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    Classic TV Shows are something the whole family can enjoy. These shows were very tame compared to what’s on television now. True, they could be silly and not usually true to life, but sometimes a good laugh is needed. So sit back, read a little and see if you remember some of this classic tv! The Mary Tyler Moore Show aired from 1970-1977 and was a true classic. The show featured Mary Tyler Moore as a career minded single woman working in a newsroom. Moore played the feisty independent woman who…

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    This is because “workers who came to the city … often felt a sense of uprootedness, a loss of community or “home”, and an intense nostalgia for what they perceived they had forfeited”, which often took the shape of a longing for the “old English cottage life idealised in song and popular literature” that seemed increasingly unattainable in the age of industrialisation…

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    Putnam in his book Bowling Alone, which proposes that suburbanization has eroded the close bonds or “social capital” that once pushed us closer together, causing Americans to become more isolated and to socialize less with neighbors who are not our families or roommates. Driving alone has become the dominant mode of transportation. Commuting is one aspect that loses quality time with your loved ones. People today,…

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    Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in Manhattan, New York and he died on January 6, 1919 in Cove Neck, New York. He was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, governor, and naturalist. He also served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. After graduating Harvard College in 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and entered Columbia University Law School, but he dropped out after only one year to enter a career into public service. He was the…

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    certain closeness to the subject matter, while feeling somehow distanced. It’s clear from the narration that this person is not a direct part of the Cabral family. Díaz does this to give the reader a sense that the speaker knows what he’s talking about, but he’s not as biased as a member of the family might be. Yunior cares enough about the Cabral family to do his research…

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    scared, though she acts fearless and self contained. But mostly she is alive. Nothing about her is more cherished by me than that. When I first knew my sister she was serious and separate from me. My parents had divorced and I fitted perfectly into the family my mother constructed with her boyfriend. She felt discarded, too old, too bitter a bad fit for this new situation. I remember being slapped and teased and her doing everything that she could do to make me feel her pain. And then, with…

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    Discrimination means the practice of treating one group in society in an unfair way (LD384). The causes of the discrimination are various. Discrimination exist nowadays even in countries where freedom is believed strongly. In this democratic world, people still discriminate others.Gender discrimination often happens to women because they were born as women. Men keep discriminating women because they keep assuming that they are the ones who have the power over women. There is a taboo that…

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    characters in this novel are detached from any domestic matter. The men are portrayed as single-minded and pursuit their own goals. Throughout Frankenstein’s research he also showed his careless neglect for domestic and social obligations. It seems that the male characters impulses spiral out of control. The male in the novel Frankenstein is portrayed as self-absorbed and single-minded. During the Victorian times, the woman took care of the domestic part of the home. Men were not expected to…

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    Ishmael Prejudice Quotes

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    At first, Ishmael who is the main character, was a happy child living a normal life among his family in Sierra Leone. However, during the civil war with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), his family got murdered, and he had no other choice than becoming a child soldier addicted to drugs and capable of terrible acts of violence. Throughout the book, the categorization process appears clearly and lead to different type of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. In fact, at the beginning of…

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    stop there with the allusions. Once Espinosa’s cousin goes on a business trip leaving him with the foremen and his family, a great rain begins to fall causing the river to overflow its banks and flood the city. Some of the ranch animals drown as consequence while some are saved. The flood in the story draws many parallels the Biblical tale of the Great Flood where Noah and his family, having been issued a warning by God of an all-consuming flood, save two of each animal on the ark. The story of…

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