If she is to become a doctor and wants to finish High School a year early, Shantell must learn to respectively disagree with others. ... Two questions now linger in Shantell's mind, one is "Will I finish school and become a doctor?" ... Traditionally, a woman finishes school, goes on to college, gets married and then becomes pregnant. ... At first, she handles the situation poorly, but she gains the strength to continue and finish High School. ... Shantell new found independence and maturity was evident by the end of the movie. ...

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Not until recently have women stepped out from the shadows of men to discover the abundance of possibilities which come with independence and confidence. ... I have heard of instances in Texas where high school girls have joined the football team, completely confident and secure on who they are. ... And nothing screams independence and an unrealistic amount of cocky confidence like a bar or club. ... Well my thesis tells you that women who are strong(what) can have men at their feet using confidence and independence(how.) ...

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Raised in the suburbs of Louisiana former Mouseketeer, Britney Spears appears accompanied with eye catching flashing lights and dazzling high tech special effects. ... For the last six years they have stood behind Britney while watching her grow up from a sixteen year old teenager in a plaid skirt and knee highs, into a twenty-two year old woman wearing mini skirts and thigh highs. ... In the last six years parents have watched Britney go from a naughty Catholic school girl with a shirt knotted instead of tucked in, into a completely shirtless model with knotted beads strategically wrapped a...

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Forty-eight years before the Declaration of Sentiments was written women were not allowed to attend school once they were done with grammar school. They were allowed to continue their education privately if that so please them, but they couldn't attend school because women were considered frail minded, academically challenged, and could not study beyond grammar school. In September 1821 when the first college was opened women still did not receive full equality but they still had a chance for a high education. ... Gradually, as women like these continued to ins...

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It was not a term used to imply equality between the sexes, but rather included topics such as higher education and financial independence for women. ... This was the formally educated female with, at least, a high school diploma and, sometimes, a college degree. ... They wanted to maintain their own independence, yet gain a partner. 1 This was the generation of the fully formed "New Woman." ...

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An example of how identity plays a role in a woman's life stems from the fact that "In some ways Alicias family molded her into being a good girlshe was raised Catholic, and her family forbade her from dating in high school"(37) which gave the image to her family that she was a saint when they were unaware of what she could possibly do behind their backs. ... The predetermined path would be dropping out of high school and being a teen mom and so Alicia rebelled by taking advantage of education in order to move out of poverty and out of a neighborhood that would cast a shadow ...

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Women are starting to reach the high unemployment rate that men face. ... The second was gaining independence and freedom. ... However presently, "The employment rate for women who maintain families has been high: In April 2003, 8.5 percent were unemployed, a rate that was 6.3 percent in April 2001."" ... Petrosino also included in her defense that trouble makers at schools feel lost and helpless and she does not want to subject her two children to these feelings and emotions. Due to the high unemployment rate for women, Linda Petrosino undoubtedly is not alone in h...

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Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. Both Vivian Ward's and Eliza Doolittle's transformation into society's "ideal women" undertakes the same central journey, with pivotal moments in ...

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