October 2012 “Ground Zero” “Ground zero is a great bowl of light‚ an emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand‚ like a vast plaza amid the dense tangle of streets in lower Manhattan” (159). This is the feeling the speaker gets when she sees the World Trade Center site for the first time after the attacks on ground zero. The day on which the speaker went was a cold‚ damp March morning on the corner of Vesey and Church Streets (158). At her first glance‚ ground zero looked like a construction
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Afghan Woman Prisoner Ethnocentrism is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture (pg. 54). Ethnocentrism is also the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture. There are different levels of ethnocentrism such as: equality‚ sensitivity‚ indifference‚ avoidance and disparagement. Ethnocentrism leads to conflict‚ cultural shock‚ stereotyping‚ discrimination‚ and prejudice that lead negative attitude towards a person because of a group
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Commentary on « A Negro Woman » by W.C Williams This text is a poem entitled « A Negro Woman » written by American author William Carlos Williams in 1955. It is therefore at the very beginning of the African-American Civil Rights Movement which occurred between 1955 and 1968 in the United States. In this poem‚ Williams describes a common black woman carrying a bunch of yellow flowers. It is written in free verses and could be divided into two parts: one being mainly a description and the
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use the @Risk software. Launch @Risk from the Start menu. Begin by building the following spreadsheet: 1 2 A Sales Forecast C D E Sales Dollars in Millions 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 B Customers Big Guy Little Guy New Guy Zero-One Guy Total Sales This Year $25.8 $5.2 $0.0 $2.0 Next Year The Year After In C9‚ enter the formula =SUM(C5:C8)‚ in D9 enter =SUM(D5:D8)‚ etc. We want to add risk analysis to next years’ sales forecasts. We will add uncertainty
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shape people to become who they are. The most important factor in why people choose to do something is life experiences. The way they handle the situation is based off what they have learned through their life. In the excerpt from “Abuela Invents the Zero” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer‚ the narrator‚ Constancia had scarcely met Abuela‚ her grandmother and Abuela troubling her made her make the decision not to help her. Judith Ortiz-Cofer states‚ “I [Constancia] had seen her only three or four times in my entire
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Phenomenal Woman is a dramatic poem by Maya Angelou about the love a woman has for herself even with her flaws. This poem is meant to be performed in front of an audience because the poem’s body movements reflect her flamboyant actions as she performs on stage. The speaker is a strong‚ confident woman (possibly Angelou) whom men seem to be incredibly attracted to. This is odd because the woman seems to not consider herself beautiful. Through her poem‚ Angelou speaks to all women‚ beautiful or
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of woman are now different based on their location in the world. Woman should have the same opportunity as men. “Equally rights”. In places such as India‚ Taliban and South Sudan woman are having their right held against them. These women have hard times getting what they need and want. Throughout this the rest of this passage I will go deeper into their living environment and everyday life. In South Sudan Rose Mary Adare and her two-week-old baby was dragged out of their home at gun point in
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WOMAN TO CHILD: The poem ‘Woman to child’ written by Judith Wright‚ is a strong‚ compassionate and highly significant piece of Writing; this is evident in its close reference to the stages of pregnancy‚ in creating new life. This poem displays the connection and the emotions regarding pregnancy between the mother and the child in each of the four stanzas written. There are many shifts in the tone through out each stanza. In the first stanza‚ when Judith writes “You who were darkness warmed
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The Woman in Black ‘How does the woman in black conform to the conventions of a classic ghost story’ Arthur Kipps‚ a young lawyer travels to a remote village to sort out the affairs of an estate left behind by its recently deceased owner. There he discovers a mysterious woman dressed in black‚ is terrorizing the locals. He then uncovers a tragic secret. Crythin Gifford was described to us by Sam Daily and he has said that "… There’s the drowned churches and the swallowed-up village‚"‚ gothic
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An old woman clutches a tourist’s sleeve and tags along with him. She wants a ’fifty paise coin’. For this she offers to show him ’the horseshoe shrine’. This refersto a legend centred around a horse-shoe shaped depression in a rock about Khandoba‚ the presiding deity at Jejuri‚ who leaped from that rock onto his horse ashe carried his wife with him. This is a legend that the true believer reveres and the sceptic doubts.The tourist moves away as he has seen the shrine already. The old woman ’tightens
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