...Biography of Anne Moody Anne Moody was born in Mississippi on September 15, 1940, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. She was the oldest of nine children born to Fred and Elnire Moody. She attended Natchez Junior College and completed her education at Tougaloo College. Moody married Austin Stratus and had one child named Sascha. In 1969, Anne’s marriage ended in divorce. Moody died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 74. Anne Moody was an African-American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi. As a child she faces many problems, join the Civil Rights Movement, and fight racism against blacks. Anne's popular autobiography book called “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” tells the story of her struggles and triumphs in this rural Mississippi town. When growing up Anne encountered many problems. Her uncle George Lee used to beat her when he would babysit her and her little sister Adline. Their house caught on fire once because her uncle was trying to burn her. In addition, Anne's father leaves his family and his responsibilities for a life of uncontrolled sex, gambling, and alcohol. At a young age she began working for white families in the area, cleaning their houses and helping their children with homework for only a few dollars a week. Her mother boyfriend Raymond and Anne never got along and they encountered major problems. Anne child hood was extremely difficult, but through all those conflict she was still successful in life...
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...true for Anne Moody. Unlike most famous civil rights activist, Moody grew up as a poor and an oppressed black woman from a rural area; and that environmental factor alone greatly attributed to her preparation for the civil rights movement that she so boldly endured. What is most impressive about Moody was her uncanny ability as a child growing to never give up on herself and stick up for what she thought was just simply right. Anne Moody obviously grew up with an unfavorable home life situation by having a single mother to take care for her and her siblings, being raised poor, and simply just being black in the South during the Jim Crow years. As a child growing up Moody accepted society as it was and did not see the difference in skin color until an incident at the movies. Moody would later on experience a variety of racial occurrences that help mold her into the person she later became, but at a young age, Moody, had already laid groundwork for the correct mindset to tackle racism and segregation. Experiencing various acts of racism fortunately would lead her have the perseverance to overcome the lack of civil rights for African Americans and approach the issue as an unacceptable one. Moody throughout her childhood just couldn’t begin accept the idea that blacks were an inferior race solely based upon their appearance. Such a concept of “superior” genetics would coincide with early civil rights activists despite Moody’s actual motive at the time. In a sense, Moody was ahead...
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...English Essay Resume: The text is about this little girl named Anne Moody but everybody ells than her teacher Mrs. Rice and her family calls her Essie. Essie lives in Mississippi with her mom and her siblings, they live a humble life, and Essie works for an old lady named Mrs. Burke in her spare time to make a little more money. Essie hears about this fourteen year old black boy from Chicago named Emmet Till who were killed and found in the river, because he had whistled at a white woman. Essie is very scared by this situation but she is very curious too, and she wants to know a whole lot more about situation of the blacks and their rights. Characterization Essie is a very frightened but also curious young girl, she knows that there is something about the white people there is dangerous, but she actually doesn’t know what it is, and it hunts her. She knows that black and white people aren’t treated equally but she doesn’t know why they aren’t treated equally, and she wants to find out why. Essie is scared when she is at Mrs. Burke’s place, because Mrs. Burke’s confronts her with the Emmet Till accident and tells Essie her point of view, that just puts more questions in Essie’s head, and more fear of what could happen to her. After talking to Mrs. Burke about Emmet Essie says that she has experienced a new fear. Before she had only feared hunger, hell and the Devil, but all of a sudden she also fears death now. Essie’s curiousness frightens the mother, Essie wants...
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...thru poverty,loss, fear, anger, love and the worse thing of all betrayal. And the name of the girl and woman that went thru all this and came out strong in Anne Moody. Anne fights for what she believes in and what she thinks is right. Here is a summary of what happened . Anne Moody's parents are plantation workers. They all live in a small shack on the plantation with Adline Anne's little sister. Her mother has a son and names him after Diddly, Anne’s father in hope to keep him from leaving them. Shortly their after Anne’s father leaves her mother for a young lighter skinned black woman. They leave the plantation to live with Toosweets sister for a little while. They move into a small house. Soon it is realized...
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...As Anne Moody grew up, she was surrounded by many people in her life that influenced her to become who she is. At a very young age she was forced to begin working to help put food on the table for her family. While working, she continued to maintain good grades and be the top in her class. The Claiborne’s were a very important family who not only provided Anne with a good job, but also encouraged her to keep working hard in school. They always kept her mind positive by saying she would become something when she was all done with school. The Johnson family is also another important family because they were the ones who put Too Sweet and her children on their feet, while they were struggling with money and keeping the kids well fed. By the Johnson...
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...UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COURSE: WATER RESOURCES SIMULATION (ECI 146) CRN 29727; 4 units INSTRUCTOR: Fabián A. Bombardelli (fabombardelli@ucdavis.edu, fabianbombardelli2@gmail.com, bmbrdll@yahoo.com) OFFICE: 3105, Ghausi Hall Class: Tuesdays and Thursdays-12:10 PM to 1:30 PM (Olson 118) Computer lab: Fridays-1:10 PM to 2:00 PM (Academic Surge 1044) READER: Mr. Kaveh Zamani (kzamani@ucdavis.edu) TEACHING ASSISTANT: Ms. Kate Hewett (kmhewett@ucdavis.edu) COMPUTER PROBLEM 1: Solution of the Colebrook-White equation via three different methods. Assigned on: Friday, January 13, 2012 Due on: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Introduction The Moody diagram is the most reliable source of information for computation of flow resistance in pipes and, to some extent, in open channels. Based on extensive sets of measurements and regressions, it gives the Darcy-Weisbach resistance coefficient, f , as a function of the Reynolds number, and the ratio between the equivalent roughness and the pipe diameter. The diagram presents several regions for turbulent flow, as follows: a) a zone of “fully-rough” flow towards the right side of the diagram, where the relative roughness determines the characteristics of the flow and in which the Reynolds number does not play any role in determining the flow behavior; b) a zone of smooth behavior, in which the roughness value is immaterial in defining the flow characteristics, and c) an intermediate zone...
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...1. Complex question but simple understanding. My daughter has a way of coming up with awkward question and at times you are baffled with their unexpected questions. One such thing happens to me sometimes back. The T.V was on but I wasn’t really watching, my mind was plastered on the meeting that I was going to be held tomorrow, but my daughter’s curiosity had the better of me. It was 19:30 and during the news report it was inevitable that the PM had to be mentioned. My daughter precipitously looked at me with a puzzle face and asked “Dad, what is a Prime Minister.” It took me sometimes before I could response; my daughter was only nine years old. I tried to explain that a Prime Minister is a leader of a group of individuals who takes decision for all people in a country and ensure people live in peace, harmony and gets all the need we require. My daughter looked at me and said “So you are the Prime Minister” Great thinking. Yes as a matter of fact I am the Prime Minister of my house; I ensure peace, harmony and get all the needs for my family. From there on it was much easier to carry on the explanation. I am the Prime Minster of my house and there is another Prime Minster of the country in which there are many, many houses. Simple understanding for a complex question. Progressively when we grow up we are surrounded with sophisticated and contemporary thinking. With the passage of time unknowingly we lose our creativity and simplicity. In our complicated...
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...Essay One (Fiction) “Boys” by Rick Moody, “Girl” by Jamaica Kinkaid, “Lust” by Susan Minot Even though these stories are different, they are all extremely relatable. They all resonated with me in that each one had different excerpts that I could see myself in. In Ricky Moody’s “Boys” I could see myself in them as they grew up and experienced different circumstances in their lives. I could hear my mother giving me advice while reading Jamaica Kinkaid’s “Girl”. While I have not experienced a lot of what is described in Susan Minot’s “Lust,” I related to trying to figure out what love is. All of these stories have formal aspects in common when it comes to style: repetition. They all contain the use of anaphoras (repeating the same thing at the beginning of each sentence). They all also follow a certain pattern throughout the story. An example of this is how Rick Moody, in “Boys” repeated the word ‘boys’ in order to emphasize the central idea and meaning of the story. Like Moody stated in an interview with Electric Lit, “the goal in “Boys” is to tell the story of the boys, not just to compile variations on the sentence ‘Boys enter the house.’ That assignment would be too easy” (Grief). All three stories use of run-on sentences to create a specific and distinct tone to the story. In “Boys”, Moody wrote as if he was writing everything that came to mind, like he was just writing his thoughts. The style of this story is very descriptive and does not leave many...
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...Why Originally by Avril Lavigne Why Originally by Avril Lavigne Why, Do you have to do this to me? Why, couldn’t you just stay with me? How come, you have to leave Like you just don’t care at all Do you expect that I’d leave Like I just don’t care at all? I can feel, I can feel you near me Even when you’re far away I can feel I can feel you baby, why CHORUS You’re not supposed to go away I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you More and more each day It’s not supposed to be this way I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you Tell me, would we still see each other? Tell me, will you remember me forever? Tell me, bye Hey, listen to why I’m leaving Jona Sanchez, Cheska Cadacio, Erika Gallardo, Danielle Castillo, Allyza Acuna, Lawrence Dela Cruz, John Medina Jona Sanchez, Cheska Cadacio, Erika Gallardo, Danielle Castillo, Allyza Acuna, Lawrence Dela Cruz, John Medina I want to live a newer life than I’ve been living Try, to understand why I needed to go Do you expect me to believe I can feel, I can feel you near me Even when you’re far away I can feel I can feel you baby, why REPEAT CHORUS So go and leave us whenever you need to leave us Go on and sing about whatever you need to sing about And come back to us when you know just how you feel, you feel I can feel, I can feel you near me Even when you’re far away I can feel I can feel you baby, why You’re not supposed to go away I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you More and more each...
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...I am reluctant to write about you raping me. It is the type of thing that puts people so very on edge, edge of their seats, clinging to the edge, need a drink to take the edge off kind of edge. Before you raped me, I was vibrant in the worst kind of way. I moved like I was a dancer and danced like I was terrible in bed. But I was not a walking contradiction because to say that would be cliche and I was no cliche. It's true that most of the time I was being watched, like I was this little vibrant spec in the middle of a sea of black umbrellas and suits. A vibrant spec that was undeniably watched. If you were watching something special, something that rose to the top in a bubble, then you might have been watching me. I wonder now if you chose me for this reason. Those days, I had a smell so very few ever forgot although they never even really knew it. I would try and leave my scent wherever I went, my bakery-sweet sweat to linger in white cotton curtains that blew in gusts, or silk tablecloths spoiled with red wine, or sheets - dirty with sex juice. It was a scent that reminded people of the worst kind of girl, one who lies and cheats and has found the perfect rhythm and swing of her gait because she's figured out the power of her own hips. My scent would collect people like a flies to sticky paper. I would leave them in my wake. That is how it was with me, then. In time they would all get over it, like a death or a birth or all those things that happen in between...
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...Anne Frank began writing in her diary on June 12, 1942. She received her diary as a birthday present from her father. She writes in her diary for two years, during the hiding from the Nazi’s. Anne lived with 7 other people in the attic of her Father’s, Otto “Pim” Frank, former business. She expresses to us her feelings, thoughts, and her day-to-day routine. As Anne continued to write in her diary, we ascertain that Anne changes and become more mature. Anne also falls in love with Peter van Daan. She talks about their relationship and describes their conversations. In the beginning, Anne was immature and innocent. She was moody and sometimes too opinionated. She tends to annoy most of the people in the secret annex. Anne and her mother’s...
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...BOOK REPORT Title : The Diary of a Young Girl Author: Anne Frank * Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945. Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first...
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...THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL : THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Anne Frank Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Translated by Susan Massotty -- : -BOOK FLAP Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructable nature of the human spirit. Restore in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that had been omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about, and tried to copie with, her own emerging sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreement with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable, and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annex, and in these pages she grows to be a young woman and a wise observer of human nature as well. With unusual insight, she reveals the relations between eight people living under extraordinary conditions, facing hunger, the ever-present threat of discovery and death, complete...
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...The purpose of business is to provide people with a product or service and we all understand that businesses have those to whom it is responsible, whether it is the stock/shareholder or the consumer. Providing a service or making something is very black or white in the area of product or service responsibilities, where it becomes grey is in the area of social responsibility. Who would have ever dreamed that the same Ford Motor Company that destroyed thousands upon thousands of acres of rain forest in the in the jungles of South America in the early Nineteenth Century in search of an abundance of rubber would today be a champion of eco-fuels and rain forest preservation? Businesses are perceptive and have the fundamental understanding that in order to survive in today’s hypersensitive, politically correct society, they must be perceived as guardians of “what’s in” rather than concentrating on their bottom line because in many instances, that perception ends up affecting their bottom line. God created the universe and all that’s in it for us to enjoy and utilize. In Genesis, we learn that after the fall and the realization of our nakedness that Adam and Eve utilized animal skins in order to cover their bodies due to shame. They actually had to do some “dirty work” in order to make the skins into clothing. This alone tells us that having dominion over the animals and the things of the earth means we are to utilize them as needed but at the same time to be good stewards. It...
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...The purpose of business is to provide people with a product or service and we all understand that businesses have those to whom it is responsible, whether it is the stock/shareholder or the consumer. Providing a service or making something is very black or white in the area of product or service responsibilities, where it becomes grey is in the area of social responsibility. Who would have ever dreamed that the same Ford Motor Company that destroyed thousands upon thousands of acres of rain forest in the in the jungles of South America in the early Nineteenth Century in search of an abundance of rubber would today be a champion of eco-fuels and rain forest preservation? Businesses are perceptive and have the fundamental understanding that in order to survive in today’s hypersensitive, politically correct society, they must be perceived as guardians of “what’s in” rather than concentrating on their bottom line because in many instances, that perception ends up affecting their bottom line. God created the universe and all that’s in it for us to enjoy and utilize. In Genesis, we learn that after the fall and the realization of our nakedness that Adam and Eve utilized animal skins in order to cover their bodies due to shame. They actually had to do some “dirty work” in order to make the skins into clothing. This alone tells us that having dominion over the animals and the things of the earth means we are to utilize them as needed but at the same time to be good stewards. It...
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