Writing Literature Analyses Self-Segregation: How a Personalized World is Dividing Americans by: Danah Boyd What‚ in your own words‚ is Boyd’s project? What is being argued? Danah is investigating ‘self-segregation’ of people using social media‚ how people are polarizing into groups based what they want‚ interacting less with people of different views‚ thus making them less diversified. How does Boyd establish ethos (credibility)? She used three popular examples to illustrate her point: the military
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For the life interview I interview Maria Sandoval. She was born on May 28th‚ 1930. She will be 87 years old this year. Maria was born in Los Angeles‚ California. She is the daughter Julio and Susana Sandoval. Maria Sandoval has three siblings‚ two sister and one brother. Maria is the oldest of her three siblings. Her parents were immigrants from Mexico. Maria’s parents worked picking up crops in big farms. Maria’s family was really close and always looking after one another. She said family was the
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Life/Tribute Maria Montoya Martinez was from San Ildefonso Pueblo. Born on an unrecorded date between 1881 and 1887 Maria was the oldest of five sisters. She started learning pottery skills from her aunt‚ at first just by watching her. At this time‚ traditional pottery techniques were being lost‚ but Maria and her family were trying to preserve the culture of art. By the age of seven or eight Martínez was making crude bowls and plates of her own. She received a well rounded education by
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“Maria Llena de Gracia” I chose to watch “Maria Llena de Gracia”. This was a touching movie about a young‚ Hispanic girl who grew up in Colombia. For work‚ Maria strips thorns off of roses in a local rose factory. After quitting her job in anger‚ her family insists that she return to work and apologize for her actions. Being poor‚ her family needed her income. Although‚ Maria somewhat rebels. She dates a guy who leads her into being a “drug mule”. A “drug mule” is someone who smuggles drugs within
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September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962)‚ also known as Will Faulkner‚ was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford‚ Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media‚ including novels‚ short stories‚ a play‚ poetry‚ essays and screenplays. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories‚ many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County‚ a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County‚ where he spent most of his life‚ and Holly Springs/Marshall
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The significance of Las 3 Maria’s syndrome is that it represents our culture’s/society’s essentialist views about women and because our society is primarily a patriarchy‚ society’s views are centered on a "macho" way of thinking. In Borderlands‚ Anzaldua tells us that "Culture forms our beliefs" and because culture is run by those in power‚ it’s the men that make the rules. She also goes on to explain how our society condemns selfishness‚ the needs of the family/community and therefore La Raza‚ are
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Appearances: They Say More About You Than You Think The term “homophobia” brings to mind individuals that hate those who are homosexual. Most of us aren’t ignorant to the fact that homophobia is a problem in America. These homophobic people call homosexuals “faggots” or “dykes” with no regard as to if these people are actually gay or not. We often believe this is as far as it is taken. Carmen Vazquez’s argument in her 1992 essay “Appearances”‚ slightly changes the definition of homophobia (Goodreads)
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The Life of Maria Montessori A woman of pure determination Maria Montessori had a very interesting early life. Born in Chiaravalle‚ Italy on the 31st of August in the year 1870 (Maria-Montessori‚2017‚ p.1) she would grow to become a very successful and influential woman of her time. In a world that belittled female knowledge‚ strengths‚ and opportunities‚ she was the billboard for woman across Italy in the late 1800s. She broke social normality’s that would then be‚ considered disgusting in the
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Maria Theresa: Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa was born on May 13‚ 1717 in Vienna‚ Austria. She was the oldest daughter in her family‚ raised by her dad‚ the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. As she was maturing into an adult‚ the possibility of her being the one to take over her father’s throne was extremely high. Charles did not have a chance of producing a son‚ so Maria was a perfect candidate for it. Once her father died in year 1740‚ for forty years she started to rule and have full command
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A Short History of Dr. Maria Montessori and her Methods Teaching a two years old child how to be independent‚ responsible and confident sounds impossible‚ but more than 100 years back an Italian doctor named Maria Montessori made it possible. As she believed "the study of child psychology in the first years of life opens to our eyes such wonders that no one seeing them with understanding can fail to be deeply stirred. Our work as adults does not consist in teaching‚ but in helping the infant mind
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