Having Our Say is a detailed narrative report on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany‚ two elderly African-American sisters‚ who are finally having their say. Now that the people who kept them down is long gone‚ Sadie and Bessie tell the stories of their fascinating lives‚ from their Southern Methodist school upbringing to their involvement in the civil rights movement in New York City. Sadie is the older‚ and sweeter of the sisters. She was first colored high school teacher in the New York Public
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The government should establish policies to control diet and obesity The World Health Organization (2003) estimated that obesity and the national diet have become an epidemic around the world‚ which could be caused by limited attention in health and lack of consciousness of daily diet. In accordance with current trends‚ there will be 2.3 billion adults overweight [body mass index [BMI] ≥25] in 2015‚ and 700 million people will be clinically obese [BMI≥30] (Campbell‚ 2005). In light of these
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The government has the power to choose who of their citizen gets to live or die. When you think about taking a life away from someone it’s never moral or acceptable in this time. What we do know is the government has been taking multiple lives away from their people. Even in The Declaration of Independence‚ they promised to protect the lives of their citizen‚ yet the government has been taking the lives of their citizen in two different ways. Firstly the government drafts people in a war. Secondly
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political problem. Facing with this situation‚ do you think governments should or should not censor the internet? I believe that government should censor Internet by banning some negative websites from ambiguous or bad sources. What kind of negative websites and why do they have to do that? Actually‚ in my country‚ Vietnam‚ there have some websites about critical political or religious reaction content which is prohibited by the government. Most of these are made by the Vietnamese living in oversea
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that. I believe that the government should support abortion for everyone‚ despite the reason‚ should have hands-off social freedom. Also‚ I think the government should have a hands-off approach on the social issue of affirmative action‚ which is another liberal ideology. In the end‚ I believe that the government should take a hands off approach to the social issue of the death penalty‚ which also aligns with liberal ideology. First‚ I believe that the government should have a hands-off approach to
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Having Our Say “The truth is you’re born a certain way and there’s some things you can change and some things you can’t” One of the many smart truthful things that Elizabeth Delany (Bessie) said. As Bessie and Sarah Delany (Sadie) grow up‚ the book Having our Say by Amy Hill Hearth and the two sisters follows every bit of the sisters lives through their own eyes just as they remembered it. As the two “colored” women are born and raised in the south they are raised on the campus of Saint Augustine’s
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Transparency in Our Government Government secrecy has occurred over time from the 1960’s to the present. Government secrecy is harmful to all citizens in the United States because it has been a reoccurring theme for a far too long time‚ citizens have the right to know the information the government is withholding about their country‚ and be aware of the choices our government is making to fix this problem. Since the Cold War the lack of transparency in our government has effected the population
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Should the Prime Minister and the government say sorry to the aboriginal people? The Indigenous people of Australia have had a controversial place throughout Australian history. They have been a racial minority in society and have been the victims of cultural conflict. Australian Aboriginal culture is unique and complex. It existed at least 50‚000 years ago and is one of the world ’s longest surviving cultures. Grambial tribes were the first Australian Aborigines to have met the white settlers
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mean that any person is free to do whatever they want when they please. Government plays a huge role in our daily lives‚ they set and enforce the rules we must follow‚ they monitor our behavior in public and private to make sure each day goes as smooth as possible. Without repercussions to actions that a small percentage of our population carries out America would be pure anarchy. But how close is too close? Does our government cross the line from protecting us to invading innocent everyday people’s
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Should the government have somewhat of a access to your internet history? Should your principle be able to keep an eye on your social media? The government and schooling should be able to have access to the students and the people’s social media and internet searches because cyberbullying is a big problem that is occurring. Another reason is terrorism‚ dealing with the terrifying terrorist attack that took down the twin towers on September 9‚ 2001. The last reason is that there is such a big
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