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    identity contingencies that Steele mentions in this chapter‚ and what are some that you have faced in your life? The identity contingencies that Steele mentioned are racial order‚ segregations‚ constraining behavior and stereotype threat. Whenever I play basketball with my African American friends‚ I always go easy on them because I believe that their athletic genetics are naturally superior than mine‚ so there is no reason for me to be conceited. 2. What does Steele mean when he says contingencies

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    The Evil of Slavery

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    In the beginning chapter of the book‚ Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley were making a business. Shelby and his families treated their slaves pretty well; their attitudes toward slaves were much better than other slave holders. However‚ under the pleasure of Haley‚ Mr. Shelby had to sell Tom and Harry or his whole business would in danger. Harriet Beecher Stowe used relentless irony to expose moral hypocrisies of the slave trade‚ and Shelby was exactly this kind of hypocrisies. Although Shelby’s

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    period. Although Shelby is not characterized as a harsh or unforgiving master‚ he has nevertheless suffered serious debts- forcing him sell some slaves to avoid financial ruin. Mr. Haley‚ the slave trader‚ purchases Uncle Tom‚ Shelby’s loyal servant since childhood‚ and five-year-old Harry‚ a handsome and talented child who sings and dances. Shelby regrets betraying Uncle Tom’s faithfulness‚ as much as he regrets taking the child away from his mother‚ Eliza. Eliza overhears Mrs. Shelby protesting her

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    Tom’s Cabin Its a book about anti-slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe did a few hours of study before writing and it was the second best selling book at the time- behind Bibles. Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Shelby‚ a nice slave owners‚ cannot afford to keep all the slaves and sells Uncle Tom- a middle aged slave with a family. Mr. Shelby was going to sell Harry‚ their maid slave’s son‚ because they had huge debt to Mr. Haley. Harry’s mother‚ Eliza‚ runs away with Harry. Harry and Eliza are hunted and Tom goes to

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    will introduce some main situation in the novel. Shelby‚ who is the slave owner of Kentucky‚ failed to speculate in the stock market and decided to sell two slaves to pay off his debts. One was Tom‚ who was born in the plantation of Shelby. He is loyal to his master. The other slave to sell was Eliza‚ the son of a black and white slave girl‚ Harry. Eliza advocates freedom. She wished she had the right to be free. Therefore‚ when she heard that Shelby would sell her. She took his son to the free state

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    identity contingencies that Steele mentions in this chapter‚ and what are some that you have faced in your life? The identity contingencies that Steele mentioned are racial order‚ segregations‚ constraining behavior and stereotype threat. Whenever I play basketball with my African American friends‚ I always go easy on them because I believe that their athletic genetics are naturally superior than mine‚ so there is no reason for me to be conceited. 2. What does Steele mean when he says contingencies

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    Does Music Help or Hinder Studying? Abstract: In the following paper‚ my goal was to research the positive and negative effects of college students listening to music while studying. In order to do this I interviewed four different Quincy University students to receive evidence to support my hypothesis that college students that listen to music while studying‚ will not be as stressed and they will be able to work more effectively. Even though I found three out of the four interviewee’s did not like

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    Memento is an American psychological thriller adapted from a short story‚ Memento Mori written by James Nolan. The story displays the life of Leonard Shelby. Shelby has anterograde Amnesia brought about by an injury to his head. He suffered this injury while confronting two people who attacked his wife at their home in the middle of the night. Leonard kills one of the attackers during the attack‚ although the second one escapes. Due to the injury and resultant amnesia‚ the last thing Leonard remembers

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    Carter, a Mystery

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    from loss of blood. But as the days went by‚ Shelby‚ a cupid like creature‚ was growing jealous of the magical unicorn by the name of Carter. So she had to eliminate him. Shelby then tried to slap Carter with a pita bread‚ but instead Carter ate the pita. Shelby was defeated so she ran into the woods and fell into eternal sleep under the giant spoon of love and tears. Legend has it if you can summon the fairy of cocain the fairy will tell you where Shelby sleeps. If you find her and awake her with

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    Lauren Kate

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    ALSO BY LAUREN KATE FALLEN This is a work of fiction. Names‚ characters‚ places‚ and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons‚ living or dead‚ events‚ or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright (c) 2010 by Tinderbox Books‚ LLC and Lauren Kate All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press‚ an imprint of Random House Children’s Books‚ a division of Random House‚ Inc.‚ New York. Delacorte

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