For instance, there was a scene in which the town remembered the Griersons as a tableau. ... Another instance that Emily's father took care of everything includes the fact that their residence "had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spiresand set on what had once been our most select street", but now it was "an eyesore among eyesores" (367). ... It wasn't accepted among the town to take an interest in a construction worker, like Homer. ... Furthermore, the town and the reader believed that Emily and Homer had gotten married. ... The town's people con...

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Our main character in the story is Miss Emily Grierson. ... How from her early years as a young lady she has lived under the rule of her father and then after his death becomes a surrogate child of the town of Jefferson. ... What does the town of Jefferson do, if anything, that allows her to do this and what influence her father had on it. ... The town assumed since there was no formal wedding that he had returned home up north. Through out Miss Emily's life the town of Jefferson never questioned her actions, they knew that there was a limit to what they could say or even demand of M...

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I am very grateful for our country, and all of the privileges I have growing up here. ... We don't only have one ruler who makes all our rules and laws, but instead the people in America are ruled by the people. ... We aren't just represented by our president. We are also represented by our town councils, our mayors, our governors, senators, and everyone else that makes up a part of our government. So there are always places open in our society that we can fill to make our own changes. ...

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In the article, Slut for a Day, by Jenny McCarthy I was not at all surprised by the reactions Jenny received as she strutted her stuff around town dressed like a slut. ... These are the kinds of double standards within out society and it is hard to believe that many of these unfair treatments and associations come from the material we use to cover, or not cover, our bodies. ...

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All of us injected our moral feelings into the activity instead of looking at it objectively. ... If a town is allowing business to flourish, usually taxes are less for the consumers living in that town. ...

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Continue watching...chances are, you'll see the 90-year-old man and his wife, once the most perfect looking couple in town, moving forward hand in hand, one slow step at a time. ... Is his nose aimed toward the ceiling because he truly believes he's better than others, or because it's easier to hide a mask if we lift our heads? ... But for each of us, who we are today is an unavoidable result of how we've been loved, ignored, ridiculed, spoiled or seen by others in our lives. ...

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As a multicultural town including Japanese and an Aboriginal population, conflicting attitudes towards these races could be expected. ... "They were marked people now, aliens in our midst." ... The Sennosukes" names had to be changed because their original names seemed " too foreign to our ears." ...

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This is so painfully symbolic of our relationship with our caretaker, Mother Earth. ... As the transition from the second part of the story into the third part occurs, the narrator describes her last journey into town to trade her meager goods for food. ... The butcher that she visits in town does not understand her compulsion to feed those that hurt her, and cannot see her place in the scheme of things. ... Unfortunately, when the weight of our burdens finally does our Mother Earth in, we won't be able to mourn her and put her to rest with ceremony. Our own circle of life is far too depe...

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Throughout the course of human events many groups have fought for acceptance. Events ranging from mass revolutions to rallies in the town square. Women and blacks have fought for equal rights, elderly fight for better health care, and workers fight for unions and better pay. There are also groups f...

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When the two of them drive into town, she asked about the fights that her husband wanted to see. ... This way of thinking is strongly engraved in the minds of our society, but slowly the views are starting to shift where women can become the providers and men become the stay home parents and tenders of the home. ...

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At first she despises the "geekville" of cholesterol-rich breakfasts and lifeless conformists, yet as she realizes she has the power to turn the whole town haywire just by refusing to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl, she soon begins her Eve-like corruption. ... Reflecting a tendency in Hollywood productions and literary fiction to continue to circle the framework of "the Fall," Pleasantville examines critically our current state of "corruption." Through observation of humanity's depart from that which is "godly" and group-oriented, we are provoked into questioning our own societ...

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I had generously offered to provide him a ride home from work as his truck was in a neighboring town. ... The joy of civility never decreases and the truth of self worth and a very tangible elevated self esteem will never leave our society. ... Politeness demonstrates the importance inherent in all or our magnificent globe's expanding inhabitants. ... The future of our society demands politeness and respect to prevail diplomatically over obscenity and lewdness. Without these consequentially important values bestowed upon our men today, women stand no chance in our future. ...

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To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. ... Being a leading lady in the town, she didn't like being in authority. ... She didn't need to be with him for protection, or she didn't need to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor's wife, she just needed the right kind of love and affection to bring out what was best in her. ...

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As towns sprouted up, women started specializing-- one doing the soap making, another the cheese and butter churning, another the weaving. ... "One prominent woman from the town described the visit where she found her hostess "knitting, and with a speckled apron on!...... In the afternoon her ladyship took occasion to say, in a way that we could not be offended at, that at this time it was very important that American ladies should be patterns of industry to their countrywomen because separation from the mother country will dry up the sources where many of our comforts have been derived. " (Ro...

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Introduction Last fall, 700,000 men gathered at our nation's Capital to focus on mending relationships. ... (c) In Oak Park, IL, a private Catholic hospital was not allowed to erect a cross because it could potentially offend some the town's residents. ...

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Phoenix Jackson runs into many bumps in the road on her travel, but her persistence pays off when she arrives in town. ... Alice Walker, an author dedicated to writing and womanism, says that " Womanist... tradition assumes, because of our experiences during slavery, that black women already are capable." ...

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I am from a smaller town and through my schooling I only had four male teachers, they were in science, math and gym. ... The few women doctors that we have are gynecologist and family practice doctors, all of our surgeons are men. ...

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The film dramatizes these issues so that even if we do not get complete answers to our questions, we do believe that the characters were also tormented by these questions and acted from deep-seated fears, obsessions, desires, and anger. ... Gender is not the only issue being tested in this film, for ideas about small towns, tolerance, and the threat of the outsider are also involved. ...

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She moved to Gallia County and realized just how male oriented a small town can be. ... Smith said," Men do not give proper credit for our knowledge and manipulate women with negativity and hidden agendas." ... The men of our world are starting to realize the importance of women in the business world. ... She reported that the resilience of our economy -in fact its very survival depends on our ability to create value for all Americans. ... The authors of our textbook say that the corporate culture tends to revolve around white, heterosexual, American males. ...

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The third allusion Freeman uses takes place during the confrontation Sarah has with the town preacher who represents the moral establishment. ... "I think it's right jest as much as I think it was right of our forefathers to come over from the old country "cause they didn't have what belonged to "em" (176). This quote expresses the similarities between the beliefs of our nation's forefathers at Plymouth Rock and those beliefs of Sarah Penn. ... This statement obviously relates to the same independent and confident spirit that caused our forefathers to cross the ocean for the New...

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Social status is what has divided towns, cities, and countries since the beginning of time. ... The Great Gatsby and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" are tributes to the lines and boundaries that our superficial world creates. ...

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Nazi airplanes had bombed the Spanish town of Guernica. ... The Surrealist poet Michel Leiris summed up the sense of despair engendered by Guernica: " In a rectangle of black and white such as that in which ancient tragedy appeared to us, Picasso sends us our announcement of our mourning: all that we love is going to die .." ...

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Many of the standards developed by the upper or middle-class were based greatly on religion "as religion and thrashing are the only remedies for a depraved nature and our immoral souls must be considered" (28). ... Kinnear's remained white; "An indication perhaps of the town's judgment upon her" (464). ...

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This story takes us back in time to a place in our history where men and women played very different roles in their lives. ... Hale described her by saying "she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively . . . one of the town girls, singing in the choir. ...

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Aside from pressure in our local lives, young girls are receiving pressure from today's media. ... With the way our society has changed, not everyone looks the same, like we all did in the early 1900's. ... Our society has changed since the last century, some people, mostly women and young teenage girls, look at themselves and feel that their specific body type is not right. ... It could be as simple as sending a word of encouragement to a girl in your life or supporting self-esteem education in your town. ... At the end of the video, a slogan came across the screen and stated "...

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