Clothes hanger Essays

  • No Wire Hangers!

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    No Wire Hangers! Years ago I remember stories of girls with unwanted pregnancies going to a rear 'back-alley” apartment located in the Voyageur Bus Station in my small town for abortions. I am sure some of the tales were fabricated on hearsay, some might have had some merit, but the word coat hanger kept popping up in conversations. Once in awhile I would walk by that building and wonder what really went on in there and feeling every sad for girls that had no choice. In 1963, my mother's friend

  • A Tommy Hilfiger Advertisement that Insults America

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    Hilfiger. There is an American flag in the background. There is an American flag covered couch people are sitting on. There is a big house in the background. There are six people total in the picture. Each person is wearing all Tommy Hilfiger brand clothes. The people are a mix in between different cultures as well. Plus the people all generally look very good. Then lastly, the caption reads as “the real American fragrance”. Can you see how offensive it is already? What kind of baloney is it

  • There Are No Children Here

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    brothers growing up in a housing project of Chicago. By the author following the boys throughout their day to day lives, we, the readers, are also enveloped in the boys' surroundings. We learn about their everyday lives, from how they pick out their clothes, to how they wash them. We go to school with them and we play with them. Throughout the book, we are much like flies on the wall. We see and feel everything the boys' go through at Henry Horner Homes, the project where they live. LaJoe moved

  • Uniforms In Public School

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    the money to buy all the newest clothes tend to not go to school as much because they feel that they don’t fit in. The kids that come from lower class level backgrounds are the kids out there selling drugs and committing the crimes, but the money made goes to buy the latest designer jeans, just so they are “ cool” at school. Uniforms can be bought at almost any clothing store. Prices range from $5-$7 for shirts, $10 for shorts and $7 for jumpers. Of course used clothes are cheaper. Majority of parents

  • life in the factories

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    they had to feed and clothe these kids and then provide them with a place to sleep. The factory owners went at this problem with the same cheapness that they had when buying the children. Children were forced at many places, to eat while working and the kids often complained about the food. Most of the time the food was covered in dust by the time they were beginning to eat. When most of these children came from the workhouses and were made to come with a change of common clothes. Most factories were

  • Huckleberry Finn: A Free Spirit

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    new things and being knowledgeable, but he did not like to get dressed up, to have to go to school, to be well behaved and polite, and to learn good manners. “I was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing…and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widows where you had to wash and eat regular…It was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around.” (p. 31) Living in the woods is harder work,

  • Conforming To The Ways Of The World

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    Conforming to the Ways of the World These days, the brand of clothes we wear and the corporate logos that are on clothes, can tell a person the type of people we want to be associated with and where we stand on the social ladder. Children, teenagers, and adults allow themselves to help advertise for fashion designers by wearing corporate logos because wearing these logos gives them a sense of belonging to a certain group of people, social status, or a so-called “in crowd.” Corporate logos are the

  • Part of the Team

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    of my life, but it has been a part differently than what it is to others. I love everything about basketball. I have done everything from keeping the official book for a men's and women's collegiate team to washing a high school team's practice clothes and even making sure everyone has their uniforms and shoes before leaving for an away game. You don't have to be on the court, you don't have to be the one taking the winning shot or calling the play to be part of the team. I want you to think about

  • Jules Verne

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    Jules was in his young 20s, he wrote operettas librettos for about 2 years while continuing to practice law. He was appointed as the Secretary of the Theatre Lyrique in Paris. He made some letters to his mother commenting on his shabby clothes compared to the clothes poets there. He started to become a very busy people. Verne was married on January 10, 1857 to Honorine de Viane. He only had 1 child, a boy named Michel, who was born on August 3, 1861. Verne also had 2 stepdaughters, Valentine, and Suzanne

  • Black Boy - Richard Wright's Portrayal of Himself

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    Black Boy - Richard Wright's Portrayal of Himself Black Boy , an autobiography by Richard Wright, is an account of a young African-American boy's thoughts and outlooks on life in the South while growing up. The novel is 288 pages, and was published by Harper and Row Publishers in © 1996. The main subject, Richard Wright, who was born in 1908, opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old in Natchez, Mississippi, and his family's later move to Memphis. In addition it describes

  • Glossolalia

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    asking what happened. I wanted to go to him and ask him what was wrong, but I didn’t dare…But then I couldn’t stand it anymore and I got up and ran down the hall to the kitchen. There, in the middle of the room, wearing his Goodyear jacket and work clothes was my father. He was on his hands and knees, his head hanging as though it were too heavy to support, and he was rocking back and forth and babbling in a rhythmical stutter. It’s funny, but the first thing I thought when I saw him like that was the

  • The Computer Geek

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    clumsy and sometimes lacked common sense. Screech would walk into walls, knock things over, and tends to have a “big mouth”. If you needed to tell someone a secret, your best choice would not be Screech. He never cared about fashion, so stylish clothes were insignificant to him. Media created this kind of image in many television shows for their characters. Another thing that comes to my mind when I think about the profile of a computer geek is that they tend to be very introverted. Usually

  • Predictions on the Highest and Lowest Achievers in an Elementary School Class

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    consistently in the math assignments that where done during the class as well as having the right answers. Another student that I considered a high achiever based on my observations was a boy named James. James was well dressed, wearing church type clothes. He was also an outgoing a generally happy kid who didn’t seem to mind being in school or in the class. The happiness that he exhibits gives you the feeling that he must be a high achiever because if he was unhappy about the situation than he would

  • Evils of Monarchy and Society in the Works of Mark Twain

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    common beggar boy, Tom Canty, switch clothes and identities, throwing each into a social situation with which he is not familiar.  Through the stories of each boy, Twain brings out two themes that reflect his views on monarchy and society.  Underlying the adventures of Tom Canty is Twain's mockery of the idea that clothes determine a man's place in society.  As Twain once said, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society" ("Clothes" n.pag.).  Tom Canty assumes the role

  • The Power of Money in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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    happiness, and allow him to climb the social ladder in the prominent East Egg. Jay Gatsby believes he can buy happiness; and this is exhibited through his house, his clothes, and through Daisy. He owns a large portion of finances due to some mysterious source of wealth, and he uses this mystery source to buy his house, his clothes, and Daisy. Gatsby's house, as Fitzgerald describes it, is "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin

  • Essay on The Pardoner of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

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    confess. He told them that they would get absolution if they pay him and thus broke the vow of obedience because it is against the Catholic Church. He broke the vow of chastity by having adulterous relationships with other women. By wearing expensive clothes, spending his time with wealthy people rather than helping beggars or sick lepers, he broke the vow of poverty. The Pardoner is a person who says prayer for dead people so that the sins they had committed in life would  be forgiven. The Pardoner

  • The Sea as a Metaphor for Love in Valediction

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    of both obvious and connotative diction, which connect the sea and the emotions of love. In the first line of the poem, Heaney says Lady with the frilled blouse and simple tartan skirt. At first, it simply appears that he is describing her clothes. Tartan, however, has a second meaning of a small ship. Therefore, before Heaney even mentions the sea, he compares the lady in the poem to a ship. In the next line, he uses several words related to the sea and ships, such as rode,anchored,rocked

  • Teaching in the Nude

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    me. It was a Wednesday, which means it is a swim day. As everyone around me began shedding his or her clothes, I felt my heart skip a beat as I wondered where I was going to change. "Um, do I just take off my clothes and change right in front of the children?" I asked, sheepishly. "Well, unless you plan to swim in your clothes, I think it would be a good idea to take off your clothes!" was the Danish response. They were not used to my cultural views on nudity; but I was. Well, seeing

  • The Inversion of Buddhism in Heart of Darkness

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    pose of the Buddha of Compassion-- note the hand raised in blessing: " 'Mind,' he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes with out a lotus-flower" (20). Because of the repeated references I began to wonder if Conrad is hinting to his readers. On a superficial level, the comparison holds. In the sutras about the enlightened Buddha, he sits thusly and, like Marlow, sometimes

  • Imagery in Chopin’s Storm and John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums

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    up Bobinot's Sunday clothes before the rain fell. If she was angry with Bobinot she would have left the clothes outside(147). Single words and phrases are very important when looking at the situation. The word "hastened" shows that she cared about her husband. If the word in that sentence was not "hastened," but "went," it would change the whole meaning of the sentence&emdash;"she went out to get them before the rain fell" does not indicate that she cared whether the clothes got wet or not. In