*INTERVIEW OF RUTH SIMMONS Web address: http://video.pbs.org/video/2227537695 Who is she today and what is her occupation? President of brown university Where was she born? When? Grapeland TX 1940 What did her parents do? How many people were in her family? They were share croppers 14 What was her life like as a little girl? Explain in several sentences. Also‚ include the specific details of sensory imagery she uses to enhance her description
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to their traditional vocation in “home making”. Throughout the 1950’s and early 1960’s women were expected to either stay at home or work in underpaid “women’s jobs”. Women’s wages were significantly less in comparison to the wages awarded to men who performed the same task. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court ruled in 1949‚ that a women’s basic wage should be set at 75% of the male rate. This was the practice throughout the 1950’s when there was a large growth in the textiles‚ clothing‚ footwear
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citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work‚ determination‚ and initiative. The American Dream in the 1950s was to have a nice‚ affordable house in the suburbs that had a white picket fence‚ and a nice lawn; raise a good family‚ have a good paying job and a decent vehicle for transportation. The 1950s American Dream went for everyone in that time but as time passes‚ diversity is being created‚ style is developing‚ and more advanced dreams are coming
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Context In 1950’s America‚ the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks‚ Hispanics‚ Asians — were discriminated against in many ways‚ both overt and covert. The 1950s were a turbulent time in America‚ when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions‚ like Brown v. Board of Education; and due to an increase in the activism of blacks‚ fighting for equal rights. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ a Baptist minister
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Life today is very fast-paced. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and will push you out of the way to get there‚ like it’s some kind of race. In our personal lives‚ we have our cell phones‚ and maybe a home phone‚ scheduled play dates for our kids‚ microwaves‚ satellite TV‚ home security systems that don’t involve dogs‚ solar landscape lighting‚ automatic underground sprinkler systems for our lawns‚ and compact fluorescent lights to replace the incandescent bulbs that waste energy. In the business
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In the 1950s‚ a teenage couple‚ they were both 18‚ were driving to couples point. It was a dark night with a dense forest all around them. The parked in a small clearing. They just sit and talk‚ then they hear a snap in the woods‚ the girl get worried and the boy calms her down and says it just an animal. Yes it is but not that kind of animal. It was just silent‚ just the sound of the wind hitting the branches. Then the hood pops open‚ the couple screams. Later on‚ the police find out that he pulled
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In “ What Should We Worry About‚” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner talk about how humans beings are more afraid of the known instead of being scared of the important risks that are unknown. I understand Levitt and Dubner’s point but I disagree. I do not consider the known risks to be scary. I do fear the unknown‚ things like breast cancer‚ heart disease‚ and any form of viruses that can lead to severe sickness or death. These are things that could cause my loved ones and me great pain and
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The Forever changing Events of the 1950’s -1990’s Throughout the last fifty years there are many events that significantly shaped who we are today and changed America’s future greatly. Throughout these decades the American experience has greatly varied. There were several wars such as the Cold War‚ Vietnam War‚ and the Gulf War all which took its own toll on the American people and their economy. The civil rights movement‚ protest‚ and demonstrations throughout the decades
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During the 1950s Uruguay was unique amongst most South American countries due to its sociopolitical stability and economic prosperity. Uruguay had fostered a large and growing middle class as well as a stable welfare-state which gave a wide degree of democratic and civil freedoms more so than any other south American government. Due to relative peace in Uruguay in the mid-1960s there were only 12‚000 men in the armed forces and less than 22‚000 police in a country with a population of nearly 3million
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“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is a widely known story on love and everybody’s different outlook on this emotion that we all define in our own unique ways. As we read through‚ we discover how love can be disguised‚ felt‚ and accepted from one person to the next. This story is told through Nick‚ while sitting around drinking with his friends Mel and Terri‚ discussing the popular subject of love and what defines it. Mel was awestruck by an elderly couple he treated in the hospital
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