Sewing

from all walks of life. Maleeka Madison is a seventh grader who has beautiful, dark-brown skin, in which she is extremely confident with. That is, until her father dies, and kids start making fun of her. Her mother deals with her husband’s death by sewing Maleeka…

Gangs, violence and the high crime rate in society. The similarities discussed in the videos are based on gangs and their violent outburst causing high crime rates in different society. Dr. Slutkin’s was a doctor working on epidemic diseases and he compares the gangs in society to clusters of epidemic diseases. He also discussed why young people are easily distracted and influenced in the wrong direction. Some reasons can be poverty, peer pressure and the environment surrounding the individual.…

My Michigan Hero We all have at least one hero. It can be a friend, a family member, or simply a stranger you met on the streets. My hero is my mom, Yan Li Cheng, who is a small chinese woman with short black hair and warm chocolate eyes. Her smiles and laughter always cheer me up and she always supports me whenever I need it. Yan Li Cheng, my mother, is my hero because she has taught me that working hard will pay off in the future. My mother struggled as a child. After she had turned 5…

I interviewed my Grandma Becky. She was born February 25, 1955.Her mother’s name is Dorthy, her father’s name was Walter. She has 9 siblings Diane, Johnnie, Walt, Rose, Mike, Teresa, Matt, Mark, Judy. She has lived in Ohio all her life, she has gone to 3 schools Perrysburg, Otsego, Penta County. She wears glasses,has short grayish/brownish hair, brown eyes, her height is 5”7’. She has had 2 jobs they were being a beautician, and owns her own housekeeping business,but she likes the housekeeping…

Before the 1800’s, most Americans were farmers and most goods were produced by hand, but when the Industrial Revolution came into play everything slowly changed. Machines replaced almost everything. There were a lot of new power sources. For example; sewing machines, made our clothes quicker that it would if we would of hand sewn it like always. While most Americans continued to farm for a living, the economy began to shift toward manufacturing. There are a couple positive and negative effects…

Informatics Electronic Health records: A boon or privacy nightmare? Health records are supposed to be private and secure. This article shows how not all health records end up being private and secure. Health records were stored in different ways. People were trying to steal private information. Then you had people that didn't know they could be committing a crime and saw it as no big deal.Health records were supposed to be secure years ago and now. If health records were put in the wrong…

Pounding and sewing the shoes together is something they do every day. It’s called a shoe factory. Every day the workers do the same thing every day. Workers are working really hard to get paid and have their families stay healthy. In this time period they have to work or they have debt. It was the only thing they could do so they can a good heathy future. To begin, the workers get paid less than they do today. They work hard every day and if they don’t then they wot have enough money to…

He said, "As we rode I took the small sewing kit from my musette bag and sewed fur to the collar of my combat jacket. With the collage turned up, the fur kept the cold wind from my face and neck. They also stole the scarfs and varies other clothing items to keep themselves war through the…

Women were expected to marry, take care of their husbands and children, and complete other tasks needed for their families while staying in their place under men. The documents we read so far demonstrate the dependent nature of women in the early republic. We can look at a towering figure such as Thomas Jefferson to see the dependent status of women in the early republic. This notion that women were unequal to men was very prominent at the time and created a drastic divide. Thus, first we will…

The one size fits it all clothing saying is also being applied to our children’s education. In Freemont High School by Jonathan Kozol, students are having trouble with school instead of enjoying it like most children should be enjoying their high school. Students are having obstacles to continuing their education by complaining that there is no air conditioning in classes, not enough courses, restrooms being closed, substitute teachers, and the library being occupied. In the passage “some of…