Why are the Oscars so white? Marialuisa Rincon After noticing that none of the 20 actors nominated for Oscars last year were of color‚ Maryland activist April Reign tweeted‚ “#oscarssowhite they asked to touch my hair.” The hashtag went viral within days and the memes and jokes that stemmed from it served to highlight the lack of diversity that has become a hallmark of academy nominations. It opened up a conversation—first‚ between Reign and her followers—and later‚ among the public‚ celebrities
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Intelligence The study of individual differences in ability in psychology is one of the very oldest areas of psychology. Test assessing individual differences in mental ability have been of great practical value in occupational‚ industrial and educational psychology. The psychology of ability is one of the 4 main branches of individual differences‚ the others being personality‚ mood‚ and motivation. The term “mental ability” or “intelligence” is used to describe a person’s performance on some
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which people improved their overall lifestyles. At the time‚ there were so many things wrong with society; it was pretty damn ridiculous. In America‚ the economy throughout the Progressive Movement‚ which was between 1890’s and the 1920’s‚ was incredibly corrupt. Big businesses turned to extreme measures to make and save more money‚ by making the jobs they offered unbelievably simple and repetitive so as to make the jobs so easy to the point where even a child could do it. In addition‚ they hired
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woman had to love her husband. With the song “Mama Who Bore Me‚" Wendla lamented that her mother did not wanted to tell her the truth. The young girl was upset about the lack of knowledge presented to her. This song was a reference to the play "Measure for Measure‚" by Shakespeare. Isabella was considered as one of Shakespeare’s strongest female characters; a women of great virtue and purity. By referring to some of history’s greatest writers‚ Sater cleverly reinforced the main themes of his play
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reading a newspaper or book we develop our analytical thinking so the brain is working and getting new knowledge for the rest of our life. However‚ there is a fact that a person who likes to read will be successful but a person that does not like read will fail in life because that is what the educational system suggests. Society is forcing people to improve their life or better to say our life‚ because life is harder day by day‚ that is why is important for us to prepare ourselves and the only way is
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Why Is Writing So Difficult For Me Writing and English has always been my worst subject all throughout my school years. As we all know to be a good writer you have to use proper grammar and that right there is where my problem is when it comes to writing. I guess you can say it started from when I was growing up a kid. All the kids had to talk to my grandma in Spanish not English. If we talked to her in English we would get in trouble‚ so I did as the other kids did and that was talk Spanish
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The first thing we had asked each person within the two subcultures to do was to define their subculture‚ and we found a split with the complexity of the answers. Most of the respondents who were a part of the athletic subculture‚ simply gave us a simple definition of an athlete‚ someone who is a member of a sports team here at the University of Tampa‚ and we had others who expanded more on this. Some respondents said an athlete is someone who is a strong competitor and who has athletic talent and
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all the time. And everytime I see that a celebrity gets criticized for saying something offensive or a celebrity getting mad at paparazzi‚ I take a moment to think about it. The same question goes through my mind everytime and that is “Why do some celebrities seem so dumb?” * A celebrity is defined in the Webster dictionary is “a famous person.” Most celebrities are known for their work in television shows‚ music industry or movies. Some celebrities are known for their attention-grabbing actions
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what can be measured and what cannot be measured highlight that there are different sides‚ thoughts and feelings about measurements in social work. The informants’ struggles between the measurable‚ the things not so easily measured and those things that are difficult or impossible to measure. There is a great uncertainty amongst the informants around the credibility and reliability in the results used and many of them strongly emphasize that measuring troubles them‚ “we work with people; they are not
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Why school is good? School is good because you get prepared In live. You need to get a good education in live so you can get a better gob in live. You also need to work harder in live if you do not have a good school education. The things you need to know is Math Science History English are the main ones of all class’s. Also all people think that they are not due as the teachers say. The people say you are no When I started thinking about why education is so important‚ I remembered my school
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