different from how they create their artwork to what they go through to create the art.This documentary follows Maya Lin’s experience as she created some of her most well known work in addition to who she is. This was an interesting movie as she has many unique thoughts and ways to create her art while she also faced struggles as she created her monument for the Vietnam war. To me Maya Lin is a strong woman who works hard to create art which carries a message. This woman at the young age of 21 was
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Maya Angelou‚ named Marguerite Johnson by her mother‚ was born April 4‚ 1928 in St. Louis‚ Missouri (“Maya Angelou”). When she was three years old‚ she and her brother moved to Stamps‚ Arkansas with her grandmother because her parents divorced each other. Because of Stamps’ location in the racially divided South‚ she experienced both racism and a high level of cultural pride. She moved back in with her mother but was traumatized when her mother’s boyfriend molested and raped her. At the time‚ Angelou
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In the article “How to Stay Motivated – Part 1” Dr. Zonnya explains that in order to be motivated‚ that a person must first know what motivation is. She explains that many people perceive motivation to be something they do or do not feel like doing. Upon reading this article that is how I perceived motivation myself but‚ in fact this is the wrong idea that several people have about motivation. Dr Zonnya defines motivation as‚ “making a choice to take action whether you feel like it or not.” Motivation
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Stay Gold ‚ Stay Gold Ponyboy. Can you imagine committing a crime and you just wish you can just open and close your eyes and all the image or memories are all whipped off ‚ or you read a book like Alice in Wonderland and the movie to the book was just terrible and you just want get it out your head ‚ Well sometimes you have to see the movie to a book to clarify or visualize the scenes in the book‚ Like the outsiders reading the book was very well detailed and easier to understand and it makes you
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Kaydian Roberts Professor Nazos English 101-53 03/29/13 The faces behind Stay at home dads The belief that men are not capable of taking care of a child is now being challenged. Fathers are now taking on a more active role in their child’s life by allowing their wives to peruse her career goals while they stay at home with the children. Women are now left with the task of being the family’s primary breadwinners. As both step outside their expected gender roles the challenge of gender stereotypes
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addressed as well. According to U.S. census data there were around 5.5 million stay-at-home parents in 2006 and only about 159‚000 of them were fathers. Though this seems a bit lopsided‚ the number of stay-at-home fathers has grown over 60% since 2004 (Randall: par 5). How does this alarmingly growing number of stay-at-home fathers feel about their lives‚ and why is the number growing so rapidly? If the number of stay-at-home dads has risen so drastically in the past few years they cannot all be
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The book I have chosen to discuss is entitled If I Stay which was written by Gayle Forman. This book offers an emotional ride through the character’s eyes (Mia)‚ as she experiences losses of her family and herself. Mia finds herself experiencing an "outer body experience‚” which causes her to see the perspectives of her family and friends. Mia‚ her family and close friends undergo tough obstacles throughout the book which leads to me the expression “live for love.” “Live for love” is significant
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This book report was done for S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ THE OUTSIDERS. In my essay‚ I explore the quote‚ "stay gold" and it’s meaning. I used a poem that was in the novel to express this topic (the poem is by Robert Frost). What it basically is about is the cycle of life. Title: "Stay Gold" I have just recently completed reading S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders. The author raises many topics faced by the teenagers of her time. Issues such as peer pressure‚ violence and family problems faced by the
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If I Stay is a novel about the life‚ love‚ and loss of a dying girl. Skinny love is a song written about love in a dying relationship. Although if I stay and skinny love differ in the story they’re more importantly similar in exposition‚ over-all feeling and theme. In a rural town near Portland‚ Oregon lives Mia; a skillful cellist who aspires to attend Juilliard‚ a music college in New York‚ and have a successful future as a musician. She has a boyfriend‚ Adam‚ who’s in the band and an intriguing
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Inca‚ and the Maya both are very different and the same in so many different ways! It’s just so fascinating how two societies from different times differ but at the same time be the same. Today we will be looking at two three components‚ those being beliefs‚ farming‚ and homes. let’s begin! The Inca and Maya don’t live today‚ they didn’t even live during the same time that being Inca lived during the 1500s and the Maya were 2600 B.C. but did the time effect how they live? So like I Said we will be
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