that as bad as lies are, telling the truth all the time is nearly impossible. Doing so would mean dealing with some harsh consequences, so we decide to just lie instead. In many nations lies are the status quo, they are both hidden and public. Many people though either don’t bother to point them or are not even aware of them in the first place. One type of lie is group thinking: this is when a group suppresses different, creative, or complicated ideas that unlikely to happen. By only considering some
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a nurse, the creator of the Underground railroad, a spy, and a caregiver. Although all of the things Harriet did in her life were good things, there was one that was the greatest, meaning the riskiest, the most time consuming, and helped the most people and that was the Underground
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slaves per trip , it may not seem like a lot but, it seemed a lot to the Slave masters and the slaves. There was also an estimated 300 slaves she had saved. Each trip would take about a year and 7 months at the least. She saved the lives of so many people which is why she deserves to be recognized. To the next reason!
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Hi Hathaway, I really enjoyed speaking with you yesterday about the AP position at Pop Vulture. This pilot as an amazing opportunity to curate relevant content and engage with viewers, and I'm confident my experience lends itself to giving a voice to those sub-stories that often don't get discussed. Here are a few topics I came across tonight where the stories posed broader questions in the social sphere. I know you asked for one but I'm pretty amped about this opportunity so I'm giving you three
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the good silver. ‘The Help’ is an amazing story told from the viewpoints of three unforgettable women: Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child; Minny, always losing jobs due to her sassy tongue; and Miss Skeeter, a budding writer who has been raised by black maids all her life. When Miss Skeeter gets the opportunity of a lifetime to become a published author, she of course takes it but in order for this to happen, she has to write about things that people need to read about. In a time when
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In the movie Hidden Figures, there are 3 main characters, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan. All three of them work for NASA. Katherine is an amazing mathematician, Mary worked with the space shuttles to make sure they were safe, making sure nothing important came off of the shuttle with the amount of force and pressure being put on it in space, and Dorothy is the a leader of all of the colored women at NASA. They all worked with whites, mostly males, and segregation was still
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achieve equal rights for people of all racial groups. While this goal may have been legislatively achieved, racial privilege remains a significant issue with which we as a society must grapple. I found this interesting because today we are still faced with these same issues even though we elected our first African American president I feel class subordination still remains with people thinking they are better off just by sheer virtue of race. This is due to a need for people who are not well off
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around me while also maintaining a balanced lifestyle. However, I was very challenged when reading about the countless acts of sexual abuse that Ruth endured from her father in chapter 5, and the many occurrences of racism and hatred towards Black people and Gentiles, also from Ruth Shilsky’s father later on in the story. Despite the morbidity and negativity, reading about this has greatly enabled me to be more accepting of others who differ from me while looking out for them and doing my best to
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setting was during the Spanish-American colonial era it is where the revolution to overthrow the colonizers started. The film showed a vast range of possibilities that could have happened during that time. The production design and the casting were amazing all the elements worked well together in producing the film. The lighting was also brilliantly executed because there was a scene where the lighting was bright for Heneral Luna and dim lighting for Emilio Aguinaldo. The use of colour was also seen
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Araminta Ross better known as Harriet Tubman historically broke the mold for people of her time. Although she was best known for her work with the Underground Railroad Tubman was also an African-American humanitarian and abolitionist. In the year 1820 Tubman was born of two slave parents in Dorchester County, Maryland. Since she was born into slavery Tubman got hired out at the young age of six. Later in her life as the result of her abuse she suffered from a major head injury that would lead to
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