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    see. Was your mother on Social Security? How old was she?” “Yes … she was seventy eight …” “Do you know her number?” “No … I‚ ah … don’t you have a record?” “Certainly. I’ll look it up. Her name?” “Smith. Martha Smith. Or maybe she used Martha Ruth Smith. … Sometimes she used her maiden name … Martha Jerabek Smith.” “If you’d care to hold on‚ I’ll check our records – it’ll be a few minutes.” “Yes …” Her love letters – to and from Daddy – were in an old box‚ tied with ribbons and stiff‚

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    The journey undertaken by the characters in Playing Beatie Bow brings them home to the same old world but with a renewed sense of reality. “Playing Beatie Bow‚” by the Australian author‚ Ruth Park‚ is not only set in 1973‚ but also 1873‚ a century earlier. The main character‚ Miss Abigail Kirk‚ finds herself travelling back in time through a bizarre incident that ties her family to the Orkney Islands. Abigail finds herself in the emerging Colony of New South Wales. Abigail lives with the Bow

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    Facts: The negligent act of Ruth in the fact that she did not properly park her car caused a series of accidents that resulted in knocked down power lines‚ grass fires‚ a gas station explosion‚ and an injured motorist. These accidents originated with Ruth’s in-action to not properly observe the securing of her vehicle which resulted in the damages suffered by the plaintiff Jim. Issue: The defendant Ruth owed a duty of care by her actions to protect the plaintiff Jim from harm. In the fact that she

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    Ruth Pierce was an American citizen who found herself in Kiev during the time of the Soviet Union. In her book Trapped in “Black Russia” Pierce collected the diary entries and letters she wrote to her parents‚ between the time of June 30‚ 1915 to sometime in November 1915. Though her stay in Kiev she was arrested for espionage‚ forcing her to delay her travels in the fight to get her passport back. In these letters and diary entries she explains what is going on in Kiev‚ other parts of Europe‚ the

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    The literary function of a text within a text(intertextuality) in Ruth Ozeki’s ‘A Tale for the Time Being’ Ruth Ozeki is known for incorporating the topic of the jeopardising reality of our generation’s consumption of foul foods through her fictional characters in a form of a tale in her first novel My Year of Meats and her second novel All Over Creation‚ where she is critiqued as ‘isolating what must be one of the most strangest literary niches ever’1. She is also known for cohering two shores-

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    Moderns forms of power and control and what hygiene “has got to do with it‚” are two of the central themes in this week’s readings. Nancy Tomes’ article looks at the workings of the Progressive hygienic movement in the American mainland. Concentrating their efforts not on the filthy streets and other urban public spaces known for their risks to human health‚ but on the “home” front‚ Tomes illustrates how white-middle class women invested great parts of their time and budged to create homes free of

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    Ruth Starkmam‚ author of cyberslacking in Shanghai: What My Students Taught Me weighs the pros and cons in a very well thought out and experience oriented essay. Starkman starts out by introducing the term cyber-slacking. ’Cyberslacking’‚ "the act of avoiding work and/or other responsibilities by scouring the internet in search of games or other non-work related amusements." ("Cyberslacking Definition | Investopedia 2015. ) While establishing credibility as a college professor and has taught in a

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    Beastly Ways Beauty to many people is how something looks; one of the main attractions for humans is the shape of the body. A good example of how women would go to the extremes with their bodies to be fashionable is the poem “Flower Feet” written by Ruth Fainlight. In this poem it explains what feet binding is and why young girls did this‚ the reason was so that they were fashionable and considered higher class. Even though it would cripple them for life to have their feet banded back‚ but rich women

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    Venue The performance was at Ruth Lilly Performance Hall Christel Dehaan Fine Arts Center‚ on the campus of the University of Indianapolis. It was very beautiful‚ the program gave a disclaimer about the design of the concert hall; which read “The acoustics of Ruth Lilly Performance Hall was designed for optimum dispersion of sound‚ projecting the softest parts of the music clearly too each listener.” I was extremely amazed by this note in the program because we learned about the way that music and

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    Again‚ this may not be in the modern context‚ initial thought when one hears the word power. The article The Power of a Jewish Woman by Rabbanith Ruth Menashe discusses power as‚ “… is the ability to effect change and exercise control”. Using this definition the Jewish woman has a lot of power in control for she is obligated to teach the husband the Torah‚ she is trusted in her home to deliver a

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