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    Girls Like Us

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    Girls Like Us Girls Like Us is an intimate portrayal concerning four girls who grew up all with different ethnic backgrounds and various forms of parental guidence. Anna Chau is Vietnames with strict parents and good beliefs‚ Lisa Bronca is a Caucasion Catholic‚ De’Yonna Moore is African-American with strong goals who lives with her Grandma and Raelene Cox is a young white girl who comes from a broken home with little parental guidence. Girls Like Us shows examples of structural functionism

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    Black Like Me

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    Black Like me The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a moving true story of how a white man manages to experience what it is like to be a “Negro” or black person in the 1950s. The author did this social experiment by taking medication and dying his skin a deep brown. He wanted to really experience the challenges and changes a black man in this time would go through. By traveling through the far south‚ Griffin got a taste of what real life was for a Negro. The experiment starts in the

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    Like a Winding Sheet

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    JULISA WRIGHT AML 2600 MS. THORNERS CLASS FINAL TERM PAPER ANALYSIS Ann Petry’s “Like a Winding Sheet “defines a pivoting time line in history even though it is a fictional short story. This story took place in 1946 in the time when all the men would be at war and the women would be in factories making all the weapons and equipments that they would need. The women were the focal point in that era because they ensured that the men overseas were well equipped to be at war. The story was set in

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    Teacher That I Like

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    Doeurn Phalin Teacher that I like I Pre-writing - Friendly - short - Pay attendant with students - Kind - Handsome - Knowledgeable - Good solving the problem - Funny - Good explaining - Good manner - Implement - High education - entire The teacher that I like is teacher Don Sarom. I’m a student at Kids international school. At there I have a teacher. His name is teacher Don Sarom. He is the teacher that I like very much. He is very handsome but

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    Nobody likes to be Scolded Scolding is a form of correction when a person has done something wrong. It is generally accepted in daily practice….provided it is done with proper attention to “correcting” the matter rather than to humiliate or to degrade a person. In view of the latter case‚ it is obvious that nobody likes to be scolded. The harsh words and improper use of derogatory remarks often causes much emotional trauma. This trauma is unseen and is a silent character building stone when one

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    Faith Like Potatoes

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    Faith like potatoes Although it might be a cliché inspirational movie on the outside but in the inside there’s much more than that especially because it was based on a true story. The movie titled “Faith like potatoes “is an eye-opener to those people who are lost in their own way and that too many things kept them busy enough to forget God. From the start of the film‚ I wondered why the title was like that. Why is faith compared to potatoes? So when I learned about Angus’s life‚ from the

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    Deaf Like Me

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    Takia Clayton 4/15/ 2010 ASL Research Paper Deaf Like Me By Thomas S. Spradley James P. Spradly Epilogue By Lynn Spradley Deaf Like Me is a story compiled together by Thomas and James Spradley. It is a compelling story about two hearing+ parents struggling to cope with their daughters overwhelming deafness. This powerful story expresses with simplicity the love‚ hope‚ and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children. In the epilogue‚ Lynn Spradley‚ herself‚ now a teenager thinks back

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    Like Water For Chocolate

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    In Like Water for Chocolate‚ Nacha acts like a mentor and mother‚ changing Tita to view the world through the lens of the kitchen and establishing the centrality of food to the story‚ in addition to demonstrating the cyclical nature of time. Through childhood‚ Tita essentially lived in the kitchen. As a result‚ Nacha‚ being the cook‚ acted as a mentor to Tita‚ teaching her everything relevant to her life: cooking. Because all of Tita’s experiences are tied to the kitchen‚ “for Tita the joy of living

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    Throwing Like a Girl

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    10/17/10 Throwing Like a Girl 1. Fallow acknowledges the objections of feminists to the phrase “throwing like a girl.” Yet that is not the only derogatory phrase towards women. Activities such as football‚ hockey and hunting are mainly men’s sports too. It is clear that women gather more negative associations than the male population. Feminists challenge the phrase “throwing like a girl” because it is proven that men and women’s shoulders are aligned similarly and there are no structural differences

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    A place like home

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    McKenzie Clinton College writing 1 C. Seppa Descriptive essay 3/23/14 A Place like Home My grandparents lived in their house for over 50 years; it’s the same house that my father and his 5 brothers and sisters grew up in. It’s a small house out in the country‚ 20 minutes from the nearest town‚ with a lot of fields‚ wooded areas and pastures for the various animals that belonged to my grandparents. The house has 2 stories‚ and when my father was growing up there were only 2 bedrooms‚ one for

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