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    Case Study Norma James

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    Norma James is a socially isolated 65 year-old widow. She has limited contact with her two adult sons. Norma has no interest engaging in social interaction. She has a history of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Norma has many physicians and takes various medications. She is unemployed‚ has limited savings‚ and depends on Old Age Security benefits for income. She smokes cigarettes daily and has been smoking for about forty years. She likes to indulge in alcohol a few times a year. Norma

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    Norma Rae is inspired by Rueben Warshowsky who speaks about how they are earning much less than they should be. Norma Rae holds up a sign that says “UNION”‚ and the workers band together and hold an election unionize the factory. In the end‚ they win the election and successfully create a union in order for them to have fair pay and better working conditions. This shows how despite the less than ideal circumstances‚ Norma Rae and the employees preserved their

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    I chose “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury. The theme of this story is the boy overcoming fears about the battle. Conflict‚ resolution‚ characters’ dialogue‚ and behavior all contribute to the story’s theme because it affects the mood or the scene around the “bloody battle”. ”Beyond the thirty-three familiar shadow forty thousand men‚ exhausted by nervous expectation and unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought‚ lay crazily askew in their uniforms”. The behavior of these

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    Norma Rae a Labor Analysis

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    Norma Rae a Labor Analysis This film is based on the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton and her involvement with Ruben Warshovsky and the organization of the textile workers at the J.P. Stevens Company in Roanoke Rapids‚ North Carolina (Labor Films). Sally Field plays the lead role of Norma Rae (Crystal Lee Sutton) fighting poor working conditions at O. P. Henley Company in 1978. This company is a southern textile mill‚ working with a union organizer to overcome pressure from management

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    “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury and an article by Carolyn Reeder gives similar details about the role the drummer boy played in The Civil War. Another name for The Civil War is The Boys War because of the amount of young men. In the passage‚ the General says that the boys are fresh out of the milk shed‚ and in the article give information on the boys being in their teens while they fought. The passages main character Joby is a young boy and many of the boys who fought had joined the

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    NORMA RAE “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies‚ we are determined to foment a rebellion‚ and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” Abigail Adams (www.wisdomquotes.com) The above stated lines very truly represent the spirit of Norma Rae and the power of women. The quotation highlights the two main points shown in the film; the strength and determination of women and the idea of equal representation for all. The film portrays

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    Jeans

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    Anthro 121AC December 2013 Jeans and The Blue Denim In Japan‚ people have kimono‚ in China‚ they have cheongsam as a long dress with a high collar and slit skirt that traditionally worn by Chinese women‚ and in USA‚ people have jeans as their fashion identity. Fundamentally‚ jeans can be described as blue denim and it is very functional‚ durable‚ and mainstream in the public. Every facet of American society has worn jeans since 160 years ago. The story of jeans started by Levis Strauss‚ and

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    BATTLE OF SHILOH As a result of the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson‚ Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston‚ the commander in the area‚ was forced to fall back‚ giving up Kentucky and much of West and Middle Tennessee. He chose Corinth‚ Mississippi‚ a major transportation center‚ as the staging area for an offensive against Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee before the Army of the Ohio‚ under Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell‚ could join it. The Confederate retrenchment was

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    Norma Rae and Labor Issues

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    The movie Norma Rae is about a southern mill worker who helps revolutionize and unionize a small town. The conditions at the southern cotton textile factory were intolerable and management was abusive. In the summer of 1978‚ a union organizer from New York came to this small town and approached the employees at the cotton factory to start a union. The union organizer‚ the mill workers and the management of the factory had very different perspectives as to the ramifications of starting a union.

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    Norma Scorvey Case Study

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    Norma McCorvey (Roe) grew up in an unstable environment. As a child‚ her mom was verbally abusive and was an alcoholic‚ her father was not in her life for a year and was hardly ever with the family‚ and her grandmother was a fortune-telling prostitute. Norma began to date‚ and marry a Woody McCorvey who soon impregnated her. When she told him that she was pregnant‚ he beat her. They eventually got a divorce and she had the baby; Norma thought she would have the baby and her life would improve‚ however

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