In most cases, preps are the students of the school who only wear high dollar clothing, fix their hair just perfect every day, and prance around thinking they are better then the rest of the student body. They won’t associate with anybody outside of their clique, and hardly ever allow anyone in theirs’. Preps are usually very popular in their schools, and have many “friends”. They generally try to get into every club their school offers and
She was a person that could really make the good things come out of you” (Skloot, 43). With bright red nails, sassy pumps and a flip in her hair that danced around her face Henrietta was ready for any adventure. Abstraction would never be a descriptor for Henrietta, she exuded her confidence. Yet, the idea of abstraction, placed by people around us, can outweigh our own confidence. Henrietta never could predict her
They don’t like to be held back.”(5-7) this is the way the speaker describes her hips. Lucille Clifton is straight forward and wants you to feel the freedom and advantages of having healthy hips by using imagery. Lucille Clifton brings us through her poem with a bow of confidence; “Homage” means a form of paying respect to someone or something. “They go where they want to go, and they do what they want to do.” (9-10) Demonstrating a strong, brassy, confident women, a women who is comfortable in her skin, who sends a “feel good” message through a powerful delivery of her self-worth. “They need space to move around in; they don’t fit into little petty places” (2-4) you can gather from these lines that her hips are large, that she is not a size 2 and that she needs space.
Kara has many problems in life, not only with her fathers recent death, but also with her school working disabilities. She has been having difficulties with English and while in the ring, Kara could even fear the English test she had the next day. Every day she would pray things get better and that she could be guided through her situations, but things just kept getting worse. She
Ignoring that, Nancy Lee still raises her head up and smiles, “This won’t keep me down. But when I’m a woman, I’ll fight to see that these things don’t happen to other girls as this happened to me” (Hughes). Even though Nancy Lee is disqualified to receive the scholarship, she still accepts it and lets it pass. Nancy chooses to face her own struggle by using it as her own advances instead of letting it paralyze her. Moreover, because of her decision, Nancy Lee becomes more mature and responsible.
Then there is Dee, the older sister, which is out spoken and thinks she is the best looking girl in the world. As for Maggie, she is ok with the way they live, however Dee does not understand why they still live the way they do. The older sister thinks she can take and do as she wishes, as Maggie lets everything go without a fight. If they could just get along, they could change a whole lot in each other’s lives and be allot more understanding of each other. If every person in this world would stop judging, and start listening to each other, there may not be as many wars and deaths.
But she finally realizes some things, no matter how she wants them to change, will not change unless she makes them. She also realizes it is all right to talk back is she is being abused or being antagonized. “Naw, Ah ain’t no young gal no mo’ but Ah ain’t no old woman neither. Ah recon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah’m uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it.
Teachers have been getting replaced left and right because of their inability to control the students in the classroom. Many parents are removing their children out of Augusta Schools in order for them to have a better chance of being successful. Also because Augusta is a failing school, teachers fresh out of college come teach at the school for a minimum of two years. After their two years are up most teachers would leave to go teach at a school of their choosing. On the other hand, replacing these teachers maybe was a good move made by the State Department.
Jane Austen Comparing both novels Women Both characters are strong, vivid, self-confident and, in some way, a rupture to the normal behavior on that time. They search their own path and destiny, disconnecting theirelves with the normal society's expectations. Love Love is the main theme in both novels. Not only love as a feeling, but love as a pursue of happiness and stability, this last being totally necessary, at the time, to girls with lack of fortune. In the case of Anne, her search for love serves to redeem her past mistakes and, finally, be with the one that she has chosen, not her relatives.
The first thing to think about when you want to become a lady is that a true lady looks perfect. She always presents herself as her best self. This means that make-up is a must. Natural beauty is unacceptable. If you dislike makeup, you can do just the basics.