What was your culture 30 years ago? Was it the same or did it change over time? Anzaldua described her community to be a Hispanic one. Adults judged her on how she talked spanish and she felt left out. Wideman described his community to be an African-American one where you grew up in a tough neighborhood. In his neighborhood doing something bad meant good.. For example‚ a person making money to feed his family by selling drugs or doing other illegal activities. Me and Jennifer’s discourse community
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Introduction Every day whether at work or at home‚ there are things that we do that can be improved upon. One way to improve upon them is to look at the processes and identify any issues or bottlenecks. Bottlenecks can occur at any point within the process from preparation to the completion of the process. To steam line a process it is imperative to identify possible issues where bottlenecking occurs. My flow chart for this assignment looked at the time it took me to get ready for work in the morning
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Identify and describe three strategies you can use to manage your time. Create a Prioritised to do list. To do this‚ first you must identify the goals or current tasks and list them. Then you must prioritise them on a scale of 1 to …. (1 as the most important)‚ considering urgency and difficulty. Create a work Schedule. This is a list of tasks that have all been allocated a timeframe in which to be completed or contributed to. These schedules can be reviewed and also set out on a daily‚ weekly or
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Historical Monuments When thinking about architecture‚ many visual images come to mind. The works of many are seen everywhere we go‚ from the average home to a New York skyscraper. As these buildings are fairly common to most of us‚ we forget to incorporate the work of our prehistoric man that gave us the foundation of early architecture. Pre-historic monuments provide us with numerous amounts information about our past and how life existed in these prehistoric times. When comparing two great
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Enslaved African Americans were brought from Africa to America work as servants for the Dutch. They were forced to cook‚ clean‚ work in the fields‚ care for the family that enslaved them‚ and leave their own families behind. Over 22 million people fought in the Civil War‚ and “approximately 620‚000 soldiers died from combat‚ starvation‚ and common diseases.” Within those millions of people that fought were African Americans
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Olivia Louis Marjorie Downie English 119 4th February 2013 Different types of body modification and why people do them. It is so obvious that we as humans crave to stand out in any instance we can‚ no way are we going to let anyone out shine us. So we modify things about ourselves daily‚ drastic or not to show others that we are different and worth being noticed. Body modification has become a norm of today’s world; reasons for body modification vary from a rite of passage‚ to religious beliefs
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ENGL 327ONLINE – African American Literature Essay 2 8/1/13 Support or refute the contention that Booker T. Washington refuses to verify slavery as a brutal and evil institution. Booker T. Washington was the most famous African America between 1895 and 1915 in this country. He was also considered the most influential black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as he controlled the flow of funds to black schools and colleges. He was born a slave on a plantation
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physical and emotional journey which traces a mindless‚ daily routine of a grieving widower. Les has presented his idea that a physical journey can mask a deep emotional journey by using such techniques as repetition. The repetition of “I” is used to show how the widower is withholding his grief by continuing his life in a lonely and mechanical way. The point of view being from first person really captures the tone‚ mood and theme of this poem‚ “I’ll get up soon and leave my bed unmade.” From this poem and
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code:__________________________ Class:_________ AMERICAN LITERATURE I MID-TERM TEST TIME: 50 minutes 1) According to the U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776)‚ what are the fundamental rights that all men are born with and cannot be deprived from? a) Freedom‚ Equality and Democracy b) Life‚ Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness c) Life‚ Freedom and Equality d) Freedom‚ Equality and the Pursuit of Happiness . 2) Which of the followings is NOT true about American culture? a) It is racially and ethnically
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chose to do for my historical fiction project was “My Brother Same is Dead” by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. In this book‚ the historical event associated with it was the American Revolution. I chose this book because I have always had a great fondness and fascination with the American Revolution and wanted to learn more about it. The historical event associated with my book was the American Revolution. This war was fought between the Patriots (or the Americans who wanted independence
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