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    “A Rose for Emily” In the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the main character Emily Grierson is depicted as a person of southern tradition. Throughout the story the life and mental state of Miss Emily is shown through gruesome and ironic events. Her lover a Yankee, Homer Barron is a dividing figure in the social class structure of the south. In “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner displays the south and its unwillingness to change. Throughout “A Rose for Emily” there are many…

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    The history of education is something that can be explain in many ways and have many reasonings but still address the same point. Authors John Rury and David Labaree are both making arguments about the history of education, but are using different language to make their points. They both have a theory about what the three main goals for American education were, but use different terms and ideas to make their argument. John Rury claims that the three main goals of American education is social…

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    Social Inequalities

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    Frequently people living in the United States choose to believe that we are no longer a state that has social classes among us. When the few social classes are recognized, people regularly oversee the inequalities that go along with them. Nonetheless, social class has generally been and remains to be a main judge for a number of social inequalities. These inequalities are related to work, education, and health care they receive. Even though many enhancements have been made regarding social…

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    Pierre Bourdieu, in Distinction, explains taste and preference between different social classes and education levels. He argues that taste is not pure and what we find aesthetically pleasing, and what we appreciate, in terms of art and literature, are directly connected to how people are raised and the way they are educated. Bourdieu is right in saying that literature and the study of art legitimizes social divisions in terms that those who can afford to receive a higher education will be able…

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    Dancehall Queen Analysis

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    Dancehall Queen, a film that follows the life of a woman named Marcia, tells the story of how she achieves upper mobility from a street vendor to defeating the reigning dancehall queen. Many aspects of this film pertained to the lectures and readings we discussed in class. In my opinion, the movie does a great job of covering all the concepts we covered in class that relate to the British Caribbean lifestyle which consist of; Beauty as a cultural construct for upper mobility, popular culture,…

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    The first woman to win a noble prize for not just Physics but Chemistry too, would have a dramatic impact on the world as we know it today. Marie Salomea Sklodowska was a polish scientist, born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russia. Marie’s mother, Bronislawa, and father, Wladyslaw, were both teachers and wanted Marie to have an education. During school when Marie became fascinated with the art of science Marie’s parents were extremely encouraging and supportive.…

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    leaders who chose to do the moral thing as opposed to one that would bring in more money. And lastly, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is the epitome of conscientious thinking in perhaps all literature. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie spent the majority of their lifetime dedicated to the art of science. After discovery radiation from some rocks, Marie hypothesized that there…

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    Marie Curie Hero

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    Her logical work on radiation managed to her two Nobel Prizes: the early combined alongside her husband, the subsequent alone, afterward Pierre Curie’s death. She nearly did not become the subsequent recompense because of claims of ‘misconduct’ in her confidential life. But she valiantly went to Stockholm, even though antagonism, and said that she trusted that there was no connection amid…

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    Marie Curie Research Paper

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    London to be guests at the Royal Institution. Many heard about her achievement, such as Ernest Rutherford, who was an innovative researcher in radioactivity. He congratulated her on her achievements and thesis, as the other guests did. Secondly, after Pierre died in a fatal car accident, Marie decided to continue her research and studies of radioactivity even without her significant other who gave her the hope that she may one day be known. Pierre’s brother, Jacques, informed Marie of something…

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    What makes Marie Curie outstanding is the fact that she is the only person to win two nobel prizes in different fields of science and the first woman to win one too. Most of her research and discoveries were with her husband. Together they discovered the elements: Radium and Polonium. Both of those elements were found in pitchblende. Pitchblende is basically a rock but it has a bunch of elements in it including Radium and Polonium. Marie Curie was remarkable chemist and physicist who had won…

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