In Patricia McCormick’s non-fiction novel‚ Sold‚ thirteen year old Lakshmi is sold into sexual slavery by her stepfather. She believes she is going to work in the city‚ as the breadwinner‚ but her step-father is in it for the money and revenge of the eldest son he doesn’t have. Lakshmi’s biggest priorities are her mother and brother‚ and her stepfather could care less about her or the family‚ he has an addiction to gambling. Instead of working hard and paying for a tin roof‚ he gambles his money
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The story focuses on the story of a man who hates a louse. This louse found its way into a bonnet of a lady who is special to the man. He then starts to talk down to the louse by saying it is dirty‚ ugly‚ and a harm to society. He eventually tries to persuade the louse into leaving the female alone by saying it should go to a plantation or to the homeless because that is where it is expected to be. The narrator tries to put up a front by talking about killing the louse to which he is afraid of what
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The book I read this quarter was Sold by Patricia McCormick. The story is first-person and is narrated by thirteen year-old Lakshmi from Nepal. This book has over 170 chapters‚ each one only a few pages in length. This adds to the narrative as Lakshmi is thinking in small thoughts and does not think into many things due to her young age. Lakshmi’s family was poor‚ but managed to make it by on most days‚ on other days Lakshmi and her mother would starve while her step-father gambled. One day‚ Himalayan
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Every habit man has so far acquired has a long history behind it. Some habits are skin deep like polite manners; others are deep-seated like willing submission to conscience. However‚ these habits can at times lead us to be unintentional victims. “Habit rules the unreflecting herd‚” as stated by William Wordsworth shows how one can effortlessly be subdued by prevailing groups. On the other hand‚ “Habit rules the unreflecting mind‚” shows how someone can be subservient to ones own unconscious actions
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Transracial Adoption and the Effects on Children In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Went to Chicago”‚ Wright expresses his journey of several jobs and the way people treat him and the African American race. He learns that there are some people who have hatred toward him just because the color of his skin. Being use to the hatred towards African Americans‚ he later begins to hate himself because that is all he knows. This essay leads me to wonder about several racial controversies and what people
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McCormick’s novel Sold is extremely relevant because of the enormous human trafficking industry in not only South Asia‚ but many other parts of the world. Worldwide‚ the US State Department estimates that nearly half a million children are trafficked into sexual slavery a year‚ and about 12‚000 Nepali girls are sold by their families intentionally and unwillingly into sexual slavery in India annually. The issues of poverty‚ the shaming and subordination of women‚ rape‚ unsafe sexual practices and
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Ryan Anderson Product Placement Assignment 2/3/2013 Greatest Movie Ever Sold In this movie‚ Morgan Spurlock studies the world of marketing by attempting to sell brands a chance to be apart of the film. The movie gives you an in depth look inside the business of advertising by showing the steps and decisions involved. Whether people are turned on or off by this film‚ it should help viewers gain knowledge on the reality of today’s society at large. The key steps such as brand selection for
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Richard White’s short story‚ “The Man Who Was Almost a Man‚” portrays the internal struggles of a yearning for power and manhood while also shedding light on the inherent immaturity that accompanies such a forced desire. The protagonist‚ Dave Saunders‚ is an African-American teenager struggling with his desires to be viewed as a man. He works as a field hand for Mr. Hawkins and is teased by the older men who work alongside him. Such ridicule drives Dave to buy a gun after convincing his mother that
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man is a about a poor black family in a southern town during a time when black-white criticism was more prominent. The author‚ Richard Wright‚ shares quite a few similarities with his main character‚ like being born and raised in the south and struggling to find himself. He clearly uses the selective third person point of view as he gives thoughts and actions from Dave while only giving actions from others‚ but also narration from a narrator. There is a very interesting southern
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that slavery was wrong by banning it. “He moved his family to Washington‚ D.C.‚ and co-wrote a bill to abolish slavery in that city” (Billings). By passing this bill‚ he got more people thinking the way he did. In addition‚ Lincoln was an independent man. Much of his life‚ he did not have the opportunities
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