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    This article is written by Katherine S. Newman‚ she is a sociologist who investigates the rising numbers in accordion families. The numbers of people in their 20’s and 30’s are still living with their parents and living off their parents savings and retirement‚ with little of their own. The cost of living has risen‚ the unemployment rates has also risen and it has compromised the adulthood to young children. Newman’s investigation‚ is in six countries‚ drawing from over three hundred interviews

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    In “The Lady’s Maid‚” by Katherine Mansfield‚ the narrator and maid is named Ellen. (Name similarity?) She‚ much like Cinderella‚ is loyal and quiet in performing her daily duties. Ellen is also searching for something to complete her life. But several incidents in Ellen’s life contribute to her un-Cinderella-like ending‚ including the fact that she does not have a mythical figure to help her out. These scenes‚ which are shown through Ellen’s responses to interactions with characters around her‚

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    Two of Katherine Mansfield’s most famous stories are "Prelude" and "At the Bay"‚ both of them portraying a New Zealand family. Both stories‚ are revolving around the female characters‚ but the one link that connects all of them is Stanley Burnell‚ member and provider of the family. The New Zealand critic Carl Stead affirms that Stanley Burnell is a ’benevolent despot’ meaning that he is a kind person‚ and a tyrant in the same time. I agree with Stead affirmation‚ but as it seems somewhat incomplete

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    Arabella Mansfield

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    Arabella Mansfield-First female Lawyer Nicole Goodby Composition I-202 Instructor Swanhorst Everest University Composition I-202 “The theory of this government from the beginning has been perfect equality to all the people” (as stated in the in the Arguments of the Women Suffrage Delegates to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on January 24th‚ 1985). These words are spoken by one of the most awe-inspiring women of all times Arabella Mansfield. A story

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    in charge over their colored maids. Their ideology was that the white race was superior than any other race thus them treating colored maids unfairly. However‚ they let them raise their kids and also take care of them when they were sick. After doing all this they don’t even let them use the bathroom in their home not even when there is bad weather nor when they are in a good mood. In addition the maids would provide food for the family they were working for. The maids were like mothers to the babies

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    Maids In The Help

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    Imagine‚ you are a colored woman in the 1960’s. The job of being a maid is the only job available to you‚ the pay is not good‚ and‚ you are treated lesser than the rest of society. This was the life of many colored women in the 1960s of Jacksonville‚ Mississippi. In the novel The Help‚ author Kathryn Stockett tells the story of the maids’ aka “the help” during this time. One white socialist and two maids put their stories and talents together to pull off one of the greatest scandals in their Jacksonville

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    Foreign Maids

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    Foreign Maids A domestic worker (maid) is a person who works within the employer’s household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family‚ from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance‚ known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking‚ doing laundry and ironing‚ food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work. The

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    Minute Maid

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    The company chosen was Minute Maid. They are produced by The Coca-Cola Company. It is the world’s top marketer of premium fruit juices and drinks. As of now‚ there are greater than 100 singular flavors and assortments of Minute Maid readily available almost everywhere (The Coca-Cola Company‚ 2012). Originally‚ Minute Maid was produced by The Florida Food Corporation. In 1949‚ the company renamed themselves the Minute Maid Corporation. They adopted the name because of how popular the Orange Juice

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    Mansfield Reformatory

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    Mansfield Reformatory The Mansfield Reformatory was built in the year 1886 and was originally built with intentions of humanely rehabilitating first-time offenders. The reformatory was initially applauded for creating a positive step forward for prison reform. It was later in 1978 that the reformatory’s legacy was one of abuse‚ torture‚ and murder. It had been denounced for “brutalizing and inhuman conditions”. Violence among inmates was an everyday way of life. Tales have been told of inmates

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    Art101-15 Assigment-4 1- The Maids of Honor is a 1656 painting done by Diego Velazquez. Its subject goes around a portrait of the main characters in the painting‚ also it shows the artist who is painting. The theme of the painting is social where it shows a very casual time of a royal family’s life. 2- IT was a commissioned work by King Philip IV‚ the main point of the painting is the king’s daughter were she is encircled by the other characters‚ and the painter shows her clearly by using

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