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    How Do You Feel About Atheism? Lauren Martino Inquiry Skills Pre- IB Ms. DiVarco 29‚ April 2012 Word Count: 1277 0699118 Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Are there signs that Atheism is spreading globally within the past 20 years II. Body B. Population which believes in Atheism a. Start off with a block quote to catch the reader’s attention about which part of the world believes in Atheism b. Have statistics to show change over time of different

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    investigation is to understand what are the color stereotypes for females‚ how they contrast with color stereotypes for males‚ how these stereotypes have come about and how they are reinforced. 2 Body 1: b discuss what is currently accepted as “femanine colors/femanine quality of colors” c lean more towards the quality of color: how the color is softer‚ lighter‚ with more variety of shade. the reason for this could be due to scientific reasons. d Femanine colors are generally seen as

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    In The Color of Water James McBride devoted an entire chapter to his mother’s bicycle. An old-fashioned bicycle that was brought home by her late husband right before his death the bicycle was a coping instrument to his mother. She would ride the bicycle around town constantly‚ as if the constant motion would allow her to ignore what was happening in her life. The bicycle was “a huge old clunker‚ blue with white trim‚ with big fat tires and a battery-powered horn” (McBride 5). The eccentricity

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    How I feel about teen Tobacco use in America By: Mariah Yourczek Tobacco in my opinion is one of the deadliest things for you. It can cause permanent damage to your lunges and most of the time it causes cancer. A lot of people lose their lives early in life because of tobacco use. People lose lots of years off their life because of smoking cigarettes. In the past couple decades most teens try some sort of tobacco at a young age. And most end up getting addicted at such a young age. Tobacco

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    one of the many aspects that make up a person’s identity. Religion plays a major role in the search for identity of Ruth McBride‚ in James McBride’s The Color of Water‚ and Elie Wiesel‚ in his memoir‚ Night. Elie is tortured an dehumanized in concentration camps because he’s a Jew. He was seen as inferior because of his religion. Ruth was restricted from doing what her heart truly believed in because she was controlled by her Jewish faith. Her father represented the constraint of Judaism because

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    States‚ there was an uproar in demands for racial equality and justice by black Americans. After fighting and defeating fascism abroad while still facing harsh discrimination at home‚ black Americans fiercely channeled their energies into civil rights. As nonviolent protests occupied much of the public eye and many civil rights organizations‚ a more radical Black Power ideology emerged among younger activists. Black Power emphasized racial pride‚ self-reliance‚ and self-determination to uproot racism

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    A wonderful way for students to learn things‚ aside from books‚ is from experience. And what better way to learn than bringing in a person with a very experienced background in screenwriting‚ filiming‚ directing‚ acting and producing? That’s exactly what James Franco did in school. James Franco brought in a special guest in one of his film classes. He brought in Wes Anderson. Anderson is known for his Oscar nominated work in The Grand Budapest Hotel. But he didn’t come in person. He Skyped into

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    to put his hands in his pockets‚ or to make eye contact with other captives. His gaze was to be directed down at all times.” (hillenbrand 147) This was the japanese making him feel invisible because his gaze had to be down at all times and he could not speak so it made him feel like he was nothing. Making American POWs feel invisible was one of many ways to break them and to get secrets out of them‚ for example “The Bird beat him daily. Louie bore it with clenched fists‚ eyes blazing‚ butthe assaults

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    The color purple has many examples of how poorly black women were treated. Black men had control over black women because‚ they didn’t do much about it. Alice Walker gives many examples of how black women were untreated and how they were abused by black men. Throughout the novel “The Color Purple” gives many examples of how black women felt in their lives. According to Celie she felt used‚ betrayed‚ abused‚ disgusted‚ she was not feeling like herself. Celie’s mother was a very ill women. She was

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    The movement for Black Power in the U.S. emerged from the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Beginning in 1959‚ Robert F. Willams‚ president of the Monroe‚ North Carolina chapter of the NAACP‚ openly questioned the ideology of nonviolence and its domination of the movement’s strategy. Williams was supported by prominent leaders such as Ella Baker and James Forman‚ and opposed by others‚ such as Roy Wilkins(the national NAACP chairman) and Martin Luther King.[10] In 1961‚ Maya Angelou‚ Leroi

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