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    and dance classes nearly three times as frequently • Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently • Read for pleasure nearly twice as often • Perform community service more than four times as often Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations‚ Shirley Brice Heath‚ Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching‚ Americans for the Arts Monograph‚ November 1998) The facts are that arts education.

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    through language‚ from the lyrics of songs to emotion packed novels and countless other forms. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984‚ the society of a nation known as Oceania is under constant control and surveillance from a government called the Party. The Party’s stability and continued power rely on the inability of the people to have emotions or thoughts‚ as that could lead to rebellion. In order to control the people‚ the Party manipulated the language by using its slogans and a language known

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    September 21‚ 1947 in Portland‚ Maine (“Biography” 2017). Although King did not have the best childhood or adult life that never stopped him from writing some of the most amazing Horror novels in America. He had many influences and still continues to write astonishing novels and influence some of America’s greatest most iconic motion pictures. King grew up with his family in poverty in Portland‚ Maine. King’s father‚ Donald‚ worked as a Merchant Navy. His mother‚ Nellie King‚ worked as a Health

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    Wright Grew up in the South at a time where Racism heavily influenced Society. He dealt with discrimination and was confronted by racism extremely close to him. When he was little‚ he struggled to understand the concept of racism and how the color of your skin created your place in society. Growing up and having countless of jobs‚ lead him to be more aware of race issues. Though he never agreed or wanted to play the roles of society‚ he learned over time‚ that in order to make a living and to stay alive

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    has been very influential African American’s such as Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Barack Obama‚ and Rosa Parks. But the one I’m going to be talking about today isn’t as well known as the ones I just mentioned‚ but she is still a very important influence to today’s society as well as many African Americans. The person that I’m going to be talking about today is Patricia Bath the first African American female to finish her study in ophthalmology and was the first African American female doctor to receive a

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    Throughout the twelfth and sixteenth centuries‚ Japan was being ruled by Shogunates‚ which were established and decentralized military governments. It was during this time that Japan was finally brought to peace from the internal warfare from within the country due to the efforts of three leaders. One of those leaders was a merciless man when it came to warfare named Oda Nobunga. During his reign he wiped out most of the Ashikaga shoguns and daimyos while also slaughtering Buddhist monks at the Mount

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    Fangzhou Zhao COMM 480 Movie Reaction Paper Battle for Terra In this movies‚ I can find a lot of concepts that we have been studied in this four chapter. Although I mostly disagree the main idea of this movie‚ I think it is fight for survive and there are not clear justice‚ I admit it is a good movie to study intercultural communication. After watching this movie‚ I first think about the Identity. Identities are sets of social expectation related to ourselves and others that are grounded

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    one of the fiercest militaries of all time. No one could speak about early world history without mentioning the Greek Empire. With all that being said the Greeks have had some of the greatest impacts on the world. One way that the Greek empire influence us was with the Olympic Games. Similar to them we also have a current day Olympics. Every four years‚ every country put asides their differences to compete in a variety of games. We also stole the idea of the coliseum

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    finds it unfair to have benefited from the culture without suffering any of the drawbacks. White supremacy is real‚ and I have benefited from it. Racism is real and our entire country has benefited from it. Macklemore contemplates how he can best use his influence to fight for equality as a white rapper. Let’s take a look at some of the lyrics and depict what the rapper is trying to say.

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    Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave‚ Douglass expresses on how slave owners would use their speech to affect their slaves. Douglass uses his experience with Mr. Covey to show how words can be used to oppress people physically and mentally. Douglass expresses how Mr. Covey made Douglass “broken in body‚ soul‚ and spirit” (Douglass 38). Mr. Covey would be very deceptive towards his slaves‚ issuing commands and orders whether they knew how to complete the task or not. If they did not complete their

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