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    The men’s inability to empathize with women’s situations and their ignorance to the women’s values cause female characters from both stories to lose important aspects of their lives and personalities, resulting in a deterioration of their states of mind. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane’s husband John, in a poor attempt to “cure” her, restricts her freedom and puts her on a “scheduled prescription for each hour of the day” and “hardly lets [her] stir without special direction” (Gilman 75).…

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    her sisters concentrated only on Malayalam films, Padmini was more active in Tamil. But she remembered one Malayalam film Adhyapika (Teacher) in which she played the teacher. The movie was completed in just 13 days in Trivandrum and got a National Award for that film."…

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    “Pride and Prejudice” Literary Analysis “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” (Austen, 23). “Pride and Prejudice”, a romantic novel by author Jane Austen, tells the story of a family in the early 1800s consisting of seven, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters. The novel is based upon the time period when females were not in high status unless they married rich and well. Struggles occured with the two eldest daughters…

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    Levitt Sunset Boulevard The movie Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of great shots in the movie, a couple of the great shots was at the New Year's Ball scene and Norma got mad and went up the stairs but it showed through the mirror where she was going it was a really neat shot. Then when they were driving to Paramount and max looked through the rearview mirror to tell Norma what was wrong with her make up. What was neat with that shot was…

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    diamonds to drawn the attention of people like myself to absolutely fall in love with it. Even though the portrait is only just a photograph, I would have loved to see the original piece and felt the texture of the diamonds that recreated the Hollywood actress. While admiring this piece of work,…

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    Jane Austen is known for her words. During her time period it was unheard of for the daughter of a gentle to have any sort of career ( to work for money in any way). It was viewed as improper, and indecent and was compared to prostitution. So Austen always hid her work, and what was published during her time was under a pseudo name, “The Author”. A lot of her work was also published post humus by her brother. The words that she wrote have become classics and are taught as great pieces of…

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    Vanessa Hudgens Wiki, Height, Parents, Net Worth, Age and Bio Bio Hudgens is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence when she played the role of Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical; the series brought her noteworthy mainstream success. She has tackled music, movies, and the stage with noteworthy success. She has acted in a number of good movies, Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Spring Breakers, and Machete Kill. Vanessa Hudgens was born…

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    G. At the time this article was written, the perception and expectations related to women were changing. The vision that was the docile, static, Victorian woman was evolving into the free-thinking and freely drinking “modern woman”. This was a woman who could work, flirt, go out on the town without a male chaperone, and indulge in their sexual desires. Manners and McDonald seems to admire the modern woman but for different reasons. Manners does not state her support outright, but she shows her…

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    Divergent is hands down the best book I have read in about 6 years! Beatrice was a character people of many different ages- and even genders could connect with. Each faction also imitated apart of society we all live in today which I found not only exciting but a book that could be used to teach many different lessons to a classroom a children. This book being told in first person makes readers feel apart of the action and throughout the story I found a dislike for the Erudites ( with exception…

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    Did you know that less than half of the population can touch their nose with their tounge? Rachel is a part of that small percentage. While that is arguably the most interesting thing about her, she likes to think of herself as a girl of many quirks. For example, she is a dog person, a Libra, and an avid reader. Reading is a huge part of Rachel's life! Her favorite book is probably My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and her favorite Harry Potter book is The Deathly Hallows. If it wasn't obvious,…

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