Dear Mr./ Mrs.‚ Our names are Rebecca and Vanessa Streiner. We are in the 8th and 9th grade at French Middle School and Topeka West High School. We were recently interviewed and accepted to participate as members of the People to People Student Ambassador Program to Italy‚ France‚ Switzerland‚ and Austria this summer. The objective of the program is to promote international understanding while building leadership skills among America’s youth. The 21-day experience includes meeting with government
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characters. We have “Good Country People” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ both containing people who have trouble being true to themselves and lying to others. Who says that a good plotline is the most important element for a great piece of literature when you have manipulative and hypocritical characters to cause drama and suspense? The grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ the salesman and Hulga from “Good Country People” are prime examples of people who exhibit duplicity and untruthfulness
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that should not mean you look down at others because you think you are smarter or more successful. In the story “Good Country People”‚ Hulga has a P.H.D. and because of that she tends to look down on others for not being as smart as her. “Joy had made it plain that if it had not been for this condition‚ she would be far away from these red hills and good country people.
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For a while‚ traditional church going people were apparently on the winning side‚ but then we lost touch with our purpose for which God called and saved us. We lost our perspective‚ if we had any beyond our own spiritual households. We lost our ability to love and meet people where they are. Now we’ve been knocked down and knocked out by the rise of apparent incorruption and immorality. The Church appears to be down and out. How do we respond to the sudden changes in opinion on same-sex marriage
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“Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor tells a story about a girl who lost her leg and has to live with her mother‚ and they get fooled by a con artist. The characters in the story are all female‚ with an exception of the one male‚ who is the con artist. The lives of the women in the story would be very different if they were male. Also‚ the setting of the story would be different. Writers use specific genders in their stories to tell a certain story like O’Connor did‚ and the gender he used
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short story‚ “Good Country People”‚ written by Flannery O’Connor‚ is a story that captivates one by usage of symbolism and theme. The story centers on the meaning of being a good person‚ in the sense of leading a Christian‚ pious life‚ worthy of salvation. O’Connor contrasts mindless chatter about “good country people” with questions about the true meaning of religious faith. There is also a class hierarchy formed that includes stereotypes about “good country people” and literal and symbolic meanings
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Wendell Berry is the author of the nonfiction books What Are People For?; Standing on Earth; Sex‚ Economy‚ Freedom‚ and Community; Another Turn of the Crank; Life Is a Miracle; Citizenship Papers; and most recently‚ The Way of Ignorance. Not only is he an American novelist‚ but he is also a poet‚ environmental activist‚ cultural critic‚ and a farmer. He believes that he good life includes sustainable agriculture‚ appropriate technologies‚ healthy rural communities‚ connection to place‚ the pleasures
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The term boat people came into the political lexicon in the 1970s with the Vietnamese escaping communism to settle in other New book Sivan about Ethiopian refugees heading to Yemen countries. Then the term started to be used in other spots of the world‚ including the Caribbean in the 1980s when Cubans and Haitians flocked to the United States fleeing political and economic downturns. In the past couple of years Ethiopians and Somalis are joining this group in leaps and bounds; Somalis fleeing chaos
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The author of the article “How to Influence People” is Dr Jeremy Dean‚ a psychologist. The article was posted on one of his websites‚ PsyBlog. In that article‚ he claims that it is vital for us to understand the three universal human goals in order to influence others effectively. The three goals are goal of affiliation‚ goal of accuracy and goal of maintaining positive self-concept. He describes the six common techniques of influence: liking‚ social proof‚ consistency‚ scarcity‚ authority and reciprocity
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Grace “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” These words of Flannery O’Connor perfectly depicts the events that the grandmother of “A good man is hard to find”‚ Hulga of “Good country people”‚ and the mother of “Everything that rises must converge” undergo that ultimately changes their viewpoints and forces them to accept the reality that they are not who they think they are. In the three short stories O’Connor uses symbolism and irony
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