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    Workplace Organisation 5 S’s WHAT IS 5S? • Developed by the Japanese • Workplace Organisation and Housekeeping System • Helps Create a Better Working Environment and a Consistently High Quality Process THE 5S PRINCIPLES • SEIRI – Organisation • SEITON – Orderliness • SEISO – The Act of Cleaning • SEIKETSU – The State of Cleanliness • SHITSUKE - The Practice of Discipline WHY DO IT? QUALITY EFFICIENCY 5S SAFETY ELIMINATING BREAKDOWNS EFFICIENCY • Time is wasted looking for tools‚ equipment

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    back to Africa movement of the early 1970’s‚ when African Americans removed their surnames or names fully and adopted new names that represented their African heritage‚ Dee leaves home for college and returns to announce the change of her name from Dee to Wangero. She collects items that Mama and Maggie uses everyday to take with her‚ and finally tries to take a quilt that has been stitched together by her family for generations. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker reveals the intracultural class within

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    Assertion Paper Number Nine Everyday Use By: Alice Walker I think that the black mother to Maggie and Dee in this story sees her two daughters as two opposites of herself. While she and Maggie move to a house (much the same as the previous one) Dee moves on to go to college. Maggie was badly burned in the fire which explains her peculiar way of behaving at times now. She seems to be shy and quiet‚ but I get the feeling that this is only because of her burns. She is not the brightest person

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    In the story‚ Everyday Use by Alice Walker‚ we learn how heritage is important to Wangero. Do we take it as serious as she‚ or do we just perceive it as just a name or something handed down? One could see it as of importance‚ due to the fact of it being inherited or one could see it as something for everyday use. The perception Dee and Wangero define heritage are of two different views. Maybe Wangero seen them as a conversation piece‚ or maybe just to protect her heritage. It also could be of sentimental

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    born to stand out? Alice Walker’s poem Be Nobody’s Darling instills that in the head of her readers. The poem is saying to be yourself‚ to be happy with and within yourself. To love your flaws and embrace mistakes because that is what will shape you into who you truly meant to be. A line in the poem that really stood out to me was “Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool).” This line of the poem means be confident enough to stand out. Be happy to be different. In the poem Alice Walker uses the phrases “impetuous

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    Everyday Use By Alice Walker (1973) T one- This story ‚ in my opinion‚ does not possess the warm-hearted‚ jolly‚ and happy side of a short story‚ we’d expect from a title‚ such as Everyday Use. Instead‚ this story is a more refreshing realistic tone of life and the harshness it may possess. There is a perfectly adequate amount of crudeness in the story‚ especially within the lifestyle of these individuals. The tone changes as the story continues on. In the beginning the story has a more worrisome

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    In the story “Everyday Use”‚ by Alice WalkerWalker employs a vivid characterization of three main characters. “Everyday Use” focuses on the different characteristics of three main characters. Maggie Johnson is the youngest of two daughters of Mama. In the story‚ Mama gives vivid details of Maggie’s incident in the burning house. Maggie was severely burned in a house fire. Walker has Maggie has accepted life as it is and continues to live in an uneducated world where happiness is formed in the heart

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    RUNNING HEAD: Lovers and To be A Black Girl Literary Comparison: “Country Lovers” and “What It’s Like to Be A Black Girl ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Amber Carpenter 1 Lovers and To Be A Black Girl In literature‚ we find stories designed to portray human life and action through some characters who‚ by their words‚ action and reaction‚ convey certain messages for the purpose of education‚ information and entertainment

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    the first time in US political history where there were televised debates. His young and charismatic presidency was however short-lived. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated him on November 22‚ 1963 in Dallas‚ Texas (http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1960’s). The Space Race President Kennedy is remembered among other things for his challenge to the nation to send a man to the moon before the end of the decade. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) were involved in

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    The characteristics of culture In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the contrasting of the characters views and opinions‚ illustrates the importance of understanding your present life compared to your families heritage. Using careful descriptions and attitudes Walker shows the different sides of culture and heritage when she tells the story through the words of the mother (the narrator) in the story. Dee (the oldest daughter) in the story takes pictures of everything in and around her

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