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San Diego Union Diego Union Tribune
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1,516 words... en and girls. The effect was that the looks of professional beauties appeared to be the norm. These images were all the more important as new standards for the ideal woman emerged. In the 1940 s, women had been empowered by the war effort. They were proving their worth and were considering purposeful careers. The return of the hourglass figure seemed to again firmly draw the line between the sexes. It also made appearance more forward on a womans mind as the men came home and other interests...
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Joan Of Arc Henry Viii
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1,111 wordsSudheer Sreenath Sanjay Here Period 5 5 / 19 / 99 In Plaster In Plaster was a poem written by Sylvia Plath on March 18, 1961. The poem was written while Plath was in St. Pancras hospital in England, immediately following an appendectomy. Her journals, as well as the letters she wrote to her mother, vividly describe the events surrounding the composition of this poem. Interestingly, Plath also wrote another one of her famous poems, Tulips, on the same day. The events in Plath's personal life surr...
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Hands Of Fate View Of Life
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