A Walk Across America: Summary A Walk Across America is an adventurous story of how Peter Jenkins and his best pal‚ his pet Malamute‚ Cooper‚ discover America on their journey from Alfred‚ New York to the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Jenkins is the author and main character. Throughout the story‚ Jenkins experiences hardships and enjoyable events. Jenkins’ personality and perspective on life changes throughout the course of the story by the influence of characters he meets along the way. In the beginning
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Why Women Smile: Forced Smiles In the essay‚ “Why Women Smile” by Amy Cunningham‚ she brilliantly argues the fact that women have been heavily influenced by society in the way that they show their emotions. Amy analyzes the fact that women in today’s society aren’t still being treated equally but are still letting society control how women should act. She refers not only to her personal experiences with smiling but gives historical take on it‚ and gives a psychologist perspective. Her assertion
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lucky that we as American women have it. We do not have to have the kitchen as our office‚ or put a man before ourselves‚ we can fight for ourselves. When Ijeoma snapped at her cousin for patronizing her for not having the dishes done‚ her family was dumbfounded that she would even voice an opinion. They said things like “she thinks she’s American‚” but in reality‚ she was just standing up for herself as a person. I understand how from Ijeoma’s perspective that America could be viewed as a feminist’s
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Pong Suk and use him as an interpreter. After the war he came to America with a military student visa. Chapter 2 follows the Alarcon family move to America from Bolivia‚ but only because of their grandma Edu. Edu wants to work in the big city to earn money‚ she is still a teenager. She’s a very good worker‚ and stayed living in the city. Later she moved to La Paz‚ the capital. Her children and grandchildren all moved to America and then Edu moved with
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South America‚ bordering Argentina‚ Bolivia and Peru. Many of you may have heard of it. However‚ it is unlikely that many of you know much about it. How much do you know about Chile’s Independence‚ or its political turmoil in the 60’s and 70’s? In school‚ we have been taking a history class every year since the third grade. Yet how much have we really learned about our world? We have learned a bit about foreign countries in the past few years‚ but how much have we learned about South America‚ our
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Inclusion in "Post Racial America" - Guest Speaker Bryant K. Smith." His Motto was "make good people great‚ and great people memorable." Mr. Smith spoke about various things such as race‚ whiteness‚ othering theory‚ pop cultures‚ oversimplification of United States History and how all those play a role in contemporary racism. He "revisited them‚" by giving us information on each topic. The topics that stood out to me were race and the oversimplification of United States History it was interesting to
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The turn of the century in America toward the 1900s was a time of growth in population‚ industry and invention. Approximately five million Polish immigrants came to the United States‚ fleeing their country for various reasons. Some emigrants left to escape conscription‚ others left to seek better opportunities in America‚ and some fled from religious persecution (“Polish Immigration”). This immigration to America and all went with it is an immense part of Polish history‚ as is expressed in the short
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In his article‚ “What Happened to Post-Racial America?” Roger Simon not only questions America being post-racial as a country‚ but he actually questions if America was ever a country free from racism and racial discrimination. First‚ Simon informs the reader of a cover on the New Yorker which was printed the summer before Obama became president. Although the cover seemingly laughed off outrageous views that some people supposedly felt about Obama‚ Simon addresses the fact that “those obvious distortions”
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k a A WALK ACROSS AMERICA SUMMARIES Chapter 1: Talkin’ by a Wood Stove In this chapter we get introduced to Peter Jenkins and get know what he is doing. It takes place sometime during Peter’s journey. Tommy‚ Doc‚ and several other men in a country store in a giant blizzard first confront Peter. Tommy and the doc ask him what the devil he is doing hiking across America and Peter tells them that he is doing it to get to know the country. Tommy offers Peter to come to his house for some
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The Changing Role of Women in Chinese History Those familiar with Pearl S. Buck’s classic novel of Chinese life The Good Earth will recall that when female children were born‚ they were referred to with contempt and disappointment as "slaves." In Chinese culture since ancient times‚ that term was not much of an exaggeration for the role of women. In a classic Chinese work from 2‚000 years ago by court historian Pan Chao‚ it is written: "Let a woman modestly yield to others. Let her respect others
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