In Japan‚ the images of women have undergone rather remarkable transitional changes. In her article "The Modern Girl as Militant"‚ Miriam Silverberg focuses on the category of Modern Girl ("moga‚" or modan gaaru)‚ a topic of debate in Japanese society during the 1920s and early 1930s. She argues that the Modern Girl was a media creation designed to portray women as promiscuous and apolitical. It was a way of displacing the militancy expressed in their political activity‚ her labor in new arenas and
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Starkey‚ Marion. The Visionary Girls. Canada. Little‚ Brown and Company. 1973. On April 13th 1901‚ in Worcester‚ Massachusetts‚ a lady by the name of Marion Starkey was born. She was the daughter of Alice T (Gray) Starkey and Arthur E. Starkey‚ who was known best as a painter and publisher. In 1922 and 1935‚ Marion received her B.S and M.A from Boston University‚ and later graduated from Harvard in 1946. She was also a member of many organizations‚ which included League of Women Voters‚ Lynn
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In The Girls in Their Summer Dresses‚ it is necessary to explore the personal differences that cause problems in the relationship of the couple. The details of the story will lead to a conclusion that for Michael the relationship could just be a mere convenience or an affection solely generated by his physical wanting of Frances‚ so with the way she looks and appreciates the girls of New York. Frances calling the Stevensons shows her attitude which is passivity and lack of idealism to confront the
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‘Girl’ is an astonishing prose poem written by Jamaica Kincaid‚ this is one of the monologue that is easily imagined in a clear dramatic context. The irony of this prose poem come from the title given to it “Girl” because the girl only gets to speak two line through out the text and the rest is covered by the mother. The prose poem consists of single sentences about a mother advising her daughter about femininity‚ society‚ traditions and sexuality. Throughout the text‚ the use of single sentence
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The first half of the reading is Rebecca explaining how she was in love with this kid Bryan‚ but he said that he didn’t like black girls. What Rebecca attempts to do is to make herself not be black by showing Bryan that she is “not related to black girls”. The second part of the reading is Rebecca talking about how her experience is when moving to Atlanta to live with her Uncle Bobby‚ his sons‚ and Uncle Curt. She talks about how she likes to hang out with her Uncle because she treats her like one
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In the short story‚ or extremely long sentence‚ “Girl”‚ Jamaica Kincaid -the author as well as the speaker- gives a list of ongoing commands that she was receiving. As readers‚ we assume that these are orders coming from her mother. As we are aware‚ her family had certain beliefs and also did not approve of her writing later on in life. The italicized words in the text such as “…but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school…” and “…but what if the baker won’t let me feel the
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“GIRL” Jamaica Kincaid In the story “GIRL” Jamaica Kincaid we see the complicated relationship between mother and daughter and what I have derived from this story is that this statement. “Should a mother groom her daughter through trust or through force and fear?” we see that the woman in this story loves her daughter but is so drowned in fear of the world for her daughter that she seems to treat her in very questionable ways while she is teaching her life lessons. So we see that she seems to not
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The graphic novel I chose to read this summer was Girl In Dior‚ by Annie Goetzinger. Aside from two graphic novels I read in elementary school‚ Drama and Smile‚ both written by Raina Telgemeier‚ this was the first graphic novel I had read in quite some time. I enjoyed reading Goetzinger’s novel. Girl In Dior was a very different book in comparison to anything I had read in the past. Goetzinger was able to give her readers a view of what the post-war fashion industry was like in France. The reader
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Swedish born journalist and author Stieg Larsson has spun an intricate web of disturbing crime‚ horrific discovery and thrilling mystery in his first instalment of the Millenium series: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Working his whole life to expose corruption in extreme right wing and fascist industrial organizations Larsson’s extensive knowledge gives this fictional story a disturbing sense of plausible reality. Unfortunately‚ Stieg Larsson died before his works could be published and never knew
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In the story “The Girl in the Lavender Dress” by Maureen scott this young lady’s Grandmother was telling a story about the time they had a ghost in their car during World War II. The grandma and her husband Herbert went on a ride in Vermont‚ and they came across a woman named carol‚ and the grandma wanted to help the woman get to where she wanted to go and the grandmother gave her a sweater because it was cold and Carol only had a dress on. Next thing you know they were going on a ride to drop off
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