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    Keller She was deaf and blind Smart, activist, and wise, are three things that describe Helen Keller. Many people Know that Helen how she taught her and how she taught her lessons. They would go to were helen was born and that is were they would start their lesson.While Mrs.Annie taught the lesson and helen learned it Helen would sometimes run into bumps along the way. Other things they did together. Helen and Mrs.Annie travel together/places and got to meet important people.…

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    social barriers and personal choice, which in some cases, led to death. Crooks was the only African-American person that was working on the ranch, which led to his exclusion and guided towards his isolation and loneliness. All of the other ranch workers can play cards and other activities together, but they exclude Crooks. Crooks complained “ ‘Cause I’m black. They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black” (68). This tells that Steinbeck understood what being isolated felt like.…

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    black man, isolated due to his color. He is weak, the bottom of the social ladder and physically separated from the ranch workers. Crook’s job on the farm, is to take care of the horses. Unfortunately, kicked by the horse Crooks back is crippled. Therefore, the ranch workers call him Crooks due to his crooked back. He is not treated equally like the rest of the ranch workers. Crooks is not allowed to step in the “bunkhouse”, and sleeps separately in the…

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    Servants in the Victorian Era Different Servants Upper servants such as butler, housekeeper, lady's maid,house steward,and valet Upper servants were classified as upper servants because upper class servants were entitled to respect and deference from the under staff. Upper servants were placed in larger households. Upper servants would take the head place at the dining room. The butler is the head of his department and responsible for the…

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    migrant workers. The time of the Great Depression was a devastating time when it came to split up families and being able to provide for them. If you analyse “The Migrant Mother” photograph…

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    farms and other crops, in which we are getting our food from are mostly looking for migrant workers. This is because they can pay these migrants much less than what others would be required to be paid for this type of labor in this type of economy. These workers check comes to around fifty or seventy dollars a week as I have previously stated. In the documentary “The Harvest” Zulema, a 12-year-old migrant worker, states that she received a check for sixty-four dollars. She has been working crops…

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    The physician anthropologist, Seth Holmes wrote, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant farm workers in the united states in 2013 a book that displays the essence of Mexican migrant through an ethnographic sense. This book illustrates the suffering, violence and health problems that indigenous Mexican migrant’s workers faced. In common with what migrant workers dealt with the author also experience problems of his own. He wanted first hand research so he traveled on the bus from Oaxaca, Mexico to…

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    The United States has approximately 10,000 troops located at the base in Qatar. Unfortunately, the United States is not the only country that has a base in Qatar but many others. According to ABC news, Qatar used their personal cash as they build a military base for easier. Since 2015, the labor reform in Qatar has failed the migrant workers. The labor reform decreased the protection that the migrant workers once had that allowed the some kind of freedom…

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    Servants in the Victorian Era Servants would wake up early in the morning get what they could for breakfast, then go straight to work doing what the master of the house wanted like as a maid they would clean wash clothes, cook they made the meals butler took care of other servants, and more like that then they would go and work more on whatever the master of the house said till late at night and never get breaks in the day. How Victorian Servants Worked They worked hard depending on…

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    book that takes place in California during the Great Depression was written by John Steinbeck in 1937. John Steinbeck, an American author born on February 27, Salinas, California wrote this book based on his own experiences working with migrant farm workers when he was young. The book mainly revolving around loneliness, is about two migrant farmworkers, one small and smart, and the other big and mentally ill going around and working on farms to survive in a lonely time. In his Novella, Of Mice…

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