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    Social Stigmas Of Women

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    When discussing how social stigmas surround STDs separated women into two different tribes‚ it is important to note that these two tribes are not equal. Instead the ‘good girls’ are considered higher up on the rungs of society created for undergraduate women. It is important for many undergraduate women to “slut shame” their fellow peers because it enables them to draw a moral boundary about themselves and allow them to gain an upper hand (Armstrong‚ Hamilton‚ Armstrong‚ & Seeley‚ 2014‚ p.101). Thus

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    Use” takes place during a time where people were becoming more cultured and trying to embrace their heritage. Dee returns home after leaving to go to college. She is returning home to her mother and a shy soft spoken sister named Maggie. When Dee returns home she shares the she changed her name to Wangero because she no longer wanted to be named after her oppressor. “‘What happened to ‘Dee’?’ I wanted to know. ‘She’s dead‚’ Wangero said‚ ‘I couldn’t bear it any longer being named after the people

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    of Padrón‚ located several miles outside of Santiago de Compostela. He was from minor Galician nobility; most likely from a poorer class of nobles (Gilderman 13-14). Rodríguez del Padrón may have also been a page for the future Cardinal Juan de Cervantes in addition to Juan II. He entered the Franciscan Order approximately in the 1430s and took his vows to enter the priesthood in 1441 in Italy and his final vows in 1442 after his travels to Jerusalem. When he returned to Galicia he founded a convent

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    Family Relationships No matter how much you love or hate your family they will always be there for you when no one else is around. It is essential in life to have a strong relationship with your family members especially parents and first siblings. However‚ there are tons of families in this world with terrible relationships with-in and the people in those families tend to be the least successful in life and are more likely to have large issues. A few key characteristics to a strong healthy family

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    References: 1. Lorna Thackeray‚ March 2012‚ The gazette Staff http://billingsgazette.com/search/?l=50&sd=desc&s=start_time&f=html&byline= 2. Cory Doctorow ‚ Mar 23 2012 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/23/bruce-schneier-and-former-tsa.html 3. Immigration

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    Today we debate the stolen generation. For those of you who honestly believe that saying sorry to the indigenous Australians was the correct thing to do‚ I am here to convince you wrong‚ and convince you wrong I will. For those of you who‚ with me‚ believe the stolen generation claims have been over-exaggerated‚ I will further prove your point correct. And for those of you who are sitting on the fence‚ I will lead the way over to the honest and correct side. For years indigenous Australian’s

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    actuating tension in the family. But they also have some differences too. In the story "Confetti Girl"‚ by Diana Lopez‚ a daughter does not understand her dad’s conflict of books‚ which she is bored at. And in the story "Tortilla Sun"‚ by Jennifer Cervantes‚ a daughter and a mom just don’t understand each other after they are separated. Both stories share different perspectives in the story adding tension to conflicts in the story. First of all‚ in the story "Confetti Girl"‚ a girl has a conflict

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    is that Dee wants the quilt to show off with her friends‚ but her mother to give the quilt to Maggie‚ because she thinks Maggie will “use” it every day‚ and not just to show off their heritage every day. Another conflict was that Dee considered herself to be more worldly and educated and that the everyday things should be hanged up and admired as antiques. The basic conflict is based on the difference of values between Dee and her mother. Her mother rejected Dee’s superficial values; Dee thinks her

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    possessions that come from their elders with material worth. Jealousy is illustrated in both stories. In Everyday Use‚ the climax of the story is when the grandmother and Dee are making a quilt for Maggie. Dee (Wangaroo) is jealous of Maggie because the quilt is being made for Maggie. The quilt is composed of the grandmother’s old dresses. Dee forgets that her grandmother offered her a quilt when she was going away for college‚ but at the time she told her grandmother they were "old-fashioned and out of

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    awkwardly‚ reunited when Dee visits home after being sent away to school. She is happy to see Mama and her sister Maggie‚ but instead of a heart-felt family reunion it feels more like a misguided show-and-tell of African heritage. Dee has brought her Muslim boyfriend with her‚ and soon inform her mother that her name has been changed to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo‚ in protest of her oppressors. Mama informs her that “Dee” is a family name that traces back several generations. Dee also asks to have things

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