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    Migrant mother‚ Nipomo‚ California 1936 is a great picture captured by Dorothea Lange. The picture in black & white and the woman about like thirty years old with her three children. Black & white is showing countless artwork and showing past phase. The woman with her three children; the two children with both arms by turned their face showing they are starved. Other children on her lap it is a baby and he/she do not know about anything. The mother looks tense and waiting for somebody such as happiness

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    Where the Heart Is

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    ------------------------------------------------- Where the Heart Is Novalee Nation * main character * is seventeen and seven months pregnant when her boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens deserts her at Wal-Mart. * Number seven is her unlucky number. * through her actions we see how dreams can be attained‚ how self-reliance serves Americans well‚ and how the concept of home transcends many problems. * breaks free of becoming a stereotype by maintaining a sense of self-destiny and

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    The Heart Of A Teacher

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    THE HEART OF A TEACHER By Paula Fox The child arrives like a mystery box… with puzzle pieces inside some of the pieces are broken or missing… and others just seem to hide But the HEART of a teacher can sort them out… and help the child to see the potential for greatness he has within… a picture of what he can be Her goal isn’t just to teach knowledge… by filling the box with more parts it’s putting the pieces together… to create a work of art. The process is painfully slow at

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    Slaves and migrant workers worked excessively hard to earn money to go through life. However‚ both had to go through unfair treatments to receive the money. In addition to that‚ most of the treatments violated the workers’ rights because the slaves were hurt and kept‚ and the migrant workers were exposed to dangerous chemicals without protections. The primary sources “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass” and “The Government Class Book” and the secondary source “The Hard Life of Migrant Workers” all

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    meat. This memory reminds me of the two heartbreaking stories about the migrant workers who were taken advantage of‚ and the poor Japanese Americans falsely thought as terrorists. There are many similarities between the Mexican migrant workers and the Japanese people‚ while there are just as many differences between them as well. The migrant workers and Japanese Americans both had went through many of the same struggles. First off‚ the migrant workers were treated as if they were not humans. In The

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    Only the Heart

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    Only The Heart is a novel written by Brian Caswell and David Chiem that tells a story familiar to many Australians. A Vietnamese family is threatened‚ pulled apart by the war in that country. Some of its members disappear; hard-earned wealth is lost. The novel leads the reader to a new understanding of refugees with the demonstrated views of pain‚ determination‚ survival and freedom‚ which are brought to life throughout the novel. The fall of Saigon in 1975 provides the momentum for Mai and her daughters

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    the camera‚ photographers now have the option to not only stage pictures‚ but to also go back and retouch them once they are already taken. These two forms of photo manipulation are causing a serious ethical dilemma in the photojournalism world. “Migrant Mother”‚ a photograph of down and out mom Florence Thompson‚ taken by photographer Dorothea Lange‚ is a captivating photo‚ that at first glance has a major impact

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    The TLC documentary Wild Child; the Story of Feral Children is a documentary that tells the few of many stories of children that have turned to a feral lifestyle due to parental negligence. Feral‚ meaning undomesticated‚ is the used term to describe these children because of the actions they exhibit. The accounts in this documentary range from a young girl who “was raised with the wolves” per say‚ but instead with her dog‚ to a little boy who was abandoned in a Ukrainian loft and provided the town

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    family because she thought it might help the plight of the working poor. "She always wanted a better life‚" her daughter later said. The "Mother Migrants" picture can be said to be the most celebrated narrative picture of the twentieth century and has turned into an image of perseverance even with misfortune. One of Lange’s most perceived works is titled Migrant Mother. The lady in the photograph is Florence Owens Thompson. In 1960‚ Lange talked about her experience taking the photo: “I saw and approached

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    The rental heart

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    The Rental Heart Kirsty Logan is an award-winning writer. She was born in 1984 and is currently living in Glasgow with her Girlfriend. The Rental Heart is a science-fiction short story‚ which takes place in the future. The short story is about a person‚ who‚ throughout his/her life‚ has to replace his/her heart every time he/she finds a new lover. The replaceable hearts are mechanical hearts‚ which apparently function like normal flesh-hearts even though the mechanical hearts literally shatter

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