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    AMUSE. BEING JUST TEN I ALWAYS WANTED TO ACT LIKE A PRIM AND PROPER GIRL WHO WOULD DELIGHT HER LOVED ONES. SO‚ THE MOMENT MY PARENTS LEFT I CALLED MY NANNY AND ELDER SISTER AND GUIDED THEM TO DO THINGS‚ THE WAY I HAD PLANNED. MY NANNY WAS A GREAT SEAMSTRESS AND SO SHE MADE ME THIS‚ BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED TABLE COVER WHICH I PLACED ON THE TABLE. I HAD CUT HEART SHAPED TABLE MATS FROM FOAM AND PLACED ALL EIGHT ON THE TABLE. THEN I TOOK OUT EIGHT PLATES‚ FORKS‚ KNIVES‚ AND SPOONS FROM THE CABINET AND PLACED

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    My family consists of five people including myself. I live with both my mom and dad and my two older sisters. Both of my sisters are currently enrolled in college. Currently‚ mom is the sole provider‚ she works long hours in order to be able to provide hard in order to provide for me and my sisters. I was born in Jalisco‚ Mexico‚ at the age of five my parents decided that the best option for economic stability and the opportunity of a future education we needed to move the United States. I do not

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    The Scarlet Letter In the 1660s‚ the number of African-Americans among the entire population of New England was 1.7%. The percentage of found-out adulteresses was even less. Nevertheless‚ a truly gifted seamstress such as Hester Prynne wasn’t standing on ever street corner. The public all agreed that ordinarily‚ finery and indulgence was frowned upon in the Puritanic society. However‚ some held the opinion that Governor Bellingham was keeping enough distance between himself and Hester Prynne‚ and

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    understanding the plot; she does this through many characters‚ but perhaps most closely through the eyes of Esther and Mayme. Esther Mills is the protagonist and arguably the most socially defiant character of this play. She works as a personal seamstress for many different walks of life in Lower Manhattan circa 1905. Consider the time period of this play in order to accurately understand the motives and deeper construction of the play: The Progressive Era. This lasted from

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    Childhood: At a young age Rosa parks learned how to read by her mother. Her childhood brought her early racial discrimination. She goes to a school in Pine level in Alabama there was only one room. They don’t have many school supplies they don’t even have desks. Also the African American students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation. Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations

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    A Good Sinful Woman Hester Prynne is a young Englishwoman who was sent by her husband to Salem alone. She is punished because she has given birth to a daughter named Pearl‚ although her husband has been absent for two year. Hester is forced to carry her child and wear a scarlet letter “A” attached to her bodice and experience three hours of public humiliation as a sinful woman after her three-month imprisonment. In my opinion‚ although Hester is said to be sinful‚ she is a positive character

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    Hester Prynne is a tall elegant‚ beautiful women. She has dark abundant hair and according to Nathaniel Hawthorne deep dark eyes. Hester Prynne could leave people awestruck. She was such a nice‚ kind‚ and generous woman. She was also the greatest seamstress to most. Hester Prynne is the main focus of our story The Scarlet Letter. (65) Antagonist: The antagonist in the story is Dr. Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth is a thin‚ small man‚ with a slightly deformed shoulder. He is older than hester

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    one of the most important composers of his time and is considered the founder of the impressionist movement‚ essentially a one-person revolution. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye‚ Debussy was the eldest of five children of a crockery shop owner and a seamstress. Despite early dreams of becoming a virtuoso pianist‚ Debussy found greater success working as a composer‚ producing his first works as a teenager. His first piano work was written at age 18‚ and within a few years‚ he was composing symphonies‚

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    economically. In order to survive‚ she sold what she could find in her house. Some of those things were kimonos that she highly valued. When she had sold everything she had‚ she took part time jobs as a maid or as a babysitter. She eventually became a seamstress due to the lack of jobs offered to the hibakusha. One day‚ a friend of hers suggested Mrs. Nakamura to join the company where she was working at. She wrapped Paragens‚ powdered Para dichlorobenzene. The owner of the company was very gracious with

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    'In Memoriam': Rosa Parks

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    In Memoriam: Rosa Parks is an article on the Mother of the civils’ right movement‚ Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Rosa Parks is the women that refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. She is the reason the bus boycott started and is a strong and inspirational women in black history. She admitted that she did get up out of her seat because she was tired. Not psychically tired but tired of giving in to white people. She was tired of being single out base

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