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    hometown’s inequitable treatment of the black domestics‚ primarily the female maids in the employ of her friends. Skeeter both admires and fears disappointing her mother and her friend Hilly‚ yet she pursues completing a manuscript called Help with primary assistance from her good friend’s maid named Aibileen. She also seeks the reason her beloved maid Constantine abruptly left her family’s employ. Aibileen Clark – A maid and nanny in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Aibileen is the first narator‚ a middle aged

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    pearls are cooling even now in the room where my mistress sleeps. All night I feel their absence and I burn. * A maid & a mistress * Maid idolizes her‚ mistress is very attractive * Strong‚ passionate‚ intense ‚ sensual love * Maid has a very close contact with mistress * Mistress Does not need or job or have a job Rests in the room all day Maids helps to comb mistress hair & puts pearl necklace on to keep her warm when pearl necklace is cold I dust her shoulders

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    he award winning novel‚ The Help‚ is very shocking. It’s about Discrimination against black maids and their experience on how they write their book by the same name with Skeeter‚ a single‚ determined‚ writer trying to become noticed. Many people are trying to stop her‚ like Hilly Thompson and her gang of ditsy women who grew up too early. Skeeter succeeds and the book becomes a bestseller. But there are some things I can’t avoid. It may change the story even. #1 Hilly is

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    Gap between White Upper Class Women and Latina Women Sociological studies of gender stratification confirm that housework is defined as “symbolic of women’s oppression‚ and it is not a new thing for hiring domestic worker to lift the burden of housework from middle class women. Faye Duddley explained‚ “middle class women elevated their status by supervising the work of servant and shifted the roles of ‘authority and activity‚ rather than passivity and isolation’”. In the U.S. in recent years

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    living and working environments of the poor. She had to deal with the different personalities and customs of her co-workers‚ their living arrangement‚ and the management hierarchy in each job. She worked as a waitress at two different restaurants‚ as a maid service cleaning houses‚ and as a dietary aide at a nursing home. Ehrenreich didn’t want to be a waitress any more than some waitresses‚ but she did it for her research. Ehrenreich once stated that‚ "Waitres sing is also something I’d like to avoid

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    they choose to work as maids outside their countries hoping they would find a solution for their crisis. However‚ this situation is getting more serious and controversial than before‚ the rate of domestic workers committing suicide is increasing. what households seek in Lebanon is not to help but slaves to serve them‚ and these maids go through hard work and mistreatment. We hear a lot of maids who escape and we read a lot in the press about the crimes committed by the maids‚ but we do not ask ourselves

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    Malaysia’s maid crunch hits households By Beh Lih Yi (AFP) – Jan 24‚ 2011   KUALA LUMPUR — Tens of thousands of Malaysian households have been thrown into domestic chaos as a shortage of maids hits a country with a long-standing addiction to cheap foreign labour. Nearly two million foreigners‚ mostly from Indonesia‚ are registered to work in Malaysian homes‚ shops‚ factories and plantations‚ and many more are undocumented‚ making Malaysia one of Asia’s biggest importers of labour. Maids from Indonesia

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    process from Songlian’s marriage discussion with her mother to the moment she steps into the life of being the puppet of the Chen household. In the opening scene we are introduced to the protagonist; Songlian‚ the Master‚ the household maids and Songlian’s future maid; Yan’er. From the dialogue between Songlian and her mother at the very start of the scene‚ we are notified that she is unwillingly being sent away to get married with a wealthy man‚ as she makes constant pauses indicating her unwillingness

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    a dietary aide at the nursing home. 3) Explain some of the behavior rules that the management of “The Maids” has for the employees. What do you think they are intended to accomplish? 4) Explain how Ehrenreich felt The Maids’ cleaning methods were lacking. 5) Choose one co-worker who interested you. What makes him/ her differnent? 6) Describe one difficulty of working as a maid that Ehrenreich found surprising. 7) What did Ehrenreich find when she looked to community charities for

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    are using the word “abed” for their maids‚ this is an example also for the verbal abuse to these migrants who are physically looked upon as inferior due to their positions as servants‚ and they are being abused by both agencies and employers. It has been confirmed that every week one maid at least dies in Lebanon‚ either by an employer’s hand or from suicide. Unfortunately‚ few laws exist to protect foreign maids‚ so this issue let the employer abuse the maid without thinking that he will be punished

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