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    not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting‚ the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.. 19) I had to subject the subject to

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    These coffins are designed to represent an aspect of the dead person’s life‚ such as a car if they were a driver‚ a fish if their livelihood was the sea or a sewing machine for a seamstress. They might also symbolize a vice‚ such as a bottle of beer or a cigarette. Now‚ let’s travel to Europe. Hallstatt. It’s between a mountain and lake‚ so therefore has very limited burial space. To solve this problem they would allow for the remains

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    were usually doing laborious work while female slaves did more household chores. Jacobs confirms this by telling us that her grandmother was “an indispensable personage in the household‚ officiating in all capacities‚ from cook and wet nurse to seamstress” (Gates and McKay 282). Female slaves’ duties didn’t stop there. Not only did they have to tend to their biological children‚ they had to care for the slave owner’s children as if they were their own. From nursing to raising the child‚ they became

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    electricity company and a mother who ran a butcher’s shop‚ Mera was brought up in the working-class district of Monte. Amid the post-civil war poverty‚ Mera left school aged 11 to work at La Maja‚ a well-known clothes shop in the city‚ first as a night seamstress sewing up the day’s orders and then as a shop assistant. She married Amancio Ortega‚ a messenger boy she had met while working as a shop assistant‚ with whom she first discussed and developed her idea of opening a boutique that would sell fashionable

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    the “first lady of the civil rights and the mother of freedom Movement. Rosa Parks was born February 4‚1913 and died October 24‚2005. On December 1 1995 after a long day of work at a Montgomery department store where she had worked at as a seamstress Rosa Parks board the Cleveland Avenue bus for home She took a seat in the first several rows that were only for “colored passengers”.While Riding that bus all black and white people were supposed to be seperated at all times while riding on

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    AMUSE. BEING JUST TEN I ALWAYS WANTED TO ACT LIKE A PRIM AND PROPER GIRL WHO WOULD DELIGHT HER LOVED ONES. SO‚ THE MOMENT MY PARENTS LEFT I CALLED MY NANNY AND ELDER SISTER AND GUIDED THEM TO DO THINGS‚ THE WAY I HAD PLANNED. MY NANNY WAS A GREAT SEAMSTRESS AND SO SHE MADE ME THIS‚ BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED TABLE COVER WHICH I PLACED ON THE TABLE. I HAD CUT HEART SHAPED TABLE MATS FROM FOAM AND PLACED ALL EIGHT ON THE TABLE. THEN I TOOK OUT EIGHT PLATES‚ FORKS‚ KNIVES‚ AND SPOONS FROM THE CABINET AND PLACED

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    My family consists of five people including myself. I live with both my mom and dad and my two older sisters. Both of my sisters are currently enrolled in college. Currently‚ mom is the sole provider‚ she works long hours in order to be able to provide hard in order to provide for me and my sisters. I was born in Jalisco‚ Mexico‚ at the age of five my parents decided that the best option for economic stability and the opportunity of a future education we needed to move the United States. I do not

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    The Scarlet Letter In the 1660s‚ the number of African-Americans among the entire population of New England was 1.7%. The percentage of found-out adulteresses was even less. Nevertheless‚ a truly gifted seamstress such as Hester Prynne wasn’t standing on ever street corner. The public all agreed that ordinarily‚ finery and indulgence was frowned upon in the Puritanic society. However‚ some held the opinion that Governor Bellingham was keeping enough distance between himself and Hester Prynne‚ and

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    understanding the plot; she does this through many characters‚ but perhaps most closely through the eyes of Esther and Mayme. Esther Mills is the protagonist and arguably the most socially defiant character of this play. She works as a personal seamstress for many different walks of life in Lower Manhattan circa 1905. Consider the time period of this play in order to accurately understand the motives and deeper construction of the play: The Progressive Era. This lasted from

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    Childhood: At a young age Rosa parks learned how to read by her mother. Her childhood brought her early racial discrimination. She goes to a school in Pine level in Alabama there was only one room. They don’t have many school supplies they don’t even have desks. Also the African American students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation. Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations

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