On a typical Sunday afternoon, the Brandon Mall food court is packed with hungry people and the stores are crowded with customers anxious to spend their hard-earned money. The mall is full of people in all shapes and sizes, young and old, beautiful and ordinary. ... So many people, each with a different history and story to tell. ... While at the Brandon Mall (or anyplace there's a crowd), people watchers can discover a lot about those who live in their communities - and maybe something about ourselves. ...

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From the beginning of the 1960s, social history was known to be a dominant tradition of political history.2 As social history began to evolve, it became more democratic, involving ordinary people such as men, women and children. ... Elizabeth Marsh was a woman who had a growing awareness of connection between different regions and people.6 In her travels she explored many different places such as the Caribbean, Africa, India and Morocco. ... Reason being is because, since social history includes ordinary people, Colley's text would allow for ordinary people to create their own social h...

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As long as there is a need for self expression through fashion, there will be an endless number of buttons to push, and people will always try to be noticed. There is always a desire to go against anything "ordinary- or mainstream, so I think fashion will jump back and forth, diving in and out of new and old trends, never having a final outcome. ... There are people who prefer to blend with what is accepted, and there are those who show a little more skin, or wear mismatched clothing with pre-made holes. ... It's hard to tell, and even boys in tight shirts and girls in ties are not ou...

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In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author takes us on a journey through the mind of a woman going insane. The narrator's writings, " this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind - are our binoculars into her private thoughts and failing mind. The main character is ro...

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These pieces of writing are all on our ordinary women but yet so distinctive to each other. ... She had this sort of power over the people who were believers and those that were not, that they felt that they had to obey her immediately. It was also believed that she had special powers that perform miracles, that healed many people. ... How she had enough courage to show the world what she believed in not worrying about whether people would believe in her faith, she took that chance. ... (page 101) She allows her people to be different in expressing themselv...

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"Ordinary" women gawk over the montage of perfect figures, flawless faces, and undeniable sex appeal. ... On one hand, "older people represent a valuable source of skill, knowledge, and energy that we can't afford to cast aside" (Coon, Mitterer 110). ... In the extreme, these people identify their person with their body" (Powell 108). ... As a result, advertisements publicizing sex as a means to be beautiful and desired are not only degrading women and neglecting to highlight any respectable qualities or achievements, but they also put pressure on ordinary women to look and act like the ...

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Few ordinary people can aspire to look like the images of the exceptional beauties the media presents us with. ... However, in films, soaps, and sitcoms they are often placed in ordinary situations so that we all feel that they are our competition. ...

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This is explained in Nadya Aisenberg's Ordinary Heroines, "...the hero has nonetheless been our culture's central symbol. ... Marian is consumed by the people around her and we can see this by the title, The Edible Woman, and through the text. ... Marian has done this; she faced what consequences could have come from her actions and she refused to be consumed by the people around her any longer. ... "Such a woman was dissatisfied with ordinary society. ... Even though her people, the Chinese, are at war with the Japanese, Meiying refuses to dismiss her love for her Japane...

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I do honestly commend here for trying to do something that ordinary women usually don't try and do. ... Many people may have different views on each thing. People may say that women should be allowed to play in any male driven sport or that they should just stick to there own sports. ...

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This might be a big problem for ordinary women, but Nora has an extraordinary sense of determination. ... In an attempt to gain her independence from Torvald, she is being forced to rely on other people instead. ...

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Arbuthnot cracks and reveals Lord Illingworth's true identity, she says, "And the ending is the ordinary ending. ... Through this victimisation, Oscar Wilde shows the audience the injustice between genders, and makes people feel compassion for Mrs. ...

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Many people have different views about the meaning of an icon; to me I think icons are just like role models. ... Princess Diana is an icon that has made an impact on many peoples lives young and old. ... When I think of Princess Diana I do not think of a particular thing that she said but I think about how she was not like a ordinary Princess or Queen. ... After he death people across the world mourned her in many different ways. ... I have this question now why do the good people die young?...

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The people of Ming China experienced many hardships in a truly extreme time of crises and tribulation during the 17th century. ... The government did not take interest in its taxpayers; the only exception being when people were unable to pay at all. ... People were required to pay more during the harvest seasons and less during the hottest midsummer months. ... Spence give the reader a closer look on the financial struggle of an ordinary seventeenth century farmer. ... The Chinese people of the time were apparently ill tempered as we learn in chapter four, The Feud; this is not surprisin...

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By using an opening similar to the ordinary "once upon a time" introduction, this is captivating the attention of her audience and influencing them to listen further. ... The Wife of Bath regularly reverts back to past speech between people and past conversations for example when she says "That many a nyght they songen "Weilawey!"" ... Again, implying that the audience were of a standard set of people. ... Diction such as this was likely to be used in the daily vocabulary of the people at the time he wrote the poem. ... Chaucer was influenced by what he saw and how people acted. ...

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Otherwise, some people believe and perpetuate stereotypes about particular ethnic groups while in reality those myths can be related to few members of that ethnic group. In this essay the author Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses how she has been treated by different people in different countries due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. ... Here a man who seems to be well-educated and respectable sings a dirty song to amaze the author and people around. ... As we see some people only from the appearance of the person, following and supporting the existing stereotypes, are able to c...

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Witchcraft is a sensation that has captured the minds of people since the beginning of time. ... By the 1600's, the "witch hunt- craze was at its highest point and most of the people who were accused of being witches were women. ... These witches can not be seen when they attack, as "their bodies remain asleep at home, thus deceiving any ordinary attempts at proving, or disproving, these mystic activities-, and the Nupe describe this way of traveling about as the witch leaving her "shadow-soul-. ... Most were older, poorer, ordinary women who were victims of others and ignorance. ...

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They weren't respected and appreciated as a figure of authority and for the people they were. ... She persists and shows the reader her will to break free from the ordinary and become a powerful combatant and not a weak housewife. ...

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I found it out of the ordinary when the text discussed human societies in relevance to mating and marriage and at times failed to discuss the cultural implications of such things. ... For example, people in the Trobriand Islands were asked "Who is a child's father?" ...

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This clearly demonstrates the fact that Amelia was not an ordinary child but rather someone with a vision and great things to come. ... According to the myths of that time period, women were unable to withstand the speed that an airplane could fly and people feared that women might "domesticate flying" (p 44). ...

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She also met people like John Jay and Martha Washington. She did not meet these people just because of her views on woman's rights; she met them because of her husbands" dealings with these people as he working building a foundation to this country. She was a woman that many people respected even John Adams. ... Although she lead life was an ordinary woman, she had many ideas and most of them heard, but it did not take effect for a long time. ... Why didn't more people make a note of her letters? ...

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At various times as Grace recollects her past, there is great significance surrounding what people are thinking, or saying, in regards to her behavior. It seems society was a dominant factor in the good behavior of many people, as the consequences of getting a bad reputation were severe. ... People were monitored closely, and anything out of the ordinary was likely a sign of hysteria. ... Many people thought her to be not more than an illiterate idiot. ... It was hard for people to comprehend that someone who could partake in such a gruesome murder of a woman who was pregnant, could appear so ...

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There are many ways to reveal the masks over people's eyes. ... The basis of ideology is serving its purpose by the making of the village people being blind towards the fact that the man who also has contributed to making the baby is now free to do what he pleases. The lived experience of the aunt is blame which leads her to silent her "inseminators" name and commits suicide to escape the harsh experience of blame and humiliation to the village people and herself. ... At the end of "White Tigers" Kingston writes of the way that the imagined swordswoman and her similar: May my peop...

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How often do you think people question the activities they see portrayed in advertising and question them as to there validity? ... And when soc iety is presented with something or someone out of the ordinary which doesnt follow what we deem to be correct, we rebel and try to modify it to our socially acceptable standards.THEÊANDROGYNOUSÊSCENARIO Imagine a baby born with no visible sex organs. ... Though rarely publicized, there are people in this world that are physically indistinguishable as males or females. ...

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Feminism began well before the 1960-70's to which most people regard as its beginning. ... The irony is that an art teacher who is already accustomed to appreciating the exceptional, out of the ordinary and even abstract pictures in life is also teaching her students how to apply these thoughts in life outside of art. ... Women are people, too. ...

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How often do you think people question the activities they see portrayed in advertising and question them as to there validity? ... And when soc iety is presented with something or someone out of the ordinary which doesnt follow what we deem to be correct, we rebel and try to modify it to our socially acceptable standards.THEÊANDROGYNOUSÊSCENARIO Imagine a baby born with no visible sex organs. ... Though rarely publicized, there are people in this world that are physically indistinguishable as males or females. ...

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