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    Ashley Ahle Professor Hunter Freshman English II 29 May 2014 The Black Death In Barbara Tuchman’s work titled “This is the End of the World: The Black Death”‚ she describes the devastating impact the bubonic plague had on mid-fourteenth century society‚ economy‚ and religion. The bubonic plague was a vicious fast spreading terminal disease for which there was no known prevention or cure. The author graphically describes the symptoms of the plague‚ the most characteristic being the foul odor

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    Women in popular culture and cinematic representations offer what ‘Barbara Creed calls it “monstrous-feminine”’ in different guises: ‘the archaic mother‚ woman as monstrous womb‚ woman as the witch‚ for instance-while others address them matters of sexual desire-the femme castratice and the vagina dentata’. The woman and her capacity to disturb normal ontology to give birth fascinate‚ repulse and intrigue. From the psychoanalytic viewpoint‚ the monstrosity of the maternal body is ambiguous‚ a ‘man’s

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    SOWK 543- Fall 2012 Assignment #1: Community Immersion Joseph Gossner 9/25/12 Stephanie Carter Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to compare and contrast two smaller sub-communities that are encompassed by the larger community of Santa Maria‚ California. This paper will promote the beliefs and theories of modern Social Workers‚ and address the resources and needs of the two communities in question. The compilation of this paper was derived from research that was conducted

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    In Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich plunges into the world of minimum wage workers. In her immersion‚ Ehrenreich attempts various types of minimum wage jobs such as those that would be categorized as service work like a waitress or a house cleaner. Ehrenreich expresses not only the difficulty of these jobs‚ but the behavior in which people acted towards her. She explains that once she entered the world other service work she was seen as lower standard of human‚ if she was “seen” at all‚ since

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    The word “television” provokes different kinds of reactions‚ whether they are disgusted‚ elated‚ or non-chalant. Barbara Enrenreich in the passagae from “The Worst Years of Our Lives”‚ argues that television is creating couch potatoes. There is some validity to Erenreich’s assertion since the American population has become less active however it provides opportunities for those who do not have acess to the outside world‚ and has effects different kinds of people. The posibilities that television

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    Full Time Job I had just graduated from high school; a typical Santa Barbara local‚ with ambitions of attending SBCC. I always did fairly well in school‚ but was definitely more concerned with how the waves were breaking‚ instead how of my grades were. That all changed on June 15th. I got a call from a family friend asking if I would be interested in a summer job at a shipping warehouse in Carpinteria. My parents had been nagging me day in and day out to get a summer job‚ so this seemed so

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    In Barbara Ehrenreich’s “The Naked Truth about Fitness”‚ she discusses multiple varying ideas from health vs. healthism‚ virtue redefining health‚ to social class impact on health (Ehrenreich‚ 2015‚ pp. 337-339). The ideology created from the obsession with extreme health defines healthism that produces a base for moral standards. Although healthism has a limit of rightness within it‚ it still produces judgment as an outcome. Individuals’ obsession to achieve virtue transforms health into healthism

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    Black Lives Matters. Before the Court‚ Barbra Grutter‚ felt as if she was at a disadvantage to getting into the school since minorities had a better chance of getting into the Law School. She claimed this was a violation of her Fourteenth Amendment. Barbara Grutter applied to the law school. She graduated from Michigan State University in 1978‚ with a 3.81 GPA and held off a Law School career to begin a successful health care information firm. Later on the years‚ she went back to attend law school and

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    Barbara C. Jordan and Althea Gibson have similarities and differences on their career. The similarities Between Barbara and Althea is that they both were the first African American women to achieve something‚ in the story Barbara C. Jordan it states “She was the first black women elected to the Texas State senate and the first black Texan in congress.” In the other story Althea Gibson it concludes “Althea Gibson became the first great African American player in woman’s tennis.” Another thing that

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    By the time I heard Timothy Leary chant “Turn on‚ tune in‚ drop out” from the stage of New York’s Fillmore East‚ I had already quit college. The year was 1967‚ and Leary’s battle cry was for me more a confirmation of what I already believed than a call to action. I had never been much good at doing things that didn’t arouse my passion. Even when I was a young girl‚ it was obvious that I had been born without the stick-to-it‚ nose-to-the-grindstone gene. I was stubborn‚ tenacious in my devotion to

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