...is wrong with her hair how it naturally is. Although she sees nothing wrong with her hair she explains that her hair is part of her history and trying to hide that would be like trying to erase part of who she is. Instead of feeding to the negative remarks she expresses her love for her hair, the history that comes with it and why there is absolutely nothing wrong with her hair. In my essay I aim to prove how this poem positively represents me and my hair. There are three lines from the poem that represent me positively, the first one is "My mother tells me to fix my hair". This line is the very first line in the poem, it is said again...
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...Should the book, Huckleberry Finn,be taught in schools today? This question is very controversial across America. Because Mark Twain’s,Huckleberry Finnwasset before the Civil War, in the mid-1800s, Twain writes about slaves and blacks as they were saw in that era. Even though this was just a time in History that the whole world went through, people now want to try and erase that time in History. Huckleberry Finn was written during a time in America that should not be forgotten, but studied and used as a way to improve life today.Huckleberry Finn should be taught and read in schools. Huckleberry Finn is a book written by the famous author, Mark Twain. This book follows the adventures of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. This book is...
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...The years between the fifteen hundreds and the nineteen hundreds were filled with many advancements in society, technology and human living styles. However while we usually try to look back on the positives that have happened in history and the passing of time we can’t forget or dismiss all the horrible things that have happened in history. Its easy to forget or not dwell upon the bad and even horrible things that have happened in the past but we should not forget them and we definitely cannot erase them. This time in history was filled with the suffering of many people for the benefit of the “superior” white man, as they had defined themselves then. When we reflect on this time period we think about all the things that we were taught in...
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...Triangle. In my essay I'm going to try to find out and tell you, my fellow students, why this phenomenon is occurring. The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the world located to the Southeast of the United States and it is also referred to as the "Devil's Triangle". The triangle is formed by drawing imaginary lines from Melbourne, Florida, to Bermuda, to Puerto Rico, and back to Melbourne, Florida. The area of the triangle is 440,000 square miles. One of the many controversial things about the Bermuda Triangle is that there have never been any wreckage or bodies found from any reported missing boat or plane. But there have been discoveries of planes with bodies in them on the bottom of the ocean off the coasts. None of the found planes were reported missing. That could be because of the numerous amounts of planes that disappear in the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz explains the number that disappear, "In the period 1974-76 more than six hundred yachts and other pleasure craft have disappeared off the coasts of the United States, a considerable percentage of these losses occurring within the Bermuda Triangle"(13). He also talks about an interview with the press, "Recently, during a press interview in San Francisco, I was asked by a reporter whether any disappearances had been noted recently. I replied that a plane had vanished the previous weekend suggesting that the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, far from being a footnote to the past history of the sea, are still continuing...
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...Grade Received: "A" Medical Record Contents and How to Make Entries inside the Medical Record There are several components listed in a medical record. These components are listed below: • Consumer’s entire name, demographics, contact numbers, social security number, date of birth, and whether or not they are married (Fremgen, 2012). • Consumer’s previous medical history (Fremgen, 2012). • Days and hours of every appointment and treatment (Fremgen, 2012). • History of the presenting illness (Fremgen, 2012). • Review of symptoms, and why the patient came in to the office (Fremgen, 2012). • Main Complaints (Fremgen, 2012). • Results of the exam performed by the doctor (Fremgen, 2012). • Doctor’s assessment, diagnosis, and what he/she recommends as far as treating the illness (Fremgen, 2012). • Progression documentation of former appointments and therapeutics (Fremgen, 2012). • Medical problems of kindred (Fremgen, 2012). • Individual medical problems (Fremgen, 2012). • History of medicines as well as notes regarding all orders to refill meds (Fremgen, 2012). • Treatments (Fremgen, 2012). • X-ray reports (Fremgen, 2012). • Lab reports (Fremgen, 2012) • Reference Statements (Fremgen, 2012). • Identification of disease or illness (Fremgen, 2012). • More communication regarding patients include: when it is needed, documents regarding compliance, patient’s permission to give out information, and a copy of a living will if the patient has one (Fremgen, 2012). ...
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...He answered, because I stand on the shoulders of the giants. Today if we, non-western students, need to appreciate the heritage or legacy of previous generations and stand on their shoulders. Rather than neglecting and rejecting them. But in the Muslim world both the selefi current and the modernist current tell us that there was a golden age in the beginning of Islamic history during the time of the Prophet Mohammed and his companions. After that, long dark ages until the period of nahda. It is like more than one thousand years long dark ages. They say nothing precious was produced during this period. So forget it. This is a wrong approach. We need to accept the continuity of Islamic civilization that the chain of isnad continued until today without any break. There may be some crisis, some periods of crisis, but we accept continuity. This is what differentiates me from those selefis and modernist. I believe in the continuity of Islamic civilization, Islamic knowledge, tradition and heritage and I see my purpose is to build on this heritage. This is how originality is produced. Some academics and young student...
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...who will soon be growing up. He thinks that this red hunting hat will keep her innocent. As being the catcher in the rye holden is concerned with protecting the innocence of her sister. “But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written "F you" on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them – all cockeyed, naturally – what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days” (salinger 173). holden knows that phoebe is innocent and to keep her that way he tries to be her catcher in the rye. When he erases the f word written on the walls of the school it shows that he tries to prevent her from learning about that. Moreover, Phoebe represents childhood innocence and honesty. She put the dough in my hand. "Hey, I don't...
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...a forgotten place, wiped out of all maps. Why would someone go through such great precautions to erase something, being so through as to kill anyone who knew? Maybe I’ll tell you, maybe not, I’m not sure if it is time for you to hear the story of the forgotten mage. One question you all may be thinking, if this story was erased from history, how do you know it? Well I’ll tell you, I can tell you the story because I am the daughter of The Forgotten Mage, I am in this story. Father told me that he erased my memory of that...
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...where do we draw the line on when history repeats itself? If we had the ability to go back in time and change it, would we want to have that ability, that life-altering decision? The Ministry of Magic seems to have ever-changing policies about the laws and regulations of the wizarding world. Harry Potter becomes agitated with Aunt Marge because she insulted his deceased parents. He inflates her to the size of a sumo wrestler; she is shot into the sky, and eventually found in a field. The Ministry gives Harry Potter no punishment and laughs it off because he is young. Corruption of the Ministry of Magic could be used as a metaphor of the High Priests during Jesus’s time. The High Priests are supposed to be men of God and are set to a higher moral code. They chose to act against Jesus because it endangered their way of life. The High Priests will do what it takes to get what/whom they want. The Ministry is motivated to protect and preserve their investors and aristocrats’ interests. That is shown in action when Lucius Malfoy throws a fit about a beast “attacking” his son. There are many falsely accused persons in the third book. James and Lilly come to mind because of the Dursleys and other relatives that come to visit to speak ill notions and lies. The Dursleys want to seem as normal as possible; they don’t want a bad reputation anywhere. They would rather live in a on a denial island than face their own reality. Maybe that’s why they treat Harry so horribly. He...
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...Diggs respectively; Hamilton’s wife, Eliza, is played by Chinese-American actress Philipa Soo; and Hamilton himself is played by Puerto Rican Miranda. This casting decision, described by a Hamilton spokesperson as ‘essential to the storytelling of Hamilton’ , is meant to represent what ‘America looks like now’ . Hamilton was written during President Obama’s term as the first black president of the United States, and the casting of people of colour as the white founding fathers reflects the changing nature of America: Chernow described the musical as having ‘“Obama’s America” written all over it’ . Lyra Monteiro, however, argues that ‘the idea that this musical “looks like America looks now” in contrast to “then” … is misleading and actively erases the presence and role of black and brown people in Revolutionary America, as well as before and since’ . Furthermore, it can be argued that the casting of people of colour as the founding fathers, some of whom were slaveholders , is problematic, as it overly focuses on the deeds of “great white men” whilst erasing the contributions of people of colour . On the other hand, the...
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...Summary The project introduces the readers to the basic concept of virus and provides an insight of the history of virus. The report also analyses the spread of viruses and defines certain measures that computer users may take into account to avoid viruses. Overall ,it was learnt from the report that it is important to keep us updated about computer viruses to be able to successfully safeguard us from computer virus attacks Introduction to Computer Virus: Viruses are mischievous programs, the purpose of which is to disrupt the sensible use of computers. It is a type of a mal-ware and do little more than display a message( Usually insulting!!!) on the screen , but some are designed to act after a certain period of time and do such things as make the letters start to drop off the screen or even erase the entire contents of your hard disk. As their name suggests, viruses are able to spread by infecting other disks and they do this by copying themselves onto other disks which are being used by the computer. Viruses are little programs or scripts that can create files, move files, erase files, consume your computer's memory, and cause your computer not to function correctly or to crash completely. Some viruses can duplicate themselves, attach themselves to programs, and travel across networks. They can self-modify or change over time as they copy themselves. Viruses only spread across multiple computers if an uninfected computer is connected...
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...Urban Modernity in NY (1908) and Ash Can artists General: The thrills of technology, such as coney island, city of wonders, also had the nitty gritty, more poverty and realistic side of the city with the ash can artists • Song Slide: nickelodeon o Diversity, adults children white black o Let the audience feel as a presence w/in performance o Act of watching was also entertainment • Coney Island at Night- film frame o Electricity changing what nighttime meant in urban setting • Before it was to be avoided and now it is not. Led to growth of nightlife • Footlight flirtation o Vaudeville established itself from burlesque/cheap entertainment • Create a form of entertainment that could be viewed by all, no vulgarity • Movies: five cents o Films mixed with live acts, broadened nighttime environment (attended by unescorted women, creating unsupervised encounters b/w men and women) • Started consumer culture- break down Victorian gender • Mixed audience represented experience of urban life (black/white, men/women) Exciting, instability, city new visual experience • Lone Tenement (George Bellows) o Wanted to facec the ugly in city as well as beautiful o Worked against Whistler (avoided aesheticism) • Rawness of city, depicted vaudeville (which is like mixture of acts such as burlesque, comedians, music, etc) o Liked to show economic conditions of urban poor • Ash Can painting style: thick and messy, meant to look like it was applied slap-dash...
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...The Hijab Republic “The meaning of subculture is always in dispute, and style is the area in which the opposing definitions clash with most dramatic force” (Hebdige, 1979: 3). Throughout this essay I would draw and analyse the Hijab republic subculture. Further referencing on the theories of; Semiology by Gillian Rose (2001), The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige (1979), and Dress and Globalization by Margaret Maynard (2004). The purpose of this essay is to further dissect the Hijab republic as a subculture, the reasons behind it and semiotically decode their dress as intentional communication. In order to do this, I will firstly, conduct a semiotic analysis to an image, thereafter apply Hepdige’s theories on subculture lastly, I will further discuss and apply Maynard’s theory on the relationship between style and communication. Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson (1991:174) cited in (Rose 2001) explains that human culture is made up of signs, each of which stands for something other than itself. This statement makes you want to understand and make sense of those signs. Observing Yuna in figure01 who wears the hijab along western trends as a form of self-expression and her Islamic identity. Yuna’s iconic and idexcical sign is the head-scarf (hijab) as it is a performative agent through which the sense of common sociality is being achieved by practicing a dress code that is a visible identity maker, and that sends a message to outsiders...
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...“The Cultural History of Tattoos,” tells of Chinese records that show Japanese males having tattoos since the third century. In the mid-nineteenth century, colonization broke a barrier that had been keeping Japan separate from the rest of the world (“The”). After this barrier broke, the art of tattooing was shunned and viewed as something bad. It is astounding how an art form was able to become so ingrained in a culture that it still exists hundreds of years later, even after attempts to remove it. There is some debate on whether tattoos may have been used as a form of punishment and torture in Japan (“The”). Though this may have been the case, it is not today. All cultures have history that are aren’t proud of, because they are human and people make mistakes. This doesn’t mean that change is impossible though. People can learn from mistakes and, in this case, eventually accept body modification. An example of this is woodblock printing, an art that originated in Japan. Woodblock prints weren't always viewed as art and were seen as different from the typical standards, but today they and their influence is seen in most art museums and galleries (“The”). Woodblock printing and tattooing have a deeply connected history. They serve as inspiration and competition for each other (“The”). This example shows how people and society change and over time are capable...
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...Arguing Cause Essay In January 1993, Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and with this title came the harsh persecution and murder of 6,000,000 Jews and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. These Jews were victims of Germany’s deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population. In a time of economic hardship, after the loss of a large amount of territory in World War I, the Nazi party gained the advantage in the political system of Germany and used a vicious propaganda campaign against political opponents (Franklin). This government was soon consolidated and within a year of taking office, Hitler was in absolute control of Germany. With grassroots organization, a police infrastructure and secret police, the Nazis were blamed for Germany’s ills and terrorized, beaten, killed or sent to concentration camps in an effort to eliminate the race (Marrus). Many have questioned the motives of the Holocaust and tried to find a name to blame or an explanation for the actions the followers took who seemed to have no issues following their leader without questioning the actions they were being told to take. Naturally, people blame the key initiator and conceptualizer, Adolf Hitler (Marrus). Without hiding any hatred towards the Jews or showing any remorse or regret for his actions, Hitler lead a nation to believe that the Jews were a race of sin. Did one person shatter the ability of a world full of people to think for themselves? Was it the...
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