Having Our Say Reflective Paper Hitting one hundred years old is a real accomplishment to have in your life. The Delany sisters both lived to be over one hundred years old. In fact‚ their family had quite the tract record for living for extended periods of time. Their mother was ninety six when she died‚ their father was seventy when he died‚ their grandfather was seventy when he died‚ their grandmother was sixty six when she died‚ and all of their brothers and sisters all lived over the age
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Should the government have a say in our diets‚ Many people will argue that it is freedom of choice to eat whatever you want but the government has a right to interfere with that freedom if it is infringing upon the rights of others. I am not saying that if someone is eating unhealthy it is going to eliminate another person’s freedom but it does affect everyone in the nation. With a rising number of people with poor diets‚ the number of people suffering from obesity rises also. Obesity can cause
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BookRags Literature Study Guide Having Our Say (novel) by Sarah Louise Delany For the online version of BookRags’ Having Our Say (novel) Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-having-our-say/ Copyright Information ©2000-2011 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism
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Having Our Say is a detailed narrative report on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany‚ two elderly African-American sisters‚ who are finally having their say. Now that the people who kept them down is long gone‚ Sadie and Bessie tell the stories of their fascinating lives‚ from their Southern Methodist school upbringing to their involvement in the civil rights movement in New York City. Sadie is the older‚ and sweeter of the sisters. She was first colored high school teacher in the New York Public
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The main focus of the government during wartime is winning the war‚ it makes sense that the government would want to keep ideas that may cause problems for the war effort to the minimum. While it does rub people the wrong way to have their rights reduced‚ it is necessary for the government to want to win a war. Opposing the war effort may lead to more casualties than supporting the draft. Therefore‚ rights should be limited during times of war because the danger that some forms of speech create can
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The government should establish policies to control diet and obesity The World Health Organization (2003) estimated that obesity and the national diet have become an epidemic around the world‚ which could be caused by limited attention in health and lack of consciousness of daily diet. In accordance with current trends‚ there will be 2.3 billion adults overweight [body mass index [BMI] ≥25] in 2015‚ and 700 million people will be clinically obese [BMI≥30] (Campbell‚ 2005). In light of these
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The government has the power to choose who of their citizen gets to live or die. When you think about taking a life away from someone it’s never moral or acceptable in this time. What we do know is the government has been taking multiple lives away from their people. Even in The Declaration of Independence‚ they promised to protect the lives of their citizen‚ yet the government has been taking the lives of their citizen in two different ways. Firstly the government drafts people in a war. Secondly
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political problem. Facing with this situation‚ do you think governments should or should not censor the internet? I believe that government should censor Internet by banning some negative websites from ambiguous or bad sources. What kind of negative websites and why do they have to do that? Actually‚ in my country‚ Vietnam‚ there have some websites about critical political or religious reaction content which is prohibited by the government. Most of these are made by the Vietnamese living in oversea
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that. I believe that the government should support abortion for everyone‚ despite the reason‚ should have hands-off social freedom. Also‚ I think the government should have a hands-off approach on the social issue of affirmative action‚ which is another liberal ideology. In the end‚ I believe that the government should take a hands off approach to the social issue of the death penalty‚ which also aligns with liberal ideology. First‚ I believe that the government should have a hands-off approach to
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Having Our Say “The truth is you’re born a certain way and there’s some things you can change and some things you can’t” One of the many smart truthful things that Elizabeth Delany (Bessie) said. As Bessie and Sarah Delany (Sadie) grow up‚ the book Having our Say by Amy Hill Hearth and the two sisters follows every bit of the sisters lives through their own eyes just as they remembered it. As the two “colored” women are born and raised in the south they are raised on the campus of Saint Augustine’s
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