In this stimulating true story‚ Kaysen speaks of her experience as an eighteen-year-old patient in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960’s. "People ask‚ how did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is‚ it’s easy" (pg. 5). The doctor who referred her diagnosed her with a borderline personality disorder within twenty minutes of interviewing her. The doctor also perceived her as
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Fixin’ Nixon After the infamous Watergate incident‚ President Nixon was looked at as the worst ever occupant of the white house. Although he had some flaws‚ Nixon did many good things for America that changed our country for the better. History has definitely not judged him fairly. Nixon‚ who was the 37th President of the United States‚ did do a lot of good things while in office. In 1972‚ he reopened America’s relations with China‚ which was necessary to acquiring the goods our country needed.
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The Great Depression was a horrible thing people went through in the 30`s. people starved‚ it put at least 12 million people out of work‚ and put nearly 60% of Americans into poverty. However‚ the Great Depression forever changed how people lived for over 40 years. One of the main things it prompted was penny pinchers. The Great Depression put at least 12 million people out of work‚ and put nearly 60% of Americans into poverty. When the stock market crashed‚ many people could not get the money out
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Rationale: This written task is an additional scene in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez‚ and relates to Part I: Language in a Cultural Context . I chose to do an additional scene during this time period because this section of their lives was mentioned briefly but not in detail‚ and it gave me the right balance of structure but also left room for creativity. This written task helped me create an image of a plausible scene based on what was talked about in the novel‚ and infer
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most beloved First Ladies and an active equal rights champion. She dedicated her life to making America a better place for everyone‚ and throughout it did much good for the world. A true leader and an intelligent mind‚ she changed America forever. One of the most remarkable things about Eleanor is her determination to see good for everyone. She stood up for underdogs‚ anyone who was treated unfairly‚ and helped them fight for their rights. Even from eighteen
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the United States of America has hit many “bumps in the road” to get where we are today. My topics support the idea of the change in America because every single one of them altered America in a Permanente way that cannot be changed. Each one of the ways I chose also grew America in some unique way. The first topic I chose was the Civil Rights Act of 1866. This act was so important because this was the first law to define citizenship in the United States. It changed America because this act declared
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a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls‚ starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members‚ including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters‚ transitioning between scenes‚ and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites‚ Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who enters high school for the first time. She
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In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck explores the values and attitudes of America in the 1930’s through a realistic reflection of society. Steinbeck shows the value of the dream and friendship throughout the book. An attitude that that he presents is society’s attitude about racism. The novel presents certain characters that are affected and connected to these values and attitudes. For example‚ Crooks is discriminated against. Throughout the novel‚ some of the characters have friendships
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In Dalton’s Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal‚ there is an image labelled “Juang Girls.” This image portrays two young Juang females. They were described as “wild timid creatures” and the photographer‚ Tosco Peppe‚ stated that they were difficult to take pictures of. The two females are portrayed in front of a wooden‚ fence-like background
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of moss beside a brook. Just then footsteps are heard on the path‚ and Hester sends Pearl away‚ but not before the girl asks whether it is the Black Man approaching and whether Dimmesdale holds his hand over his heart to cover the Black Man’s sign. Pearl asks her mother to tell her a story about the Black Man‚ who is said to haunt the forest. Hester explains to Pearl that the Black Man is a myth about the devil. He haunts this forest‚ carries a book with him a big‚ heavy book‚ and offers his book
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