...to meet his dad in America. He got to meet his father for the first time and worked in San Francisco with his father and friends. He even survives the great earthquake by his father’s side. Daily life was very difficult for the Tang people during the Gold Rush. In the book Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep, one learns the importance of friendship when you are away from your family, when you have hard times, and when you need others to be there for you. First of all, friends can be significant even as close as family. When Moon Shadow gets to know the landlady, Miss Whitlaw, he feels that she is part of the family. “I even toyed with the idea that perhaps we had been close to each other in some former life—a mother and child, even.” Moon Shadow felt really close to Miss Whitlaw, even thinking that in a former life she could have been his mother. It is obvious that friends can be as close as family and is really meaningful when you miss your family. Secondly, friends are great during hard times. During Moon Shadow’s first year in America he had to work really hard to help build the Tang’s people’s village with a strange group of men. “We were brothers: strangers in a strange land who had banded together for mutual help and protection. There were arguments, of course, but they were always worked out.” This quotation shows the benefits of friendship because they had to work and cooperate to make it through that first difficult year in America. As you can see...
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...Jaclyn Karpiak English 101 12 April 2012 Short Story Analysis: “The Lesson” Toni Cade Bambara, a Harlem-born author, embraces culture, community, and background through her short story “The Lesson”. She has the main character Miss Moore discuss the struggles African Americans have with Caucasians involving social class, poverty, and equality. For many years after the abolition of slavery, African Americans were still looked down upon and considered a lower social class in certain societies. Bambara uses language as a powerful tool for describing America during the 1960s through the eyes of a young girl named Sylvia, a proud, sensitive, tough girl who is far too smart to ignore the realities around her. Bambara uses language to establish a cultural setting and Miss Moore to teach her students how to be successful, no matter their race. This story reflects Bambara’s ethnic background and pride by using the same dialect that she used growing up in Harlem, New York. According to Bambara, she spoke African American Vernacular English (AAVE), a trait that imparts to Sylvia. African American Vernacular English adds realism and humor to Sylvia's narrative because it describes her ethnicity without directly expressing what it is. It is common for African-American writers to use AAVE to emphasize their political and social commentary, so it is appropriate for Sylvia to be speaking the dialect because the story takes place in the ghetto of New York where Sylvia spends her childhood...
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...Malaia Simms 2/14/14 Pd. 9 Mrs. Hatlen Dear The Federal Government of Untied States of America, My Name is Betty Johnson and I am 30 years old. I am writing to you because I am very concerned with the future of the citizens in this country. Throughout my life poverty has been Americas "Darkest Secret". I never Really hear news Reports on the growing percentage of Americans living in poverty, or the ways the government is trying to fix this issue. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan where more than a third of residents live below the poverty line (Sasha Abramsky, "America's Shameful Poverty Stats"). Throughout my childhood I have watched many friends' families struggle financially. Sometimes my friends would go without eating for a couple of days simply because they could not afford it. I would offer them food but they would kindly decline because they were so embarrassed because of their situation. They would wear clothes that wouldn't fit them because they couldn't afford to buy new clothes. They would miss school to watch their little siblings because their mom was a single parent and had to work all day everyday just so she could feed them. They didn't even apply to college because they knew they had to immediately pick up a crapy job so they could help their mom pay the bills. The list goes on. All of this is happening under your supervision and it doesn't seem like much is affectively fixing this issue. America's lowest percentage of citizens...
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...the runway. Child beauty pageants are becoming more popular and hinders a healthy childhood by exposing a child to pedophiles, encourages that beauty is a judge of one’s character, and could affect one future outcome on life. Beauty pageants were started many years ago but became more prominent in the society in 1921, when a hotel owner started a contest to keep tourists in town past Labor Day. The winner of this contest would be called Miss America. Miss America pageants have been a yearly event ever since then, except during the Great Depression. Then, in 1960, pageants were getting so popular that a Little Miss America was started for parents who wanted their children in beauty pageants (Nussbaum). Our past has played a remarkable role in today’s society of children beauty pageants. Pageant mothers may say that its healthy competition and it encourages socialism at a young age. There are pageant age divisions that start as young as 0-11 months of age. How much competition and socialism does a child this young need to encounter? As we see today these young girls spend hours and hours preparing for their competition. These preparations can include rehearsal, shopping for revealing talent costume, endless make-up and hair preparations. These young girls go through a process in which matured adults go through. After all this us a society publicizes these girls on magazines and TV shows. Putting these girls in the public eye makes it more accessible to pedophiles. ABC news...
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... What they get is this ring, they put it on their finger and on their wedding day they take it off and they give it to their husband or wife and say I have waited for you. 10.00.28 Girl We both come from Christian families and so we decided we’re not going to have sex and we’re going to have good morals together. There’s people wearing the ring and they have made the promise as well and also just wearing it every day I see it and it serves as a constant reminder that I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. 10.00.47 Michael Lumsden It’s November 2003. 10.00.48 Music 10.00.51 Michael Lumsden Denny Pattyn has brought together a group of Christian youth leaders to tell them about his Silver Ring Thing organisation which campaigns for a sex free teenage world. 10.01.00 Music 10.01.01 Michael Lumsden With him is a paediatrician and author of a book called ‘Epidemic; how teen sex is killing our kids’, Doctor Meg Meeker. 10.01.10 Dr Meg Meeker So when I grew up in the nineteen seventies, as part of the, with my colleagues starting the sexual revolution we didn’t think about sexual health. We, our generation, were focused on making sure that sexual freedom could be had by all. Nineteen sixty we had two sexually transmitted diseases, syphilis...
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...Xianpeng you Meredith Whitmore writing 90 2:00 10/9/2015 3:00 I have stay at America two years, but this weekend is most wonderful weekend i have even been experience. why? because when i graduate from the high school, we have been 2 years to have not to visit or high school classmates. and before this time we discuss many times we need meet each other in America. but every times our appoint becomes bubble. however, this times we let it become true. and we meet each others at Chicago. and also it my first time to go to the Chicago. two years we have not meet each others, when we meet at the Chicago. in that moment we cry ,we scream, we hug. everything in that moment becomes sweet than everything. but we do not have too much times to stay at Chicago. because we still need come back to have school. this essay should be due one Monday but we miss the plan on Sunday. so we stay at Chicago one more days. i hope my teacher can forgive me this times and i premise i won’t let it happen again.the first impression of the the Chicago is how big city it is. but for me i like corvallis more than Chicago. the reason why i love Corvallis more than Chicago is because corvallis more peaceful safety and quietness. but at Chicago you can find everything which you want it. in that two days we go to the willis tower and the six flags. those two place are very beautiful, but for me i think the six flags is suit to me. yeah, i know my friends they all laugh at me. but their maybe...
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...Mascot Name Changes Assignment 1) a) In the article by King and Springwood (2000), “Fighting Spirits: The Racial Politics of Sports Mascots”, the authors go into detail about how “whiteness” (at Ole Miss) and “redness” (at Florida State) have been used to create a controversial symbol of power that has produced a racial discrepancy between opposing races taking offense to the mascot used by both schools. In the case of Florida State University, the school has developed a mascot (Chief Osceola) that portrays the American Indian as an aggressive savage. “When Osceola leads the FSU football players onto the field, he signifies armed resistance, bravery, and savagery, and his appearance builds on the prevailing understandings of Indianness that construct Native Americans as aggressive, hostile, and even violent” (King and Springwood [2000], p. 285). This portrayal of savagery is at the heart of the arguments by native Indians to remove their names from colleges using their image as a motivational and war-like incentive. I have never viewed the mascots of colleges as being an offensive form of racial disparity, but this article made me view this issue from the other side and opened my eyes as to why groups of people may be offended by how their name is being represented to the public. For example, I grew up an avid sports fan, but history never really caught my interest. Therefore, my view of the American Indian is distorted from the reality of their true image because...
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...state (health). But after completing this course, I realized that this course not only teaches you about human behavior, but goes in-depth as to why people behave the way they do. We looked at the different Theorists like Abraham Maslow with the Hierarchy of Needs, Sigmund Freud, who came up with the Level of Personality, what is the Id, Superego and the Ego as well as the psychosexual stages of development which are the anal, oral, phallic, latency and the genital, culture it terms of how it impacts society and individual, discrimination, prejudice, gender, diversification, motivation and self in terms of self actualization and how an individual can achieve it. This class also encouraged critical thinking where each individual had to apply what he or she learned in class to their everyday life. In the first week of class Miss told us that we would be covering Units 1, 2 and 3 for this course. She gave us a course outline of the different topics that we were going to cover. For each unit, this included Unit 1 Explaining Behaviour, the Scientific Schools of Behaviour, the Introspective Schools and Nature vs. Nurture and Freewill vs. Determinism. The topic that was a bit challenging for me at first in Unit 1 was Introspective Schools, which covers the Psychoanalytical, the humanistic and cross- cultural perspective. At first when miss was discussing these topics in class, I was a bit confused, and all I could remember was the different theorist that was associated with the different...
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...said is OK because next time we have to know who’s a good friend and who’s a fake friend's but I hope that will never happen in my life again. Do you know why? When we were in sixth grade but in...
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...Microeconomics Writing assignment 4 I Hope I Am Not Dreaming On one sunny spring morning, I stepped out of my bed and thought to myself, when does all this end. I knew that I had to pick extra shifts at work because my mother needed some money. My mother had exactly one month to come up with 80 thousand shillings, and if not she would lose her house, that she had used as a collateral for a school loan in order for my younger brother to go to school. Mother had always taught me to be patient with time and that “Gods time wasn’t our time.” At this very minute however, it was almost impossible to still believe, “I have issues of my own, you know” I need a larger apartment, my car sounds like its going to quit any minute now, I need to see a dentist but my company has dropped my insurance coverage. I have invested my time and money into an undergraduate degree that really never change my standard of living, in fact, I am left paying off student loans with money from my old part time job. I walked to the mirror and to my shock; I could not recognize the person in the mirror. I thought this had to be a dream. I stood there for a good ten minutes thinking, how easier life would be for me if I was the woman in the mirror, Paris Hilton. She is an heir to a multimillion dollar establishment. Oh my, I love her blonde hair and skinny body, she is tall, beautiful, not too smart and not college educated but, who cares; she is wealthy. I thought to myself, I could...
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...(Interrogation of David Myers) Ivy: What was your involvement in the WorldCom accounting fraud? David Myers only smirks confidently. Ivy: Mr. David Myers, let’s not play games here. You were controller for WorldCom. We know what you did. So, why don’t you just get this over and done with? How did you commit the fraud? He only smirks even more. Quite devilishly. Bryner: Did we, now? He looks straight into the “camera”. Bryner: Did we actually commit fraud? He smirks again and sits back confidently into his chair. Frame 2 (Interrogation of Employee, Miss Tubaga) Ivy: Miss Tubaga, you worked as accounts officer for WorldCom’s network services. I’m sure you yourself wondered about their accounting practices. You are, in fact, a certified public accountant. Miss Tubaga is only looking at her knuckles, a habit she has attained when she’s nervous. Ivy: Miss Tubaga—Leslie—you can talk to me. We’ll make this easy for you, make you a valuable witness. You have everything to gain. So, tell me, what did your bosses at WorldCom tell you to do? Miss Tubaga finally looks at the interrogator, still fiddling a ring on her finger. Leslie: I did not have much choice, Ma’am. I didn’t. Ivy: This is why now is different. We are different, Leslie. (Ivy is reassuring her) We will protect you. Just tell us what you know. Frame 3 (Interrogation...
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...What is the definition of a woman? How do we as members of society, decide what that definition is? Where do these definitions come from? Are they our opinions? Or are they designed by others and transmitted subconsciously to us through various forms of media? The recognition granted to women specifically in the United States is embarrassingly low in comparison in accordance to what we as Americans like to believe. Media coverage is rarely ever focused on women. However, when a female is featured in media, it’s hardly in a positive light. The media contrives and distorts the perception we have on women to present them as sex symbols, basing all importance upon their beauty. One must occasionally think to themselves, “Why does this happen? Why in society do we place a woman’s worth on her appearance?” The sad truth of the matter is: We live in a world completely controlled by men. Alternatively, those doesn't mean only men are at fault, even women pick at each other; telling others what they should and shouldn't do or be. America likes to believe that we’ve come so far in the fight for gender equality. Those who believe this are not only wrong, but ignorant to the true workings of society. In an ideal “Golden Age” it was believed the household was ruled by matriarchy (ANU). However, in what we consider history today, women are always taking a supporting role; sometimes even when they are the main focus. There are many idea as to why women have been under the oppression of men...
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...English 111 September 18th 2011 The Hard Truth The short story “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is a story that brings to light the lesson of social standings in America. It also shows you how one person can help change the lives of the children in a community. The story is set in the slums of a larger city. The characters in this story are a group of young, uneducated children originally from the south. The children are taken under wing by an older women with a higher education named Miss Moore. In the story Miss Moore takes the children on a trip into New York city where she tries to show them how unfair our society can be, teaching the children lessons for life such as math and grammar. These lessons however are only there to lead up to the larger picture of her lesson for the day. During the trip that Miss Moore and the children took you begin to understand and get a feeling for how the narrator, Sylvia, felt about where she lived and who she was. Sylvia started out the story not understand or appreciating who Miss Moore was and what Miss Moore was doing for her and the rest of her family. She made fun of Miss Moore with her cousins because Miss Moore spoke proper and dressed differently than the other people whom lived around her. To Sylvia and even her cousins Miss Moore was a person that they disliked for reasons they didn't understand. She was different than the rest of the people in their lives. And to young children, that is reason enough for them to dislike...
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...The rebels Boston tea party helped start the war. Washington is questioned by the congress and I am not sure if we can trust him. Americas Declaration of independence is what really kicked the revolution into full gear.At the moment I am sick with measles and can barely see. The Reason I am not re enlisting is because my father was a loyalist to the British. Most are not sure of who will win and who will lose, though most people think it will be the Brits. I cannot help but agree with...
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...Tiaras The little girls in this television show are given crowns, ribbons, and trophies without any of them actually doing anything to deserve them. It's obvious to an outsider that the pageants are set up as some sort of money making mumbo jumbo by giving every single participant some sort of prize. It's like giving a crack addict a taste, they will keep coming back for more. Don’t get me wrong there are other shows that are a bit crazy too, like Dance Moms for instance. But at least at the end of the day those little girls are amazing dancers. Toddlers and Tiaras represents the false sense of accomplishment that is running rampant in this country. All the moms say they want their daughters to be Miss America, but haven't they noticed that there's a talent portion of the Miss America Pageant? The Toddler and Tiara girls just jump around the stage in crazy costumes with a fake uncomfortable grin across their faces. Anyone could do that. These pageants teach the participants that beauty is the only important thing. The moms love to say that beauty is important in this world and that their daughters will have a better life if they're beautiful. They're right that being beautiful is an asset, but it can only take you so far. If you're a complete brat, like most of the little girls in this show are, no one will care how beautiful you are. A giant wig, spray on tan, fake nails, caked on makeup, and slutty dresses does not make you beautiful in anyway. Being a happy, well-adjusted...
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