In Patricia McCormick’s non-fiction novel‚ Sold‚ thirteen year old Lakshmi is sold into sexual slavery by her stepfather. She believes she is going to work in the city‚ as the breadwinner‚ but her step-father is in it for the money and revenge of the eldest son he doesn’t have. Lakshmi’s biggest priorities are her mother and brother‚ and her stepfather could care less about her or the family‚ he has an addiction to gambling. Instead of working hard and paying for a tin roof‚ he gambles his money
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My Comparison Paper Latosha Sweet ENG125: Introduction to Literature Sheila Gordon 03/07/2011 The literary works I will compare are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales and “What’s It like to be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith. The works focus on the psyche of two women of African descent‚ plagued by the historical American public perceptions of their culture. These negative perceptions play an important part of the individual’s psyche due to prejudice. It has misconstrued and distorted
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Lagarto & Mukaetova-Ladinska‚ 2012). Patricia had shown signs of agitation and restlessness once being administered into hospital and it is important that we prevent and minimise her BPSD through key management principles. In order to minimise the progression of BPSD it requires an approach that includes psychiatric symptoms‚ management of Patricia’s physical wellbeing and environmental factors (Tanaka et al.‚ 2015). For instance‚ reality orientation allows Patricia to familiarise herself with her surrounds
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2. What does Patricia Deegan mean by the ‘Conspiracy of Hope’? What does she suggest is fundamental to the relationship between people who have been psychiatrically labeled and those who has not? Patricia Deegan defines The Conspiracy of Hope as an individual’s or a collective groups’ fight against the sense of despairs that is brought on by mental illness. Ms Deegan further explains that this conspiracy of hope‚ is a practise that see the person beyond the illness and that it is a thought that
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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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Alysha Kurani In Patricia Seed’s Ceremonies of Possession in the Europe’s Conquest of the New World: 1492-1640‚ several different “possession methods” were displayed from the different groups that conquered the new world. Ranging from artwork‚ to astrological maps‚ to a reading of submission‚ each group devised their own technique when claiming a new land. Physical demarkation was the main practice the English used to symbolize the ownership of new land. The methods they used to mark such
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I am Doug Wright‚ the attorney for Patricia R. Ellis. It has been brought to my attention that Hunter D. Ellis has been having some emotional complications that is precipitated by his father’s presence at his Basketball and Baseball games. Hunter has come from a dysfunctional home environment that was caused by his father’s behavior. His father’s paranoia never allowed Hunter to be himself‚ his father made Hunter feel resentful‚ inadequate‚ and powerless. Hunter has previously been picked on and
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The BusinessWeek article Hubris at HP and Beyond (Holtzman‚ 2006)‚ describes actions by HP’s former Chairwoman‚ Patricia Dunn to spy of her fellow directors‚ employees and reporters. She justified her action by stating that she needed to find out who was leaking sensitive company information to the press. The author refers to Dunn’s actions as arrogance‚ but they were‚ by any measure‚ unethical conduct across several standards used to classify unethical behavior‚ namely personal gain‚ professional
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Patricia Churchland is a well-known philosopher who has denounced the notion of Descartes’ method on doubt and Cartesian dualism. She believed that we are just physical objects and that there is nothing amazing about the mind or the soul. Churchland is a elimistist‚ meaning she eliminates the mind/ soul from the equation of the body. One of her main points is that society cannot hold the science of philosophy at a different stance than the natural sciences. Philosophy needs to have data and empirical
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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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