to view only a part of it because we are already biased in our approach. Safety of girls and women in India is a grave issue. To tackle the problem, a multi-thronged tactics is required. Skewed sex-ratio, ‘commodification’ of the female body through media and other popular means, patriarchal mind-set, lax justice system etc are some of the reasons why there is apparently an increase in incidents of assault on girls and women. First and foremost, exemplary punishment would be the best method of
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Boy Dribbling the ball up and down the court, listening to the whistles of the wind. A cool windy day in Harlem, New York. Going for the 3 pointer, “C’mon shoot like a man! That’s all you got?” I heard pops yelling at me. “You won’t get in the league with that attitude.” He constantly told me, “Shoot like ya wanna’ score.” Pops always nagged at me for the simplest things. Brush your teeth when you wake, no woman wants a man with bad breath. Bathe before you sleep, after a game, and when you leave
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Sexuality April 7, 2013 This would have never crossed my mind; but if one day I woke up and all the sudden I am a girl, I would freak the crap out! For starters, I would think that I am still sleeping and it’s just a dream. However, after a few minutes I would realize that it’s not a dream and that I became a girl overnight. After getting over the fact that I am now a girl, I would get up and check myself out to “see what I’m working with”. Then I would mentally prepare myself to getting hit
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The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Published 1992. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. PART ONE The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering
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Many girls who watch the film idolize Jasmine as a beautiful and charming princess who gets whatever she wants. However, getting everything doesn’t come easy, and she must use her sexuality to become a seductress to subdue the villain Jafar, in one of the final scenes of the movie.In the scene she is Her big breasts, tiny waist, tanned skin, and low cut belly shirt gives young girls an idea of what you use your body for; to manipulate men to get what it is you want.why she’s dressed the way she
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day The short story, “The first day” is about a young daughter and a mother. It is written by Edward P. Jones The daughter is about to start in elementary school, and there is a lot of feelings involved in this new chapter of her life. The girl is wearing a checkeredlike blue-and-green cotton dress, and her mother spent nearly an hour on her hair this morning, plaiting and replaiting, so that the girl’s head tingles, all this for making a good expression of her daughter, the first day of
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told you are perfect in every way and will always be taken care of. Let me convey the emotions that rip through a young woman like myself when she is convinced she is someone's forever. Let me express thehope and loyalty that is instilled inside of a girl who built up wall after wall only to feel as though they were peacefully torn down by a man who pulled her deeply into his love. I cannot formulate those emotions into words the same way I cannot describethe way it felt to have you rip that all topieces
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Toni Morrison and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, the writers focus on the theme of societies’ corruption upon young, developing girls. The authors choose to center their stories on two groups of girls that are changed by their experiences as they mature in and outside group homes. In both stories the diverse group of girls are placed into homes by their parents for entirely different reasons. Despite these reasons the two girls in the story “Recitatif” grow closer while
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To be aware of your surroundings is one thing; however eavesdropping on others around you may or may not be an ethical dilemma. “Eavesdropping is secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent… This is commonly thought to be unethical and there is an old adage that “eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves, eavesdroppers always try to listen to matters that concern them.”” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eavesdropping) Twice I had to participate in eavesdropping
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I sit and I wonder, where you have been, what are you doing now? Are you in this endless deep blue sky, high in the clouds? It was a pleasant day. A young girl, ventured out. A smile etched on the little girl’s lips that lit up her face in a brilliant glow, gently, she went her way to find that person she had been desiring to meet. I still can't believe or consider what has gone It's too much to take but my heart is beating on It had been months, years, perhaps since she had last saw him. Her
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