was written by Bell Hooks. Bell hooks whose original name was Gloria Watkins was born in 1952. Hooks is one of the top leading cultural and educational theorists in America. In education she Hooks has received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. In this essay hooks talk about her journey to educate herself and not losing her sense of where she came from as African-American woman from a working class background (Bell Hooks‚ Keeping close to home)
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hopeless romantic‚ I am deeply intrigued by Bells Hooks writing. Bell Hooks born Gloria Jean Watkins was born September 25‚ 1952 in a black neighborhood in Hopkinsville a small‚ segregated town in rural Kentucky. With her father who worked as a janitor‚ and her mother‚ Rosa Bell Oldham Watkins‚ who worked as a maid in the homes of white families‚ Hooks used her experience of rural living‚ poverty‚ racial segregation‚ and resistance struggle in her works. Hooks wrote in an essay “Keeping Close to Home”
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Sandy Hook A shooting rampage in this small Connecticut town on Friday morning left 28 people dead‚ including 20 children killed inside their elementary school‚ authorities said. The dead included the suspected gunman‚ whom law enforcement sources identified as Adam Lanza‚ 20. Police said that Lanza first apparently killed his mother‚ Nancy Lanza‚ at the home they shared in Newtown. Then he drove in her car to Sandy Hook Elementary‚ the school at which Nancy Lanza taught kindergarten.
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Plot for Revenge: The Mass Murder at Sandy Hook Elementary Girard Pugsley Argosy University - Denver Just after school began on a Friday morning in Sandy Hook‚ Connecticut‚ Adam Lanza opened fire in the main office of Sandy Hook Elementary. What followed was the mass murder of 20 students and 6 staff members (Stroller‚ Strauss & Stanglin‚ 2012). A mass murder is defined as “single episodic act of violence‚ occurring at one
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<b>Theme: Good and Evil Create a Society</b><br><br><b>Paragraph 1:</b><br>CENTRAL IDEA: Conflicts heavily arise between the two topics of good and evil. <br>THESIS SENTENCE: Through common stories good and evil are portrayed through both protagonist and antagonist view‚ creating morals and opinions‚ and how societies views have changed over time. <br><br><b>Paragraph 2:</b><br>TOPIC SENTENCE: Common stories portray good and evil through both a protagonist and antagonist view.<br><br><b>Paragraph
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“A Good Man Is Hard To Find”‚ Flannery O’Connor: A Case Study DIRECTIONS: Read each sub-set of directions and answer all questions‚ using text evidence when necessary. Answer all questions in complete sentences‚ unless directly stated. SECTION I: INTERPRETATION OF VARIOUS SYMBOLS – Use the assigned symbols listed below. Choose one sentence from the text where the symbol is effectively employed. Last‚ briefly explain the function of the symbol in the text. SYMBOL Where is this symbol used
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______________________________________________________________________________ Student’s name : Test A Exercise 1. Put in semicolons‚ colons‚ dashes‚ quotation marks‚ Italics (use an underline)‚ and parentheses where ever they are needed in the following sentences. 1. The men in question Harold Keene‚ Jim Peterson‚ and Gerald Greene deserve awards. 2. Several countries participated in the airlift Italy‚ Belgium‚ France‚ and Luxembourg. 3. Only one course was open to us surrender‚ said the ex-major‚ and
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10 Writing Hooks Writing Class Notes: Beginning Hooks - Strategies to use to catch your reader’s attention 1. Begin with a smile or a metaphor. My life has been a carnival. My family is like an open book. 2. Begin with a question. Who is the greatest athlete of all times? 3. Begin with a definition. Friendly is the best way to describe my personality: I am friendly and caring. Perfect is the best adjective to describe me: I am flawless in every aspect of my life. 4. Begin with
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needs to be stopped. bell hooks also suggests that both males and females have to acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy. hooks’ starts off her article with the definition of patriarchy‚ which is a single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. In other words‚ patriarchy is a political system that insists that males inherently dominating‚ superior to everything and everyone deemed weak‚
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Complex Sentences Complex sentences are sentences that have several parts‚ each with a verb‚ and these parts are joined by ‘joining words’ (连词). For example‚ here are two simple sentences: “I know a man. He has five children.” If you join these two sentences by using the relative pronoun (联系代名词) ‘who’‚ it now becomes a complex sentence: “I know a man who has five children.” (By the way‚ ‘who’ is not pronounced with extra word stress here. You only stress this word when it means ‘ 谁?’‚ which
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