West Windsor-Plainsboro High School Language Arts I Honors Summer Reading Assignment 2013 The purpose of summer reading is to foster a lifelong love of literature in our students and to advance their literacy skills. We believe that students who read during the summer months improve their academic performance and expand their understanding of issues important in their community and the 21st century world. Discussions among administrators‚ teachers‚ students‚ and parents as well as consideration
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Foreign Maids A domestic worker (maid) is a person who works within the employer’s household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family‚ from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance‚ known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking‚ doing laundry and ironing‚ food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work. The
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in charge over their colored maids. Their ideology was that the white race was superior than any other race thus them treating colored maids unfairly. However‚ they let them raise their kids and also take care of them when they were sick. After doing all this they don’t even let them use the bathroom in their home not even when there is bad weather nor when they are in a good mood. In addition the maids would provide food for the family they were working for. The maids were like mothers to the babies
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The company chosen was Minute Maid. They are produced by The Coca-Cola Company. It is the world’s top marketer of premium fruit juices and drinks. As of now‚ there are greater than 100 singular flavors and assortments of Minute Maid readily available almost everywhere (The Coca-Cola Company‚ 2012). Originally‚ Minute Maid was produced by The Florida Food Corporation. In 1949‚ the company renamed themselves the Minute Maid Corporation. They adopted the name because of how popular the Orange Juice
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Imagine‚ you are a colored woman in the 1960’s. The job of being a maid is the only job available to you‚ the pay is not good‚ and‚ you are treated lesser than the rest of society. This was the life of many colored women in the 1960s of Jacksonville‚ Mississippi. In the novel The Help‚ author Kathryn Stockett tells the story of the maids’ aka “the help” during this time. One white socialist and two maids put their stories and talents together to pull off one of the greatest scandals in their Jacksonville
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The Ruined Maid The “Ruined Maid” was written by Thomas Hardy in 1866. This poem has six stanzas‚ which consists of four quatrains each. In the beginning of each stanza the farm girl speaks‚ and ‘Melia‚ the “ruined girl” speaks just for the last line; however for the last stanza ‘Melia begins to respond to the farm girl from the second to last line. This paper will break down each stanza of the “Ruined Maid” for readers unfamiliar with this poem. Further‚ this summary will give information on the
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Victorian times‚ a woman’s role was to be pure‚ innocent‚ and clean‚ and anyone who didn’t fit that mold was considered damaged goods. A woman who lost her virginity outside of marriage (no matter the circumstances) was damaged and Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid‚" mocks society’s idea that a woman who lost her virginity before marriage is "ruined". This story is comprised of a discussion between a farm girl turned prostitute named Melia‚ and an unnamed friend from the farmyard. The two girls run into each
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Diego Maradona: One of Soccer’s Greatest Players “Every morning that I get up‚ I should light a candle to the soccer ball.” -Diego Maradona Soccer is the most popular sport in the world‚ and one of the most popular soccer player’s in the world is Diego Maradona‚ star of the Argentina national team and a professional who has led his team to many championships in Argentina
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The Lady’s Maid The story “The Lady’s Maid” was written by Katherine Mansfield‚ a famous British writer. She is well-known for her psychological stories. The story “The Lady’s Maid” touches upon the problem of class distinction (the poor’s miserable life) and loneliness. The message of Katherine Mansfield’s story is closely connected with its theme‚ which is the inequality between the rich and those‚ who serve them. The author raises the question of injustice and exploitation. I think the message
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MY ESSAY It could be argued that some of the issues explored in Diego‚ run are not specific to the Bolivian population‚ but to all people in all circumstances. Discuss the relevance of the issues explored in Diego‚ Run! To people in Australia today. The novel Diego‚ Run! By Debora Ellis’ explores what life in a third world country is like and how it could be anywhere in the world. She shows us what poverty‚ child labour and the drug trade can be like; she also shows how all three of these major
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