A psychologist named Jennifer Baumgartner wrote a book called “You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You.” In this book‚ Jennifer shows that a person’s wardrobe can reflect several psychological problems a person may have. She is also able to connect a person’s clothing to their behavior. Countless people can determine just the same when paying enough attention. A person’s clothing can reveal a wide range of personality traits from functionality to diligence‚ or even to sentimentality
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For my additional summer reading book I read “Our Only May Amelia” by Jennifer L. Holm. The main character is May Amelia‚ the only girl in a family of 8 children‚ living in 1899 colonial America after immigrating from Finland. When the story begins May Amelia’s mother is uncomfortably pregnant with her 9th child‚ her brothers are giving her trouble and her father wants her to be a ‘proper young lady’. Soon her grandmother visits and decides to stay with them for a while. Her grandmother is a bitter
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Football is a game that teaches you everything you need to know about life. Dr’s will never be able to take away football or the fun and passion that goes with it. Kids should be allowed to play football. In the article‚ “Should Kids Play Football” by Jennifer Shotz it states. “When playing football young athletes learn discipline‚ focus‚ teamwork-skills‚ and life skills‚ that will help them after football.” Football players in the NFL go through one long and grueling season after another‚ and that could
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In Jennifer L. Pozner’s‚ “Dove’s “Real Beauty” Backlash” she discusses the problems that have occurred since the release of the “Real Beauty” campaign. Pozner begins her essay by setting up a scene at Madison Avenue‚ where she claims ads there objectify women and the products don’t; unlike Dove’s new “firming crèmes”‚ which objectify women. She illustrates an ad of a smiling diverse group of healthy‚ beautiful and voluptuous women that are happy with the way they look. However the ads for their new
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In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad‚ by Jennifer Egan‚ characters are faced with their own goon they have to confront. These goons cause their lives to be drastically altered and they end up with outcomes they would never have imagined. Within the chapter‚ “The Gold Cure”‚ it suggests that individuals have a firm desire for their past. Contrary to this‚ the chapter “Good-bye‚ My Love” suggests that individuals desire a life they don’t possess. In “The Gold Cure”‚ Bennie desperately scrambles
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The book All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven follows the story of two high school students named Violet and Theodore who are just trying to find their place in this world. Theodore suffers tremendously from a mental illness while violet is vigorously trying to put her sister’s death into the past. Theodore and violet find their common ground of suffering while meeting on top of the school bell tower both having the clear intention of committing suicide. Once they’ve convinced each other to come
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The video “Stop Trying to Design Everything” by Jennifer Daniel encourages individuals not to be afraid that they cannot handle everything that happens around them. She advises that social media inputs a false‚ impossible glossy shine on careers‚ designs‚ and general life activities whereas in reality‚ it is unachievable. Jennifer explains that the perfectly-put-together lifestyle available online‚ puts enormous pressure on individuals. I believe‚ that she is right‚ as she explains from her personal
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issues such as the influence of corporations in our society‚ is extremely difficult. Even if it is unintentional‚ a documentary will be dominated with a particular view. This can be explored through the documentary "The Corporation" by Mark Achbar‚ Jennifer Abbot & Joel Bakan. Through the use of certain techniques of selection of detail‚ film language and verbal language the creators present corporations as being a destructive institution with no emotion and no morals. The technique selection of detail
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European Validation of Slavery . In Jennifer L. Morgan’s article titled‚ “Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder”‚ the author says‚ “This article focuses on the way in which racialist discourse was deeply imbued with ideas about gender and sexual difference that‚ indeed‚ became manifest only in contact with each other.” From analyzing the article‚ we see that the author argues that even before the European travelers made any contact with Native American or African people‚ they already had the perception
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In Jennifer Morgan’s “Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder”: Male Travelers‚ Female Bodies‚ and the Gendering of Racial Ideology‚ 1500-1770 (1997)‚ description of the early European travelers’ log sent back to Europe from Africa constructs a negative image of the African woman. These men described the African woman as a monstrous beast‚ unwomanly‚ a sexual deviant and a savage whom must be tamed and put in her place‚ and suitable enslavement for American colonizers. This attitude produced a mythical
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