Children Of The Black Skirt, By Angela Betzien

Their outwardly pristine appearance juxtaposes with the drab, unkempt town with peeling paint and rusty fences, where spousal rape, adultery and paedophilia lie just below the surface. Through this leverage of the ability to transform and astound, Tilly is able to gain ‘information’ to achieve her objective of discovering the truth behind the events of her past. The promise to transform Gertrude into the ‘most striking girl in the room’ and Marigold’s] dress looking ‘better than everyone else’ are the beginnings of the truth being unravelled and ‘rubbish’ revealed.

Growing up in today’s society can be traumatizing for any child. When it comes to growing up as a young girl, however, it can be downright devastating, but not only for the child but the parent as well. There are so many decisions to be made when choosing how to raise your child, assuring that you have instilled proper values to develop a healthy sense of self-worth and confidence.

In Cinderella Ate My Daughter Peggy Orenstein examines the triumphs and pitfalls navigating raising a daughter, in today’s mixed message world. From peer pressure and the need to fit in today’s society, young females have commercialism forced at them at every turn and in very clever ways. Doll creators have been pushing the boundaries of good taste with each new season launch. When the more “mature” actresses at the age of 17 feel the need to do something drastic to remove them from the wholesome image created for by company executives, mothers and consumers feel betrayed, and yet then we need to have a dialog with our kids as to why just last month Miley Cyrus was wonderful but now she is not okay for the viewing household.

Wintergirls is a book related to eating disorders. The author’s purpose of writing this book is to inform readers what a person with an eating disorder. It depicts the inner and outer conflicts that characters like Lia and Cassie face with disorder. It all began with a competition between two characters of who can be the skinniest. Cassie dies in the attempt of winning the game. Lia, the main character in this novel, always keeps track of her food consumption. For example, one breakfast morning, Lia said she didn’t want “a muffin (410),…orange (75),…toast (87),…waffles (180)” (Anderson 5). Lia constantly keeps track of the calories she eats. Unlike Cassie who follows the path of bulimia, Lia inhibits herself from eating, therefore not

In the past, women were seen as a part of properties of men. They don’t have rights nor power. At most time, they can’t even help themselves. According to Anthony, who was a famous suffragette during the Progressive Era, which is a period of time people were suffering, ” In case of divorce on account of adultery in the husband, the innocent wife is held to possess no right to children or property, unless by special decree of the court”(“Declaration of Rights for Women”). The author illustrates how women were powerless in the past. The laws were unfair to women, so they can’t help themselves.

Imagine everyone on earth looking/ acting the same way. Sure, society likes to think that 's the way we all should be, but that is surely not the case. Divergence is something that is made out to be something alarming, but it really is the essence of an interesting community. Everyone is born with something they cannot change, whether it be a disease or defect it 's what makes us who we are. Maria shriver a little girl on account of numerous health complexities, including an intellectual disability and a heart condition. After Maria’s birth, doctors told her mother to leave her daughter at the hospital to die because she would never walk or live a healthy life. This is a clear example of not wanting to save the girl because of a deeper

Jane Eyre and Matilda are two classic novels that have been turned into theatre productions with very similar plots in ways. Jane Eyre and Matilda both feature an underprivileged, young lead female that escapes the harsh realities with the wonderful world of books and knowledge. Both tell the stories of young, independent women that never see themselves as victims, but overcome their unfortunate circumstances without sacrificing their self-worth and dignity. However, the ways in which two plays are turned into stage adaptions are very peculiar from one another. What makes the reproduction of renowned novels burdensome is the nature of contemporary theatrical production, which demands subtle and courageous adaptions to a worldly and

In today’s society, there are more than seven billion people and about half of them are girls. This is the only statistic about girls that represents any equality to those about boys. Around the world, many girls are viewed worthless and are expected to work, fetch water, and care for the children. In the film, “ Girl Rising” published in 2013, Richard E. Robbins goes around the world to discover new stories from girls who suffered throughout their lifetime. Their reality is one of poverty, sexual assault, childhood marriage, and disease.

Popular and well-known writer Jacqueline Susann wrote the book “Valley of the Dolls” in 1966 which Hollywood made into a movie in 1967. The movie starred three top actresses at that time Barbara Perkins, Patty Duke and Sharon Tate. I must say that I read the novel and thoroughly enjoyed it but the movie was a disappointment to me. As much as I tried to relate the book to the movie it was lacking a lot for me.

Over men, the femme fatale has the power. Her ability to manipulate men and use her body unashamedly to do so, uses the man’s desire against him. Lynn Bracken and Dinah Brand are powerful characters who both contain stereotypical elements of the femme fatale. They can control the men around them and the audience is able to see the extent of their power. They exist as something that is ‘other’ existing outside of the bounds that have originally been set for them allowing them to set their own rules. This both fascinates and terrifies the men in their lives as it they believe it is a direct challenge to their masculinity as they cannot control these women. Thus, the femme fatale is something that exists outside of male dominance and has power

Little Woman is America's favorite that follows the path of four sisters-Meg , Jo , Beth and Amy March . In this story for of morals for young woman displays the passage of theses four sisters from childhood to womanhood . I would like analyse Jo , she is a very complex girl with a shifting personality , Jo is a perfect example of how teenagers or any person for that matter can easily change their mind ,, no matter how determined and hard headed they are .

Little Women can be viewed as a classic book or girl’s book. It was written after the Civil War after the author received endless demand from the young female readers. Initially they were published as two books where Chapters 1 to 23 where issues back in 1868 under Little Women title, however, after becoming a highly sensational success, Chapters 24 to 47 were published in 1869 under the title Good Wives Louisa (1869). Louisa May Alcott’s personal life is demonstrated in the first book hence acting as a form of semiautobiographical where it largely reflects on the experiences as she grows up with her sisters in New England. She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832 (Reisen). Thus, the book reflects her personal live with the authors demand on the need to know whether who of the sister married forcing her to add the book. The second book illustrated how Jo married Laurie with Alcott herself remaining unmarried all her life hence forcing her to write the sequel by departing from the autobiography by writing may feel straight up fiction. However, without her personal experiences the other part of the novel may feel less realistic. Little Women has been largely popular since the initial publication for over 140 years where it largely appealed to readers young and old, male and female (Myerson). This was based on the major trend of the novel as based on the lifelong lovers who are female. The novel has been transformed into

Throughout the course of the semester I will be reading and analyzing the poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem sheds light to the conflicts, emotions and decisions that a woman experiences when deciding to have an abortion. There are many feelings portrayed in this poem such as guilt and confusion. Among the many ways a New Critic could analyze this text to explain its meaning, the two most important ideas shown in this poem are the tension between body and soul, as well as the contradiction between actions and desires.

In Caroline Evans’ book, Fashion at the Edge, she looks at the fashions from all ages but goes most deeply into the fashion of the 1990’s and the themes that were very apparent in that particular time. She expands on these themes in chapters throughout her book such as Deathliness, Spectacle, Horror and Glamour. She relates all these themes back to the influences of the 20th century and the rise of the commodity obsessed culture, modernism and capitalism and the metaphorical death it brings to our world. This essay will focus on the image of ‘Dolly Mixture’ that was featured in a fashion spread in 2000 that was written by Gaby Wood, which is found in the Deathliness chapter. I will review Evans’ chapter and her analysis of the themes and idea proposed by Evans herself and other theorists. I will use these themes and ideas to make my own predictions about the effects these theories would have on the future of our society and our fashion here in New Zealand.

The short story Black is My Favorite Color by Bernard Malamud is about Jewish-Black relationships in America similarly to several of his other novels (such as The Assistant, 1957) and short stories.