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    handmaid’s become walking billboards advertising the scarlet woman” (Snodgrass). With this allusion to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, Atwood clearly displays the isolation that comes along with the name tag of “handmaid”. In this society women are judged on what color they wear. Yet, if none of them were to wear a color, no man or authority figure would be able to tell the difference between them. Once again looking back on the American Gothic era, the Puritans held a similar class system to…

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    Research Paper This Way to Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, was a very vivid and gruesome reading it showed the horrors and terrors of the inhumane acts the S.S. men had done during World War II in the concentration camps. Although the author himself being a survivor of the atrocities and nightmarish times of WWII in Nazi Germany one reading this story might find it too direct and descriptive. This style of writing to many readers might be too much for them to handle but I believe…

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    The book “Fire of Jubilee”by Stephen Oates is about a slave called Nat Turner. Nat Turner was seen as a prophet of God by his family, other slaves, and white people. Turner did preach to slave for a time being. But he left preaching to reflect on life and get closer to god. After his master died, he moves to another plantation. When he was in the fields he felt like he wasn’t treated right since he knows more than any regular slave. The reason why is that he thinks he knows more than any other…

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    lifelong crusade to end the unfair system of apartheid in South Africa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for civil rights, as well as to end discrimination against African-American people, and Malala campaigns for education for all. Nelson Mandela: Liberator of his People Imagine that one day, a law is passed that says that your family…

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    Spiegelman decided to depict the American as dogs in Maus since they are the liberators of the Jews, and as known, the dog chases cat. Immediately the Americans arrived, the Jewish people knew the war was over. “The prisoners also reacted in many different ways to their liberation. In some camps they ran out to joyously meet their…

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    about a slave who is treated badly in 1852 o The book persuaded more northerners and other to be anti-slavery • Noticeable American abolitionist • He was a journalist and social reformer • As an editor of radical abolitionist newspaper o "the liberator" • He was one of the founders of the American anti-slavery society. • Free slave in South Carolina • He was considered a mulatto • He was an inspiration to a group of slaves • They ended up seizing Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, • But…

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    Colombia Organized Crime

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    Several times growing up, I would be asked where I was from. When I would answer I was part Colombian I would get slick comments or gestures insinuating that I was into drugs or my family were drug dealers. This was due to Pablo Escobar and all the drug cartels importing cocaine and marijuana since the 1970’s. Colombia is only associated with drug and crime. Colombia is the connection between Central America and South America. Colombia has access to four businesses routes the Pacific Ocean,…

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    Melina Marchetta once said “Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”(Melina Marchetta quotes about language) Without words there is no passion or purpose for us to portray our thoughts and opinions. Even though learning English will benefit the Irish natives, what they don’t understand is that in meaning they are losing their heritage. The society of Baile Beag in a sense wants to set the Gaelic language behind them and move onward towards the English…

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    Home: Warm, Bond Elaine Tyler May’s book Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era explores the reason postwar Americans approached marriage and parenthood with greater commitment and enthusiasm than their parents and children did. It is common for wars to have lasting impacts on the society, especially to those who engage in the war. The American situation was peculiar considering that the country took a leading role in the World War II that ended up defining the fate of the country…

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    Rosie The Riveter

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    appeared in a movie promoting war bonds. The character was played, coincidentally, by Rose Monroe, a riveter at the Willow Run aircraft factory in Michigan. Willow Run was a factory in Michigan that, at its peak during the war years, produced B-24 Liberator bombers at the astounding rate of one airplane every hour! Then Rosie achieved her most notable form in 1943 when Norman Rockwell created a cover for the Saturday Evening Post, a picture that inspired posters proclaiming a message of women…

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