Celia‚ A Slave Melton McLaurin Celia was the name of a young female slave‚ who came to work for a prominent Missouri family called the Newsoms. Robert Newsom‚ a plantation owner in Callaway‚ Missouri‚ purchased her at age 14. Newsom was recently widowed and it seems he purchased Celia‚ looking for sex. He started raping her after being brought back to the farm. From then on‚ Newsom "visited" Celia often in a cabin he provided for her which was very close to the main household. Over the years‚ Celia
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Curley’s wife is often portrayed as lonely‚ “I get awful lonely”. This is because she is the only woman on the ranch and therefore nobody wants to talk to her as they all think that she is a “rattrap” and they don’t want any trouble. Consequently‚ the only person she can talk to is Curley; she expresses her frustration in only being able to talk to him in Section 5 when she is in the barn with Lennie “I never get to talk to nobody.” This shows that she wants to talk to someone other than Curley
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The Civil War was a major event that had happened‚ and was started by many different ways. This was taken place during 1840’s to the 1860’s. Controversy over the extension of slavery into western territories did contribute to the coming of the Civil War. Even though there were other contributions of the coming of the Civil War‚ the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to the Civil War were mainly politically‚ economically and socially. Extension of slavery into western territories
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What do sociologists do? *Sociologists focus their study on everything humans do i.e. health care‚ immigration‚ environmental Looks at variables contributing to where a person is in society Sociological Theory: Why start with theory? Theories provide us with frameworks to view society Antonio Gramsci believed that everyone is a social theorist We already use our intellects to explain how society work The Nature of Social Life: Sociologists work to organize peoples daily lives and
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"Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart‚ and it must be an inseparable part of our being (Ghandi)." Non-violent protests have been a way of expressing the opinion of many different people for hundreds of years. Two of the individuals that made the idea of non-violent protest known to the world were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Aung San Suu Kyi. King displayed forms of non-violence during the Civil Rights movement in the mid 1900’s‚ while Aung San Suu
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7 December 2013 The American Industrial Revolution Did you know that the American Industrial Revolution started in England? Interesting‚ right? Before the revolution started‚ life consisted of hard labor because everything was done by hand. As the revolution progressed‚ people started to use machines to do their work. Like every revolution there are some pros and cons about the results of the American Industrial Revolution. This revolution was worthwhile because inventions like the cotton gin
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Speech: Hello‚ my name is Rebecca Berenstein. I am here to talk to you about fitness and how important fitness is to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Having a healthy lifestyle can be very rewarding. Some of these rewards include being healthy‚ being happier‚ and being less stressed which I know is a very big problem these days. So‚ what is fitness? Fitness is the condition of being physically fit and healthy. There are many components that make up fitness. These components include
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Although Will Haygood and Zinczenko both address the topic of dieting and obesity with well thought out arguments. I find Haygood’s most persuasive because of the people he wrote about life story and what can happen if you don’t pay attention to the right foods to eat and exercise. Kentucky Town of Manchester Illustrates National Obesity Crisis and Don’t Blame the Eater Will Haygood helps us readers to understand by talking about and
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B. OLSON ECE 407 Homework 1 Transistor sizing For this homework unless told otherwise refer to the AMI .5um process handout. Assume that VTP = -.94V and VTN = .79V. Assume that all transistors are biased in saturation. Determine the W/L ratio needed to bias an NMOS transistor with 50uA of current with Vdsat = .2V. Determine Vg if Vs = 0. [pic] Determine the W/L ratio needed to bias a PMOS transistor with 50uA of current with Vdsat = .2V. Determine Vg if
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When the French colonized West Africa‚ missionaries were sent to rebuild and revamp the school system. The new headmaster Michael Obi tried to modernize the backward school he was assigned to. In doing so‚ he did cross the line when he blocked off a spiritual pathway crossing from the graveyard to the village intersecting the school. Michael Obi is described as young‚ energetic‚ enthusiastic‚ and outspoken. Achebe links Obi’s youthful energy to his passion for modernizing the education of African
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