This movie showed both young and old people in tank tops, tight-fitting pants or torn jeans and leg-warmers. ... Princess Diana's clothes were copied by women throughout the world. ... As for young fashion, teenagers dressed in cropped jackets, fitted tops, baggy second hand jeans or torn jeans with patched sides, and mini-skirts. ... Other styles that were popular in the eighties included sports clothes, the country look and Designer clothes. ... Designer clothes became a big part of the eighties. ...

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They are very professional looking; they are cheaper than buying clothes twice a month, and they show school spirit. ... On my first day of high school in the late 90's, I was surprised by what I thought were the most bizarre clothes. Students worn torn clothes and baggy pants, and had dyed hair. ... For instance, what if a person had walked into a semi-formal school meeting today dressing in torn, painter-style jeans, and old, shredded T-shirt, and a pair of New Balance tennis shoes? ... By adopting school uniforms, parents would be able to economize those highly expressive clothes. ...

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Teenagers will greet you every morning at the breakfast table with neatly combed hair, fresh breath, cut toenails and fingernails, and clean, neat clothes. ... If you do, you probably will return to torn up couches, curtains in tatters, and various other messes throughout the house. ... Dishes will be clean, the rugs vacuumed, clothes washed, folded, and put away, weeds pulled, and actually everything in order. ...

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At the beginning of the poem the writer describes beautiful Pakistani clothes, and we get the impression from her words like "glistening" and "embossed" that these clothes are something she treasures. ... This twists the opinion she shows of the clothes and jewellery. ... The writer shows us how she feels at having left her old country by saying "I could never be as lovely as those clothes." I think this shows that she feels guilty at abandoning her country when it was war torn, and that she perhaps feels that she doesn't deserve the clothes at all. ... This contrast between the beautif...

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Punks have always been known for pushing the envelope, but the Sex Pistols pushed it farther than anyone to date in the genre of punk music. The Sex Pistols boisterous lyrics and edgy appearance led for them to be heavily censored by the radio and print media and even banned in many places, Britain ...

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"Pieces of my Childhood Memories" In the summer of 1995, my mom and I talked about making a quilt together with scrapes of material from the clothes I wore as a child. We decided to start this childhood quilt by sifting through the vast pile of old clothes mom packed in a large, dusty trunk in the attic. ... Mom came from a generation where quilting was a necessity, using rags and torn clothes for lack of new ones. ...

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"Pieces of my Childhood Memories" In the summer of 1995, my mom and I talked about making a quilt together with scrapes of material from the clothes I wore as a child. We decided to start this childhood quilt by sifting through the vast pile of old clothes mom packed in a large, dusty trunk in the attic. ... Mom came from a generation where quilting was a necessity, using rags and torn clothes for lack of new ones. ...

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Children's closets may contain torn collectable cards, candy wrappers, ruined clothing, balled up homework, or any other type of garbage imaginable. ... These items may consist of cloth remnants, buttons, string, tidbits they have saved for craft projects, clothes that are temporarily a size or two off, or old gift bags that may be reused. ... In the closets of children this means, new clothes for the up coming school year, school supplies, stashed money or candy, and if the parent is lucky, a gift put away for them. ... Children fill this category with clothes that fit, toys they like, s...

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QUOTE-"Sometimes, he was asked to show his sketches; he extended them across a desk, feeling a contraction of shame in the muscles of his hand; it was like having the clothes torn off his body, and the shame was not, that his body was exposed, but that it was exposed to indifferent eyes." ...

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Customs and habits, likes and dislikes, dress, art, thoughtsa look at these give one an insight as to how a people differ from another. It is the culture of a society that renders them unique. But to determine this, one needs to take a look at the various sections of people that make up the socie...

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"She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat and feel all cramped up "(10). Huck doesn't feel so good with his new clothes, because he's used to dressing the way he want so that he's able to play. Huck doesn't find meaning in wearing "nice " clothes; he just wants to do whatever he wants to. When the widow puts him in new clothes, all he does is sweat and sweat, which shows how uncomfortable he is while adorning the pieces of clothing. ... He senses his true self when he is dressed in torn fabric and rags. ...

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The sun light imagery leaves no doubt as to the identification: "at moments the sun would take hold of their arms with a bold dart of light, or rest on their wetted, shaken hair, or splash over their pretty clothes like the torn petals of a sunflower." ...

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Mum was wearing her special occasion clothes while adding last minute touches to the balloons, ribbons and various bits of coloured string placed around the room. ... His bushy beard was painted with a layer of grime and merged with his unkempt, spidery hair and layers of old, torn clothing puffed out his frail appearance. ... Gouts of blood soon glinted over his skin and his clothes were torn in several places, exposing white tufts of cotton from inside, but he had managed to clear a gravestone. ...

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Every day you get up, put on clothes, and eat breakfast. ... I wear a lot of "Preppy" clothes and almost all my friends wear the same. ... One of my friends wears loose, old, torn clothes to school. ... In every school there are separate little groups, each one of these groups have there own style of clothes they wear and this is how you know that you can tell a lot about these people from the clothes they wear. ... This is why when you go for job interviews you are supposed to wear clothes that are impressive and not casual. ...

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As I was walking through the busy market of Baclaran, I noticed something that really disgusted me. Someone was actually washing his hands in a puddle of dirty water by the road. But then he had a big plastic container full of fried peanuts. He was actually just an ordinary peanut vendor trying to...

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As you can see his clothes are ragged yet his posture looks good, showing him to have a weak outer but yet still strong inner being just as the blunt signs. The sign with the top on it is significantly more torn than the other signs. ...

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Mandatory uniforms is an answer that some give to stop the recent rise in violence and drop out rates in our public schools. Those that support uniforms argue that uniforms disguise economic and ethnic backgrounds, so students are no longer jealous of others. The financial burden on parents is ...

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I will wear a certain type of clothes to lead people to believe I am rich, or powerful, or popular, or hot, or punk I will talk and walk and act a certain way to make people think I am Christian, or a rebel. ... They can be bought at any Abercrombie and Finch store they are $87 for a pair of pre-faded, pre-torn, denim low rise Identity. ...

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The Effect of Modernism on American Society After World War I, American literature seemed to sway towards a distinctively pessimistic view of society. Out of the ashes of industrialism rose a significant form of literature called "modernism-. Modernism broke free from outdated romanticized moral...

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Therefore, clothes stress or hide certain parts of the body for achieving of silhouette close to the ideal of a particular time. ... The beautiful lady of that time had a lot of clothes for different times of the day. ... New fashion ideas in the early 30's showed a distinctively different length for day and evening clothes. ... The thirties ended with the Second World War and the worsening economic situation meant women could not afford new clothes. ... Everything real and graceful in women was suppressed by dirty jeans, torn running shoes, and crumpled T-shirts. ...

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This time they thought nothing fun and stopped creeching with such mirth, and had to submit to...Alexander the Large... but both were very drunken and could not feel much... they were creeching.. as they put their platties [clothes] on..."... It is takin to a mask, hiding the true violence and the hateful world underneath: If Alex's nightmare of "smecking malchicks doing the ultra-violent on a young ptitsa who was creeching away in her red red krovvy, her platties all razrezzed real horrorshow," is translated into "smiling guys viciously assaulting a young woman who was screaming while ly...

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Daisy: I think she is a very torn women. ... She has clothes all over the place. I don't see how she knows when her clothes are dirty and when they are clean. Since their house smells so badly like dog and cat pee all their clothes and bodies smell like it too. ... The reason I think she is indecisive is because she married Tom, and purposively she loved him, but now that Gatsby is in town and she is starting to see more of him she is starting to be torn between the two of them. ...

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When soldiers clothes would get wet, torn, or dirty they would have to continue wearing them. ... I also have access to, or am provided with food each day, and I have clean clothes available whenever I need them. ... Soldiers would be forced to wear the same dirty and wet clothes while marching because they often did not have a second pair. When soldiers did receive clothes, a pair of pants and a pair of socks might be all they got. ...

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Just because you "look bad" wear torn-up leather jackets, slouch around with toothpicks in your mouth; sniff glue, ether and what somebody claimed was cocaine, doesn't actually make you a bad character. ... The narrator describes himself and his friends as "panting, Wheezing, tearing at her clothes, grabbing for flesh we were bad characters, and were scared and hot and three steps over the line"(132) The narrator in that quote itself just proved to the reader he isn't as bad as he lets on because what kind of bad ass lets anyone at anytime know that he is scared bad boys are never sc...

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1. Kurt Cobain For our modern day hero we used th... Kurt Cobain For our modern day hero we used the singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana. This punk Seattle band moved almost mainstream almost overnight. Nirvana caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever and molde...

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