The poem “Factory Work” by Deborah Boe is about a character who works in a factory assembling shoe parts. The character’s identity is that possibly of a female due to the line in the poem that states “If I hit my boyfriend now‚ in the supermarket parking lot‚ he knows I hit him”(Boe‚ 2009). There is no indication of the characters ethnicity‚ whether white or black‚ but the arrangement of the characters wording leads the reader to believe quite possibly that of white female. The character also appears
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teenager‚ imagine being a 32-year-old reading about this real event from the perspective of his mom’s abortion. Although these thoughts may seem negligible to many‚ they are familiar and expected everyday occurrences that Jewish immigrant Rachel Deborah Shilsky has to experience in her orthodox reign in The Color of Water. These very events commence as Rachel becomes the beloved girlfriend of a black teen known as Peter in Suffolk‚ Virginia. The relationship is light at first but escalates to the
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chapters four and five to “they say” Three ways to respond to “yes/no/okay‚ but” and Distinguishing what you say from what they say. “And Yet” Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstien and Russel Durst say that “you need to be an expert in a field to have an argument at all” (p‚55). Are they referring to an actual job like a lawyer? where they are good on arguing about a certain topic. You must have some sort of topic to go off of to argue your case‚ and to make it believable for others. As for agreeing or disagreeing
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Poem critique One of many poems in existence is “Please Fire me” by Deborah Garrison. It was mean to be written in a way that can be seen similarly to the way people gossip. She does succeed in the way that she wrote sues word that people used in their normal vocabulary and the general tone of a someone who is simply frustrated with the world she lives in can be understood by anyone in this day and age. The major theme in the poem is male chauvinism in the work place. The people in charge of
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Alice Faye Wattleton‚ commonly known as Faye Wattleton‚ is an impeccable figure that has made marvelous strides for herself and for women around the county. She was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri on July 8‚ 1943 to a family who never could have imagined the accomplishments she would make in life. Wattleton came from a Christian background‚ for her mother was a minister of the Church of God. This specific feature of her upbringing would become particular interesting later in life as she tackled controversial
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In The Myth of Mars and Venus‚ Deborah Cameron explores the claims about gender and language and its consequences in today’s society. Cameron titles her book a ‘myth’ due to two reasons. The first sense is the commonly known definition of a myth: “a widespread but false belief” regarding the notion that men and women have different ways in using language to communicate with each other (Cameron‚ 3). ‘Myth’ is also used in the sense that it is a story of the identity of an individual and what has shaped
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Arguing in Today’s Culture Through the reading of An Argument Culture by Deborah Tannen‚ I have come to understand what has always been apparent; we live in a vocal society that will challenge what they do not agree with. Tannen states‚ “American tradition has geared toward the promotion of antagonism.” We believe that our opinion matters and most times that it is the right one even without further information to back our point in the argument. American society pushes the act of
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In the novel Parvana by Deborah Ellis there were many characters who were affected by the war in Afghanistan and one of them is Parvana. Parvana had many experiences some of them were cruelty of war‚ cruelty of the Taliban‚ the discrimination against women and friendship. Firstly‚ parvana experiences cruelty of war in Afghanistan. “ Bombs had been a part in Parvana’s whole life”. This shows how her mind be tuned to only seeing destruction such as war‚ bombs‚ injuries‚ loss of houses‚ poverty
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In this article‚ Deborah S. Connelly talks about the history of book banning‚ its presence in society today‚ and actions that have and can be taken against it. Most of these actions stem from the responsibility of librarians and organizations. Connelly believes that librarians have an obligation to keep their content uncensored and readily available to the public. She has stated that the best way to prevent book censorship is to educate our society about the importance of diverse books. A more specific
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Deborah Rose endeavors to demonstrate that Indigenous knowledge can be intertwined with the knowledge set forth by Western philosophy in her article “An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology: Situating the Human.” She reinforces and analyzes Val Plumwood’s argument that anthropology holds a role in re-situating the human ecologically. Specifically‚ Rose seeks to place the human within an Indigenous philosophical ecology. Rose refers to Julie Cruikshank and Ilya Prigogine‚ as their ideas recognize the
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