Word: esteem
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...rate for people who get a college education in prison is almost zero, in almost all prisons there is no education available beyond G.E.D. Meaningful job training is rare. The general attitude of women's prisons is one of infantilizing paternalism that works to further undermine women's self-esteem and independence. Instead of empowering women to lead responsible lives, women's prisons reinforce feelings of entrapment and further dependency on the welfare state and men who pass through these women's lives...
...undercover at a local high school to get the scoop on the latest adolescent trends and scandals. This gives Josie the opportunity to regress into the same type of cruelly divisive social organization that dominated her own high school experience, get another chance at popularity and reclaims the self-esteem that was extinguished just a few years earlier...
...intelligence to a sugar-mommy role. She wants her young beau to be a gentleman at table and a beast in bed; often she stares at him as if he were under glass or in a cage. The movie asks, What would you pay for great sex? Your self-esteem? Not the great Huppert. This swank, thoughtful film gives full rein to that rare actress who, as tears stain her cheeks, can radiate a heroic insolence toward the man she love-hates...
...mined with gags--and its characters, who are unremarkable but worth getting to know. Shari, for instance, is a woman at profound discomfort in her bountiful body. Ray treats Shari as a gaudy accessory, and she accepts his evaluation. Elfman paints a nice portrait of a woman fighting for esteem. (Psst: she gets it from...
...self that it seems impossible to go on without it is the second reason people may consider suicide. This may also occur when one feels unable to live up to the expectations of others--the expectations that may have also come to define one's own sense of self-esteem. The third is the situation in which a major mental disturbance leads to delusional thinking and loss of reality testing, leaving one vulnerable to irrational concepts of the consequences of self-destructive behavior...