A fellow native of Ohio‚ Ross Gay is an incredibly accomplished and unexpectedly cosmopolitan poet. A testament to his diverse past‚ Gay has experience in not only what we may expect‚ such as in teaching poetry and the arts at Lafayette College and Montclair State University‚ but also in what we do not expect (Poetry Foundation). Drawn to a different type of writing‚ Gay founded his own online sports magazine‚ “Some Call It Ballin‚’” and continues to serve as the Founding Publisher and as a Senior
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When reading the poem‚ "Mexican is Not a Noun‚" I had different reactions. In the first stanza‚ the author explains that the word‚ "Mexican‚" is not a "noun" or "adjective." I believe this is a statement used to shock the reader. I mentally trying to see why it was characterized as either. It made me want to continue to read to understand his explanation of the word and the meaning of the poem. In the second stanza the poet attempts to tell what his idea of Mexican. This stanza has short statements
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Upton Sinclair and the Chicago Meat-packing Industry In 1900‚ there were over 1.6 million people living in Chicago‚ the country’s second largest city. Of those 1.6 million‚ nearly 30% were immigrants. Most immigrants came to the United States with little or no money at all‚ in hope of making a better life for themselves. A city like Chicago offered these people jobs that required no skill. However‚ the working and living conditions were hazardous and the pay was barely enough to survive
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story. The setting provided in the novel Babbitt‚ by Sinclair Lewis‚ provides a beautiful backdrop to the intricacies of the story. The novel has an extremely interesting mood to it‚ accompanied by extremely interesting ideas. Before the setting
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Sinclair Lewis was a prominent literary figure during the 1920s‚ for he wrote about the critical views of the American middle class during the controversial time of World War II. He confronted the roles of women‚ race‚ and other powerless people in the society. He acknowledged the problems of America by giving his characters and settings universality that allowed a small town to represent all of America. Sinclair Lewis was set apart from other writers due to his universal writing‚ concentration
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Steinbeck and Upton Sinclair: A Comparison “The Grapes of Wrath”‚ written by John Steinbeck and “The Jungle”‚ written by Upton Sinclair are two books that have and will forever be impactful on American history and literature. They are both considered very powerful novels. Although these books seem very different‚ they are much more similar than they seem. Steinbeck tells the story of a family making their way to California amidst the Great Depression and era of the Dust Bowl‚ while Sinclair tells the story
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Content 1. The importance of interpersonal competencies and management skill for managerial and leadership effectiveness; differing skill requirements within different management context 2. The centrality of diversity within organisations including cultural‚ inter-cultural‚ gender and the issue of ethics 3. Behavioural change theories and the experiential/group learning model 4. Theories of human development; managing personal change and the centrality of self-awareness in personal development
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is a way to deal with SAD; it is called sun lamp therapy (also known as light therapy). What is light therapy? Sun lamp therapy or light therapy works by use of a
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Upton Sinclair was born on September 20‚ 1878‚ in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ where his family had once belonged to the southern upper class but‚ at Sinclair’s birth‚ the family floated near poverty. Sinclair graduated from high school early and enrolled in the City College of New York at the age of fourteen‚ during his college years‚ Sinclair encountered socialist philosophy‚ and became an avid supporter of the Socialist Party. Sinclair published five books‚ he spent weeks in the city’s meatpacking plants
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Robert faces innocence‚ which was a huge factor that affected him where his sister‚ Rowena Ross was born with a deadly disease called hydrocephalus‚ in which fluids accumulates in the brain‚ enlarging the head and potentially causing brain damage especially to younger children. This results in Rowena passing way when she falls out of her wheelchair‚ where Robert was told to watch her‚ but was instead‚ “making love to his pillow” (Findley 15). This results in Robert wanting to enlist to war to escape
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