The passage “Girl”‚ by Jamaicia Kincaid I believe is about a mother explaining to her daughter the ways she must act to be the ideal women. The mother gives her guidance throughout the passage wanting her to have social manners and domesticity. The mother gives instructions and commands‚ I believe to give her the tools to be independent‚ strong‚ and respected as a young aspiring women. The mother is setting out rules and giving commands to her daughter to lead her daughter into a better path and
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Course/Number Institution Date Instructor Name Uses and Gratifications Theory Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) according to West and Turner (2007) is a mechanism of getting to know the reason and how individuals keenly look for specific media to meet their particular needs. As opposed to other media theory that seeks to understand what the media do to individuals‚ UGT seeks to understand what individuals do with media. UGT as argued by McQuail (2010) is an audience-centered means
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will write what he or she thinks the teacher wants if that is the only audience he or she writes for. "Role and audience together give you specifics about your relationship and attitudes which must be included in your writing." (Adler) Suggested audiences: self‚ peers‚ protester‚ company‚ a character from literature or history‚ etc. Format: Be specific about the format for the assignment. Students will develop stronger writing skills if they are challenged to write in a variety of formats.
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11/03/2013 Argument Essay The impact of the Media on Teen Girls Body Image “Cosmetic makers have always sold (hope in a jar)- creams and potions that promise youth‚ beauty‚ sex appeal‚ and even love for the women who use them” (Postrel 125). Magazines are filled with digitally transformed images of models with amazing bodies‚ flawless skin and perfectly styled hair. Television advertisers push their products using the most attractive people with the perfect bodies. Television shows such as October
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ARGUMENTS VS EXPLANATIONS EXPLANATIONS An explanation is a group of statements that try to show how or why something is or will be the case. Specifically‚ we use an explanation when we try to explain what makes a claim true. The event or the phenomenon in question is usually accepted as a matter of fact. Explanations do NOT prove why something is the case. Every explanation is composed of two parts: The explanandum (a statement that describes the event that is supposed to be explained)‚ and
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his Ms. Belinda who is a lady that he labels as his grandmother. Ms. Belinda is the mother of Brice Goodwin’s stepdad that passed away. She reported that she needed help with getting Brice to have a clear understanding of going to the Broken Shackle Ranch which is a facility for troubled teens. The interviewed included Ms. Belinda‚ Brice Goodwin‚ and CM Gilmore at the local DFCS office. Ms. Belinda and Brice Goodwin provided the following: • Didn’t want to go to the facility because they didn’t respect
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Operation Ranch Hand; 1961-1972; The heart of the Vietnam War‚ and the U.S. needs an advantage. “[The military] sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over 4.5 million acres of land in Vietnam...Agent Orange‚ which contained the chemical dioxin‚ was the most commonly used of the herbicide mixtures‚ and the most effective‚” (“Agent”). In total‚ this agent accounted for 11-13 million gallons of the total herbicides released. Agent Orange was later found to be the origin of various health
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Experiment No. 3: Specific Gravity ABSTRACT : Determination of specific gravity is very essential in our study because it is commonly used in industry as a simple means of obtaining information about the concentration of solutions of various materials such as brines‚ sugar solutions and acids. There are many apparatuses that can be used to determine specific gravity depending on the material to be measured. The objectives of this experiment is to make acquainted the different instruments used
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Specific Heat of a Metal Post-Lab I. Purpose The purpose of this lab is to determine the specific heat of an unknown metal. II. Safety Wear goggles and lab apron at all times. Use caution when boiling water. Do not pick up hot beaker or hot metal with hands. Use tongs. III. Pre-Lab Questions 1. A 12.5 g metal is raised to 100C in boiling water. It is put into 82.8 g of water at 22.4C‚ and the water rises to 28.6C. Recalling that the specific heat of water is 4.18J/gC‚ use the equation above
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Theodore Roosevelt describes what the Western part of the United States is like in his book Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. He states that” the whole region is one vast stretch of grazing country‚ with only here and there spots of farmland‚ in most places there being nothing more like agriculture than is implied in the cutting of some tons of wild hay or the planting of a garden patch for home use” (Roosevelt‚ 1). Roosevelt describes the West as being one big vas area of land with hills and plenty
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