In Patricia McCormick’s non-fiction novel‚ Sold‚ thirteen year old Lakshmi is sold into sexual slavery by her stepfather. She believes she is going to work in the city‚ as the breadwinner‚ but her step-father is in it for the money and revenge of the eldest son he doesn’t have. Lakshmi’s biggest priorities are her mother and brother‚ and her stepfather could care less about her or the family‚ he has an addiction to gambling. Instead of working hard and paying for a tin roof‚ he gambles his money
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Its File Structure Course: COSC513 Operating Systems Name: Deyong Xu ID: 103816 PREFACE This article is just an introduction of Unix operating system to people who don’t any knowledge about Unix operating system . Generally speaking ‚ people don’t need to understand too much about the details about a software or a system ‚ the most important thing is people should know how to use these software or systems as a user .
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IJOMA ASEME FS 101-010 MEDGAR EVERS DOCUMENTARY Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2 1925 in Decatur Mississippi. He was a very influential human rights activist who focused on segregation in America and was murdered in cold blood by a member of the white citizens council called Byron De La Beckwith on June 12 1963 at the age of 35. He was married to Myrlie Beasley Evers and together they had three children. Dissimilar to the 1960s‚ things are very different in terms of minorities and equality
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children are having to survive each day by being sexually assaulted and sold into sex slavery. Even though there will always be scars‚ adjusting to surroundings can help with the day to day survival. In Patricia McCormick’s book‚ Sold‚ a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi gets sold from her stepfather to a woman named Mumtaz in India. Lakshmi then has to survive the cruel things that Mumtaz makes her do to earn money back for her freedom. Sold demonstrates that adjusting to surroundings is important for survival
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Ever-Wasers I found the article “The Information” by Adam Gopnik to be a difficult read. The information seemed to jump around and was very difficult to follow. While I understood the point Gopnik was making I couldn’t dive into the information like I wanted to. I wasn’t rally sure of Gopnik’s view on the subject‚ is he an Ever-Waser? What does‚ it’s not about the toast but the butter really mean? Is Gopnik trying to say that it’s not about the new technology but how we use it? Gopnik states
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Medgar Evers was a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 50’s and 60’s. From his humble beginnings in a small Mississippi town he grew to become one of the greatest leaders of the movement. As a boy Evers was a serious and mature and he remained that way throughout his life. He was raised in a small town in Mississippi. He had strong religious values and a terrific work ethic as a child. While he was still in high school Evers left school to serve in the army. While fighting in the
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Medgar Evers Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist whose life was cut short due to the racism and discriminations towards blacks in his time. Medgar Wiley Evers was born on July 2‚ 1925‚ near Decatur‚ Mississippi. He grew up on a small farm that his father owned along with 5 other siblings. Evers strived to get his diploma by walking 12 miles to and from school every day‚ until 1943‚ when Evers was inducted into the army along with his brother Charles Evers. He fought during WWII he was honorably
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Medgar Evers Civil rights activist. Born July 2‚ 1925‚ in Decatur‚ Mississippi. After growing up in a Mississippi farming family‚ Evers enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. He fought in both France and Germany during World War II before receiving an honorable discharge in 1946. In 1948‚ he entered Alcorn Agricutural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) in Lorman‚ Mississippi. During his senior year‚ Evers married a fellow student‚ Myrlie Beasley; they later had three children:
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if it means selling them to a sex trafficker. In the book Sold‚ Patricia McCormik gives an example of how the step-father of the protagonist‚ Lakshmi‚ views her‚ "But a girl is like a goat. Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it’s time to make a stew"(McCormik 8). In this third world country‚ women and girls are to be used and are for man’s pleasure. Lakshmi was thirteen when her step father sold her. He is a greedy man who does not work and sells her into
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The book I read this quarter was Sold by Patricia McCormick. The story is first-person and is narrated by thirteen year-old Lakshmi from Nepal. This book has over 170 chapters‚ each one only a few pages in length. This adds to the narrative as Lakshmi is thinking in small thoughts and does not think into many things due to her young age. Lakshmi’s family was poor‚ but managed to make it by on most days‚ on other days Lakshmi and her mother would starve while her step-father gambled. One day‚ Himalayan
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