Patricia Bath‚ born in 1942‚ faced many problems dealing with discrimination as she climbed her way to the top in her profession. During her life time she had completed many accomplishments such as‚ making a safer and more efficient way to help cataract patients. Patricia at an early age had begun to love science because of her mother and her father‚ who was also the first African American in his profession. As she was pushed by her parents to pursue a successful career‚ she begun to strive for and
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Patricia Young Patricia is a writer who was born in 1954 and lives in Victoria BC‚ she has won a lot of awards for her fiction and poetry. She is the author of nine poetry collections and one short fiction. She is married to Terence young who is also a writer‚ they have 2 grown children. She taught at the University of Victoria‚ was an editorial assistant for the malahat review‚ on the board of the Victoria school of writing also as a writer or residence at multiple universities. She received
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from one stage of life to another can happen in many forms‚ from a child’s gentle baptism to a tribal hazing. It can take weeks for the initiation of Savic boys. For the boys to become a true Savic man they need to go through the process of "crocodile cuts." It happens once a year but doesn’t happen to only one age group. Boys from as young as 13 to 20-years-old may all go through their tribe’s initiation at the same time. All who take part of the process from boyhood to manhood know it’s painful; it
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Running head: BUDGET CUTS CAN EFFECT THE DROP RATE Budget Cuts can affect the Drop Rate Nichelle Hoyt University of Phoenix GEN 215 Frank N June 23‚ 2009 Budget Cuts can affect the Drop Rate Every 26 second a teen drop out of school. (Khadaroo‚ 2008-2009‚ 1) The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) budget crisis can cause the drop out rate to significantly climb. The budget cuts will allow up to 35 students per class‚ no summer school for elementary and middle school level
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Cut Grass Ingrid Wan 4D (26) 1. The setting of the poem is in summer. We can see it from “It dies in white hours of young-leafed June”. The poem begins with the ironic death of cut grass‚ in summer‚ season of life and reproduction. The poet chose this setting because he wanted to show that death can happen anytime in our life and is inevitable. Using the contrast of death and this lively season‚ it suggests the sudden nature of death‚ and it existence won’t regard
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State government. The schools are being forced to make budget cuts. The teachers at the schools are being forced to take furlough days‚ which are day they have take off with out a pay. The cause of all of these actions is due to the major debt the State of Illinois is in. The money the state should be paying the universities‚ the state is using it on other items. University of Illinois is one of the schools that has to take budget cuts. This is unfair to the University of Illinois because the State
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in Chinese; and once even a Japanese kid asked me if I was Korean. My ancestors are full-blooded Japanese‚ but I have had to get used to people thinking I’m something else. Like that time I went to the barber college on North Clark Street for my cut-rate haircut. It’s a place where student-barbers get on-the-job training‚ and that’s where I met this guy. He was last in line‚ and he kept staring at me as I walked in. I just stared back. Finally he smiled and said with a southern drawl straight
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It is hard to imagine how liberation could be a product bought by status. Throughout life‚ people are continuously confronted with the reality of societal rankings. Patricia McCormick’s realistic fictional novel‚ Sold‚ tells the story of Lakshmi‚ a young girl thrown into the world of human trafficking. As she is forced to come to terms with her circumstances‚ the story follows her struggle for autonomy. Through the lens of Marxist criticism‚ readers discern that economic status and social class shape
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Communication and Crisis Roland K Aidoo HCS/320 5/26/13 Patricia Bird Communication and Crisis Hurricane Katrina was considered as one natural disaster. But in reality it was two disasters. The initial disaster was a natural disaster which ripped the coastlands of Louisiana and Mississippi to shreds and left New Orleans a wasteland. The second disaster was the lack of communication and response that took place between federal‚ regional‚ state‚ and local relief agencies and efforts
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Half a million children are having to survive each day by being sexually assaulted and sold into sex slavery. Even though there will always be scars‚ adjusting to surroundings can help with the day to day survival. In Patricia McCormick’s book‚ Sold‚ a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi gets sold from her stepfather to a woman named Mumtaz in India. Lakshmi then has to survive the cruel things that Mumtaz makes her do to earn money back for her freedom. Sold demonstrates that adjusting to surroundings
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