Environment - how can you help protect it? Our planet is in trouble! Almost every day we seem to hear of yet another problem affecting the environment - and what a list of problems! - pollution‚ acid rain‚ climate change‚ the destruction of rainforests and other wild habitats‚ the decline and extinction of thousands of species of animals and plants....and so on. Nowadays‚ most of us know that these threats exist and that humans have caused them. Many of us are very worried about the future of our
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Will You Help Save Them Today? Today there is only about 3‚200 of them left in the world‚ but that was all very different in 1990 when their population was immensince. Then the population decreased by over 100‚000 in the span of about a year. People have poached and hunted them for not only as food and for their fur‚ but sometimes just for game too‚ and now because of this they are going extinct. The tiger population is dwindling without most of the world even realising it. They would normally be
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AP UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Directions: You have 100 minutes to answer all four of the following questions. Unless the directions indicate otherwise‚ respond to all parts of all four questions. It is suggested that you take a few minutes to plan and outline each answer. Spend approximately one-fourth of your time (25 minutes) on each question. In your response‚ use substantive examples where appropriate. Make certain to number each of your answers as the question
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“The Help” (Good Copy) Would you want to live in the 1960’s‚ have a black skin colour and be considered an “animal” or a “slave”. That’s exactly what happened to the dark coloured citizens of that time‚ who worked for the white people as slaves or maids. During the 1960’s time there was a small rebellion in Jackson Mississippi influenced by a book called the “The Help”‚ which was life changing for black citizens. Skeeter the protagonist of this story gave three big impacts to the black community
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double sidedness of pride. Brother’s pride pushes him to give Doodle a life away from his rubber sheet on the bed. When Brother’s obsession with turning Doodle into the "ideal" Brother goes too far‚ his pride pushes Doodle to his early death. “I should have already admitted defeat but my pride wouldn’t let me.”(346) When he takes Doodle to Horsehead Swamp that Saturday before the first day of school‚ he knows it’s too late to meet the goals he set for Doodle. Again we see shame and pride coming together
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Spaeth Mrs. Mueller Domestic Social Issues 8 October 2012 The Help Helping Society Every person goes through some form of discrimination in their lifetime. It may be because of their age or it might be because of their race. In modern society‚ a lot of people go through discrimination because of these factors‚ but the discrimination that they go through is nothing like the black people in director Tate Taylor’s movie The Help go through. The main characters of the film are black maids in Jackson
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Touchstone Pictures. The main characters of the movie are Skeeter‚ Aibileen‚ Hilly‚ Minnie‚ Celia‚ Charlotte‚ Johnny‚ Constantine‚ Yule‚ and Mae. The Help took place in the early 1960’s in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer. She decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Little does she know by doing these interviews she turns her friend’s lives and a Mississippi
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What Would You Do If You Won the Lottery If I won the lottery‚ the first thing I would do is go to my bank and put the money in my savings and invest it. Then I could add to it and be even‚ more rich. One thing I wouldn’t do is tell somebody‚ because they would tell somebody‚ then everyone would want my money. After I would have put it in the bank‚ I would spend some of it on a white‚ GTI Volk’s Wagon. German engineering‚ you can’t beat it. I think and dream about this car. I would
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completely remain unbiased‚ I did not make my decision on which location to write about until the next day. The next night I examined each destination‚ taking into consideration which location provided more details. Once I made my decision‚ I used strategy number two – “Select details that support your intentions; omit or de-emphasize others.” I decided that in order for me to effectively create two differing impressions‚ it was in my best interest to separate the positive features from the negative
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Essay “The Help” In the story of the help it had many different themes one of the themes would be showing us the importance of literature – books‚ newspaper articles‚ and bills – in creating‚ challenging‚ and changing the racist systems that at the time was ruling Jackson‚ Mississippi. The Help was written by Skeeter but was stories told by Aibleen‚ Minny‚ and other maids showing the points of view of colored help working for white families in Jackson. They all knew that this book would put them in
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