country”(156). The facts that Moore presents are very effective due to the shocking nature of them. Early in the text[‚] Moore illustrates his point presenting‚ “There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth-grade level—in other words‚ who are functional illiterates” (154). This stuns the reader‚ who would have ever thought that in a country like this‚ that many Americans could be‚ well stupid. He goes on to give another statistic that Americans‚ on average‚ read only 99 hours
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A 1. Give an outline of the various views on serving in the army presented in the three texts. Text 1 is about Sarah Palin giving her opinion on why young people in America should be motivated to join the army. Her own son enlisted himself‚ and she uses him as an example. In the text she elaborates on‚ “[…] they are doing much more than defending a piece of land. They are defending the idea of America itself”. Text 2 is about Ryan Kahlor. Today‚ the two combat tours in Iraq defines who
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small chair next to a runny nosed 2 year old can be very nerve wracking and upsetting to some teens. Giving teens and tweens a table of their very own with adult chairs will give them a feeling of importance and will allow them to catch up with each other without the interruptions of flying food and irrational screaming prevalent in the smaller children. Now‚ for the table itself. For the smaller kids you will want to start with a large piece of white craft paper or butcher paper. Wrap the table in
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n 1890‚ Jacob Riis published a groundbreaking booked titled “How the Other Half Lives.” Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ spent the majority of the 1880s collecting the information that would later go into his bestselling book. “How the Other Half Lives” provides a written and visual portrayal of the horrendous living conditions in many New York City slums. While the middle and upper classes lived considerably more comfortable lives‚ the people suffering through the horrid conditions in the aforementioned
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Affluence and Alcohol—the Causes of “How the Other Half” Lived The Gilded Age was a term given to the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Mark Twain. For big business owners‚ gilded was an appropriate term to describe their lifestyles. Yet‚ for those who worked for these big businesses‚ life was anything but golden. Twain named the era to ironically describe life for the laborers. The horrific conditions people lived and worked in are captured in How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. The author observes
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are mostly former cooks or servers‚ still capable of pinch-hitting in the kitchen or on the floor‚ just as in hotels they are likely to be former clerks‚ and paid a salary of only about $400 a week. But everyone knows they have crossed over to the other side‚ which is‚ crudely put‚ corporate as opposed to human. Cooks want to prepare tasty meals; servers want to serve them graciously; but managers are there for only one reason - to make sure that money is made for some theoretical entity that exists
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Modern communication‚ on the one hand bring people closer and on the other‚ tend to isolate them. Show the truth of this statement._GP_890 One human dream was always to overcome distance‚ to increase speed‚ and to make all parts of his planets within easy reach. This dream has become true today. The modern forms of communications have made our planet smaller in a sense so that the term global village is fully justified. Today countries have become a series of villages through play to our primitive
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labeled as the Other is different and does not fit in. The Other is “perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group‚ the Other is almost always seen as lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly” (The Other‚ 2009). A group sets guidelines and if a person does not meet them they will not be accepted as “normal”. Otherness to a group represents awkwardness. Although each person does have its own unique characteristics to prevent from being labeled as the Other you must possess
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considered others‚ by virtue of the difference from the dominant groups‚ can have power taken away because of their place in their social‚ religious or political views. Otherness is socially accepted within their own groups‚ but the outside world views them differently and does not understand or accept their views for different reasons. Otherness can be identified in many different situations in the social world. For example‚ in the early to mid 1900’s‚ African Americans were considered others by white
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Response Paper 2 1. How would you explain the similarities and differences between fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias to someone who was not familiar with the two concepts? Fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias are similar in that they both are errors made using perception. Fundamental attribution error deals with wrongly explaining a behavior based on some factors that are internal. It can also be explained as over exaggerating a reason behind a person’s behavior or
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