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    http://www.rtjournal.org Published by the Religion and Theatre Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education The Journal of Religion and Theatre is a peer-reviewed online journal. The journal aims to provide descriptive and analytical articles examining the spirituality of world cultures in all disciplines of the theatre‚ performance studies in sacred rituals of all cultures‚ themes of transcendence in text‚ on stage‚ in theatre history‚ the analysis of dramatic literature‚ and

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    In Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ the author doesn’t discuss the experiences of immigrants or people from different racial backgrounds in detail. Since I come from an Asian background‚ I want to focus on how these experiences‚ particularly for Asian immigrants‚ may differ from Ehrenreich’s. The standard of living‚ racial dynamics‚ and the way people are treated often vary based on skin color and appearance. For immigrants‚ especially those starting life and work in the U.S.‚ these factors

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    Cultural Baggage The article “Cultural Baggage” by Barbara Ehrenreich’s was difficult to understand. But‚ in the beginning it talks about a friend asking the writer what her ethnic background was and Ehrenreich says “none”. This puts her to think since the friend mentions that she knows everything about her ancestors. Then she goes on saying that she was Scottish‚English and Irish. She begins to feel some guilt for saying none and for not knowing much about her background which even makes her

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    “Crazy Eights‚” published in 1934‚ was written by Barbara Dana and contained 162 pages. This was a fiction story that took place in Maplewood‚ New Jersey. It was about a young girl named Thelma who had a difficult life and was unloved by her family. She ended up making a very bad mistake during her teenage years and struggled to find her true identity. This story shows how to keep strong and have courage during rough times. Thelma Beldwin and her family lived in Maplewood‚ New Jersey. Thelma was

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    Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From outside in" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reveals her nostalgic as a little girl of two diverse but similar languages. She used to speak ’Black English’ in her yore time as a lingua-Franca and tried to speak in ’Standard English’‚ which was used for articulate Communication with the public that built her more motivated‚ enthusiastic and

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    In her narrative‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich explores the world of the low-wage working class. An upper-middle class biology Ph.D. and journalist‚ Ehrenreich temporarily uproots her life in a two year social and economic experiment to join the laborers of America. Her purpose is to get firsthand knowledge and answer the question‚ “How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?” (Ehrenreich 1) Beginning her journey in Key West‚ Florida‚ Ehrenreich finds employment as a waitress

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    In Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay called "On Compassion" is about how she is looking around at people at a bus stop and she starts to point out the flaws in everyone that is there. In the opening sentence she talks about how sloppy this one man is by saying he has "his buttonless shirt‚ with one sleeve missing‚ hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers." She also says that everyone at the bus stop is just daydreaming and not paying attention on what they are doing. As it goes along the owner

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    Challenging society’s viewpoints about compassion‚ Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay “On Compassion” calls to attention the act of giving to the homeless‚ and whether these actions are done out of true compassion or simple agitation. The various stories recalled within the essay are set in “The Empire State”‚ New York. As the essay begins‚ the author first writes about a homeless man who approaches a mother waiting a crosswalk with a stroller in hand. The man is distracted as he walks by the sight of

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    Childhood Vaccinations According to Barbara Loe Fisher‚ since 1990‚ around fourteen thousand reports of hospitalizations‚ injuries‚ and deaths following vaccination are made to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Systems (VAERS)‚ but‚ it is estimated that the actual number of vaccine-related health problems occurring in the U.S. every year can be more than one million. (“Parents Should Be Allowed to Opt Out of Vaccinating Their Children”‚ 536.) Barbara Loe Fisher and Steven P. Shelov both

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    In the three essays that we were assigned to read have connections. In “Serving in Florida” by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ she decided to work in low paying jobs that pay minimum wage. An example of this is when it states “the multinational mélange of cooks; the dishwashers‚ who are all Czechs here” (364). This example relates to Diana Kendall when it states‚ “The working class and the working poor do not fare much better than the poor and homeless in media representations” (428). These quotes express how

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