Better‚ greater‚ or otherwise different from what is usual that is the definition of special. The story Ashes by Susan Beth Pfeffer Is a book about a girl named ashes that is going thru some changes while her mom and dad are having a divorce and one of those changes would be would ashes take the $200 dollars and make her dad happy or leave it in the pot and make her mother happy.Ashes took the money because her dad is in debt‚her dad makes her feel special‚and she does not want to loose
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My mother always taught me to be a strong and independent woman. She told me to always strive to reach any goal that I set for myself‚ and she would always stand behind me on everything I ever did… I chose to read the book‚ Where the Girls are by Susan Douglas. I found this whole book interesting‚ mainly because it was the era that my mother grew up in. She grew up in the 1960s‚ a time where life was finally turning around for women. In the chapter‚ Mama Said‚ she actually talks about how her mother
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest non-profit organization. The headquater is in Dalas‚ Texas. It was founded 30 years ago by Nancy Goodman Brinker‚ who is Susan G. Komen’s sister. Brinker made a promise to her dying sister that she would do the best of her abilities to end breast cancer forever. Susan G. Komen suffered breast cancer 3 years and passed away at her age of 36. During her 3-year battle‚ she put all her energy to help other women battling breast cancer and tried to thinking
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The Power of the Media In Susan Douglas’s essay "Narcissism as Liberation"‚ she covers the topic of the power of media on American culture. Douglas approaches this topic in a way which grabs her audience’s attention quickly. She discusses an advertisement in the first paragraph of her essay. This advertisement is a very popular one among American Society today‚ especially women. Through discussing such a popular advertisement so early in her essay‚ Douglas not only grabs her audience’s attention
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Today women have the right to vote‚ and have same basic rights as men. Susan B. Anthony is one of America’s important civil rights leaders who fought for women’s rights. She has paved the way of American life today‚ and changed our country dramatically. Because of her‚ both women and men have the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony has impacted our life today by showing us that we can be equal and women can have their rights. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She
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“Trifles” is an interesting unique play that was written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. This brief drama piece is filled with many elements: comedy‚ irony‚ as well as tragedy. It also cleverly uses certain literary techniques such as plot‚ action‚ climax and dialogue. The play’s setting takes place in a bleak‚ untidy kitchen in a rural farmhouse. There are seven characters in this play‚ they are: George Henderson‚ Henry Peters‚ Lewis Hale‚ Mrs. Peters‚ John Wright‚ Mrs. Hale‚ and Mrs. Minnie Wright.
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Disabled women in society are doubly marginalized; they are neither understood or accepted by mainstream heterosexual society or by feminist theorists. Indeed‚ according to Susan Wendell‚ their embodied social reality has been ignored by philosophers and feminist theorists. The main focus of Susan Wendell’s article on “Towards a Feminist Theory of Disability”is to use the power of her own experience of going from able to disabled to argue that the voice of the disabled is missing from the standard
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Have you ever had to make a decision on whether or not to steal from your own mother? I sure hope not‚ but in the story “Ashes” by Susan Beth Pfeffer‚ the main character‚ Ashleigh‚ has to make that decision. Ashleigh’s parents are divorced and she lives with her mother but‚ she visits her dad often. Ashleigh’s father gave her the nickname “Ashes” but her mom hates it‚ she doesn’t even like the name Ashleigh. Her dad is in debt and wants Ashleigh to steal her mother’s emergency money. At the end
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see how this was not the case back then. A great women’s activist and the former of the women’s suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony worked hard to obtain women’s right to vote. She was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She was raised in Quaker family that believed women’s were equal to men; and should be able to have the same rights even to education. In addition Susan B. Anthony had the opportunity to have an education do to because her father believe all his children should have
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Antigone v. Susan B Anthony In the play Antigone by Sophocles‚ the main character defies the king and the civil law of Thebes to follow her heart and put her brother‚ Polyneices‚ to rest. Most people know the name Susan B Anthony; she exhibited civil disobedience in the form of illegally voting in the 1872 Presidential elections. Many people will be surprised to find out that Antigone and Susan are a lot alike. They both fought for what they believed
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