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    the negative side of the Dominican diaspora, his narrative contest the myth of the Dominican dream, which has been perpetuated in the country’s imagination” (107 Diaz). There are multiple differentiating images of the way these kinds of females are. To demonstrate it seems like the author has tendencies to make white women somewhat slutty. He quoted “If she’s a white girl you know you’ll at least get a hand job” (178 Diaz). This quote alerts the reader that white women could be easily used. When the narrator talks about the different kinds of females he talks about being impressive and kind. “Order everything in your busted-up Spanish. Let her correct you if she’s Latina and amaze her if she’s black” (179 Diaz). The narrator treats females with eccentricity based on the date they will go on. Diaz stated “If the girls from around the way take her to El Cibao for dinner, if she’s not from around the way Wendy’s will do” ( 179 Diaz). The narrator changes the way he accommodates women based on the color of their skin and their origin. Some stereotypes attached to this consist of the idea that White women mostly come from wealthy families.With This, Diaz hints that a White girl is always dropped by her Mom or Dad at his doorstep. Moreover, when he mentions the types of cars dropping the girl off, he mentions high- Priced vehicles like the Jeep. Diaz highlights the stupidity…

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    Miss Lora was a skinny middle-aged woman with no children or significant other. Yunior was a sixteen year old that lacked many experiences, which ties in with Junot Diaz’s short story “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)”. Not only did Yunior lack the experience, he also didn’t want anyone to know of the relationship he had with Miss Lora. Yunior would go as far as to sneak out of his apartment at 3 o’clock in the morning, in like manner to the main character in “How to…

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    Utah.“Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.”(Smart 304).We will always have something to be grateful for because things can always get worse. Elizabeth always found something to be grateful for, and that is one of the reasons she was able to endure the trial. Elizabeth endured unspeakable evils for nine months at the hands of Wanda Barzee and Brian David Mitchell.These events molded and made her into the person she is today. These acts made her grateful…

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    Introduction In fulfillment of my classroom commitments, I am offering to write a white paper to Cullen Geiselman of Bat Conservation International in regards to a technology discovered in 2013. This white paper will be written under the guidelines of my English 3302 studies along with Technical Communications by Paul Anderson. The technology chosen would aid the organization in many of its goals regarding bat conservation. A volatile organic chemical (VOC) derived from bacteria is found to…

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    In May of 2015, I was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. My life became a whirlwind of hospital visits, testing, and a constantly changing list of prescriptions. It took months of doctor visits and a wide range of diagnoses to finally be correctly diagnosed with P.O.T.S. The condition falls under the umbrella of dysautonomia and is characterized by a rise in heart rate exceeding thirty beats per minute when transferring from a sitting to standing position. The body’s…

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    Though the Lakota creation story portrays both material male and female psyche as powerless, it criticizes female personality as inferior by portraying Maka, the primordial female, as infested with vices. In the Cree creation story, on the other hand, this aspect is perfectly met. As mentioned before the creation story refuses to use a gender for the offender, hence keeping both genders equally acquitted. While this also makes Lakota culture seem slightly misogynistic, other stories, such as the…

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    ¬¬ Leslie Marmon Silko’s book, Ceremony, expresses many issues faced by Native Americans, specifically the Laguna Pueblo people living in New Mexico during the 1940's. The central character, Tayo, a man with mixed ethnic heritage, survived being a soldier during World War II and suffered from post-traumatic syndrome. After Tayo falsely believes he observes his uncle’s death, the military releases him to his family's home on the Laguna reservation. He still suffers mentally, not getting cured…

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    disorder? Include a maximum of 6. What is the typical test used to diagnose someone with this disease? Briefly explain this test. What is the positive test for this disease? Turner Syndrome is a rather unusual chromosomal disorder affecting females which was uncovered by Dr. Henry Turner in 1938 (Saikia, Sarma, & Yadav, 2017). The only way to be positively diagnosed with Turner Syndrome is by performing karyotyping to analyze a client’s chromosomes in a blood sample (Saikia, Sarma, & Yadav,…

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    me and move me to organize my papers. Two hunched over adults enter with somber and nervous expressions. It is the first meeting with my new clients: Angela and Joseph, parents of a two-year-old girl named Annie. They witnessed their daughter go through a seizure. As a parent myself, I can imagine the pain and stress they are suffering now. “Her name is Annie. She had a seizure last Saturday” said Angela, a petite woman in a shaky voice. Her husband Joseph, stroked her back as she attempted to…

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    She not only showed symptoms of Stockholm syndrome, but also left behind signs Necrophilia. This led her to a fantasy, an alternate reality of her own where everything that happened to her in her life disappeared as if it never truly did happen. She found love in Homer and she kept him finding someone to share a bed with until the end. She never paid her taxes. She didn’t have to according to her father who lied about not having to pay the taxes in the first place after all she was a woman. She…

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