Having Our Say is a detailed narrative report on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany‚ two elderly African-American sisters‚ who are finally having their say. Now that the people who kept them down is long gone‚ Sadie and Bessie tell the stories of their fascinating lives‚ from their Southern Methodist school upbringing to their involvement in the civil rights movement in New York City. Sadie is the older‚ and sweeter of the sisters. She was first colored high school teacher in the New York Public
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How Technology has changed our Lives Even though it seems like technology has reached its limits and will stop changing‚ it’s still improving and will probably stop improving itself. Just twenty years ago‚ personal computers became small and affordable enough for families to buy and use them at home. Since then‚ technology has shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down. These days‚ it seems hard to imagine the original size of computers. Over just a few years‚ they have become smaller‚ and
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BookRags Literature Study Guide Having Our Say (novel) by Sarah Louise Delany For the online version of BookRags’ Having Our Say (novel) Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-having-our-say/ Copyright Information ©2000-2011 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism
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Rhetorical Analysis “Has technology ruined our ability to communicate?” by Natalie Bencivenga appears in the premier American news website The Huffington Post. In this article‚ Natalie aims to convince that social media and the new technology such as smartphones have worsened our communication skills. We live in a new era‚ an era in which people communicate with text-messages‚ Facebook‚ Skype and tons of other social networks that connect people. Back in the days‚ there was only the phone‚ letters
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The troops that were returning from war some 12 million served during the war years were going back in the workforce. Most of these men were mere children when they signed on‚ some from rural America that never returned to work the earth. Farming technology was being made to counter act this problem. So much so that at the turn of the twentieth century 50 percent of the workforce was on farms that provided the nation’s food. By the end of the 1950’s only 7 percent of the workforce was working the nation’s
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networking sites have brought more harms than benefits.” Do you agree? Social networking sites such as Friendster‚ Twitter and Facebook all vary slightly‚ yet one of the main feature they have is that they enable users to create a profile within the website to represent themselves and interact with other users using emails‚ instant messaging and other integrated communication channels within the site. The popularity and growth of social networking sites over the years has been colossal. Today‚ there
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education. The internet is a world of opportunities; it has opened people ears and eyes to others divergence. However‚ with the internet comes the huge social media platform where people do outrageous things like take pictures of their food and put it online or make stupid videos to entertain us for six seconds. Is the internet slowly decaying our brain? Author‚ Steven Pinker does not believe so; he argues that technology is “the only thing that will keep us smart.” It is not the internet fault for human’s
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TECHNOLOGY CREATES MORE PROBLEMS THAN IT CAN SOLVE “If communicating across continents in the blink of an eye; Cripples our mind If being able to unfold the untold depths of this universe; Cripples our mind If having all the information in the world ready at our fingertips; Cripples our mind Then‚ Yes‚ indeed Technology - Cripples our mind ” Honorable chairperson‚ respected principal(s)‚ teachers‚ members of the jury‚ my worthy opponents and not to forget my fellow mates. A Very Good Morning
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Ways in Which Technology Has Changed Over the Years Due to Technology Eric Bailey Class Is today’s technology a positive advancement? Over the past few years technology has taken over society. Computers are a magnificent feat of technology and growing necessity in the world we live in today. They have grown from simple calculators to machines with functions that are vastly outgrowing the human mind. Computers have become so common that almost every home has at least one computer
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How technology has changed our lives Throughout the years technology is in constantly changing. It’s almost impossible just to think how different the technology was. I noticed how rapidly the technology change in our classrooms. For example‚ a video recorder or a side projector is almost obsolete now in days. We can now rely on most efficient technology. There are some good sides to this‚ for example we are no longer held captive by the prime-time schedules of a handful of networks. Now‚ with cable
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