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. The captain of the basketball team plays her first "lucky" victim as he is shocked with more than just holding hands on their first date. ... 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." Th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Events ranging from mass revolutions to rallies in the town square. ... Religion often plays a hard part. ... The agony related to concealing something as important as our loved ones and those we have strong feelings for is tremendous. ...

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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. ... "Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwning grins over his shoulder. ... 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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• Grade Level: High School

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 .." ... She never looked cross or humiliated; she always made you feel that they were acting in a play. ... So if you decided to live with him, you needed unusual strength an unusual maturity to find your part in his play and improvise the text"(Huffington 60). ... You pretend...

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• Grade Level: High School

As towns sprouted up, women started specializing-- one doing the soap making, another the cheese and butter churning, another the weaving. ... "They did what all women who went before them and came after them did when it came to raising children and running households, but they were assigned by history to play other roles as well. " (Roberts (1), p.15) Eliza Lucas Pinckney, at the age of sixteen was left in charge of her families three plantations in South Carolina. ... "One prominent woman from the town described the visit where she found her hostess "knitting, and with a speckled apron on!....

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. ... 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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She employs the heroine as a companion while she travels from one European resort town to another. ... "We have come through our crisis," she asserts, and exile is the price they must pay for their triumph over the forces that once oppressed them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Men begin in Kentish Town with 280 pounds a year, and end in Park Lane with a hundred thousand. They want to drop Kentish Town; but they give themselves away every time they open their mouths". ...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...

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• Grade Level: High School