Have you ever met a girl who is a barrel racer? My friend Alana is, She even went to state. First of all Alana is a very pretty seventh grader! Alana is tall and has red hair she is 13 and has freckles and green eyes like the color of mint leaves. She looks like a beautiful seventh grader. Plus Alana acts like a fun 7th grader. Initially Alana´s personality is very spunky and silly but she is also very kind she also has a very strong interest in horses she loves animals. Other people
Poetry can take on many forms, but it always has one common goal: to impact the reader in ways they have never been impacted before. A single poem can mean something different to every reader and even the poet. People read to poems to find humor, joy, solidarity, and comfort. Being a poet means being a guide for an audience much bigger than themselves, but it also means being true to oneself. Maya Angelou used poetry to impact the lives of many people and for that she is one of the most influential
In nineteenth century Louisiana, Creole’s lived by strict rules to explain how Creole household’s run: “The man ruled his household and his wife was considered part of his property. He was permitted to take a[nother] mistress if he liked, though his wife was expected to remain faithful” (Kosewick 3). The wives of the household are also “expected to be of good character” and “loyal, passive, innocent lovers”, despite the fact that their husband can take another woman of his liking out and the wife
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." The years between 1878 and 1899 were a soul-searching time for many Americans especially women, as they examined the basic values they lived by. This period was seen by many as “Glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath”. The late 19th century was a period of greed and guile: of corruption, dishonest speculators, shady business practices, and scandal-plagued politics. Kate chopin and Henrik Ibsen were two controversial authors who showcased
Happiness cannot easily be found, as perspectives of happiness differ from one person to another. One of the ways in which happiness can be attained, is by constructing a utopia based on political and economic systems that work for everybody. Two main economic and political systems are capitalism and socialism. People developed both of these systems in an attempt to obtain peace, order and establish a better place for living. However, people have different views on which system is more successful
The USPS should cut back days to save money from the decreasing mail volume. The mail volume has dropped in the past year. Mailings competition is the electronic mail and various package delivery companies have taken away business from the USPS, therefore there needs to be a change to mailing. The mail volume dropped heavily in the matter of 2 years. In 2008, they had 203 million mail volume, the next year it dropped to 177 million. More addresses are being added as well . Every year the United
the Roy Acuff commemorative stamp published by the United States Postal Service in 2003. Roy Acuff was one of country music's first superstars, and he also is known as the "King of Country Music." He help establish the Grand Ole Opry as the United States' leading country venues, and through his role in the music publishing business, he assisted making the country music capital of the United States Nashville, Tennessee (Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2003). These stamps recognize Roy Acuff, a country
Post Mates is an on demand delivery service used to get every day items such as groceries, food, or other miscellaneous products to consumers. This business is aimed toward people who don’t want to leave their homes in order to obtain items from businesses who do not offer home delivery for convenience purposes. The employee obtains the food or other items from the location and delivers them to the residence of the consumer. The company thus has an ethical obligation. This company has an ethical
It’s been almost a year and 2 months since me and my family were sent to the Gulag. I’ve already lost two toes from the frost bite. My father ran a church for fifteen years and had a fairly happy life with my two sisters and mother. When “uncle joe’s” secret police came, they shot both my mother and sisters. My father knew that if he kept the church running and disobeyed the law, he would be killed. That’s what he thought a least. When he saw the bodies on the ground bleeding to death, watching them
During the hard times of WW2 rationing had to take place. To ration, is when someone has to take control over scarce resources such as food, industrial production, gas, clothing, etc. Rationing would affect the lives of many Americans. The Americans had been asked to make sacrifices and it was their way of contribution to help out in the time era of WW2. Government officials were the ones who decided to encourage the rationing. “President Roosevelt established the Office of Price Administration
There was Rationing regulations for food at clothing in 1942. It was introduced to manage the amount of food and clothing at the time. They wanted to decrease the amount of total consumption. The reasoning behind was to confirm the distribution of clothing and food. They wished that savings would increase and to invest war loans. Australians were far from the trouble the United Kingdom was going through with their rationing. They had to use coupons and they were only for bread, tea, sugar, meat
Roy Acuff commemorative stamp was published by the United States Postal Service in 2003. Roy Acuff, nicknamed “King of Country Music,” was one of country music's first icons. He helped establish the Grand Ole Opry as the United States' leading country music venue, and through his position in the music publishing business, he influenced Nashville, Tennessee’s notoriety as the country music capital of the United States (Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2003). These stamps recognize Roy Acuff for
The United States Postal Service has been in service for over two hundred years. Over that time, the USPS has remained mostly unchanged, still delivering mail most days of the week. However, society has evolved since the USPS was first created, and that requires the USPS to restructure. Although some say the United States Postal Service should not be restructured, the USPS should undergo revisions because the volume of mail has decreased, their profits have declined, and email has become a superior
In the Ted Talk “The agony of trying to unsubscribe” by James Veitech, Veitech speaks upon his encounter with an email regarding a supermarket opening. Veitech shares his experience of the back and forth talk between himself and the email sender until the manual emails eventually cease and automated ones start to be sent. Veitech presents this humorous story in such a way that the crowd seems to always be intrigued and laughing every few seconds. After each joke about the emails Veitech gets he says
This essay explains the concept of class struggle, bourgeoisie, proletariat (the classes that emerged during the industrialisation.) and alienation on the basis of Marx’s theory. And will also look at relevance of class in the post-industrial society. This essay also talks about how the movie The Bicycle Thief portrays the class struggle that took place and how the proletariats (the working class.) suffered in order to earn money and fulfil their daily needs. Karl Marx’s was one of the first social
Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, was a very powerful labor unionist in the late 1800’s. Jones was born in the city of County Cork, Ireland. She grew up in great poverty, as did her ancestors before her. When the Irish Potato Famine began to affect Jones’s family, they emigrated to the country of Canada. Jones lost her family to a yellow fever outbreak and then her home in the great Chicago fire. Still, she pressed on and became a labor activist. Her beloved followers gave her
World War 1 was the first war were propaganda played huge role in keeping people at the home front informed about what was happening throughout the battlefields. This was also the first war where the government introduced propaganda to target the public and change their opinion on war (“Propaganda in World War 1”). There were many reasons for the governments to use propaganda throughout World War 1 such as; to blacken the enemy's name, to turn countries against another country, to persuade people
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax passed by Parliament on March 22, 1765 hence leading all documents and printed materials sold in the American Colonies to be levied. The Stamp Act was called such due to the obligatory stamp or seal put on the paper by officials as proof you paid the tax. This tax came to be due to the massive debt Britain obtained from the Seven Years War with the French, therefore leading Britain to tax the colonists considering the colonists were the ones benefiting the most after
While the Sugar and Molasses Acts were later repealed, additional legislation was brought to bear against the colony, the Stamp Act of 1765. Sugar and Molasses Act primarily impacted the population of the North East, the Stamp Act impacted the entire Colony (Brinkley 93). This act required that all printed material within the Colony carries a stamp, to be purchased from the Government. According to Brinkley, the British government was collecting ten times the previous taxes accumulated in previous
colonies were heavily taxed in order to create more profit. The Sugar Act placed tax on sugar, wine, and coffee, and denied any colonist accused of smuggling trial by jury, eventually leading to a drastic plummet in the rum industry. Finally, the Stamp Act, an act that was passed without the consent of the colonists, that taxed any paper or document in order to gain money from the colonists for Britain, ultimately leading to the colonists revolting against Britain, and writing newspapers that promoted