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anti-slavery book actually discriminate against slavery. “In 1957, for example, the N.A.A.C.P. condemned the book as ‘racially offensive’… In 1984 school officials in Waukegan, Illinois, removed Huckleberry Finn from the required reading list after an alderman, according to the Associated Press, ‘objected to the book’s use of the word nigger’”(1472) People denounce the book because of its offensive language and its vulgar dialects. Given that its language might be annoying to some sensitive…

yourself as a businessman, whether you are one or not. Yes, you’re busy. Yes, you have things to do. Yes, you see the problem and you are willing to help as long as the solution comes now, now, now. There is hardly an office from U.S Senator down to Alderman in any part of the country to which the businessman has not been elected. One would think that businessmen, being the movers and the shakers of the progression of industry,technology, and society, would do a better job in government. At…

It starts with the mayor, Colonel Sartoris, exempting her from paying taxes after the death of her father. After the death of Colonel Sartoris almost a decade has passed and the new generation of leaders which included a new mayor and a board of alderman attempts to get Emily to resume paying her taxes but she is adamant that she has “no taxes in Jefferson” which is a prime example of her inability to accept…

A Rose for Emily: The Heart of Southern Gothic When Miss Emily Grierson died, so did the last generation of the antebellum South. She was Old Dixie’s last true daughter. Her family, once wealthy and proud, is now gone and all that remains is a house, a decaying monument to the former stature of the Griersons. The town of Jefferson treats her as a tradition, and while there may be rumors among the townspeople, there is a pervasive feeling of uneasiness in how they relate to Emily. The narrator…

Oportunidades is the leading social protection project in Mexico. This initiative started in 1998 under the name Progresa. This project was mainly for families in rural and urban communities, which were under poor conditions. Oportunidades invested in human capital looking to improve children’s education, health and nutrition. Thus, planning to achieve long-term effects. The goal was not only to reduce poverty, but also to provide better future economic conditions to children. By a conditional…

that smartphones were negatively affecting their primary relationship. More than one-third of the 143 women in the study said their partner responded to notifications mid-conversation; one out of four said their partner texted during conversations (Alderman, 2017).” These facts explain how much cell phones are affecting relationships. It can be known that when over 70 percent of women believe their relationship is negatively being affected by one thing in particular, that it is a major issue.…

Imagine living in 1864 during the marine crusade of Jefferson. At that time, the South and the North were faced with conflict, fighting in a war that caused separation and destruction all over the country. In a small town of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, there is an old woman named Emily Grierson who manages to make her life a larger conflict than the wars going on around her. This character, created by William Faulkner in “A Rose for Emily”, represents in large part, the affects that come…

Almost fifty years ago, a visionary media theorist McLuhan has foreseen the future and predicted the transformation of society through media technology. He coined the term ‘global village’ by which he meant that with the advancement of media or electric technology, the information would pass instantaneously from one point to another contracting this world into a village where all people would live interdependently (Patti & Ciastellardi 2011). Now, after a period of five decades, it can be seen…

Garrett Durborow Ms. Nemec English 102 1 March 2017 Definition The word I chose to define was the term sports. Lots of people have different opinions about the word sports and what it means. Dictionary.com defines sport as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.” I have always defined sports as an activity played by people that involves either physical or…

War and disease have almost always been seen as parallel to one another. For instance, in the Judeo-Christian Bible disease and war are two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Furthermore, French philosopher, Voltaire claimed that they were the “ingredients to a wretched world.” Now in the 21st century, Emmanuel Urey, a student, in response to the Ebola outbreak has added to this metaphor by stating that “[Liberia] just finished fighting a war, and now we have another one.” In other words,…