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    Ellen Ochoa was the first female Hispanic astronaut. She was born on May 10‚ 1958‚ in Los Angeles‚ California. Her parents were Joseph and Roseanne Ochoa. Ellen’s father left when she was young and her mother had to raise five children between the ages of six and sixteen by herself. Out of the five children‚ Ochoa was the third and had one sister and three brothers. Because of her mom pushing them to be involved with music by playing instruments‚ Ellen played flute and was very passionate about

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    Ellen Unwerth is a German photographer most recognized for her playfully erotic photos of her subjects. Born in Frankfurt Germany in 1954‚ she grew up in a number of different foster homes during her early childhood. She first broke into the scene at the age of 20 when she was found by a model scout. This career relocated her to Paris‚ where she made a living working as a model for nearly 10 years before she decided to go into photography. Ellen first brake as a photographer came in 1989. She was

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    Being an activist in the education field is being able to promote change inside and outside the classroom. Activism may begin with the teachers because they directly work with students from different backgrounds. Everyone does not have the same personal experiences or interests and it is important for teachers and students to understand the diversity in their classroom. Teachers are constantly put in a position where they can change and inspire the lives of others. Most teacher’s want’s their students

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    A couple years ago at my homeschool‚ I once read a book titled Identical that was written by the author‚ Ellen Hopkins. The story involved a girl and her sister in their teen years with names I cannot remember. The girls were twins‚ basically identical‚ but they were very opposite of each other on the inside. The story takes a crazy turn towards the ending when revealing that the girls were in a terrible car accident‚ causing one of them to lose their life‚ and the other one to be hospitalized. After

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    Vanessa Redgrave‚ CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage‚ screen and television‚ as well as a political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London’s West End and Broadway‚ winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen‚ she has starred in more than 80 films; including Blowup (1966)‚ Isadora (1968)‚ Mary‚ Queen of Scots (1971)‚ The Devils (1971)‚ Julia

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    civil rights and several other monumental movements in America during the postwar era. A homosexual man‚ Rustin encountered numerous obstacles in his pursuits of an activist lifestyle including jail time and excommunication from various progressive campaigns. Throughout history‚ “most men who desire men have not led gay-centered social lives‚ and even those who do will have passed much of their time – in work‚ politics‚ worship‚ voluntary associations‚ and civic affairs – in non-gay contexts.” Rustin

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    Migrants as activist citizens in Italy Published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net) Migrants as activist citizens in Italy In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy‚ initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary‚ racialized and competitive model of society could become a goal shared by migrants and nationals alike. ‘We will be remembered’; whoever wrote this on the wall of an abandoned

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    Although past traditions have installed norms and standards regarding who may be considered as true ‘family‚’ Ellen Goodman effectively employs a variety of rhetorical strategies including figurative language‚ perspective‚ and Aristotelian appeals to highlight that in choosing to disregard these pre-established conditions and/or labels‚ individuals have the ability to progress with society in a manner that will encourage them to ultimately embrace the many intricacies of an extended family. To begin

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    The readership that Ellen Hopkins targets in her novel Impulse would be teenagers and up‚ since the story follows three teens (who are nearly eighteen years old). I think within that‚ she targets readers who maybe can relate. Impulse deals with a lot of heavy topics‚ most notably suicide‚ and I think Hopkins targets a readership that can relate to what these teens are going through. The readership could even be those who have similar issues in their lives. Her target readership could also be people

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    liberated. Unspeakable horrors took place and Americans learned about man’s inhumanity‚ the disturbing crematoriums‚ and trains that arrived right in front of the gas chambers. The terrible history has more recently be compared to current events. Ellen Goodman‚ author of the short essay Becoming Desensitized to Hate Words‚ has long been an opponent of using Hitlerian language and other hate speech in everyday language. Her essay briefly discusses the improper analogies that people in the present

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