawa. This is a topic that I know much about; I did my 8th grade history fair project on this‚ read a few books about it‚ and even interviewed two of the radium girls. My three main points will be what the radium dial company was‚ who the living dead girls were‚ and the after effects of this tragedy. My first point is the Radium Dial company‚ according to the book Deadly Glow‚ in 1922 the radium dial company moved from Peru Il‚ to Ottawa and hired hundreds of girls to paint
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In the story The Girl From Beyond‚ this little girl‚ Nhinhinha‚ never caught anyone’s attention until her parents notice her mystical power. Nhinhinha always says things that nobody understands‚ but one day she starts to make her wishes come true just by mentioning it. After Nhihinha cured her mother’s illness and made it rain‚ her parents begin to think about the advantages she could bring to the family in the future. Unfortunately‚ Nhinhinha died because she mentioned she wants a coffin. I do not
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calls them “big ones” (63)‚ about the way his new father supposedly treated him. Dill told them he was “bounded in chains and left to die in the basement by his new father” (186-187). This was another way for Dill to show how much he doesn’t like his new father. What really happened is that his parents aren’t would buy him anything in the world. His mother and new father would tell him that he had a room full of toys to play with. Dill’s new father told him that he is not a real boy because he stays in
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It starts with a protest. A teenage girl in her bra yells at riot police and tries to avoid water cannons and smoke. A young guy in a suit finds her in the crowd and helps her break away from the riot. She is protesting against a law her father is pushing in her country’s Senate. The guy in the suit is part of her father’s staff‚ and secretly in love with her. And so‚ the rollercoaster that is Niñas Mal (Bad Girls) begins. The scene I described piqued my curiosity‚ and I wasn’t the only one. It
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In the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe‚ the narrator commits several terrible crimes. He is writing from a prison cell before he will be hung. He is an alcoholic who loves animals but during a drunken rage he harms his cat and then when he is sober again he kills it. He gets another cat‚ and he tries to kill it but he kills his wife instead. The police find her body and he is arrested for murder. But‚ the narrator is insane and cannot control his actions due to alcohol‚ grief‚ and
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Marge Piercy openly criticizes and comments on the ideals of beauty in society in this poem‚ at one point stating‚ “She is manufactured like a sports sedan. She is retooled‚ refitted‚ and redesigned every decade” (What are Big Girls Made Of). In this passage Piercy explains that standards of beauty are rarely “standard”‚ but rather they change dramatically and rapidly with times‚ and tend to be unrealistic. From pointing out the torture
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Working Girl: The Obstacles Within Corporate America Introduction In the movie Working Girl‚ the star Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a hard working woman who is determined to reach the top of the stock market world by hard work. As she turns 30 she is still stuck in clerical work so when she starts working for Katherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) she is glad that Katherine is willing to accept input and ideas from her. However‚ when Katherine goes on a skiing trip
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English 101 October 17‚ 2011 Expectations What types of expectations are placed on you? Have so many of them piled up over time that is seems so overwhelming that you could run through them in a mad list in your head? Well then welcome to one of Jamaica Kincaid’s famous short stories‚ “Girl”. In the essay “Girl‚” Jamaica Kincaid portrays the stereotypes and expectations placed on women and girls of her culture in the 1950’s. She uses authoritative tone‚ syntax‚ and progression of thought to show
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Kamau Brathwaite: Limbo Tatamkhulu Afrika: Nothing’s Changed Grace Nichols: Island Man Imtiaz Dharker: Blessing Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Two Scavengers... Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion Chinua Achebe: Vultures Denise Levertov: What Were They Like? Sujata Bhatt: from Search For My Tongue Tom Leonard: from Unrelated Incidents John Agard: Half-Caste Derek Walcott: Love After Love Imtiaz Dharker: This Room Niyi Osundare: Not My Business Moniza Alvi: Presents from my Aunts... Grace
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In her slave narrative‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs makes the case that “[slavery] is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.” (Jacobs #) According to female slave narratives like Incidents and The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave‚ it is worse to be a female slave because‚ in addition to the brutalities endured by all slaves‚ enslaved women are also victims of a sexist and patriarchal society where they are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
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