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    therefore, your reaction is to be either angry or jealous. In this case, kids on Venus are going through a vicious cycle of jealousy because one day there will be new kids in this classroom who have never experienced the sun, with maybe a tiny little girl who has experienced the…

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    homehow after his ally just left the house in a 7-4 vote. He could win buyback, but the odds are of him leaving barring winning head of househould. 13. Frank - Frank was at the top of my rankings last week, but he has tumbled completely since the last few days. His social game was subpar and then it tanked over night quickly. He is walking aroud the house cocky, arrogant and Da 'vonne has led a charge to get him out. His own allies are now…

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    Novia was feeling sick to her stomach with such boiling rage and self pity, she was different from everyone else at school and she didn’t need reminded about it. It was a problem she faced every day but back at her old home there was people who accepted it, but now she has to go through the whole process again! Mr and Mrs Stevenson decided to move to Ohio from New York with their three kids Novia, Braxton and their newborn Piper. Novia thought living in New York was hard already especially…

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    where the father picks out a suitor for their daughters. In a patriarchal society the father is the center of the family who serves as the provider and decision maker in the household, while the mother and girls of the family are the homemaker(s). In this story, however, there is just the daughter while that of the father is mentioned in two very particular scenarios: when deciding to marry the daughter off and after the girl’s heroic and death defying…

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    both Kubrick and Burgess have made their effort in trying to address the problem of whether or not prefer the inequality between men and women. Throughout the story, there are numerous scenes in which female characters are degraded; whether it is a girl being raped or getting killed. Even the surroundings in the stories, like the sculptures, are extremely sexist in a way that disturbs the audiences to some extent. I will argue that Burgees and Kubrick’s main focus is to demonstrate the mass how…

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    Connie, the main character of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ”, is a personification of both the stereotypical and actual depiction of rebellion. Many individuals feel that rebellion is an involuntary phase of the teenage years. She has a tendency to disobey the spoken and unspoken, yet implied, wishes of her parents. She reduces the likelihood of being caught in her mutinous acts by assuming a double life. Her clothes, attitudes, and actions all differ depending on where she is and…

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    The girl in Pilon is a child whom is still oblivious to the male species. She has yet to realize that her body is “causing men to look at her.” The girls in The Sleepover are teenagers who are obsessed with males and intrigued by the idea of being with them. While in Hills Like White Elephants the female is an adult woman and has…

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    my parents. I am not an ungrateful daughter, but actually it makes me feel nervous. Sometimes, it was embarrassing me because my mother, Izabel, did not know the correct time to treat me like her baby, and I dislike when she talks about our intimacy out loud, talking with a different tone of voice, and with a peculiar semblance of proud mother in her face. Another thing that makes me feel bad is how she has an old fashioned attitude; once in a while she judges my behavior, saying that my conduct…

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    In the movie “True Grit,” an unrelenting fourteen year old girl named Mattie Ross, brings it upon herself to avenge her father’s death after the outlaw known as Tom Chaney murders him and flees the territory. The young farm girl quickly seeks out to hire the U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn, who is just as familiar with whisky as he is with guns, to track down Chaney. Shortly after this quarreling duo set out on their man hunt, they are accompanied by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf. However, the…

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    “no longer noticed the willows or the reflections of” their “running figures in the water” (pg. 6) as they had on the previous page. Thus, We can see that this “time” has greatly affected our main character, this time that is not measured in months or years, for numerical time has no affect on them. As the main character describes, “we sat there for an hour, maybe two, I don’t know, because it was then that time measured in the ordinary way stopped” (pg.6). Fink begins to use the scenery around…

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