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    over my class work and watch TV. It gets drank before my first class at 1:30. I always carry water with me to my classes, if I forget I stop by stars to buy one. Not often do I eat breakfast. For lunch I had a turkey sandwich on wheat, no cheese. For dinner I had some soup with a salad. I like cottage cheese with salad, so I skip dressing because that should hold it all together. I don’t like a dry salad. Wednesday, September 14th: Wake up around 7:30 & fill up my pitcher, half of it gets…

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    The Loss of a Loved One When my husband’s grandfather passed away, it was one of the saddest moments of our lives. My husband, Chase, is not afraid to express his feelings. That being said we have been together seven years and I have seen him cry only a handful of times, three of them being over a death in the family. Seeing someone I care about so much breaking down over the loss of his Papaw Jim, is something that will stick with me for a long time. Jim’s wife, Nana Ruth, was a special kind…

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    The Vietnam Experience

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    So we went back to our hotel, showered and got dressed for work. It was eleven forty-five when our squadron started for the base. We did not have a car, so we had to walk. It was only about a five minute walk though. On the way to work the rest of our squadron informed us that they had seen us trying to surf and thought in was the funniest thing they had every seen. Mike and I were quite embarrassed and quickly tried to change the subject, but they could not get over how entertaining we had been…

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    As the mother of seven children, Hanna and Max gave the children the responsibility of going to the store at a very early age. The purchases were always very simple such as a loaf of bread and a quart of milk. As a rule, they would spend a penny or two for candy and put the remainder of the change in the grocery bag. This not only enabled them to learn how to shop, but to stretch a dollar as well. On this particular Saturday, Susan and Beth returned home from the store with the usual purchases…

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    Judy Chicago was born in 1939 and is an artist feminist and educator whose career now spans five decades. Between 1974 and 1979 Chicago, with the help of hundreds of volunteers, worked on one of her most recognizable pieces, The Dinner Party which is widely recognized as an icon of feminist art and has been permanently housed at the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. This colossal work of art is a substantial ceremonial banquet in the shape of an open triangle, a shape symbolic of…

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    The Dinner Party Economics by Eveline Adomait and Richard Maranta provides a deep understanding of the macroeconomic environment and provides an opportunity to analyse the recent decisions of the Ontario government. The Ontario government recently released a new budget that states it will once again run a deficit for the following fiscal year (Morrow, 2016). This will be the tenth time in the last thirteen years that the government has spent more money that it has received from tax payers. With…

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    didn’t really know what was happening? The characters of the story ‘The Dinner Party’ by Mona Gardner didn’t really know what was going on. They thought they were just playing a normal game but they were saving themselves from the cobra. There are twenty people in this game but the main characters of the story is a Colonial Official and his wife, the Colonel, the Americans, and Mr. Wynnes. The setting is in India during a dinner party. In the beginning there was a spirited discussion that…

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    He was such a nice server that he even dressed up like a clown for one of the manager’s children's birthday party. The guests and the staff at the desk loved him as he took care of their needs. A few days after one of the infamous Christmas parties Japes spoke with a local detective. The holiday party was a typical drinking Fest which included Bootlick sliding across the dance floor imitating Elvis, and the employee of the year being so cocked he couldn't…

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    Fast Food In The 1950s

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    In the 1950s, foods took a change for the better… or worse. Things that Americans now take for granted were rare novelties back then. A simple pouch of McDonald’s french fries, a Whopper from Burger King, or microwavable Swanson TV Dinner trays easily changed the “cult of domesticity” in many 1950-modern homes. Before this time, women were expected to spend hours in the kitchen preparing meals for their families. This new way of food preparation changed the amount of money spent on food, the…

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    passing by this section she always walked down it very slowly to engulf herself with the American food. She would always think that maybe if she was seen here people would think she was American also. While gazing at the frozen meatloaf and swanson tv dinners as if by fortuitous her son bumped into a slender white lady with perfect makeup, pearls, and golden hair in a beehive hairstyle. She quickly apologized for her son and thought that would be enough but the lady wants more. The old lady…

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