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    Loretta Lynn

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    Born on April 14‚ 1932 in Butcher Hollow‚ Kentucky‚ Loretta Lynn grew up in a small cabin in a poor Appalachian coal mining community. The second child of eight children‚ she began singing in a church at a young age. Her younger sister‚ Brenda Gayle Webb‚ also went on to become a singer as Crystal Gayle. Loretta married Oliver "Mooney" Lynn just a few months before her 14th birthday on January 1948. The following year‚ she and Oliver moved to Washington State where he hoped to find better work.

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    Animal Cruelty

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    Clifton P. Flynn wrote an article entitled “Acknowledging the “Zoological Connection”: A Sociological Analysis of Animal Cruelty” which focuses on human-animal interaction and more specifically how humans are violent towards members of the animal kingdom. He expresses his concern that sociologists have ignored how animals impact our society. He points out that cruelty isn’t an issue that generally stands alone in sociology; it is usually studied because of its correlation with human violence.

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    Gender Roles In King Lear

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    time. Through the lens of gender criticism it is clear that in King Lear Shakespeare portrays the women as the stronger sex. King Lear is a play about power‚ property and inheritance. Lear loses his mind when he loses his social status and is emasculated by his daughters when they strip him of his power and his dignity. He lost his power over his country as well as his power over his daughters. Cordelia‚ his favorite daughter‚ refuses to tell him how much she loves him and thus goes against his

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    The two futuristically apocalyptic novels‚ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick and The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin‚ masterfully demonstrate the ways in which a severe change in external circumstances and surroundings can cause a new dynamic in your internal perspectives. Both authors display how the need to adapt can lead to intense modifications in characterization of the protagonists in these novels. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a riveting science

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    Who Is Edmund Kemper?

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    Edmund Kemper was born in Santa Cruz‚ California in 1948. Edmund was born into a dysfunctional family and his parents divorced when he was nine years old. After his parents’ divorce‚ Edmund lived with his mother who grotesquely mistreated him. Edmund’s mother employed an authoritarian parenting style and punished him with severe punishments when he failed to meet her standards. For instance‚ Edmund’s mother locked him in the basement for significant periods of time. Edmund’s harsh punishments left

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    Chaos And Sexism

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    been seeing Malika in secret and Paul finds out and becomes enraged. Helene sees how incapable Paul is of normal tasks around the house and gains power from that. There is a certain expectation for Paul to have a handle on his wife‚ and he feels emasculated when he doesn’t know where she is. Eventually Helene stands up to her oppressor and frees herself‚ this theme persists with other women throughout the

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    Wilfred Owen - War

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    The nature of war is horrific and dehumanising. It is an extreme experience that deals with the obscenity of death and sacrifice for your country that pushes the individual to their emotional and physical limitations. Wilfred Owens poetry is a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and of the pity for the young soldiers scarified in it‚ this is shown though a variety of poetic techniques. Owen explores the physical horror that war represents in “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ this poem condemns

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    Madonna-a Legend

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    to be close to Tony’s job as a defense engineer. Madonna was born three years later‚ during a visit with family in Bay City. The third of six children‚ Madonna learned early on how to handle her role as the middle child‚ admitting that she was "the sissy of the family" who often used her feminine wiles to get her way. Her parents’ strict observation of the Catholic faith played a large role in Madonna’s childhood. "My mother was a religious zealot‚" Madonna explains. "There were always priests and

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    History‚ Diversity and Change Transcription Assignment Word count 1058 Bibliography Fishman‚ P. (1983). Interaction: the work Women do…in: Thorne‚ B. Language‚ Gender and Society. Newbury House‚ Rowley. Hirohide‚ M. (1996) Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition. Issues in Applied Linguistics. Vol 7 (2)‚ pp 325 - 327 Sunderland‚ J‚ (2006) Language and Gender: An advanced resource book. Routledge‚ Oxon p102 - 103 This recording was conducted in a domestic environment‚

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    Sociological Imagination

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    drinkers. Australia’s drinking culture in the early twenty-first century was heavily influenced by class. As was depicted by Horne about working class life. “ Pictured as happy go lucky‚ Hard drinking‚ hard gambling‚ Matey‚ thumbing its nose at The sissies and snobs in the Lower middle class suburbs.” (Horne quoted by Room‚ 2010: 152) By the 1960s‚ governments were planning to

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