Rebekah Manning D. Noblitt IB HoA 10/22/14 Ella May Wiggins and The Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Extra Credit Ella May Wiggins was a native of Sevierville‚ Tennessee‚ but her impact on the world took place here in Gastonia. Ella and her brother started careers as mill workers at a very young age after the death of her father. At the age of twenty Ella married Johnny Wiggins; he‚ like her father worked in the timber region. Johnny and Ella soon left the mountains of Sevierville and head
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people are having a “fat day” where they feel unattractive and you boost their self-esteem and confidence by telling them that they look absolutely beautiful. They may know you’re lying to them but either way it makes them feel much better about themselves. It let’s them have the strength to take on the day with a smile instead of a frown. It may not be the most convincing and long lasting lie but for a moment they’ll be
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Katie Hafner’s New York Times article “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” explains how teenagers today are making the unhealthy decision of spending too much time texting on their phones. Hafner begins the article by informing readers how the majority of teenagers are constantly on their phones with climbing rates‚ therefore disengaging them from today’s society. According to the article‚ “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2‚272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008‚
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the film‚ Terms and Conditions May Apply‚ which reveals various companies misusing the personal information of the public. Through the film‚ Hoback demonstrates the end of the age of privacy because of the multiple amounts of people who unintentionally
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Rita Sobhy Discussion #16 Dalton Conley talks about the sect-church cycles in “You May Ask Yourself”. She separates the term sects and churches. According to her book sociologist consider different religious organizations as churches or sects. She states “churches are religious bodies that coexist in a relatively low state of tension with their social surroundings. They have mainstream‚ safe beliefs and practices relative to those of the general population.” Conley 644. She basically says that
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The poem "Question" by May Swenson is about a person that is questioning the way they’ll go on after their belongings and pets are no longer a part of their life. The nameless main character state it in the last line of the second stanza saying‚ "bright dog is dead”. It can be said that the person is very attached to the dog as well as other things in his/ her life. The description of the main characters love for his / her dog. I believe that the speaker feels that after the dog dies he/ she will
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Louisa May Alcott grew up during a time when many Northerners were beginning to stand up for the abolition of slavery and the rights of African Americans to be free from fear of a cruel master. She worked as a nurse during the Civil War‚ braving the “unsanitary and poorly run Union Hotel Hospital” in her efforts to aid wounded and dying men (“Louisa May Alcott” 1734). Even before her saintly deeds in the Civil War effort‚ it was clear that Alcott was a sympathetic‚ well-educated woman who supported
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May Day Eve By Nick Joaquin The major characters in May Day Eve are Badoy‚ Agueda‚ Anastasia‚Agueda’s daughter‚ and Voltaire (Badoy’s grandson).[5] Agueda and Badoy have different personalities. Agueda was described to be a bold‚ liberated‚ and a non-conformist young woman who was “ahead of her time”. While Badoy was characterized in the beginning as a promiscuous young man who wanted to prove his machismo‚ he realized that he was “deliriously in love” with Agueda. As Don Badoy Montoya visited his
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“Terms and Conditions May Apply” offers an illuminating look at privacy in the digital age‚ and the potential dangers of it as our online information (data) is shared with the government‚ and sold to the highest bidder. In the documentary‚ Cullen Hoback shows how those “terms and conditions” and agreed policies allows corporations to do things with our personal information that we could never imagine. What are we really agreeing to when we click “I agree”? Through Interviews with tech enthusiasts
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It’s May 13‚ 1940. Hitler’s regime over Nazi Germany is spreading throughout western Europe. Churchill‚ the newly elected British Prime Minister‚ had the overwhelming task of rallying Britain and its allies together‚ inspiring a terrified public who feared for their lives and somehow defeat the Axis superpowers in war. He gave a speech to the Parliamentary House of Commons about his new government and ended up motivating the public to keep on fighting. Churchill responded most appropriately to conflict
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