YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :School Girls by Peggy Orenstein
Essays 361 - 390
parents who were drunks and irresponsible, their children have grown up to live lives that are fraught with insecurities, hardship...
(Grimstead 174). Maggie appears to simply lack the environment in which she might have blossomed into the ideal of American womanh...
compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...
time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...
and often the meaning. Without realizing it, parents verbally address their male children differently than they do their fe...
to one survey conducted in both 1999 and 2001, 28 percent of American high school students report that they felt hopeless or sad a...
theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...
the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...
slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...
soul, for cash? Throughout the work, the theme of money is inherent. She gets a job as an office worker. She wants to be on stage ...
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...
demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...
perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...
In our parents time it may have been: the brains, the geeks and the jocks. In a 1999 report entitled, "Girls, media, and the nego...
In a paper consisting of six pages this book is examined not only in terms of its reflection on Munro's career and style but how i...
In five pages this paper argues that language is used metaphorically by the author to represent cultural assimilation. There are ...
In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...
form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so...
relate to the inquisitive Alice who illustrated that an adventurous spirit was not limited to the male gender. Three years later,...
of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...
This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...
Unethical advertising campaigns by big tobacco companies, however, have been implicated as being designed to lure younger and youn...
Cross. In both novels Patterson used similar techniques of details, settings and emphasis to adequately involve the readers in the...
forced to make in their lives regarding who and what they will ultimately become as individuals. "Top" Women of History The chara...
one of the most famous experts concerning gender identity, Dr. Money. Dr. Money had proven to be a successful gender specialist in...
at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...
as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...
Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...
real name of "Leos Carax" is actually Alexandre Dupont and that "Leos Carax" is an anagram of the lead characters name, Alex Oscar...
as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...