for the city writing contest. After a few hours of thinking‚ he decided to write about the murder near Saxon’s Lake. When Cory was done with the story‚ he asked his dad to read it. Tom was surprised when he read the story because he knew that Cory did not usually write about real experiences. Tom then expressed regret for trying to save the murdered man at the bottom of the Saxon’s Lake and explained that every night he was being haunted by nightmares. He explained to Cory that he could never understand
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Setiady Engl-122 Reading Response Place of Memories E.B. White described the lake with subjective description that delivered his emotion and impression towards the lake. He wrote “Once More to the Lake” recalling his memories with his father and taking along his son for the first time. The theme of this essay was the passage of time and the changes occurred in the lake. He revealed the differences of the lake and that he himself had changed by time‚ yet still felt the bond tied between his past
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idea of “separate but equal.” This idea came along by the Supreme Court by a certain incidence that occurred in 1892. It took place in a train when an African-American passenger that went along with the name of‚ Homer Plessy denied to sit in a Jim Crow car (made specifically for the color). Homer Plessy was seven/eighths white and only one/eighth black‚ but due to the Louisiana law this meant he was still treated as an African-American‚ thus required to sit in a car specifically for the “colored
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Death at Lake Mungo 1. In what circumstances were the skeletons of Mungo Woman and Mungo Man recovered from the site at Lake Mungo? Both of the discoveries of the bodies were made by accident‚ the first discovery of the Mungo Woman being made when a geomorphologist‚ Jim Bowler‚ was looking for evidence of climate change‚ instead finding the remains of the Mungo Woman and the Mungo Man‚ six years later and 500 metres away. The Mungo Woman was found charred from cremation and her bones smashed into
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States passed various laws of racial segregation‚ focused against the black sectors. By the turn of the century those laws were called the Jim Crow laws‚ both north and south. Between the 1880s and the 1960s the laws expanded. Jim Crow‚ within the context of this unit‚ refers to the official discrimination against or segregation of African Americans. Jim Crow legislation was officially instituted by the southern states when racial attitudes hardened in the 1890’s‚ shortly
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Once More to the Lake by E.B. WhiteOnce More to the Lake‚ by E.B. White was an essay in which a father struggles to find himself. The essay is about a little boy and his father. They go to a lake where the father had been in his childhood years. The father looks back at those years and tries to relive the moments through his son’s eyes. He knows he can’t‚ and has difficulty dealing with the fact that he can’t go back in time. E.B. White’s way of letting the reader know that the father is in a way
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Cross Lake Event Reflection The workshop opened my eyes and help me understand how the people of the Cree Nation are living in the reserves. The reserves lack the adequate services‚ have limited accessibility and employees have insufficient training. There are no birthing services in their community and the pregnant are forced to fly to Thompson alone without any family or close peers to support them. I learned that the people of the Cree Nation values the process of birthing and dying significantly
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Once More to the lake and The dare The both beautiful written essay is reflecting on childhood memories. White talks about his feelings as he and his son visit this lake that was very special place for him when white was young. As he visits the lake he sees himself in a different way. He sees himself as young boy through his son’s eye. He sees himself as his own dad who is already death. Next essay is the Dare and it is about his youth and he accepted his friend challenges to
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Jeni lake was a young girl who had 3 tumors on her brain and 3 others on her spine. After she started her chemotherapy‚ she was not supposed to get pregnant. However‚ during her treatment‚ she discovered that she was pregnant and now she had to decide. Keep the baby and stopped the treatment or abort and continue the care. She decided to keep the baby‚ despite the fact she knew the tumor could get bigger and she can die. She delivered her baby and died few days later. This child was orphan before
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suffering‚ or diminishing the sum of happiness." This quote by suffragist and philanthropist Clara Barton so eloquently describes the issues within the United States prison system and its desperate need to for reformation. Chapter four of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander brought forth the gaspingly oppressive sector of prison (via the judicial branch). Alexander illuminated the reader to the realities of the United States prison system and the covert nuances of racism‚ discrimination‚ and the
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