The poem “Dusting” portrays a young girl who leaves marks on the dusty objects in her house but ends up being wiped away by her mother. The word “dusting” from the title means to dust off the furniture in the house but in this case it means that the young girl wants to be different from her mother. She wants to erase the accomplishments her mother has achieved and accomplish her own different things. She says‚ “But I refused with every mark to be like her‚ anonymous.” which indicates her thoughts
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Name Date Professor ____________________ Strayer University Parameters/Background The case study involving Julia’s food booth …. (provide background and parameters very similar to an Executive Summary in a Business Report). Julia is considering leasing a food booth outside Tech Stadium at home (6) football games. If she clears $1000 in profit for each game she believes it will be worth leasing the booth. $1000 per game to lease the booth $600 to lease a warming oven She
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Mrs. Alvarez was raised in Dominican Republic‚ where the mother tongue is Spanish‚ but soon‚ she got enrolled in a (probably private) school‚ where she also learned English. Even though the learning of a new language is better at early ages‚ it certainly has consequences in us. Julia started mixing words in both languages (what we call Spanglish)‚ but not only in her informal conversations with friends and family‚ but in school‚ what gave her problems with her professor. She also found herself talking
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Dusting Turner should be released from prison because he’s clearly innocent. Why would an innocent man plead guilty? This case was a mess to handle. Stories have gotten switched up‚ lies got told under oath. Two best friends have quickly became frenemies. Dustin’s friend turned his back on him when he clearly needed him the most. Dustin is innocent‚ they just claimed he did it just because he was last seen holding her hand. Anything else could’ve happened. His drunk buddy could have gone completely
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convenient one. In her first stories‚ Minerva constantly fights with her father. She says‚ "I has the one always standing up to him." (alvarez 12) She is talking about her father. Everything is a constant argument with her‚ and she never lets up‚ always finding new angles until she achieves her goals. When she is a loyal citizen in her innocence‚ she "defended Trujillo"(alvarez 18) even before Sinita had finished her stories. Her loyalty begins to ever so slightly waver‚ but her love of the fight is constant
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FBLA Officer It would be an honor to be a FBLA officer again this year and I have a lot of experience since I was the secretary for FBLA last year. I went to every single meeting and I came to all our school functions like trunk or treat and I donated to all our fundraisers. I had a blast last year being a part of this club and I enjoyed making decisions that influenced FBLA events. I am in many other clubs like SCA‚ Latin club‚ and book club because I love working with others and contributing
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Rosalind Franklin created the A and B forms of DNA. She developed a method in seperating the two forms of DNA. Franklin provided the first pure enough DNA crystals to reveal interpretable diffraction patterenWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWs. She discovered the helical structure of DNA has two strands. She was missing an important piece to her structure.The missing piece was how the bases paired on the inside of the helix‚ and the secret of heredity itself (Ardell 1). Watson and Crick were
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Alvarez: A Case Study I. Executive Summary Alvarez‚ a mechanic in Canalven‚ has been with the company for 25 years and is five years away from retirement. He is good at his tasks and has a good understanding of the machineries‚ displayed by his ability to develop high quality machines for the plant use. He is very energetic and very proud of his job and his capabilities‚ so proud that he inscribes his name in bright yellow to every machine that he developed and assembled. This caught the
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Julia Alvarez’s novel "In the Name of Salome" weaves together the life and spirit of Salome Urena‚ and her daughter‚ Salome Camila‚ through a journey of political turbulence in the Dominican Republic. Throughout her life‚ Salome describes the chaotic days of rebellions and the calmness of transitory peace between political powers. The book trails the history of the Dominican Republic through Salome‚ voiced through her daughter Camila‚ whose history weaves together her mother’s life and her country’s
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“Dusting” by Rita Dove depicts a senior woman trying to remember the name of a boy that she recalls spending time with as she dusts. Through image pattern‚ allusion‚ and rhythm‚ the speaker describes the monotonous life that Beulah leads‚ and contrasting her present life with her past life in her struggle to remember the boy’s name‚ displayed by personifications. Beulah remembers an exciting event in the past with a boy through rhetorical question‚ rhythm‚ and the speaker’s attitude towards the memory
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