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    with any people in the town.Therefore, they believed that book burning would eliminate the outside influence on what families should look like. Society also thought of children like an accessory, not important to their way of life.All the houses had TVs on the walls in their homes so, people will just sit and watch whatever the social elite thought people should be seeing. It was a disguised, controlled environment to manipulate people's way of thinking. Now, in the real world most…

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    Dinnertime Contracts

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    Start early when the kids are young - set the expectation that the family sits down for dinner together such that the kids see it as the normal thing to do. Establish a contract - When my kids were little, my wife and kids would eat dinner at 5PM and I would eat later when I got home from work. We had to agree upon a dinner time (6PM) where we would all agree to be at the table for dinner. I had to schedule it in my calendar and treat it just like a meeting; because if I didn't make the meeting…

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    Mr. Pizada Came To Dinner

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    In the story “When Mr. Pizada Came to Dinner” by Jhumpa Lahiri , our story begins with a small insight on our characters background, and we learn that Mr pirzadas appears as your classic husband and father with seven daughters, he is employed as a academic botanist and lived in a rather nice three story house up until the packistani civil war, though he does not get involved in the war because the packistani government sends him away to America to study New Englands fall leaves. While in America…

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    By getting the audience involved, Sedaris makes you think about how you watch TV whether it is the news or your favorite TV show instead actually talking to you parents and siblings. This conveys the message that because of technology we have become antisocial and how we are no longer having family dinners in most families even though it was very common a few decades ago. Sedaris creates irony when he describes how his mother gave the Tomkeys…

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    What is pollution? Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that the environment becomes harmful or unfit for living things. Various types of pollution exist, including water, air, personal, noise, light, radioactive, thermal, visual and soil. Human beings are involved in different daily activities that contribute to the contamination of the environment leading to the different types of pollution.…

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    Cleaver’s family. Soto contrasts the families televised with his own to suggest how Mexican American boys are taught to undervalue their own families and backgrounds. Soto begins his narrative with a description of his 9 year old self enjoying his favorite TV show: “For weeks I had drunk…

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    to have dinner with, it would be Betty White, Deadpool, and Bernie Sanders. I think it would be very humorous and hectic. My first choice is Betty White. She is a famous actor who stars in TV series like Golden Girls and Hot in Cleveland. She is very well known for being on of the first women to control things in front of and behind a camera. Her career has been going for more than 75 years and has received many awards for her efforts. I think she would be very fun to have at a dinner party. I…

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    how true it is. They also backed that sentence up with examples of how "no one has to drink alcohol." They then go on talking about how TV is one of our biggest things that hold us back and make us less productive and "Realizing when a diversion has gotten out of control is one of the great challenges in life." That quote is hard, no one wants to give up watching TV or admit they watch too much. The article continues to give examples of research and…

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    Some people come to America thinking their lives will dramatically change. Some might come from poor countries in hope of a new life and more opportunities that is given in America than back in their homeland. This thinking would lead on to them transforming themselves to become more “white-like” like white people. Almost everyone believes that the white population is the superior one out of everyone else. That’s why in the short story Looking for Work, by Gary Soto, it shows how Soto felt when…

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    is a thing that you can find all Thanksgiving dinners. Most people have ham and turkey. Some have venison or fowl. Pie is something that is a another item that can be found at almost every house during Thanksgiving. Vegetables are something that are common at Thanksgiving dinners. Their are different the same types of food served at most dinners but prepared differently.…

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