...Introduction + Tone/Meaning The song, written by rapper Tupac Shakur, Keep Ya Head is a song dedicated to black woman. It's a self-love feminist anthem, that showed that Tupac care about the woman in his community. The message of the song is conveyed clearly and concisely, and although it uses similes, metaphors, symbolism, and other literary devices to get the point across, the message is very clear. The song is very upbeat and positive, like it is a song to uplift people, particularly the black woman. It meant to say, life is gonna get better, and no matter what happens you just gotta keep your head up. Song Interpretation The first verse tackles the abuse black woman face from black men, questioning their actions. For example, he says, in the song, “I wonder why we take from our women, Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?, think it’s time to kill for our women, Time to heal our women, be real to our...
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...Castles are often pictured as enormous, magnificent stone buildings that are home to kings and queens. However, castles did not start out that way. The first castles were known as motte and bailey castles. They first appeared in England after the Norman Conquest in 1066, and they were popular in England by 1087, when William the Conqueror died. Motte and bailey castles created the basis for the hundreds of castles built in England and Wales. In the motte and bailey castles, the main building was on top of a man-made hill, which usually contained “22,000 tons of soil,” called the motte (Trueman). They were very difficult to make because there were alternating layers of soil and stone so that the structure would be stronger. However, one castle could be built in eight days if enough people assisted in the building. The castle could be accessed by either wooden stairs or a flying bridge. The bailey was below the motte, and it was surrounded by a wooden fence to protect the inhabitants. William continued to build these castles during his reign in locations where the people usually rebelled. This “[reasserted] his authority” because it gave people the impression that William’s feared army was nearby (Trueman). As soon as “the people of England had been tamed,” William began planning the production of stone castles (Trueman). These stone castles eventually evolved into the sturdy and defensive structures known as concentric castles. Concentric castles were made of stone and had...
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...Darcy (Molly Ringwald) is a high school senior. She is interested in becoming a journalist and her domineering mother encourages her to pursue college. Darcy, however, is also in love with fellow senior, Stan, who has been offered a complete architectural scholarship to Cal Tech. Despite being on the pill, Darcy ends up pregnant. When they tell their parent the parent urge them to have an abortion or give up for adoption. The couple keeps the baby; Darcy and Stan run off and elope. After the baby is born, Darcy encounters severe postpartum depression. Stan struggles to pay the bills on a part-time job salary. Only when Darcy hears an intruder who turns out to be Stan's father and picks up her baby protectively, does she break from her depression. Although Stan takes a second, dead-end job, the bills pile up and the couple finally moves in with Donna (Darcy mom). Darcy find out the Stan sacrifices his Calteach scholarship because there is no married housing. She tell Stan that she wants a divorce so he can go to Caltech. Darcy was going to night school to get her GED on the day of her Graduation Stan tell her he has applied for a scholarships for both of them to attend University of Wisconsin. Decry still decline and leave home with her mother on her way home she realizes that she has been influenced by her mother insecurities. She return to the empty school and in the end they remarking the (there daughter) will have a very early...
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...seventh of the poem attempts to portray her suffering in life. It seems she has faced very tough struggle. I can utter it because I see in the second line she describes her life as no crystal stair. I picture the words no crystal stair as though her experience in life which is not sparkling and luxurious like crystal. In addition, stair is the foothold for us to stand before we step higher to reach the top, I guess. She must have not only trouble but also bad situation. The third line adds that her life is full of tacks which mean pain. Our foot will be bloody if we tread it because tack is keen. So, the pain happens in a mother’s life. In the following lines keep talking about her troublesome life. However, in the last line she remains strong. She does not give up even though she has to face so many problems in life. She keeps going on...
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...Keep Innocent I believe everyone has a memorable day. The weather was fine on that day, I was elated because I was going to play with my cousin. Her house was not far away from mine. Thus, I walked instead of taking a bus. Along the way, I saw a beggar who was disabled begging for money. He sat there in rags, very poor. Driven by sympathy, I gave my only 10yuan to him. He thanked me just as I saved his life, I was surprised and moved. Also, I felt proud of myself. Then I arrived at my cousin’s home. I told this thing which made me feel good about myself to her family. However, my aunt’s words really shocked me, she told me that this person was likely to be a member of an organization which aimed at cheating people out of money, and she reminded me of not giving money to these people. At a young age, I never saw the negative parts of society, there were just love and happiness in my mind. I couldn’t totally accept what my aunt said to me. With growth, I agreed with my aunt’s words after I knew some cases like this from Internet and newspaper, I felt a little grieved. When people grow up, it’s difficult for us to keep innocent as before. However, even though we have seen the negative side of the society, I think we should also keep innocent, I believe it can make us feel good about life and help us build a warm world in our hearts. So, try to look on the society with a pure mind....
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...Motivational column. Get up and have a resplendent comeback! You are reading this, it means that you still have the eyes that can read. You still have the chance to see the beauty of life, the beauty of nature and the people around you and above all, the beauty of yourself. There you go, I can now see you smiling. Maintain that, you can take a “selfie” if you wish. Life, it’s not destined to be always smooth sailing. There are ups and downs for you to learn, comprehend and reflect. Look! Life tests us to see if we’re stupid. You can be stupid with the first time encounter situation, it’s life’s promotional. How cool is that? However, if you keep on doing the same old thing and you keep on hurting, not moving on and keep blaming yourself… Well, Congratulations! You are a stupid person and you deserve a crown, sash and bouquet of flowers. (Confetti! Slow claps.) Change your ways if it’s not working! Reevaluate. Work on it. Don’t wait for a superhero to change it for you. Be the hero of yourself. You should be actively taking steps towards your goal. However, before making steps towards your goal, you need to know what your goal is. Do you want to be rich and lay on the bed of money? Bed of coins or bills? Be specific. That’s important. Do you want to be happy? Do you want to experience fulfillment or just stay high all the time? Do you want to be famous? In a positive or negative way? You should definitely know what you want, have the steps and start. When? Right now! You...
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...The Original Keep We know that after the Norman Conquest (and the initial massacres) Britain settled down to an uneasy peace. The Viking raids became much less of a concern, everyday life was probably more settled than it had been in the 10th century. The Normans bought with them castle building technologies, and throughout the 11-14th centuries they build hundreds of castles throughout England, which in turn influenced Scottish Kings and barons to build their own fortifications. The foundations of Hogwarts Castle probably dates from this period. The important thing to remember is that Hogwarts Castle was never built to be a school because boarding schools, as we would understand them, did not exist at the point when it was built. It was likely that the original hill fort settlement of Hogwarts was already in an ideal defensive location and the local baron (probably also a magical person) started building a castle to protect the economically important town. The first phase of building would have resulted in nothing more than a square stone tower (called a keep) and strengthening of existing walls. However we know from history that castles, if they were strategically important, were constantly expanded and updated. Thus Hogwarts castle probably grew in size over the next few centuries adding a great hall, towers, ramparts etc. The round towers described in the book would not have been added until the 14th century, when it was discovered that round towers were better...
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...Playing For Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein is a historical novel about the economic and sociological advancements of the game of baseball. Goldstein used sources like biographies, magazines, and various newspapers. He used these sources most likely because they were readily available at the time and provided him with many hands-on experiences and a direct source of information from that time period. Goldstein portrayed throughout the book that baseball went from a club-based fraternity sport based on pure enjoyment to a business that was profit driven as well as a boyish sport to a manly one. He states that baseball has “two very different kinds of histories: one linear, chronological, and cumulative, the other cyclical, generational, and repetitive” (Goldstein 2). The origin of the sport began in the nineteenth century. Baseball was created by taking three different sports – town ball, rounders, and cricket – and blending some of the rules of those games into what was then called “base ball.” Before the Civil War, baseball was played out of pure enjoyment. The first baseball club, the Knickerbockers, played themselves at first but eventually started to play other clubs in 1846. The members had occupations varying from firefighters, policemen, barkeeps, and more. Playing other teams created competition, which in turn brought up the idea of every team having their own specific uniform, captains, and an umpire at every game to call the shots. Soon enough...
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...初一年级（上） 【知识梳理】 I. 重点短语 1. Sit down 2. on duty 3. in English 4. have a seat 5. at home 6. look like 7. look at 8. have a look 9. come on 10. at work 11. at school 12. put on 13. look after 14. get up 15. go shopping II. 重要句型 1. help sb. do sth. 2. What about…? 3. Let’s do sth. 4. It’s time to do sth. 5. It’s time for … 6. What’s…? It is…/ It’s… 7. Where is…? It’s…. 8. How old are you? I’m…. 9. What class are you in? I’m in…. 10. Welcome to…. 11. What’s …plus…? It’s…. 12. I think… 13. Who’s this? This is…. 14. What can you see？ I can see…. 15. There is (are) …. 16. What colour is it (are they)? It’s (They’re)… 17. Whose …is this? It’s…. 18. What time is it? It’s…. III. 交际用语 1. Good morning, Miss/Mr…. 2. Hello! Hi! 3. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. 4. How are you? I’m fine, thank you/thanks. And you? 5. See you. See you later. 6. Thank you! You’re welcome. 7. Goodbye! Bye! 8. What’s your name? My name is …. 9. Here you are. This way, please. 10. Who’s on duty today? 11. Let’s do. 12. Let me see. IV. 重要语法 1. 动词be的用法； 2. 人称代词和物主代词的用法； 3. 名词的单复数和所有格的用法； 4. 冠词的基本用法； 5. There be句型的用法。 【名师讲解】 1. in/on 在表示空间位置时，in表示在某个空间的范围以内，on表示在某一个物体的表面之上。例如： There is a bird in the tree. 树上有只鸟。 There is a picture on the wall. 墙上有张图。 2. this/that/these/those (1)this常常用来指在时间、地点上更接近讲话人的人和事，these是this的复数形式。that常常用来指在时间、地点上离讲话人更远一点的人和事，those时that的复数形式。例如： You look in this box and I’ll look in that one over there.你看看这个盒子，我去看那边的那个盒子。 ...
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...The Surreal painter that I would compare myself and my dreams to would be the Italian painter, Giorgio De Chirico. Chirico combines everyday objects that do not make any logical sense when placed together, and make the painting more mysterious. I would consider this all the dreams I have. Each dream that I can remember, have some strange connections to each other. Some parts in the dream don’t make sense but it is still part of the dream. One example of a dream that reminds me of the painter or his works would be the one about how my family was in town for a holiday and there were cows in our backyard that kept making horse sounds every time someone said cow. Then outside the window as we were eating there were two birds looking in as if it was cold outside and they needed a warm place to sleep. Toward the end of my dream (or before I woke up) my mom went to the window to feed the birds some rice and bread. But I was never able to make out any of the faces of the people in the dream which I found to be extremely weird. With other dreams I was able to make out faces and remember the faces for a later dream. To execute the painting about my dream I would first paint a window in the middle of painting in the background and then paint the family, without faces around a table with all the fixings for a feast. Then off to the left of the painting, I would paint pictures of the cows in the backyard and the by the window paint the 2 birds inquiring about the food inside the home....
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...We should assist potential customers the best approach for making decision from being interested to actually purchasing our product? The best approach we should offer them is simplicity. The single biggest driver of stickiness, by far, was “decision simplicity”— the ease with which consumers can gather trustworthy information about a product and confidently and efficiently weigh their purchase options. What consumers want from marketers is, simply, simplicity. The article cites an example of two approaches to selling cameras to web searchers: one firm provides visitors access to extensive information about each of its products, while the other focuses on the user’s needs and steers the user to the most appropriate product. The latter approach would be far more successful in today’s marketplace, say the authors. Decision Simplicity Index The study showed that the “decision simplicity index,” a measure of ease of accessing the information needed to make a decision, was highly predictive of sales success: Brands that scored in the top quarter in the study were 86% more likely than those in the bottom quarter to be purchased by the consumers considering them. They were 9% more likely to be repurchased and 115% more likely to be recommended to others. They identify three major factors that simplify consumer decisions: * Navigation – Ease of gathering information * Trust – How believable the information is * Comparison – Ease of weighing options Easy Navigation ...
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...DORINGO, Ma. Rochelle. C. / Regular / Non-Graduating Class Placement #16 12-006-124 ECET-2C Reflection paper March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014 Professor Darius Daniel Villanueva It is very significant and important for us to gauge or determine how much, us, students have learned after a psychology class. It enables us to gain knowledge that can be applied in the future, giving us more opportunities in succeeding our goals. This learning had an impact in my life, making me more of a responsible one. Comparing my knowledge before and after, my knowledge before is that I have very limited information in my mind like I don't have enough information in order to cope up with the waves of lessons our instructor about to tackle. It's like guessing in an "On-the-spot exam", not having any specific questions in mind to guide our learning though our instructor is preparing learning opportunities. While my knowledge after class, as Instructor guided the process with feedback and mini-lectures we continue applying our knowledge skills after clarification and feedback. We are able to understand and gain ideas in class and on later events these gained ideas will be our piece of information in guiding actions. I also learned a variety of writing elements such as written reports, reflection papers, news sharing and principles to guide my future writing. I learned how to better edit, read, and compose documents. All exercises were useful and helped highlight key writing...
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...Keep Hope Alive: Fighting Obesity in America Jonathan Gilchrist Advanced Composition SPRA11 Sec AA Professor Jeffry Berke April 5, 2011 Keep Hope Alive: Fighting Obesity in America Introduction America is the one the richest countries in the world. One would think that it would hold a similar title for being the healthiest. That is far from the truth. Obesity has become a vast dilemma in our nation. Adults, children, even animals are suffering from obesity. It has come to be all too normal. The media has latched onto the dangers of this disease, while various diets and weight programs have been released to the public. It is very difficult to understand why America ignores the warnings of countless TV shows, the government, and news. Even the event of a family member’s death doesn’t seem to wake our nation up. The American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery shows that Obesity and overweight issues cost the U. S 117 million dollars in healthcare annually(McCue, 2010). Tobacco is currently the lead cause of preventable death, a statistic that obesity could soon obtain (Lemonick, 2004). Excess weight takes a horrible toll on the body. Various health problems such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and more come from obesity. Michael Limerick’s (2004) “How We Grew So Big,” places the blame on technology stating “We humans have utterly transformed our environment; over the past century especially, technology has almost completely removed physical...
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...death certificates | Safe-deposit box. | Never. | Brokerage, 401(k), IRA, Keogh, and other investment statements | At home. | Shred monthly and quarterly statements as new ones arrive; hold on to annual statements until you sell the investments. | Credit-card bills | At home. | After you check and pay them, unless you need them to support tax filings. | Employer defined-benefit retirement-plan communications | At home. | Never. | Estate-planning documents | Safe-deposit box. | Never. | Household warranties and receipts | At home. | After you no longer own the household item. | Insurance policies | At home. | After you renew them. | Investment purchase confirmations and 1099s | At home. | Hold until you sell the securities, then keep with your tax records for an additional seven years. | Life-insurance policies | Safe-deposit box. | Never, unless a term policy has ended. | Loan documents | Safe-deposit box. | After you sell your home, automobile, boat, etc. | Marriage license or divorce decree | Safe-deposit box. | Never. | Military-discharge papers | Safe-deposit box. | Never. | Pay stubs | At home. | After you reconcile them with your W-2. | Receipts | At home. | After you reconcile them with your credit-card or bank statements unless needed for a warranty. | Safe-deposit box inventory | At home. | Never, but review and update annually. | Savings bonds | At home. | Cash them in when they mature. | Social Security cards | Safe-deposit box. | Never....
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...Imagine for a moment picking up the morning newspaper, and the headlines proclaim that the current problem of Sexual offending, specifically child molestation has been solved. Unfortunately this is not the case, and sexual offending is an issue that plagues many members of society today. Many proposals have been submitted, acts of legislation passed, but sexual offending is still happening within our world today. This paper will further examine preventative actions that can be taken to reduce child molesting by educating children on the facts of molestation, actions of adolescent sexual offenders, what they should do if faced with an actual molestation situation, and the importance of background checks while also exploring approaches aimed at reducing recidivism rates from the clinical, justice, community protection, and community reintegration model, by combining preventative action, and recidivism reduction to solve the issue of sexual offending , specifically Child molestation. The offenders targeted within this category of sexual offenders are child molesters. Child molesters can be defined as individuals who have a greater sexual interest in children, and sexual activities with children (Canter & Kirby, 1995). Child molesters are offenders who target children, and engage in sexual activity with them. The first measure of prevention and possibly the most important is educating children on the facts of molestation, including molestation by adults, molestation by youth...
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