* Buy PDF * Buy Paperback Act 1 Summary: Top Girls begins on a Saturday night. The protagonist, Marlene, is hosting a celebratory dinner for six people at a London restaurant. All of Marlene’s guests are famous women from the past. The first to arrive is Isabella Bird, who congratulates Marlene...
outgoing. I was friends with everyone; from the kindergarteners, to the girls a couple of grades higher than I. I was a huge tomboy too; I never cared about how I looked nor did I care if a certain guy had a crush on me. I was the type of girl who was free spirited and independent when hanging out with my friends...
the actions of their elders. In “A&P,” Sammy is nineteen years old and works at this local A&P market. He then quits his job after defending three girls that are insulted by the store manger [Lengel] for wearing bikini’s in his market. In “Barn Burning,” Sarty, a ten-year-old boy, struggles to figure...
I going to do?” cried Monica. “I can't go to school like this. I look like a clown!” “Maybe a haircut will help,” suggested her mother. Monica cried all the way to the beauty shop. The hair stylist tried, but nothing worked. Monica's hair was fried. “Mom,” Monica cried, “I have to get a...
Conquers All” Three years ago my crazy adventure began with a girl named Ashley. We met freshman year of high school. Two people invisible to each other, but who would’ve guessed that a love so strong could arise from nothing and help both of us overcome the emotional obstacles that faced us in the...
stated that our children would be raised having likes for things such as colours, clothes and toys according to their gender. Belle will grow up liking girl colours such as pink and purple, princesses and dolls and dresses and skirts. If we ever have a son, he would play with trucks, cars and Lego and like...
really saved” (183), helps to reveal the writer’s perspective on the situation he is writing about. Together, they give the reader a great overview of the story without reading too far in. 3) A good example of Hughes’ description to achieve a purpose is, “And the little girls cried. And some of them...
through the FNHS was when the club took members to help out at an Easter celebration at the local Boys and Girls Club. We helped to decorate the room where the party was going to be, and once it started, to organize the kids from the Boys and Girls Club in games. We held a watermelon eating contest...
One of the girls ran and closed the door, and then they all turned to Annie Sorelli. 'Who? Where? What's the matter?' they cried. 'It's the ghost!' Annie said. 'In the passage. I saw him. He came through the wall in front of me! And... and I saw his face!' Most of the girls were afraid, but...
Boyqaro. When Babur was riding the horse along the streets of Hirot, one girl threw him three roses from the top of building. In order to know who was doing it, Babur looked at the top of the building and at that time, he saw one girl. That girl’s black eyes and eyebrows caught his attention and Babur could...
and minister, but neither would listen. I prayed to God that someone could help me to get rid of these three devils in Salem. Then God answered my prayers in March of 1692 when Tituba the slave bewitched three girls. They cried out the names of their tormentors and bewitcher -Sara Good, Sara Osbourne...
sitting here moping around. I wouldn’t be hung down by depression and eating disorders and constant suicidal thoughts wherever I go. I wouldn’t have cried myself to sleep for the past week even though it’s the summer holidays. I wouldn’t refuse to say a word between hours when I wake up and when I sleep...
troublesome. Give it a little gruel if it is.’ He put on his hat, and, pausing by the bedside on his way to the door, added, ‘She was a good-looking girl, too; where did she come from?’ ‘She was brought here last night,’ replied the old woman, ‘by the overseer’s order. She was found lying in the street...
The mystery on gracious road - Caitlin Lankford “Help me” I heard as I was walking down gracious road. I stopped in my steps breathing heavily. My heart was beating so fast I could scarcely breath. I looked around curiously. As I looked down the street I saw a building that wasn’t there before. Someone...
are we so cruel? It’s as if we lost our understanding our compassion. Why is it that the boy or girl who killed the ones who made his life so miserable punished? Why didn’t anyone helped when he or she cried out for it? This could have been easily preventable. It seems as if society sees the bullies aren’t...
whisper-boy. 28 Chapter six. The fight. 35 Chapter seven. One direction. 45 Chapter eight. Welcome! 59 Chapter nine. Party hard 69 Chapter ten. Steal the girl 82 Chapter eleven. The hacking 94 Chapter twelve. The beauty and the beast 107 Chapter thirteen. The high treason 119 Chapter fourteen. Dead! 130 ...
mother. I have responsibilities that most people do not face until much later in life. I never in a million years thought it would be me, of all the girls in the school that would get pregnant as a sophomore. I have been very involved in extra-curricular activities since I was in fourth grade. I have cheered...
satisfied and tries to restrain himself from being sucked into this conventional reality that everyone seems to live and seems to want to have. It helps for him to rage about this conventional lifestyle mainly to convince himself that he and his wife April are true individuals. In his dialogue with...
from the way I expected. I kept her advice close to my heart because throughout my life, I face upsetting situations rather easy. Since I was a little girl, my mother always told me to be patient. She believed that “everything happens for a reason” regardless the situations happened for good or bad reasons...
hit me was the smell. The putrid smell of dozens of unwashed bodies all pressed together. Very, very unpleasant. ‘’Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages. We are here to dazzle the mind of everyone here with the magical story written by Shakespeare. This story is like no other, I will cease...
support to her, and guided her through several misfortunes in her life. She never would have survived her childhood without me. Out of all the girls, she was my favorite niece. We left around noon, and arrived at the courthouse shortly there after. It all happened so suddenly. She stepped...
a large part of its population being white ,the remaining being Blacks and Latinos • I did this research during of my free weekends’ • This would help me ascertain whether the information found in newspapers is correct about the levels of racism in campus Sociological imagination on Racism on...
highest on the social ladder but they were known in the school as decent guys. A.J. had the biggest love interest on this girl named Harriet. She was everything he wanted in a girl: Intelligent, good sense of humor, and very confident in herself. A.J was kind of a wimp when trying to talk to her, he usually...
go to. This helps us identify how hard it is for homeless people to come to grips with their new lives and without help they may struggle to survive. When Link starts learning about begging we can clearly see that society frowns upon homelessness and most people are unwilling to help, ’Is that what...
trees with no leaves to make them pretty.” Outside, snowflakes left wet kisses on my cheeks, “Chi Hai!” I called. “Catch some!” “It disappears!” she cried. Just as Chi Hai spoke, a snowrock stung her chin. That red-haired boy darted behind the dumpster. He was=2 0laughing hard. I tried but I could not...
never to be found again. But then, I never expected that to happen…… This is a tale of a girl, who saw both sides of man, how cruel and inhumane humans can be, and yet how one person could turn her life around. That girl is me. I still remember that afternoon, when I was out in the fields, mummy chasing...
next one was going to kill him and he didn't have long to live. My Dad wanted to go home and get his affairs ready and I hired someone to come in and help him as he had numerous medications to take and he was getting weaker because of the blood he lost. My Dad and I lived in separate cities and I have...
all have led me to this point in my life. But to get to this point I needed to begin the journey to my GED, learn to trust in the teachers there to help me, not give up when it came to my test and then enjoy the fruits of my labor. I had a rough time trying to obtain my high school diploma after I...
talk; I have something important to say. She uttered. I got up and sat beside her with a questionable and concerned look. “I’m PREGNANT!” she slowly cried and plunged into my arms. Comforting her, I asked if she was positive. Wishing in my head and just hoping she wasn’t, she murmured “YES” with a distressed...
in school, so everything they did that night was under no protection. Two weeks later Melissa noticed that her period was late, “It can’t be,” she cried, “it was our first time.” Another week went by and Melissa told Steven, they decided to take a pregnancy test. It ended up that Melissa was pregnant...
bake a "witch cake" in order to help the girls name their tormentors. A witch cake is composed of rye meal mixed with urine from the afflicted. It is then feed to a dog. The person(s) are considered bewitched if the dog displays similar symptoms as the afflicted. The girls were at first hesitant to speak...
finally travel down the road, I can’t help but to see realm of my childhood days in the windows. As I am gazing the heat of heavy traffic in Taft Avenue wondering what will happened next because I’ll be late in the class, I used to scope down to see the happy boys and girls holding hands, chatting about what...
continued “remember class you need to share we only have enough crayons for groups of twos”. Nick walks over and as many kindergarten boys would approach a girl, doesn’t say anything, just sits down. We start coloring still not having said a word to each other when he looks at me and mumbles “Can I borrow the...
and remaking social lives, 2009) and women shopping during the strike. It would appear that it was acceptable for women to ask (beg?) for charitable help while the men were “Fighting for the community” but that this would have been beneath the men’s dignity. Obviously, there is an enduring unequal position...
in the Activities Office. I felt so grown up that I was finally a licensed driver. Tears rolled down my mother’s cheeks as she watched her “little girl” grow up right before her eyes and get her driver’s license. “Please Mom, don’t cry. You’re embarrassing me!” I said to her as I chuckled a little...
present I tried to open. There it was, Simba, the one cartoon animal I loved and wanted. Simba was the perfect size for me. Just right for a tiny little girl. He was about the size of a normal cat. He was fat n cuddly. Smooth like babies skin for the first touch. He was the best thing I have ever seen or...
THEME ANALYSIS BETWEEN “BOYS AND GIRLS” AND “INITIATION” The two short stories are based on the lives of two different girls. “Boys and Girls” is a story about a teenage girl and her family who own a fox farm and the girl has a younger brother with whom she has been compared at all times but she never...
Farm Girl Jessica Hemauer’s memoir, “Farm Girl” is a great story about how growing up with responsibilities from an early age leads to a well-rounded, responsible person. As a young girl, Jessica is expected to help with the chores on the family farm. Doing chores entails getting up very early and...
plaza where he had played tatching with an older brother who later drowned in a squall. How his mother had gri eved over that death, she who has not cried too much when his father died, a broken man. Now t hey were all gone, quick death after a storm, or lingeringly, in a season of drought, all, all of...
concerned mother told me that I needed to calm down because that baby probably would not be here for five to six hours, that piece of information did not help me a bit. Kayli and I were on bad terms, taking into consideration our bad break-up and numerous fights. We had gotten into another fight only a couple...
Yaisa, was no exception, she herself as well took the baby and tended to it like a king, showering Kunta with hugs and kisses. The young child often cried out, they rubbed his little head so much. It was apparent to all how deeply this child was loved and how blessed Binta and Omoro felt. Many...
if her home life was any better. An oft-drunken abusive father, who returned home from the pub at two o’clock each morning. As he arrived home, she cried in bed from listening to her mother’s screams from downstairs, due to his continued abuse. Her mother, a woman sprinkled with bruises and cuts, caused...
True story By Ashley C Milani Once upon a time there was a girl who was 9 years old. She lived with her mother, grandmother and her lovely brother who was 12 years old. Her name was Ashley. She was not popular and her friends harassed her around about what she wore and ate. Ashley did not care what...
unfortunate that I told her what she was not expecting. I told Isabel that I was going to take my leave right away and then she started yelling at me. I cried all the way back home in a taxi but she did knock some sense in my head when she yelled and said we was sister and always had to be there no matter...
had no kids and no responsibility so more power to her. After working together for a while she was a food worker so her and I became friends and would help each other when the other was out. Would hang out sometimes after work because she was single lived alone and I would be cooking for my kids and me...
living in this era.Education tells men how to think,work and make a proper decision.Therefore girls should have be given the same education as boys. Olden people like to differentiate between girls and boys.They assumption that boys should give extra education, because in the future, boys...
assures them of it. Girls grow up and move away to have families of their own, but the boys stay around and take care of their parents when they reach old age. With such a high want for baby boys, lives of baby girls become corrupt and difficult. The average rate of abandoned girls in China is about...
describes the setting of the church. It is hot and he is made to sit at the front of the church on the mourners bench with the other young people. What helps the story is how detailed he is when describing the atmosphere of the church and the people. He speaks of the sermon given by the preacher and how those...
“To what extent is the title of the play ‘Top Girls’ ironic in the events of Act One?” The title of Churchill’s play, ‘Top Girls’, at first appears to compliment the successes of the women who are gathered at the scene. Churchill introduces Marlene, a symbol of the “new woman” of 1980s society, who...
up, she had such sad eyes, I wonder why. Her name tag said Nicole and I noticed the keychain hanging around her neck had a picture of a little baby girl not much older then one year old… …Nicole’s world lay ahead of her. She had studied so hard in high school and was a class valedictorian. She’ll never...
just gotta find some deece girls to chill with, i need my car to go mallin and get digits seriously. Hopefully it will be cool and fun. I’m only 20. i need to just live and not worry about finding someone to care about for now a friend with benefits or makeout hangout girl would be straight now i just...
A Fly on the Wall: A Story of a Teenage Girl This is a story of a teenage girl. Sounds very simple but of chores there is a lot of twist ands turns. This girl has loved and lost, gotten hurt and found. A girl with many dreams and true harsh realities. She has faced the world with open arms like many...
retrieved his couch from storage and hauled it back to our room under the white-hot sun. Subsequent to the manual labor, we visited the most gorgeous girl on the planet, Alaska Young. Upon our arrival to her room (#48), she beamed at the sight of her friend and yanked him inside. She told a funny story...
had found the Red Queen: then she went down on her knees on the hearth-rug, and put the kitten and the Queen to look at each other. "Now, Kitty!' she cried, clapping her hands triumphantly. `Confess that was what you turned into!' (`But it wouldn't look at it,' she said, when she was explaining the thing...
had I done? The little girl inside of me was crying out for help. Please Sharon take my hand and lead me home! Home the place that is suppose to be safe. The last thing I remember from that night is that my beloved friend told me that she would get me some help. Help came by the way of the Dean...
internet. It can be done with the help of many protocols available such at e- mail, chat rooms, user net groups while, harassment can be included sexual, racial, religious, or others. This crime usually happens to women and teenager. There is a case happened to a girl in Ahmedabad, Gujarat India. She...
Everybody's life has many changes. I am a seventeen-year-old Vietnamese girl. At this moment, I'm thinking about the past and draw a new resolution for my future. The time that I lived in my country, and the short time I have lived here in the United States of America, have shaped me into an useful...
There are so many teens especially teenage girls that feel pressured to have a "perfect body." What people don't realize is that being yourself is so much more attractive then looking like every one else. Society tears apart confidence of you people, its overwhelming how much pressure there is to...
Baby, that mirror won't lie for you The media's effect on adolescent girls Adolescence can be a confusing and frustrating time for young adults. It is during this time that gender identities, self values, and sexual personality become topics of serious contemplation. Adolescents are moving...
frm the side of his eyes....i wid an adrenaline rush..overtook him..i crossed the finishing line...a silence spread on all over ground...the crowd cried in joy for the new KING OF THE SPORTS...... This defeat made manoj vary of me....he was cautious...but after continous defeat in 200m..400m and relay...