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Radium Girls Take-Home Quiz 1. Radium Girls displayed some very interesting signs throughout the show that helped signify crucial moments of the play. One such scene that demonstrated a very powerful and important part of the play was when Grace and Tommy picked out wallpaper. This scene signified that these people were not particularly special, but rather regular human beings from the time. The scene ended with Grace’s jaw starting to hurt; this showed how the downsides of capitalism can hurt…

Do you wear make-up? Would you wear the Cover Girl Lash or Volume Exact mascara due to a celebrity like Rihanna is wearing it? Most females, but not all would buy makeup products like the Cover Girl mascara just to test it out to see how it looks. Then there are some females that are big fans of the celebrity and would buy anything that the entertainer is on. I do believe Cover Girl chooses this for their cover to catch the attention of teenage girls and young women. Also, to bring the softness…

Alex Grey said “In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.” Art often serves as an outlet for people to voice and share their opinions with the world, and most importantly, be different. In the painting Girl Before a Mirror, the artist Pablo Picasso attempts to depict a woman struggling to accept her individuality, as well as someone attempting to conform to society’s standards, who is struggling with feelings of seclusion and isolation through his…

The female characters in The Boys and Girls and The Chrysanthemum are oppressed by society, reminding them of what gender they are, and not letting them do anything they desire. The Narrator in “The Boys and Girls” was really trying be a boy deep down. Elisa in The Chrysanthemums, don’t care about anything, but she is trying live life good. In The Boys and girls & The Chrysanthemums, both stories the female characters are told that they aren’t just female, they’re just women and they shouldn 't…

Girl” written by Jamaica Kincaid is essentially a set of instructions given by an adult, who is assumed to be the mother of the girl, who is laying out the rules of womanhood, in Caribbean society, as expected by the daughter’s gender. These instructions set out by the mother are related to topics including household chores, manners, cooking, social conduct, and relationships. The reader may see these instructions as demanding, but these are a mother’s attempt, out of care for the daughter, to…

experience. The Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro, introduces the story of a girl named Del growing into a woman. Del is a young girl who is primarily raised by her mother. Del explores her sexuality, her religious beliefs, her sense of self-empowerment, and the function of gender in society. Housekeeping, written by Marilynne Robinson, is about the life of a young girl named Ruthie and her subtle transformation into a woman. Ruth is a seemingly odd and plain girl who takes little…

Girl Power What is a Human? A human is a man, woman or child of the species Homo sapiens. It’s been that way for 200,000 years. Yet it took 198,080 of those years until women only had the right to vote. When did men become a different species that is thought of more highly than women? What happened to treat everyone the same? When did a pay inequality of 25 cents per dollar in 27 occupations become “okay” or “part of life”. Imagine you want to play a sport that you love. You are the best one on…

Inshal Siddiqui Department: Communication Design The Girl Chewing Gum The Girl Chewing Gum, John Smith, 1976, Short Film The Girl Chewing Gum is a 1976 experimental short film by the British filmmaker John Smith. The film runs for around 12 minutes. Most of the film is set in a London street. We see vehicles, birds and people walking by. We can hear a Director’s commanding voice throughout out the film who sounds very…

“Girl” By Jamaica Kincaid starts off with the girl listening to her mother who’s advising on life and becoming a woman. From the daughter point of view I can see the mom is very harsh, angry and frustrated with her because she believes her daughter is going down the road towards promiscuity and wants to prevent that. The mom is very wise and knows how to clean and cook as well as knowing social decorum, in which she’s trying to instill that in her daughter at an early age. I think her mother…

“Who said girls want to dress in pink and play with dolls?” (Miller, 2013). Girls aren’t given the option to choose what they want. For instance, girls are pushed into liking pink and playing with Barbie’s because “that’s what girls do”. When a girl is seen playing with boy toys, they are automatically thought as tomboyish or masculine. However, that is not the case. The toys that are created for girls to play with are very sexist. Most toys are like vacuums, kitchen toys, dolls while the on the…