From a feminist lens, The Great Gatsby criticizes and punishes female characters more than their male counterparts. F. Scott Fitzgerald best exemplifies this disparity through the characterization of Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle is criticized and cosmically punished for taking part in an affair with Tom Buchanan, while Tom walks away unscathed. Tom Buchanan is praised for his sexuality, while Myrtle is criticized and punished for her sexual nature. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, evokes sympathy from the
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[Verse 1] I'm addied up, added up I just ate a plate for breakfast Put it in a cup, then I mix it up with Texas Chest feeling heavy like a midget on my necklace Bitches that we came with got all of your bitches jealous 'Bout to leave the crib with a couple of my pirates Driving by the streets we used to walk through like a triumph Mix it in a potion like a science That liquid G diet got a nigga so quiet Cause the shit so strong, got me feeling like I'm dying The shit so raw, nothing else
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Call Pig Dog I’m called a tomboy since primary school. At that time, like those naughty boys in my class, I was so fond of playing tricks on others. From taping paper tortoises to our friends’ backs to soaking the most disagreeable teacher using water guns from an upstairs window, my friends and I tried all those seemingly interesting things to enjoy our carefree childhood. Nowadays, when retrospecting those bad little tricks, we would just laugh and joke. It seems that no one really cares about
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10 Deborah started experiencing the abuse from Galen. She told her father that Galen had been touching her in ways that he wasn’t supposed to. He didn’t believe her, and Ethel called her names that at the time Deborah had never heard before, like bitch and slut. She finally stood up for herself one day, yelling at him, “You been doing things to my body that you ain’t supposed to do, I don’t to be nowhere with you by myself no more. Lord gave me enough sense to know that.” (114) Can you imagine at
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‘This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic’ allows the relationship between the composer and the reader to be truthful and open from the beginning. The catalyst for Che’s discovery is the tyranny and arrangement of his ‘bitch of life’ that was ‘jaded with medical school, hospitals and exams’. This self-description embodied in his figurative language explains what Che was like prior to his self-discovery. He describes how he was quite naive before the journey which was largely
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the world, it is wholly misleading given that she was described as the complete opposite and might I add it was a very insightful description. George clearly saw the danger through her false and made up image as he alternately calls her a "tramp," "bitch," "jailbait," "poison," and a "rattrap"; he was obviously aware of her
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main demonstration for modern day racism. according to vox.com in 2012 a police officer shoved an African American elderly woman against a wall after she refused to let the officer do a warrantless search. The officer then stood over her and said “Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up.”. the African American elder won the trial. The officer cost the city $95,000 for to settle a lawsuit the elder made. even though the elder was black she still won the lawsuit
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It was quite difficult to find Simon without beers, even though if he was ill or of bed, gasping and surrounded of medicines. That night, at Barry Whalewood’s party, he wasn’t different. Lauren contemplated him from far, fixed to the bathroom door, for cases in which she needed to throw up the overage that her liver – tired – expulsed. - Are you gonna stay over there until when? – inquired impossible-Marconi, limping through the hall forwards the dance spot, where Simon, among girls and alchool
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STD (Sy, Tan, De Ayala) Group of Companies CHARACTERS: Rose Anne Vila | Narrator | Rommel Erecilla | Derek | Rose Anne Caoile | Reese | Sherry Mae Jayme | Supervisor | Crizelda Pineda | Bestfriend | Rea Agustin | Sharpay | Daniel Tadeja | CEO | Karen Kimberly Acierto | Secretary | Clariza Antonio | Investor | Intermission Scene 1: Introduction Vila: STD Group of Companies – a well known developer of real estate started as a provider of boarding houses for the universities
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Nikki Vanessa V. Novales July 20, 2012 # 2012-42443 PI 10 E2-6R Rizal: Hidden Beneath The Surface A Reaction Paper On “Bayaning 3rd World” “Who is Rizal?” If you ask this question to any Filipino, they will most likely say, “He is our national hero” Or “He’s the person stamped on our 1-peso coin”. But is that all he really is? The movie “Bayaning 3rd World” is about two film makers trying to make a movie about Rizal. They found out, however, that this would not be
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