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    workers. 5. Clearly‚ the kids are sleeping maybe from a long night of work since it is still day time. 6. The children appear to be asleep on top of a storm drain near a house or tenement; it is noticeable by the window and gutter. It most likely is a tenement due to workers live closely to factories. The tenements most likely were too crowded for the children to sleep inside them‚ so they sleep outside in the cold. 7. This photo is definitely spontaneous due to it is really hard to get kids to

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    How far do you agree with the view that ‘The World’s wife’ is ‘nothing but feminist propaganda’? Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright; frequently dealing with issues of gender‚ oppression and violence. In ‘The Worlds Wife’ Carol Ann Duffy explores the portrayal of women in literature‚ and many of the poems seem to smite men; viewing them as being subordinate instead of women. She explores these ideas through monologues of different historical and mythical events from a female perspective

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    How the Other Half Lives is a book that is written and published by Jacob Riis in 1890. Chapter two of the book‚ The Awakening‚ is one of the primary documents included in the reader. In this book‚ Jacob Riis describes in full details of the horrendous and disgusting living conditions that many immigrants had to live in. Jacob Riis is a photojournalist that “muckrakes”‚ or basically to expose something harsh that an individual or a group of people has to go through. Specifically‚ the author shows

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    NOLI ME TANGERE CHARACTERS: Crisóstomo Ibarra Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin‚ commonly referred to the novel as Ibarra or Crisóstomo‚ is the novel’s protagonist. The mestizo (mixed-race) son of Filipino businessman Don Rafael Ibarra‚ he studied in Europe for seven years. Ibarra is also María Clara’s fiancé. Several sources claim that Ibarra is also Rizal’s reflection: both studied in Europe and both persons believe in the same ideas. Upon his return‚ Ibarra requested the local government of San

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    began facing more and more included the rise in poor sanitation and health concerns in local tenement housing. In order for women to gain access to the public sphere and emerge out of the private sphere‚ and gain some sort of status with the men of society‚ Jane Addams proposed the idea of “civic housekeeping” which would let women use their skills from the home in order to clean up the issues in local tenement housing and ultimately‚ in the local government1. Growing up in the post-Civil War era‚

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    Lindsay Caldwell February 19‚ 2013 U.S. History‚ 11 Mrs. Shifflett Problems the Children Faced The book “How the Other Half Lives” by Jacob Riis focuses on how people of other races or poor lived their lives in tenement houses. The most disturbing of all examples are the children and the problems they faced. In chapters 15‚ 16‚ 17‚ and 20 of “How the Other Half Lives” describes how children slept on the streets‚ had no homes or heat‚ and in a lot of cases‚ died

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    Audrey Beardsley

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    literary Decadence” (Greenhalgh‚ 2000b‚ 145) and Beardsley’s evocative imagery furthered the sensation of “active immorality” (Greenhalgh‚ 2000b‚ 145). J’ai baise ta bouche Iokanaan (figure 9)‚ an illustration for Oscar Wilde’s Salome‚ depicts the morbid yet beautiful image of Salome kissing the severed head of John the Baptist (The Victoria and Albert Museum‚ 2012). This portrayal corresponds with increased cultural prominence on the changing position and role of women within society. During this time

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    Nick Joaquin

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    and a prominent lawyer during the 1920s;and Do*ñ*a Salome Marques‚one of the first teachers to be appointed to the public school system set up by the Americans. The Joaquins were originally from Obando‚Bulacan‚but the author’s grandfather moved to the village* of *San Pedro Makati* in the 19*th* century‚to establish a kamalig‚or pottery factory‚and from San Pedro *Makati*‚then popularly known as Sampiro‚the Joaquins moved to *Manila*.* Do*ñ*a Salome Marques was from Sampiro. Nick Joaquin grew up

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    Fomo

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    Contents Page Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 Consumer Behaviour……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2 What is a Trend?............................................................................................................. 2 - 3 Trending: # FOMO…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 The Origin of FOMO………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5 FOMO Behavioural Displays………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 Who’s Afraid of Missing Out?.......

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    did not offer any future for the average person. In “How the Other Half Lives”‚ Jacob Riis tried to expose and clarify of how harsh the living conditions for many people in New York‚ such as terrible overcrowding and terrible living conditions in tenement houses that many faced‚ the hardship of the working girls‚ and the effects that immigration has had on New York. The immigrants arriving in America during the 19th century mostly came from Germany and Ireland then later from Italy‚ China‚ and Eastern

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