Girl Rising

One night a young girl named Lily Foster is left alone for the night in her very large country house, while her parents drove out of town for a party. This was fine with Lily especially since she had her faithful dog, Scout, and her cell phone. Finally, her parents said, ‘’Be safe and don’t go outside.’’ Lily gave them a hug and said, ‘’Of course and have fun!’’ Once her parents drove off in their car, she made herself something to eat and sat down at the kitchen table.

Most importantly, it is a story of captivity, of failed attempts at freedom, and of one woman's partial escape from the constraints of her family, home, and past.

Evidently, her life exemplifies the overcoming of poverty and how it really is possible as long as you stick to education and persevere through life.

college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to

girl’s childhood that seemed like an average child's life growing up in a rural area. This girl grew

Her name is Catherine, and in 1925, she was born in an era called the hopeful time. Catherine had six siblings all with jobs, and washing job she did was the laundry and cooking. However, Catherine’s curiosity often got the best of her, for she followed her father on horseback into the fields of wheat. When Catherine eventually went to school, she and her six siblings were in a one-room schoolhouse. She had a cheerful childhood, but hard times were upon them, beginning with the Great Depression. Millions of people lost their jobs. The stock market plummeted, and prices of certain materials drastically fell. For example, wheat prices dramatically changed, leaving farmers with less and less money. Sadly, the large group of farmers . For Catherine and her family, life just got harder with a large drought in

She was left to fend for herself and got a job as a bartender and working at a pizza place to make ends meet. While delivering pizzas and bartending she began school at California State University in Northridge, but did not finish because she did not feel school was right for her. With her mom having her PhD in psychology and her dad being a lawyer, her news that she didn’t want to finish school did not go over well with them and they did not support her decision causing more issues between

Girl Rising (2013) reveals the horrific realities caused by the lack of education for young girls as well as explaining the value in education. Following the lives of nine young girls in various countries, Girl Rising is able to portray the many ways that the lack of education can affect girls. This documentary weaves connections between non-educated girls with child marriages, slavery, and poverty; they are very closely linked together. Girl Rising was able to achieve its purpose of showing the importance of girls' education by using a metaphor, appeals to logos, and pathos.

She does not want to be around or play on pianos anymore. She wants to be away from home and eventually runs away on a train. After time on the train, she comes home wanting to be with her dad. Furthermore, during the many times of suffering that happen, the farmers can’t grow the any crops to make money.

The film, Girl, Interrupted, is based on the life and memoir of Susanna Kaysen. During the late 1960’s Susanna Kaysen, attempted suicide and checked herself into a mental health hospital for two years. This movie adaptation weaves together the intricacies of Susanna’s personal life, the pressures of a changing society and the unexpected friendships she formed while committed to the hospital. In the film, directed by James Mangold, Susana is played by Winnona Ryder. The movie is made up of small vignettes of Susanna’s life. Susana is from a well-off family, but considers herself an outsider and

Her stepmother want her to just stay here and clean and clean. She went to her godmother grave and cried. As she was crying the tree started talking to her and help her go to the ball. She went to the ball but it's was only three day. The prince love her

(SIP-A): Her experiences as she became independant (STEWE-1): “ I build my confidence to speak to the guard. Although I am sure that I can speak, the thought of it overwhelms me. My silence has protected me, saved my life, and I am afraid to let go of it” (181). Her being quiet allowed her to protect herself. (STEWE-2): “ I am filling two-liter jars with water from a large metal tank on the back of a wooden cart and placing them on a table where the volunteer on duty hands them out to refugees, who have been arriving all day in a steady stream” (152).(SIP-B): How the Refugee camp encouraged her to do things on her own.

never go to school. All of this was taken away from her at such a young age, when she

The strength of the human spirit and the power of education can change the world. In documentary Girl Rising, the audience sees how tremendous education and the strength of the human spirit is significant in life and can help lead you to a path of success. The most powerful weapon is education, which people can use to develop the world in a better way. Education is able to empower people to develop personally and acquire knowledge as well. The human spirit permits people to discover deep within them to endure through burdensome circumstances and act a certain way that they wouldn’t usually behave in or consider.

Deep in the rural parts of Georgia there is a girl named Ceclie. She is a really poor teenager and is uneducated. Ceclie gets pregnant by her father and he gets rid of her baby because he doesn’t want anyone to know that he was the father of the child. She soon leaves her home and gets married to her abusive husband.