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    Pecola was an Eleven year old black girl who feels as if being white is the true meaning of beauty to society and to herself. The Title of this Novel is ‘The Bluest Eye’ written by Toni Morrison in the African American Literature, The novel's focus, however, was on a young girl named Pecola Breedlove. And Pecola, as we are told in Chapter 11,will be raped by her father around the novel's end. The beginning states the story so that the reader can know about Pecola's story ending tragic. The Breedloves

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    For this ten minute observation I observed a girl with brown hair, she had bangs across her forehead and her hair length went along her ears, hardly touched her neck. She was wearing a pink stripped shirt that had stripes on the top 3/4 of the shirt and the rest was pink and white flowers and she was wearing jeans that had purple, pink, and white butterflies on the back pockets, and her shoes were blue and pink with a Velcro strap. She was in the other room today where there is a stage in the far

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    Harradine & Doulton Vyse vociferously demanded of Nell Vyse, ‘How does it happen that so soon after their Walker’s Galleries show, the hated Doultons introduced a new figure comparable to one of my own designs; it has to be more than coincidental.’ It should be borne in mind, and there is no evidence to suggest that Harradine connived in the similarities between his designs and those of Vyse. This new contentious figure was HN1373 Sweet Lavender (Fig. 106). Doulton state the figure was inspired by

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    break away from Will at the gates and head towards homeroom. I take one last drag of my cigarette before snubbing it out on my locker, adding another dirty circle to my collection. A faint giggle comes from behind me; I turn to find a blonde, slim girl smiling at me, surrounded by her friends. "Hi Jordan." I nod at her, turning to leave, but she garbs my arm. "I was wondering if you wanted to go somewhere tonight." "No, Connie. I do not." Her face falls and she turns slowly. I shrug it off and

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    little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes." (Morrison 174). Morrison paints a picture in the reader’s mind of the perfect, enchanting, crystal blue eyes with the utilization of imagery. In the following passage, Morrison uses colorful imagery to describe how Pecola’s culture promotes whiteness as beauty: “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs – all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned

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    hair and body were inherently “ugly-looking”, something that was very damaging to the spirit of black people. The movement began as a counter act to the American ideology that: "black people were generally less attractive than whites". It encouraged dark girls to stop straightening their hair or lightening their skin and embrace their ethic facial differences. Today, Black is Beautiful is a world- renowned movement that many African Americans all across the globe are praising and applauding

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    aspect of defining beauty. As twenty-first century social media might suggest, “beautiful” girls tend to be skinny, tan, long-legged, and white-teethed. People begin to idolize these figures that they see on social media, and they characterize beauty by these standards, even though it is fruitless to do so. This is also true in The Bluest Eye as most all people in Lorain, Ohio in the 1940’s glorified white skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair. People revered public figures like Shirley Temple, and conceived

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    adapted to fit the current times. Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle shows the importance of fairy tales today by weaving together old familiar stories and modern ideals into a single tapestry. Neil Gaiman chooses to introduce the tale of Snow White to the tale of

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    How Does Eddie Die

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    is a squat, with white-haired old man. His legs are thin and veined now, and his left knee, injured in the war, is demolished by joint inflammation. Before the end of his life, he tries to save a girl. Unfortunately, it makes him die. For the first time after Eddie’s death, in the journey section, it takes place on his birthday. Today has a newborn. Eddie’s father is happy and he smiles when he sees his child. In heaven, Eddie sees nothing, he remember that he is saving the girl and now he confuses

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    You should have left them behind when you were a little girl!" A few students chuckled including Professor Wellington. By the look on her face, he could discern her frustration. In was in that moment he realized her beauty. Her long wavy onyx hair flowed to her mid back and her dark eyes appeared somber. Despite

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