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    Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge‚ New Jersey in 1954. Sherman attended Buffalo State University where she began painting. She painted until she felt as though she had nothing more to say with paintings and decided to shift into photography. In her photography she often assumed multiple roles such as doing her own makeup and hair‚ directing‚ as well as modeling for the photos. One of her most famous early works from 1981 was the photo series‚ Centerfolds which depicted and criticized the stereotyping

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    novel she is writing about the life of black maids in Jackson‚ Mississippi. At the end of the book‚ Skeeter got the job in New York City and Minny‚ Aibileen and Skeeter all become close friends even though their obvious racial boundaries. Between the front and back cover of this book‚ many things change through the perseverance of various characters. In the book‚ the Help‚ the theme of change doesn’t just happen‚

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    Aibileen is a black maid living in Jackson Mississippi. She has a calm‚ wise feel to her‚ always wanting to make others happy no matter what it comes down to for her. Her son Treelore died at age 24‚ about the same time she started waiting on her seventeenth family: the Leefolts. Ever since her son passed she has always had this chip on her shoulder. When she started taking care of Miss Leefolt’s

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    Contemporary female artists: Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson Living in contemporary world‚ there are some issues that we have in the daily life such as postmodernism‚ post structuralism‚ feminism or post colonialism. Today‚ there are various contemporary artists who expose these contemporary issues. What is mostly concerned in contemporary artist is "postmodernity". The term “post-modernity” can be identified in many different ways that refers to the cultural style of movement in art‚ architecture

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    The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place during the 1960s in Jackson Mississippi. During this period‚ we see the segregation of blacks dominated by the white supremacy in southern United States. In the novel‚ Kathryn Stockett uses the character of Skeeter Phelan‚ an educated white lady who acts on her rebellious nature by breaking the stereotype of segregation in society. She achieves this by creating a unique bond with the black maids‚ by not living a stereotypical white life‚ and by writing about

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    It was during the time at the end of the Civil War. After reading Eudora Welty’s‚ “A Worn Path‚” and understanding the story we must consider an old Negro woman name Phoenix Jackson‚ a worn rough path in Natchez that she traveled‚ and the prejudices she had to endure to get medication for her sick grandson. Phoenix Jackson was an old‚ negro‚ almost blind‚ uneducated cripple woman. Phoenix lived in a time where most blacks were uneducated and poor. She did not have transportation. Phoenix walked

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    move to a colored car where he had to stand. After he was put on to the colored car he decided to start standing up for civil rights. Before one of Meredith’s biggest moments he went to the Air Force and attended Jackson State College‚ which was an all-black college. During his time at Jackson State he applied to Ole Miss which was an all-white college. He was accepted but‚ they denied him because of his race. He then tried many different times but because of his race he was denied every time. In 1961

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    Jacqueline Litz 9/1/12 Day 2 Block A “History cannot give us a program for the future‚ but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves‚ and of our common humanity‚ so that we can better face the future” -Robert Penn Warren. History is the analysis and interpretation of the human past that enables us to study continuity and change over time. If it wasn’t for the study of our nation’s past there would be no way to identify the American identity. The study of the world’s history shows the

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    CRASH TEST DUMMIES Practical 1 Inertia and seat belts PLEASE ADD THIS PAGE INTO YOUR ’MOTION’ ONE-NOTE NOTEBOOK ON YOUR COMPUTER Part A - Effects of Inertia TEACHER DEMONSTRATION[page 118 Science World 3] • Set up the ramp as shown in the photo –but without the barrier. • In your group -DISCUSS the 6 questions of the Part A discussion • Write a sentence to outline what the experiment has shown. Part B – Inertia and speed. this part will be written up as a formal

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    A Worn Path Critics think short-story form was Eudora Welty’s finest work. One in particular called‚ "A Worn Path‚" a story of a sympathetic‚ courageous old African American woman follows a rugged path for many miles in the country. On her Journey‚ she demonstrates great determination‚ faces her fears (including having a young man point a gun in her face) to overcome obstacles to get to a medical clinic and retrieve medication for her ill grandson. To better understand‚ "A

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