The Bluest Eye depicts the social conditions and psychology of black citizens in post-World War II United States. This excerpt‚ situated in the Autumn part of the book‚ introduces the reader to a family‚ the Breedloves‚ part of whom is the protagonist‚ Pecola. The point of view is omniscient‚ enabling the author to describe the family‚ their house and state of mind. This extract has several layers of meaning : it depicts the physical‚ then moral conditions of the Breedloves‚ but also sheds light
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Domestic Abuse Judith Ewing. Vital Speeches of the Day. New York: Dec 2006. Vol. 72‚ Iss. 26; pg. 793‚ 2 pgs Abstract (Summary) A speech by Judith Ewing‚ abuse counselor and deacon of Christ Episcopal church‚ is presented. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year it was launched with the most tragic event people have experienced in many years: the murder of a wife and her four children by her husband. On the steps of the State House in Columbia‚ on Oct 2‚ 33 life-sized cutouts depicting
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Judith A. Byfield‚ a historian and professor in African history‚ describes in her book‚ The Bluest Hands‚ the role women had in the adire indigo dyeing industry in Abeokuta‚ a Yoruba town‚ located in southwestern Nigeria. Byfield argues that the adire industry flourished from 1937-1939 but the industry was unable to sustain itself due to social and economical reasons. Byfield supports her argument by providing strong evidence in the forms of interviews‚ documentary sources‚ and annual reports. Even
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There are many alarming issues in the world‚ and each day there are more problems and complaints and less solutions and good actions. Many of these issues are based on the environmental problems. This concerns everybody‚ but almost nobody tries to do something about it. As regards this‚ many organizations have been starting to do campaigns against pollution‚ and trying to encourage people to care about the Earth. Both text 2A “Both Text 2A “Terrified” and Text 2B “Friends of the earth‚ what your
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CRAIG J. J. WRIGHT Biographical Sketch Reverend‚ Craig J. Wright is the Pastor of Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Church in Glen Cove‚ New York‚ and serves as the Associate Vice President for Equity‚ Inclusion and Affirmative Action at Nassau Community College‚ Garden City‚ New York. He has been a college administrator and student advocate since 1988‚ and a preacher of the Gospel since 1992. Pastor Wright is a native of Freeport‚ New York. In his home town‚ Craig Wright was active in
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the education of blacks would give them the power to resist and threaten the whites’ authority. Although Richard Wright in the story‚ Black Boy and Frederick Douglass ‚in the story Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass grew up in very different time periods and have very different personalities‚ they do have one thing in common; their passion to learn how to read and write. Wright is a naive‚ young‚ free spirited boy that wants to understand the world around him. Douglass is a down-to-earth
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Family cooperation is one of the most important things that keep the family running smooth and keeping the family happy. In the novel Ordinary People written by Judith Guest‚ she showed that a family cannot function properly without communications and caring of each other. Lack of these things would usually results in family separation. In the novel’s case‚ it didn’t turn out to be a disaster but it turn out to be another happy thing for this family. At some point of the novel‚ the relationship
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Feet September 1948 “Feet” is an extract from a novel by Seamus Dean‚ Reading in the Dark‚ set in the year 1948. The event is narrated in a first person perspective‚ from the point of view of a young boy‚ who is hidden under a table‚ such that all he can see are the feet of the people in the room. In this extract‚ the author conveys the observations through the innocent perspective of a boy who might only be around eight to ten years of age. The first scene that we are introduced to seems
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Whoever reads Harry Potter or Lord of The Ring should also discover the other one too. Both are the same basic “hero’s journey” archetype with two great main character which I really love: Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins. There are certain similarities between them which interested me a lot. Like Frodo‚ Harry is an English orphan; and both of them discover their destinies as reluctant heroes after a birthday: Harry after his own while Frodo after Bilbo’s 111th birthday party. Since then‚ Harry entered
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OVERVIEW This is an excellent short case to introduce the managerial accounting issues related to the "joint cost" problem. Classic microeconomics argues unequivocally that attempts to assign cost to individual products in a "joint" set constitute a complete waste of time--"just maximize the total revenue over the batch." Like the comparable adage to "price so that marginal cost equals marginal revenue‚" the economists’ advice about joint costing is certainly accurate‚ given the assumptions‚ but
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