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    Name: ___________________Date:_______________________________ My Hobbies The Role: You have a hobby. Let’s talk about it. A. Answer the question in one word: What is your name? What is your favorite hobby? Where did you learn to do it? How do you do the hobby with? What hobby would you like to learn? B. Make a new friend. Talk about your hobbies together. C. Don’t forget. Write down what you learned about your friends hobby. Hobby Learned by Wants

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    brings the image of a little old lady in a rocking chair‚ with a cat lying by her feet‚ making socks‚ or baby bootees with a sweet smile on her face. There are many different types of crafts in addition to knitting and crocheting such as sewing‚ quilting‚ jewel making and paper cutting‚ to tatting and cross stitch. Some of the handcrafted pieces made by today’s artisans command high prices for one-of-a-kind pieces In the crafting world‚ the mainstays that most people are familiar with are crochet

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    John Biggers: The Impact and Significance of Symbolization in African American Art The integrated symbols of African American and African cultural themes within the artwork of John Biggers greatly reflects and displays women playing a non-stereotypical role within society. First it is important to understand the definition of symbolization‚ which is defined as‚ "the systematic or creative use of arbitrary symbols as abstracted representations of concepts or objects and the distinct relationships

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    stitches were all normal up to a certain point‚ then are “all over the place” (1073). The women also discover an empty bird cage in the cupboard. The door of the cage is broken‚ as if someone had been “rough” with it. While looking through the quilting material‚ they find a pretty box containing the dead bird. They speculate that Mrs. Wright was

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    PROMPT: On page 292 of Orange is the New Black‚ Piper Kerman says‚ “As a child... I developed a firm belief in my solitude‚ the not-novel concept that we are each alone in the world… But that’s not what I learned in prison. That’s not how I survived prison. What I discovered was that I am emphatically not alone.” Describe a situation in your own life where you realized how much you depended on the people around you for survival. I’m in kind of an interesting situation in my life right now. Since

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    This story takes place in Mama’s yard anticipating of Dee’s arrival. “It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the sand around the edges lined with tiny‚ irregular grooves anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house” (Walker‚ 1973‚1). Dee arrives in her rural childhood home proudly sporting "[Her hair] stands straight up like the wool on a sheep" afro coupled with a decked out fashionable

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    that hardship may present artistic expression but that hardship may also displace a woman’s spirituality onto humble pursuits. Slavery and patriarchy‚ though fatal to some‚ did not eliminate women’s artistic ability but it did re-channel it into quilting‚ hymn singing and gardening. There is no disputing that under better circumstances‚ women could have created art on a far grander scale‚ but their humble achievements are art nonetheless. Black American women are now in position to relate to each

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    THE HISTORY OF GEE’S BEND‚ ALABAMA" Draft Article by Kyes Stephens Alabama Online Encyclopedia The community of Gee’s Bend (whose official name is Boykin) is situated in Wilcox County in West Alabama in the bend of the Alabama River. Directly across the river from Camden‚ and southeast of Selma‚ Gee’s Bend has one road into the community. Gee’s Bend is in the Black Belt region of Alabama (an area that draws its name from the soil and the race of the predominant inhabitants). The majority of Native

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    Essay 3: Women’s Suffrage in the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell Susan Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and although her fame was due primarily to her skill in writing‚ today she is recognized as a pioneering feminist writer. Her one-act play‚ “Trifles”‚ is frequently cited as one of the greatest works of American theater. Written in 1916‚ it takes place during the height of the Women’s Rights movement‚ just 4 years before the 19th Amendment is signed into law‚ granting

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    In Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers‚” the main character suffers from oppression just like the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In both stories‚ the characters seem to love the men that controlled their lives‚ but in they suffer from mental illness due to the restrictions that are placed on them by their lovers and society. These two stories also focus on a feminist perspective. In “A Jury of Her Peers‚” Minnie claimed that she didn’t know who killed her husband but she was arrested. Minnie’s husband

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