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1) It's A Girl
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In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide". The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls.....
2) It's a Girl
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Every year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, abandoned or selectively aborted, simply because they are girls. This devaluation of females has led to rampant violence against women and a growing female gendercide.
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Latest Buzz volume 21
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Amanda coachs Rebecca when she goes undercover as a model. Noah, Wilder and Michael suffer artistic differences when they try to make a GleeTube video. And Shepherd and DJ take the same night class but for different reasons.
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Over a 70+ year career, Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of the rare EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Award Winners of our time. Her resilience and talent triumphed over adversity and broke barriers for generations of artists who refuse to be pigeonholed.
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Over a 70+ year career, Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of the rare EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Award Winners of our time. Her resilience and talent triumphed over adversity and broke barriers for generations of artists who refuse to be pigeonholed.
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Cowboy Way volume 5
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The guys search for a lost colt, Booger ventures into internet dating, Bubba's sick horse is rushed to the vet, and Cody receives big news.
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Criterion collection volume 1120
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In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role and the washed-up talent agent who seeks to revive his career...
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The PowerPuff Girls discover their Christmas stockings are full of coal! There must be some horrible mistake! There is. And her name is Princess! Her fiendishly foul plot: to trick Santa into turning her into the fourth Powerpuff Girl! (And in the process, make him believe the Powerpuffs have been very, very naughty!) Now, Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup must explode into a Yuletide tornado of bad-girl-thwarting action to put Princess in her place...
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Jayne Mansfield plays a blonde who is being coached to become a nightclub singer by her racketeer boyfriend. To help her along, he hires a hungry talent agent to boost her career into the big time. Features music by Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Platters, Ray Anthony, Julie London, The Treniers, Abbey Lincoln and other rock 'n' roll stars.
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There's rarely a dull moment when you're the champion of a tiny Familia, and things only get rougher for Bell when the God Apollo declares war on Hestia and her followers. With Apollo's Familia able to field a hundred times as many men, Hestia will have to work a lot of favors to keep her Familia from being destroyed. Even if Bell and Hestia manage to pull off the impossible, a major debt that Hestia owes is about to come due.
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Living above the legendary dungeons of Orario ought to be enough danger for anyone, and in his short time as a member of the goddess Hestia's familia, Bell Cranel has experienced many perils and pitfalls. So, when Bell unexpectedly wins a free trip, is it too much to hope that he might have actually won a real vacation? Inexplicably chosen as the champion of Hestia's friend, the goddess Artemis, Bell quickly finds himself up to his neck in ruins and...
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Some adventurers delve into the sprawling labyrinths beneath the city of Orario to find fame and fortune. Others come to test their skills against the legions of monsters lurking in the darkness below. However, Bell Cranel's grandfather told him a different reason: it's a great place to rescue (and subsequently meet) girls!
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The girl who cried monster: Lucy loves telling monster stories, but her family and friends are tired of her wild tales.
It came from beneath the kitchen sink: There's something creepy lurking beneath the kitchen sink... It may look and feel like a regular sponge, but it is no ordinary sponge --it's alive!
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An out of commission satellite picks up a lovelorn ballad on her radio antenna and descents to earth to find the source of such sincere emotions. But on the way she is caught in a raging magical battle and transforms into Satellite Girl, complete with Astro Boy-like rocket shoes and weapon-firing limbs. Meanwhile, the balladeer in question, a loser twentysomething at a cafe open mic, meets the fate that befalls all broken-hearted lovers: he is turned...
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The girl they call "Winnipeg's Sweetheart," Deanna Durbin, captured the hearts of movie fans everywhere with her irresistible charm and golden voice. From her debut film in 1936 to the release of her last film in 1947, Deanna was an international superstar and box-office sensation. Then at the height of her fame, she walked away from Hollywood forever. Now her movie magic lives on in this special 6-film set, The Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack. This...
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100 men and a girl (1937): The daughter of an unemployed musician, Patricia Cardwell, decides she will persuade conductor Leopold Stokowski to help her launch an orchestra that will employ her widowed father and 99 other out-of-work musicians.
3 smart girls (1939): Penny has a knack for matchmaking and realizes that her own two sisters Joan and Kay could user her help since one of them is in love with the other's boyfriend. In attempting to manipulate...
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