Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls Case Study Konnie Sanders Daglis MSMC Dr. Linda Johnston September 17‚ 2006 Odd Girl Out 1 Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (OGO) Case Study Consider a world where girls are not given a language or a manner to articulate their aggression‚ even the slightest feelings of aggression. In that world‚ petty issues erupt into all out wars of subtle
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Essay 1 - question 2 Jean-Francois Lyotard (75) calls narration "the quintessential form of customary knowledge." It is man’s way of expressing life‚ telling stories and constructing law. In essence narrative is a tool which allows us to empathise with others‚ an intrinsic trait unto our own humanity. Thus‚ "Like life itself‚ it is there‚ international‚ transhistorical‚ transcultural" (Barthes‚ 237). This is often done through an author’s ability to evoke an emotional response from their audience
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monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology‚ history‚ and literature‚ and created a unique language of invented words‚ puns‚ and allusions. In 1905‚ Joyce completed a collection of eight stories‚ entitled Dubliners‚ though it was not until 1913 that the volume was actually printed. The delay was due to concern about the frank sexual content and some of the charged political and social issues addressed in the collection. During these frustrating and impoverished
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degree. Joyce began writing short stories‚ right around the same time he met Nora Barnacle. Barnacle was a hotel chambermaid who eventually became his wife. Joyce’s writing began to take off‚ authoring a number of successful books‚ including Dubliners. Dubliners‚ originally published in 1914‚ was a book consisting of a collection
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The shift from music-hall/variety to early cinema transformed the audience experience: Critically investigate this claim from a primarily Irish perspective. “Audiences are the same all over the world‚ and if you entertain them‚ they’ll respond.” (Minnelli‚ L). This quote doesn’t need any explanation. As audiences‚ we spend our lives waiting for an experience that will entertain and captivate us‚ give us something to talk and fascinate about. This isn’t a new trait. Looking back to the mid 19th
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straws or flipping a coin. Whitman is describing a situation where a bunch of sailors have run out of food on board ship‚ and they have to kill one of their own to survive. I think the last sentence gives the most meaning to me. “All these—All the meanness and agony without end‚ I sitting‚ look out upon‚ See‚ hear‚ and am silent.” Because I think this poem is about all the bad things in the world and that people just observe them‚ they see that its injustice but they do nothing about it. They keep
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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Character and Conflict “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ written by Flannery O’Connor‚ follows the summer vacation of a family in Florida coming from Georgia. While driving‚ the family’s car ends up in a crash after a chain of events caused by the grandmother. In an attempt to rectify the situation‚ the grandmother waves down a passing car‚ only for the passengers to step out with guns in hand. After shouting out her sudden realization that one of the men is an escaped
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made to her mother while on her deathbed. Speaking in terms of textual pragmatics Eveline’s story is the shortest and the plot is pretty simple. The main point of this story in “Dubliners” by James Joyce rather seems to illustrate‚ through a short series of images and sensory details‚ the life of a common Dubliner. "She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly‚" Joyce
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(Steinbeck 97). Slim points out that even if he is locked up‚ there would be the chance that he would be unhappy and treated wrong. Also George says‚ “Lennie never done it in meanness… All the time he done bad things‚ but he never don one of ‘em mean” (Steinbeck 95). This shows that Lennie never does anything out of meanness and wouldn’t understand why he’s locked up because he didn’t mean do anything wrong. So‚ even if Lennie would have been locked up instead of being killed it would have been worse
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enables a human to know when something is cruel and when something is kind. In the essay by Mark Twain called “The Damned Human Race‚” he claims that it is our (the humans) everyday meanness‚ unkindness‚ and cruelties that make us the “lowest animal.” Humans are not the “lowest animal” because of our everyday meanness‚ unkindness‚ and cruelties. Humans are the “lowest animal” because they have a rational mind to understand
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