Summary of “The good girl”: The main theme in the short story is the relationship between the Catholics and the Protestants and how the conflict can affect an innocent girl. The story takes places in Northern Ireland and is about a girl named Chrissy. She is a catholic and is going on a date with a boy named Ian who is a protestant. When she is waiting to meet Ian‚ a girl named Eilish shows up. Chrissy do not like her because she and her cronies is always getting into trouble at school. Eilish tells
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Alex Kotlowitz’s book‚ There are No Children Here‚ is a story about two boys‚ Pharaoh and Lafeyette Rivers growing in the late 1980’s in Henry Horner‚ a housing project in Chicago. The boys try to retain their youth while they see constant gang violence‚ death of close friends‚ their brother in jail and their dad struggling with a drug addiction. In Horner‚ there are two gangs that claim it as their turf‚ and the Rivers family is constantly ducking from shots of gunfire there. They live in
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Memory Boy The book that I choose to read this 9 week period is called Memory by Will Weaver. The book is based on the lives of a family of 4 people; Miles‚ Sarah‚ and their two parents. Memory Boy starts out in the Mid West after a mountain range in Washington erupts and spews ash what seems billions of feet up‚ and over the entire United Sates like a blanket. The ash is so thick that people have to wear dust masks outside to avoid the risk of breathing it in. Miles and his family finally decide
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leisure and not nearly as much hard work as there used to be. Back in the early 20th century the people had it pretty rough and dealt with many frightening problems of their generation such as World Wars and the Great Depression. The non‐fiction novel‚ Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown‚ takes place in this turbulent time period of US history that started around the 1930s. The book is the story of how the University of Washington’s crew won the 1935 Berlin Olympics. The main character‚ Joe Rantz‚ and his
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Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural communication. Hofstede developed his original model as a result of using factor analysis to examine the results of a world-wide survey of employee values by IBM in the 1960s and 1970s. The theory was one of the first that could be quantified‚ and could be used to explain observed differences between cultures. The original theory proposed four dimensions along which cultural values could be analyzed: individualism-collectivism;
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inspiration in my life. My mother‚ Karen Rodriguez. Karen was born on September 28‚1977. She faced many conflicts in her life as a young girl. Karen was born and raised in Mexico City. Her life as a child was hard. She was bullied at school and at home. For Karen education was the key to a better life. She wanted to be a somebody and not a property. Karen got married at the age of 16 and had two little girls Daisy and Jasmin Rodriguez. Traditions in Mexico City according to Karen were women were to have
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Karen Carpenter was an important twentieth century female American pop singer‚ drummer during the 70s‚ And was best known for her vocals‚ Karen became more of a vocalist‚ rather than a drummer‚ further on into her career‚ because of the logistics of the trap sets that made drumming and singing simultaneously too difficult. Her music as very popular with American girls and her elegance on stage set a role model for them. Critics often labeled her the "girl next door.” She along
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Black Boy Richard Wright wrote Black Boy which is a biography about his life in the south. He was born September 4th 1908 in Mississippi. He was raised in the turbulent times in the south where race relations were very tense. He has written several books besides Black Boy‚ such as Uncle Tom’s Children‚ Native Son‚ and The Outsider. Black Boy was published in 1945 and was received with open arms from the black community but however it saw a great opposition in the south. They believed that it
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other five. Until now‚ there had been a national understanding that either all nine boys were innocent or guilty. Instead‚ there was split that left people lacking faith in the Alabama state government. The admission of the innocence of these boys raised questions such as why they had been in prison for six years if there innocence was so clear. It would take more than forty years for the last Scottsboro boy‚ Clarence Norris‚ to be pardoned by Alabama. However‚ the one
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In “Teaching Boys and Girls Separately‚” Paul Reva says about the principal of an American elementary school has separated the boys and girls into different classroom because of their behavior. After this strategy students’ learning became more effective. So he thinks that schools should separate boys and girls because they need different methods and experiences to learn‚ besides girls won’t feel mistreated during class. Indeed‚ boys and girls should attend school separately so that their grades
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