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Mean Girls

Films, like other works of literature, often apply psychological concepts to explain real-world phenomena. This is the same case with Mean Girls, a 2004 American teen comedy film based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 nonfiction self-help book Queen...

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Born a Crime

Information is one of the most essential things in the world, but when people lack it, their perspective on the world negatively changes. This leads to negative outcomes and ends with hurt and the creation of stereotypes. All around the world,...

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Confessions

In Books IV and IX of the Confessions, Augustine grapples with the deaths of his friend and his mother, Monica. Augustine demonstrates that his grief toward his friend stems from loving him like he is immortal and reveals how he finds comfort in...

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Clybourne Park

Race discrimination is still persistent nowadays. Although they come from different reasons (history of a country, systematic inequalities and stereotypes) one main important reason is the lack of understanding among the communities that share a...

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Jasmine

Described as “the foremost chronicler of the multicultural New America”, Bharati Mukherjee constitutes her works with the life of South Asian expatriates/immigrants in the United States and Canada. Her novel, Jasmine, explores the process of...