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    A Good Sinful Woman Hester Prynne is a young Englishwoman who was sent by her husband to Salem alone. She is punished because she has given birth to a daughter named Pearl‚ although her husband has been absent for two year. Hester is forced to carry her child and wear a scarlet letter “A” attached to her bodice and experience three hours of public humiliation as a sinful woman after her three-month imprisonment. In my opinion‚ although Hester is said to be sinful‚ she is a positive character

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    valuable player. Sharon Robinson‚ Jackie and Rachel’s second child is born. David Robinson‚ Jackie and Rachel’s third child is born. The Brooklyn dodgers win their first and only World Series finally beating the New York Yankees.an African American seamstress named Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery Alabama sparking the Montgomery bus boycott a landmark event in the civil-rights movement. October 24‚ 1972 Jackie Robinson has a heart attack at his home in Stamford

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    Rosa Parks was a black seamstress in Montgomery‚ Alabama. She was arrested for being courageous in 1955. While fed up with white racism; she did not give up her bus seat to a white man. This preceded to the Montgomery bus boycott against the city’s bus system which Martin Luther King Jr. led. Ida B. Wells was the first African American to file a suit against discrimination after she was denied a seat on a railroad car for being black. She also founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement

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    one of the most important composers of his time and is considered the founder of the impressionist movement‚ essentially a one-person revolution. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye‚ Debussy was the eldest of five children of a crockery shop owner and a seamstress. Despite early dreams of becoming a virtuoso pianist‚ Debussy found greater success working as a composer‚ producing his first works as a teenager. His first piano work was written at age 18‚ and within a few years‚ he was composing symphonies‚

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    economically. In order to survive‚ she sold what she could find in her house. Some of those things were kimonos that she highly valued. When she had sold everything she had‚ she took part time jobs as a maid or as a babysitter. She eventually became a seamstress due to the lack of jobs offered to the hibakusha. One day‚ a friend of hers suggested Mrs. Nakamura to join the company where she was working at. She wrapped Paragens‚ powdered Para dichlorobenzene. The owner of the company was very gracious with

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    'In Memoriam': Rosa Parks

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    In Memoriam: Rosa Parks is an article on the Mother of the civils’ right movement‚ Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Rosa Parks is the women that refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. She is the reason the bus boycott started and is a strong and inspirational women in black history. She admitted that she did get up out of her seat because she was tired. Not psychically tired but tired of giving in to white people. She was tired of being single out base

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    fantasies‚ Sci-fi and so on‚ Michelle ’s Fancy Dress Costumes caters for the higher-end market where customers are hiring the costumes for more traditional fancy dress parties‚ balls or events. Having 20 years of experience as working backstage as a Seamstress in the theatre and movie Industries Michelle also offers a unique service‚ based on Michelle ’s extensive skills‚ she customises and alters costumes for a better and look. Although Michelle has used the Internet for many years for both business

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    Prynne inverts all the odds against here due to her courage‚ pride and effort. Hester went beyond the letter of the law and did everything asked of here in order to prove that she is "able." Hester became quite a popular seamstress‚ admired all over the town of Boston for her work. Hester is modest in everything that she does. Hester herself wears only poor clothing while she embroiders marvelous works for the rest of Boston. The only piece of clothing forbidden

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    This is a summary response to Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. Laurel Ulrich has written several books about women’s rights. Laurel made a statement in in of her books that became hugely popular in California. Well-behaved women seldom make history. This simple statement changed hundreds of lives and Laurel didn’t even realize it. A women in Oregon asked permission to use this statement to be printed on shirts. Laurel was shocked and only agreed to allow her to use this if she was sent a

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    Britain. In 1777 stars were introduced to represent a Constellation. Stars were then added to the flag as states were added into the Union. The origin of the flag is vague‚ however‚ it has been suggested that George Washington enlisted Betsy Ross‚ a seamstress from Philadelphia‚ to sew the flag. Yet‚ there is no official documentation to prove that she had indeed made the flag. The American Flag has been changed over twenty times from 1777 to 1960. The Pledge of Allegiance to the flag was written in 1892

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