I did a Hooverville from back in the great depression. I built my Hooverville on a big piece of cardboard. I partly spray painted the big cardboard for a mud look. My Hooverville has five shacks and a lean to. The shacks are made out of cardboard that I also spray painted to look like mud. The shacks are held together with hot glue. On the shacks I used some material to make roofs and door coverings. I made some trees and bushes on my Hooverville too‚ using Spanish moss. I got some sticks
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Chapter 2. Question 4. How would you measure risk of being a victim? I would measure the risk of being a victim by incorporating the NCVS summary findings for 2009. This survey gives me a broad range of information to use to minimize the risk of being a victim of a crime. It gives us great information such as the following: 1. Gender: men are a little more being victimized then women. 2. Reporting: almost half of the crimes were only reported to police. 3. Race: the highest with 27% for 1000 persons
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From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report‚ I found that the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions is about 14.4 million. ("Bureau of labor‚" 2013) If you ask me‚ why would I join a union? The first reason why I choose to join a union is that the union can protect my rights. As we know‚ union is an important organization for employees. Employees can solve problems at work more effectively as a group. Through forming a union and negotiating a contract‚ employees can secure the
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"W.W.Y.D" Society is quick to judge and people are quick to stereotype other people. In the show "What Would You Do" three people were trying to steal a bike. The first one was a white male and most of the people just walked by or asked "Is that your bike‚" and his reply was "No‚" then the people just kept walking by and didn’t even try to stop him. There was roughly 100 people an hour that just walked by until an old couple walked up and tried to stop him. Next‚ was a black male and the first
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"If you would be loved‚ love and be lovable." Love is something we are all in at least one time or another in our life. There are many different meanings for the word love and many people interpret it differently. I would never call myself an expert on this matter. First of all‚ I’m only nineteen. However‚ for some reasons‚ my friends always turn to me for relationship advice. Maybe I’m good at giving advice or maybe I’m just good at making stuff up‚ but either way‚ my friends usually rely
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way we act affects our relationships and causes some to be made and some to be changed or even lost. This theme is present in the stories “What‚ of This Goldfish‚ Would You Wish?”‚ “The Wife’s Story”‚ and “My So-Called Enemy” as they all have to do with the way relationships affect us. In the short story “What‚ of This Goldfish‚ Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret the main character Sergei acts consistently with his three wishes. Each time he uses a wish he uses it to help someone else. In the middle
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What Would You Do to Be Successful Being a kid with a learning disability can be stressful and challenging in everyday school. I can understand the benefits of online schooling‚ because I experience what the students with learning disabilities go through on a daily basis. Online schooling benefits students that want to get done with schooling early‚ students with with learning disability‚ and some students that wanna be successful in life more. Students at Mona Shores would benefit more
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extreme to live simply. He went to the woods‚ built himself a house‚ planted beans‚ and lived in nature. Thoreau wanted to live simply and enjoy life with the basic necessities. Thoreau said‚ “My greatest skill has been to want but little.” I never would be able to live like Thoreau did‚ to go without everything I’m used to and
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Valley Forge: Would You Quit? In Philadelphia‚ the winter of 1777‚ the situation was harsh and rough. General George Washington wanted a place where he could keep an eye on the British‚ and he decided to go with Valley Forge. Valley Forge was the turning point for the Revolutionary War. It was a place that men were starving to death‚ dying from sickness and diseases‚ and dying from being shot. George Washington decided to make a camp at Valley Forge with his troops and soldiers. He had a lot of
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hypocrite is something we all strive to avoid. Philip Meyer takes this emotion to the extreme by examining a study done by a social psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ involving the effects of discipline. In the essay‚ "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You? Probably"‚ Meyer takes a look at Milgram’s study that mimics the execution of the Jews (among others) during World War II by placing a series of subjects under similar conditions of stress‚ authority‚ and obedience. The main theme
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