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scarce amount money, she tried to do her best in keeping it all in order by making sure they had enough to have food for the summer. Moreover, Jeannette got another job to help out, “I had seen a help-wanted sign in the window of a jewelry store on McDowell Street called Becker’s Jewel Box...I walked around the mountain to apply for the job,” and she kept her job far after her mother came back (Walls 214). While her parents were out spending money on alcohol or art supplies, she was trying to…

During the early 1900's miners in southern West Virginia were fighting, literally, for simple rights that every worker deserves. A 40-hour work week, decent pay that wasn't in scrip, and a sense of safety. On May 19 of 1920, members of the Baldwin-Felts detective agency arrived in the town of Matewan to evict union miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal Company. After catching wind of the detectives’ activities, Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman and a pro-union sheriff named Sid…

Karisa Watson 4/21/16 Dram2366 Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants. Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle, Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of…

vipers’ who had planned a wholesale slaughter of white men and whose execution by a mob had been sharp, swift, and sure” (138). Whites accused Moss and his partners that they had planned for the “Bloody Riot,” thus leading to the killing of Moss, McDowell, and…

1. Name and discuss a major contributor to the development of private security in England. -Henry Fielding, is credited for establishing the framework for the principal advanced private investigative organization, his activities incited what we now consider official wrongdoing reports. 6. Name and discuss three technological innovations that improved the private security industry in the nineteenth century. - The first criminal caution frameworks that utilized a chime that rang if an entryway or…

When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…

From my experience in commercial banking, I believe communicating effectively with other employees is vital to being successful. I believe my time within ASB has defiantly helped me with my communication skills within a professional setting. For example I now have gained: • The knowledge of my area of expertise and how I can add value to my colleagues and clients- I have developed comprehensive knowledge of the systems and tools at ASB to complete my day to day tasks. I have also learnt a lot…

Stat 3021 Practical Assignment Part 3 by Braden McDowell Introduction For the Stat 3021 project, I was interested in determining how NBA draft position impacted a player’s performance. More specifically, I aimed to determine “Do players drafted 1st overall tend to have a higher average win share per 48 minutes (WS/48 — see https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/ws.html for information on the calculation of this stat) than players drafted 2nd overall in their rookie seasons?” I hold a…

Ethan Frome, the titular character, has lived a very lamentable life, beginning with the injury and death of his father. This was then followed by the mental deterioration and death of his mother, which left Ethan with no one but Zeena, the woman who took care of his ailing mother. Afraid of being alone during the dreadful Starkfield winter, Ethan asked Zeena to marry him, even though he did not love her. Years later, Zeena’s cousin Mattie Silver came to live with the Fromes after her father’s…

Specifically, Sharpe quotes McDowell to define slave women’s agency as “what they did with what was done to them” (xiv). Sharpe compares De Certeau’s description of tactics to guerrilla warfare, and connects it to Linda Brent’s manipulation of her own sexuality, as she “operat[es] from…