Patricia Young Patricia is a writer who was born in 1954 and lives in Victoria BC‚ she has won a lot of awards for her fiction and poetry. She is the author of nine poetry collections and one short fiction. She is married to Terence young who is also a writer‚ they have 2 grown children. She taught at the University of Victoria‚ was an editorial assistant for the malahat review‚ on the board of the Victoria school of writing also as a writer or residence at multiple universities. She received
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ARE BLACK GIRLS THE NEW NUMBER RUNNERS? AN ANALYSIS OF BLACK GIRLS AND HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS by CAROLYN DENISE KING A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Urban Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy‚ The City University of New York (2013) UMI Number: 3553563 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author
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Djanet Sears’ 2002 play‚ Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God uses diasporic aesthetics in its exploration of themes including the search for a home‚ and the reclamation of land. Before detailing the play and its uses of themes and mechanics‚ its context of creation must first be examined. Born Janet Sears‚ at the age of 15‚ she changed her name Djanet after visiting an African town of the same name (Brown-Guillory). Thus‚ Sears says that through her name she signals a connection to Africa
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What is consciousness? Consciousness is “the state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings.” According to Thomas Nagel in his writing (What Is It Like to Be a Bat?). Now personally do I think that animals have human qualities‚ Yes I think and they are more than capable of solving problems‚ and having emotions whether its positive or negative‚ which I believe they project. Though there has been controversy over just which animals pass the mirror test‚ so they ran studies to gain a better
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Effects of War The new Steven Spielberg directed movie based off of Lynsey Addario’s memoir “It’s What I Do”‚ will tell the story of an up and coming photo journalist traveling the world capturing the unforgettable moments of the war. Although it’s a memoir about her life and experiences‚ the movie should incorporate the effects of war. Many viewers are unaware of the reality of the war‚ this movie should show the truth behind it all‚ such as the killings‚ the abuse‚ the starving children‚ and the
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Alex Pham author of "Boy‚ You Fight Like a Girl" investigates the ever growing world of online gaming and how gender affects both worlds. The "fastest-growing segment of the computer game market"(185)‚ adventure gaming‚ has hundreds of thousands of players that average twenty hours of play a week and thousands of them are playing as characters of the opposite sex. This gender switching is making games not only challenging‚ but also confusing‚ and possibly embarrassing. Pham first introduces a character
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Response 1. In the second-third of Black Like Me‚ John Griffin continued writing about his unusual and courageous expedition into the deep south where‚ with his darkened Negro-like skin‚ he experienced personally what it was like to be a Negro in the 1960s. Griffin hitchhiked several times and was picked up by white men who seemed interested in learning more about Negros’ sexuality. For example‚ one of the white men who picked Griffin up assumed that he was black and questioned him on personal and
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Patricia Palocco is a well-known author and illustrator. Creating great children books and stories about her life. The books that I like are Fire Talking and The Meteor. Her books allow you to see very important times in her life. Though she started reading at the age of fourteen‚ her stories are very well written. Patricia Palocco in my opinion‚ is a very good author. I like the book called The Meteor because when she was little and she was trying to read a big meteor came down from the sky and
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Sept. 10‚ 2011 Black Like Me (Second Edition) By John Howard Griffin 1960 In the late 1950’s John Griffin‚ a white journalist and specialist on race issues from Texas‚ made the decision to experience the racial south as a black man in order to help him more understand the suicide rates. John documented his life changing experience first-hand as a Negro and the discrimination based on skin color. After an agreement with Sephia magazine to fund the project in exchange for the right to print experts
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is believed that girls like pink color and boys prefer blue color over others. But if one closely examines this concept (or misconception!)‚ one realizes that it is not true. It is not that girls are genetically programmed to like pink. Then why this mass belief that girls like pink? Actually all this is a market gimmick which has been so strongly reinforced on our mindsets through aggressive marketing of products that we have begun to belief that girls like pink and boys like blue. Think of the
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