history with the topic of women rights and feminism. That is why this topic changed my view significantly when I watched a video by Kerry Washington called “Ain’t I a Women.” The video “Ain’t I a Women” was about how women were treated unfairly and didn’t have the same rights as men. This interested me because I am teenage girl as well. I realized in the past‚ during the 1800’s women had tough lives and struggled everyday to gain rights. A significant scene in the video was when Kerry Washington (portrayed
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sense of temporary sadness is a miniscule blip in her academic work or social life (Stage of Life‚ 2015). I Didn’t Do It‚ another Disney Channel series broadcasted in Croatia‚ revolves around the lives of twins Lindy and Logan Watson. While navigating high school‚ the twins and their friends get themselves into humorous cases of trouble. Each episode begins with a snippet of a wild situation. As the episode carries on‚ the lead-up to this scene is revealed. Examples story lines include accidentally
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segregation instead it should bring us all together. What I wear shouldn’t be a shame‚ instead it should be a crown of pride. The mass of myelin in my skin shouldn’t play a significant role of making me different‚ instead it should show who I really am‚ a human. Most children and teenagers face discrimination in schools which may cause a rollercoaster of adverse effects such as social and educational effects. As an arab-muslim ‚ I feel in school I have always received the rotten end of the deal‚ for the
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first‚ I thought that it was absurd to blame the government for a persons own actions and choices. However‚ upon viewing the film‚ my views changed. I started believing how such a plan can create a system similar to a caste system‚ how an individual repeats drug offense after drug offense within the rural community can cause them to permanently stay where they are‚ in terms of social order. In “The House I Live In”‚ their claim of how the drug war was a complete failure and damaged lives instead
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The war on drugs is one of the longest‚ seemingly non-progressive issues the US has ever faced. The fact that the government has been prolonging the end of this war‚ is an issue in itself. The documentary The House I Live In‚ directed by Eugene Jarecki in 2012‚ is an informative and important film for the advancement of the war on drugs. In the film‚ the complete history of the war on drugs is picked apart and essentially‚ it is determined and expressed that the war on drugs is a counterproductive
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Three Rules by Which I Live There are three rules by which I live. I think that it is a good value to have rules in my life because they set boundries and they set standards. By keeping boundries‚ rules‚ and/or standards in my daily routine it helps me stay focused and out of trouble. The first rule I tend to follow is‚ Dont mix business with pleasure. Mixing business‚ such as your work life‚ along with your social or home life can bring lots of drama into your world. For instence‚ getting
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and two different stories raise that question and leaves many people to speculate the right answer. Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are the hosts of the two characters Stella Rondo and Miss Emily Grierson respectively‚ and both stories show the unique‚ yet cryptic tales of two women’s roles in a town and family. Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” speaks as an explanation of a story that includes a strange family‚ which the narrator and Stella-Rondo are
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Character and Plot in "Why I live in the P.O." Plot refers to the arrangement of the story’s actions. Any story starts with an introduction in other words an exposition. Let us take Cheever’s short story "The Country Husband". This story started by describing a main situation‚ which had a big influence on the rest of the story. It described the airplane crash experience‚ which the main character went into. After that‚ the author described the main character’s family‚ their relations and the way
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The two short paragraphs‚ Ain’t I a Woman and At the Cemetery‚ discuss important issues that are evident even today. Although many people look at discrimination as something that we left behind in the mid-1900’s‚ another event occurs every day that makes it evident this is a reoccurring event. The news is filled with stories about discrimination. In most cases it has to do with a person‚ or a group of people‚ that feel as though they are being treated unfairly. Generally these things are countered
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In the text Twenty Questions by G Lee Bowie‚ I chose the chapter “Why Shouldn’t I Be Selfish”? In that chapter the two selections that were chosen were The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins and The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand. The two discuss and give examples of how selfishness is simply for survival and how being selfish can benefit that individual. The term selfishness stated by Ayn Rand is defined as “concern with one’s own interest” (525). In both selections of the chapter both philosophers
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