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“An Unintended Life” “When something is meaningful, it has significance and worth not just to ourselves or even our closest friends and family, but to a much larger group” (McGonigal 446). In Jane McGonigal’s essay “Becoming Apart of Something Bigger Than Ourselves”, this is a part of her definition of meaning. When reading and thinking about this quote, it evidently relates to Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryant’s lives during their child and adult years described in the novel written by David…

When many people think about the qualities that define a great friend, they think of someone who is trustworthy, kind, and humble. Ruth, however, is none of these things, unless she wants to be. But, to Kathy, she is a great friend. Ruth should not be thought of as a domineering control-freak, but rather a character who reveals the humanistic traits that the clones in this alternate reality have. The combination of Ruth’s personality traits, life experiences and completion at the end of the…

Female Domesticity Bonds the Female Protagonists Together in Trifles Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are the most important characters in the investigation of John Wright’s murder because they solve the case by discovering the dead canary in Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles. This play is first performed in 1916, during a decade where women are not permitted to vote in the United States until the 1920s. The women are subordinate to the men in the play; Glaspell consequently shows the different social…

Meredith was just a normal sixteen year old girl living out her highschool days. Meredith was cheer captain dating the school quarterback Dexter. They have only been dating for a while. Rita was Meredith's best friend and also a cheerleader. It’s a friday night so Dexter and Meredith go out together to dinner and bowling. They decided to go To Dexter’s house afterwards and one thing lead to another and they were doing the deed. A few weeks go by and meredith finds out she is pregnant and freaks…

"Hey sis. Uhh do you and Luke want to go out with Jay and I tonight? Yah know since Mikey and Calum stole you two girls from us last night." Ash asks as I pack my bags for the next month. I guess I should probably mention that this is Jay and I's last day before we and out to Perth. "Of course we would, Ash. Luke said he just planned on us watching movies all night, and by that we all know he means watch 'Mean Girls' and fall asleep halfway through." I respond placing my final pair of Nike pros…

In Breaker Morant the sentences given to Lieutenant Morant and George Witton were not fair. However, the sentence of Handcock was fair. Lieutenant Morant and Handcock were sentenced to death while George Whiton was given a life in prison sentence. Lieutenant Morant was accused of killing a Boer prisoner named Visser, and the killing of eight Boers that were prisoners of war. The first case was that of Visser who was a Boer commando. He was taken prisoner after the death of Captain Hunt, and…

The rest of the night was spent socializing as well eating dessert and more cocktails. Libby and Kendall both were pleasantly buzzed by the alcohol they sipped throughout the party. Nico offered to give them a ride home to which they both agreed. Somehow, he managed to have only had one drink throughout the whole night. Libby barely remembered stumbling outside to Kendall’s truck which he and Nico had drove in. She insisted that Kendall be in the backseat with her. On the way to Kendall’s…

'That's true, and the boredom would be unbearable, although I wonder how good of a job I'm doing protecting those many." Lyle's expression turned sombre when Elizabeth's reply caused him to glance at the images of the five dead men, reflecting the weight of responsibility he'd taken on. Any further murders between now and capturing the perpetrator would be on Carter's hands. Although intellectually aware that wasn't true and he could only follow the evidence where it led, that instinctive…

definitions of Affirmative Action(Kaveny, 1996, p. 286), it is generally understood to be a method of encouraging, via varying forms of preferential treatment, the employment or admission of specific groups of individuals normally related to discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, or other social grouping. (Adams, 1997; Allen, 2011; Brest & Oshige, 1995; Crum & Naff, 1997; Dworkin, 2000; Lipson, 2007; Moses, 2010; Roberts, 1979, p. 90; Taylor, 2009) Affirmative action is not limited to…

Situation 9: Lauren Hill (Pay Discrimination Related to Gender) The example of Lauren Hill is an instance of gender discrimination in the sphere of material rewards for work because the company paid her less compared to male employees. The issue falls within the provisions of such legal statutes as the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (Civil Rights Act of 1991, n.d.; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,…