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    In an opinion piece entitled ‘Pigeon Plague in Our Cities’‚ Jo Bonella uses a broad range of persuasive techniques in an attempt to persuade readers to accept his contention that a new program to stop pigeon feeding is needed to deal with a growing “pigeon plague”. Bonella firstly builds a very negative view of pigeons‚ describing the presence of these “pests” as a “plague” and pointing out that they were imported into Australia long ago for specific purposes‚ planting in readers’ minds the idea

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    among the American society and even the government‚ it is unfortunately false. The idea that everybody has equal individual opportunity is a myth because social classes and social inequalities restrict individuals from pursuing the American dream. Barbara Ehrenreich‚ in her text “Serving in Florida‚” highlights the inequalities and

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    something for me. Forget everything you know about where you’re at right now‚ who you’ve spent your life with‚ and what you believe in. Would you still be the same person you are today? Probably not. How would you be different? In The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver‚ Leah Price trades her dependent‚ people-pleasing personality for a strong‚ independent woman who can do things for herself. When Leah was forced to move to the Congo at age fourteen‚ she was unaware of who she was and had filled herself

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    Themes in the novel “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver include the importance of family and the need for community as emotional support systems for individuals facing hardships. As the individuals face their hardships‚ Kingsolver binds them together with support‚ forming a community that at times functions like a big extended family‚ however non-traditional it may be. Kingsolver not only illustrates the importance of family as an emotional support system in today’s society‚ but the changing face

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    one’s life. Job stress can also tie into fatigue and alcohol and/or drug abuse. Fatigue gives us tired cops and tired cops can be a bad thing in the criminal justice field. Alcohol and drug abuse plagues cops everywhere. There are many suggestions for programs and treatment ideas for these problems that plague our law enforcement officers. Job stress can’t be avoided in any job field. It especially can’t be avoided in the field of law enforcement. Job stress can come from many sources. Having to exercise

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    really cares about all of the overhead standards of justice that have been put in place. Some people believe that their own sense of justice is so just‚ that no time should be spent conforming to the others. Nathan Price‚ a character from Roberts 2 Barbara Kingsolver’s novel‚ The Poisonwood Bible‚ is one of these people. Nathan Price is a southern baptist preacher that is married to Orleanna Price with four daughters: Rachel‚ Leah‚ Adah‚ and Ruth May. Nathan takes his family with him to the Congo on

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    Barbara Ehrenreich gives us a somewhat warm welcome to cancerland in her article. Her writing gives her readers a different mindset on cancer. She raises different points about how cancer is objectified‚ considered beautiful‚ infantilized‚ as well as how it robs patients of their autonomy. People think cancer and they think chemo or death. Ehrenreich focused much of her writing on reminding us of the ways that‚ breast cancer specifically‚ is objectified by society. In her article “Welcome to Cancerland”

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    The Black Death or the bubonic plague was one of the most deadly disease of our time. The Black Death took place between 1348 and 1351. It killed about one third to one half of the population in Europe. It only liked warm weather; therefore it would die out in the winter‚ but come back strong in the summer. When it would infect a victim it would only take a matter of days to kill him or her. The Black Death would kill so many people so fast that they would dig big pits and put all the dead in a hole

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    When a little girl is growing up she is influenced by everything around her‚ by the people most of all. As she grows she begins to take on the beliefs and ideas of her society. When the four Price girls head to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver they are at four different point of accepting the beliefs of their society. Rachel‚ being the oldest‚ has taken on most of the common beliefs. She loves her material belongings and just want to be a normal girl‚ and she holds the common

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    To begin to understand why anti-race/ethnicity homicides may be discernible from other types of lethal violence‚ the current study draws from Messerschmidt’s (1993) theory of structured action‚ and specifically Barbara Perry’s (2001) extension of this theoretical framework to explain incidents of bias victimization. Structured action theory assumes that individual behavior and social relations cannot be interpreted without first linking people’s actions to the broader socio-structural conditions

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