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    thing, and serve to identify it. There are three characters symbolized by The Mafia, a bitter writer and an advocate for children. Mob action is characterized by Paul Lazzaro in the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut who is described as a polka dotted car thief from Cicero, Illinois (162). “Lazzaro said that he…

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    My Father's Girl

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    knew something was wrong, mom wasn’t supposed to come get us until 5:30. Then the back door of the car opened and a little blonde headed girl that looked to be the same age as I jumped out. She was wearing a chocolate brown dress with matching pink polka dotted leggings. As soon as she spotted us a huge grin covered her face and she started sprinting towards us. When she finally got to us gasping, she said, “I’m Adrianna! I’m your new…

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    might add we’ve been there about eight times since I was seven years old. I remember clearly that day down to the exact temperature.The sun was out that day, but it was still a chilly breeze since it was late March. I was wearing a gray and white polka dot scarf that my older sister had bought for me. She and I saw the go-karts and decided to ride them. The adrenaline of going around the sharp turns on the track had clouded my mind and before I knew it my scarf was gone with the wind. “ KEARA…

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    about to have a surgery that would change my life. I looked at the nurse, she seemed nice. She had dark brown hair, freckles, and smelled like strawberries. She led me to the room where my parents and I would be staying at the moment, gave me a purple polka-dotted hospital gown to wear. When she got back she had me do all those before surgery prep things, like weighing me, seeing what height I was and so forth. When that was over I laid into my hospital bed waiting for further instructions. She…

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    Income Inequality Between Wealthy and Poor Income or economic inequality can be defined as “the extent to which income is distributed unevenly in a group of people.” (EqualityTrust.org, 2012-2015). With this definition it is seen that inequality can happen between ethnicities, genders, and other subdivisions in the workplace. By some peoples’ standards, inequality could be synonymous with discrimination which is illegal, but for the purposes of this paper income between the wealthy and those…

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    special guitar named “bajo sexto”, when translated means Lower sixths. The guitar had twelve strings. It was used back in the past to serve as support for the rhythm section. Another instrument is the accordion. The accordion gave a straight forward polka rhythm that was learned from Germans. The instruments of Tejano music work in collective pairs were which both vocals and instrumental lock in together in movement of the songs. Jazz has a wider range of band instruments. Jazz bands has two…

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    always told me he never wanted to name his kid's usual names, and when I said I hated my name, he told me for a half an hour how great it was to have a unique name. However, my dad didn’t always want my name to be Tia, and my mom definitely did not. Polka music, and swing, and brass bands were always playing in my mom’s childhood home. The Big Bopper was my Nana’s favorite musical group; one of their songs was titled, Chantilly Lace. It was played for countless hours and my mom knows every word…

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    1960s Fashion Essay

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    made women seem smaller the shapeless mini dress was what produced this form on women's bodies which made them look much skinnier and smaller(1960s Fashion: What Did Women Wear?). These “childlike clothing” had designs such as checkerboard, stripes, polka dots, and colorblock (1960s Fashion: What Did Women Wear?). There were never an “over the top” fashion when it came to women, l. An example of these “Childish”clothing was shift dresses which was a dress a very…

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    Bridge Park' focuses on festive, happy, playful, primary, exciting, and multicolored colors. Every object in this painting is descriptive and colorful. The townspeople are dressed in green and red coats, the trees are light brown with red and green polka dots, the snow is crisp white and thick, and there is even a presence of sunlight throughout the town. George used deliberate brushstrokes and carefully arranged color patterns and figural groupings to enhance the liveliness of the…

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    Black and white, chocolate and vanilla, polka dots and stripes, boys and girls. How do people expect 7.2 billion human beings to fall into two groups? Lets not just stop there, but these 7.2 billion people must conform to gender expectations, or be punished. I have been asked not to come to many…

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