Meet Your Rep I reside in California’s 6th district and Doris O. Matsui is the congresswoman for this district. She was elected when she ran for the open seat that was created upon her husband’s (Robert Matsui) death in January 2005. Each district now represents more than 700‚000 constituents rather than the original 30‚000 as intended by the Framers of the Constitution‚ because of a 1929 law that changed the procedure and froze the House of Representatives to its 435 member level. (Levin-Waldman
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very generous even though he or she might be going through a low point in their life. In Langston Hughes’s short story “Thank You M’am” the main character Luella Bates Washington Jones demonstrated a true act of generosity when she brought Roger home with her‚ washed and fed him‚ and gave him money for the blue suede shoes. Mrs Jones‚first‚ demonstrated an act of kindness when she brought him home. Mrs Jones walked home from work when Roger tried to steal her purse. He wanted to buy some shoes
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On Your Knees‚ Ann-Marie MacDonald presents a vivid and life-like character in Frances Piper. Frances Piper is one of the four Piper girls‚ and she is different from the rest of them. From her early childhood‚ Frances is a bold and naughty girl who is always getting herself into trouble. She has a great mischievous streak which troubles her father‚ James Piper‚ immensely. James Piper himself has a demon-like personality at various times throughout the novel‚ some of which he collects from his father
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“Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.” I love that quote from Glade Byron Addams! It has some real fire to it‚ and dreaminess‚ and hope — all great things to experience. The chase is so romantic‚ isn’t it? It opens countless possibilities for happy endings. So many fantasies… And that’s the problem. Those endings are just fantasies — always off in the future somewhere. What If… What would happen if the chase were over? If you actually caught up with your passion? What
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Knowing Your Audience Your Name BCOM/275 Knowing Your Audience On August 5‚ 2010‚ in Chile there was a cave-in in a little copper mine that trapped thirty-three miners three hundred meters underground with limited food‚ water‚ and oxygen. No one knew for certain whether or not the miners had survived the cave-in and if they had if they would survive long enough to be rescued. Four days after the cave-in‚ with rescue crews working around the clock‚ it was still unknown whether or
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several issues that need to be addressed in my workplace. I work for a not-for-profit agency contracted with the Florida Department of Children and Families. We are an agency that tries to help families reunite once they have entered into the Family Law system. My job as a social worker is to promote social justice and social change with and on behalf of clients. "Clients" is used inclusively to refer to individuals‚ families‚ groups‚ organizations‚ and communities. Social workers are sensitive to
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Leaning about CB: Is Your Coke Ok 1. Marketing is a category of actions that include all of the efforts a company or individual makes to convince consumers and potential consumers of the value a product or service holds for them so that the consumer will purchase the product or service. It is all about product promotion. Marketing has a heavy research component to it‚ because marketers have to understand who their target market is and what their values‚ beliefs‚ and attitudes are. It is these
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often your boss tells you to improve a bit? Even if you are satisfied with the pace you work with or the way you do your assigned tasks‚ there is always some tricky confusion in your mind whether I could have worked better? What else I need to do to make it better? There are so many blurred thoughts which actually pull and push you at times but lead you to no where. Let’s take a few examples- Mike is an aspiring baseball player in the suburbs of New Jersey. He is quite good at the game. Even he sometimes
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of following ones own dreams‚ we may look at the lives of Barbara McClintock‚ Johnny Bench‚ and Avril Lavigne. They represent dreams in very similar‚ yet vaguely different ways by showing the world what it takes to overcome obstacles and to follow your dreams successfully. Evelyn Fox Keller was born in 1936‚ and is currently a professor of history and philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on how science is conceptualized‚ especially on
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Week Nine Race and Your Community I live in Champaign‚ Illinois where the current population is 81‚055 (as reported in 2010 in the U.S. Census). Our town has a variety of different people of different races and who may look alike‚ and also look very different from one another. I am African American‚ and there are a lot of other women in this town who are of the same race and have the same skin complexion. I have also been told plenty of times I look like someone else‚ and have even been mistaken
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