"How important was the role of women during world war 1" The early rush of volunteers and later the conscription of men led to a shortage of manpower on the home front. Women‚ already working in munitions factories were encouraged to take on jobs normally done by men. This was the start of major social change. Before the war‚ women had been content to stay at home to bring up the family and do domestic work. It was considered unbecoming for a woman to work. During the war it was considered unpatriotic
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Prompt/Question Explore one of these themes either family‚ heroism or the underdog in the story The Outsiders. Provide at least 3 excerpts from the text as evidence to support your answer. Heroes are everywhere; they live the same neighborhood as us‚ and eat the same cereal as we do. We just sometimes too blunt to realize it. Their heroic actions might be small-like sticking up for a bullied kid and other time they can be great like saving people lives like Spider Man. But the thing about heroes
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Subcultures Culture plays a very important role in continuing values and norms of society. We know that people are different each other and our society also offers lots of opportunities for people to be creative. These creative people become a cultural subgroup outside the core of the dominant culture and they are called a subculture. A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong. According to the Oxford English Dictionary
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hated nearly everything. "The fight for self-preservation had hardened him against caring." Chapter 4‚ pg. 59. He was so full of hate and dislike that Ponyboy rationalized that Dally had almost no feeling other than hate at all. "I wanted to cry‚ but Greasers don’t cry in front of strangers. Some of us never cry at all. Like Dally and Two-Bit and Tim Shepard--they forgot how at an early age." Chapter 7‚ pg. 102. Dally didn’t even care that his parents didn’t care about him. You think my old man gives
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Outsiders Script It is a warmish spring evening but it was quickly getting chilly and dark. The scene is a wide‚ open field filled with grass where a small greaser gang plays football and hangs out. The moon and couple stars shine bright in the night sky‚ adding color to the field and giving it an unreal look. A couple light posts light up the side of the road. The field was completely empty and there were no cars passing by. It was extremely quiet. A young boy named Johnny that appears to be
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Chapters 1- Previously being beat up by Socs‚ Johnny is paranoid and carries a 6 switch blade with him. When the Socs were about to beat up Ponyboy and Johnny as well as other greasers came to the scene to help fight them. Johnny instantly fell to the back of the crowed when he saw that one of the Socs had three rings on. Remembering that that the Soc that badly beat him up had three rings‚ Johnny was filled with fear. After Johnny was beat up‚ the gang has been watching and always being with Johnny
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dreadlocks) * Greaser (subculture) (Levis 501 jeans‚ T-shirts‚ leather jackets‚ sunglasses‚ Cowboy boots or motorcycle boots‚ hair gel) Punk Fashion Punk fashion is the clothing‚ hairstyles‚ cosmetics‚ jewelry‚ and body modifications of the punk subculture. Punk fashion varies widely‚ ranging from Vivienne Westwood designs to styles modeled on bands like The Exploited. The distinct social dress of other subcultures and art movements‚ including glam rock‚ skinheads‚ rude boys‚ greasers‚ and mods have
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The android‚ Ash serves his mistress‚ Mother‚ as Ian Nathan notes Mother in turn serves her masters‚ the company‚ Wayland-Yutani‚ a corporate entity with an agenda that supersedes the morality of its crew. As Mother’s computer read out reveals Roger Luckhurst writes This whole concept of corporate mistrust highlights social commentary of the time‚ the United States political scandal of Watergate‚ during President Nixon’s term of the 70’s. This was the big contribution from script revisions by
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The struggle of people emotionally and physically is the downfall and corruption of society. S.E Hinton‚ author of The Outsiders tells a story about two kids named Johnny and Ponyboy who are in a gang called the Greasers. They live in a wrong doing world of gangs and fights. After Johnny protects Ponyboy by killing a rival gang member named Bob‚ the two boys run away. A young criminal named Dally helps them escape. After an incident with a burning church Johnny dies and Dally dies soon after because
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Summarize: State the theme of this reading in two sentences or less. Lynching in the West aims to educate the reader by emphasizing the importance of recognizing the violent injustices that took California by storm in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These ignorant vigilante crimes risk being erased from the modern conscience if they are not documented and discussed in depth with candor. Sum up the reading in a motto‚ a bumper sticker‚ or a T-shirt slogan: LYNCHING A Crime of the Past‚ A
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