Word: emma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These findings result from week-long visits to the all-girls Emma Willard secondary school in Troy. N.Y., where Gilligan conducts extensive interviews with the students three times a year...
...justice and caring orientations manifest themselves at Emma Will are. One of the girls that she had placed in the "justice category" turned in two of her fellow students for cheating, while more of the "caring-oriented" girls than the "justice-oriented" ones handed in a survey that she had distributed...
Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral development, the school is in the process of overhauling the curriculum and placing more of an emphasis on collaborative learning and lesson the more autonomous competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things," she says...
...night, however, really belonged to Brooks. In a Hollywood story older than the Oscars themselves, he had been turned down by almost every studio in town before Paramount finally said yes, it would help him make a comedy in which one of the leading characters, Aurora's daughter Emma (Debra Winger), dies of cancer. "The script was always killed with kindness," says Brooks. "People really liked it but perceived it as a small, dark, emotional comedy. I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures...
...performed a delicate balancing act to keep peace on the set. Since much of the film was set in Texas, Brooks, who grew up in New Jersey, spent four months in the Lone Star state, interviewing people who were like his characters. He would write "In search of Emma" on the bathroom mirror of his house in Malibu, then spend a week watching and talking to teen-age girls in River Oaks, the section of Houston where Emma was supposed to have grown up. He would then return to Malibu, think and write about Emma, then take out the Magic...