Imagine getting home from a long day at work and being able to sit down and travel to a world with cowboys and criminals. Reading is a way to escape from the real world for a while. Authors write books to entertain their readers. Many great authors have come and gone and have left many great pieces of literature in their wake. One of these authors is Charles Portis. Charles Portis is one of America’s greatest writers and has written a variety of books and short stories. Charles Portis was born
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a must see movie for everyone. It’s one of the best and first multi- ethnics cast modernizes classic fairytale of Cinderella. The old classic version only present with one ethnic group. However, this one is more diverse due to the variety of ethnicity, making the movie unique. It convey different plot that enhance and portray each character’ personality into musical movie with humor and ironic. The movie has a vibrant set, several entertaining musical sequence
Rodgers & Hammerstein 's Cinderella (1997) Movie Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a must see movie for everyone. It’s one of the best and first multi- ethnics cast modernizes classic fairytale of Cinderella. The old classic version only present with one ethnic group. However, this one is more diverse due to the variety of ethnicity, making the movie unique. It convey different plot that enhance and portray each character’ personality into musical movie with humor and ironic. The movie has
We are a forty-six man department. Our current make up is 45 white male officers and one female white officer. We police a community that is 17 % black and 5 % Hispanic. Also the people who travel through our community are quite diverse. The Norwood Police Department has been in exsistence since 1888 and during that time there has never been a black officer and there have been a total of three female officers. Our Department is not representative of the community we serve. We need to be more
Hughes is considered a Modernist writer because of his work, however one of Hughes’ works is Southern Gothic. Mulatto is a play about a white plantation owner, his black housewife, and their four biracial children. Cora, her son Robert, and Colonel Norwood are the main characters. Robert’s sisters can pass for white, but he cannot. Robert wants to be equal to his father even when his father disowns him. Elements of Southern Gothic literature include a southern setting, grotesque attributes, decay, violence
flows through their veins, yellows were still not equal in the eyes of the government. Colonel Norwood nearly beat Bert to death, when he was little, for addressing Norwood as papa in front of his white friends. Since that day, the Colonel decided he was not going to treat him as an equal, not even as a son. Higgins even fathered yellows, he admitted to having relations with yellows. Higgins told colonel Norwood, “I’ve given many a yellow gal a baby in my time.” (Hughes 1357).
probably, comes out of the play's main concern of violence and racism. Five characters are main and the rest are minor. First, Colonel Thomas Norwood, he is the plantation owner, a still vigorous man of about sixty, nervous, refined, quick-tempered, and commanding. He is a widower who is the father of four living mulatto children by his Negro house keeper. Norwood is an ambivalent character who denies the emotions associated with paternity. He is especially troubled by Robert's transformation through
Polaroid In March 1996, Ralph Norwood, treasurer of Polaroid Corporation, was asked to consider refinancing proposals from investment bankers of $150 million of debt due to mature in January 1997. Gary DiCamillo, newly appointed CEO of the firm,in reaction to the company's lagging share price, had set forth a new plan to agressively expoit the existing Polaroid brand, introduce product extensions, and enter new emerging markets. Before Norwood can choose a refinancing proposal, he must consider
Transgender, a word that is commonly confused among people who do not fully understand it’s definition. It is defined by Julia Wood (2014) as, “Individuals who feel like his or her biological sex is not his or her true sexual identity” (pg. 289). This is how the main character Brandon Teena from the award winning movie Boys Don’t Cry feels. Many theories deal with how boys and girls must play the roles of their assigned sex. These theories connect to what is going on in Brandon 's head and how he
a) Workplace harassment is unwelcome actions that are based on a person’s race, religion, color, and sex, and gender, country of origin, age, ethnicity or disability. The targets of the harassment are people who are usually perceived as “weaker” or “inferior” by the person who is harassing them. Companies and employers can also be guilty of workplace harassment if they utilize discriminatory practices against persons based on ethnicity, country of origin, religion, race, color, age, disability
In the story “Father and Son,” Langston Hughes presents Cora as an African American woman that is the mother of her slave owner’s, Colonel Norwood, children. She destabilizes traditional gender roles by acting crazy to help her son, Bert, after he murders his father, Colonel Norwood. Though she doesn’t have nearly as much input as the men in her society, she is a central female character because she makes herself seem crazy to elicit fear and to manipulate the white men into thinking she is unintelligent
When a white person enters into a relationship with a person of color, their relationship will often be met with tension from friends and family. In the south, interracial couples encounter discrimination and racial slurs. Issues with interracial relationships have been long recorded the United States, and shows how people react to relationships between whites and blacks. Loving someone across the color line used to be illegal, but since segregation ended, more people are having mixed race relationships
travels through the bloodstream, blocking the airways of the lungs (Karriem- Norwood, 2012). The most common ways a patient can get emphysema are by cigarette smoking or being exposed to chemicals, dust or air pollutants for a long period of time. Common physical exams reveal a temperature of 100.8 Fahrenheit, 104 beats per minute, a blood pressure of 146/92, and a respiratory rate of 36 breaths per min (Karriem- Norwood, 2012). (see appendix A.1,A.2, A.3, A.4 for complete proof.) Diagnosis include
ability to produce hormones,” (Norwood, 2014). This disease can occur at any age; however, most cases occur in middle –aged women. Since this disease has some subtle symptoms, the person may not know they have it. Some of the commonly symptoms one may experience are fatigue, depression, constipation and enlarged thyroid to name a few. However, there are ways to diagnose and treat Hashimoto’s Disease. Doctors may test “the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH),” (Norwood, 2014), and draw blood to test
has been banned what other books will be banned next. Many people have debated that the book had too much profanity. In Bless Me Ultima some of Antonio´s friends say some comments some people might take to offense. In 2008, in Norwood Colorado at the school Norwood High School parents asked to burn it. The superintendent later removed the book due to parents complaining about the profanity. Later in 2013, In
to larger natural continuities, and thus to avoid taking loss too personally" (Norwood 59). By behaving in this manner, he is able to accept the situation and begin to move on with life. The husband does not in any way ignore the death of his son, but actually creates a continuous link to him. In order to unify himself, his son, and their ancestors; "He packages the family graveyard in comfroting language" (Norwood 60). He refers to those who have died as his people, and now his son is part of
I remember the day my mother asked me whether I wanted to switch schools or not. It was the summer of 2014, we had just moved to Norwood Park but at the same time we had also moved farther from my old school. I was a student at that school for eight years and even though it was a huge school, everyone knew me. Even with that in mind, I immediately replied with “Yes!” without a second thought. It was not that I didn’t love my school—in fact, I adored it—but because I believed that it would be the
environment. When considering a change in diet, consider the abundance of benefits found in an omnivorous lifestyle. Works Cited "Farmed Animals and the Law." ALDF.org. Animal Legal Defense Fund, n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Lusk, Jayson L., and F. Bailey Norwood. “Some Economic Benefits and Costs of Vegetarianism”. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 38/2. (2009): 109–124. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. Mangels, Reed, PhD, RD. "Vitamin B12 in the Vegan Diet." VRG.org. The Vegetarian Resource Group, n.d. Web.
Assessment and Intervention Sydney K. M. Britton Grant MacEwan University, Social Work SOWK 330: Trauma Informed Practice Jerris Popik, M.S.W., R.S.W. April 9, 2024 Reason for Initial Referral Kelly Duncan, a thirteen-year-old girl, was referred by a medical social worker, who had first contact with her at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, to a clinical social worker to do an in-depth trauma assessment. Kelly was admitted to the hospital following a potential suicide attempt by cutting. During
Family is a system that helps define our perceptions, temperaments, and perspectives. The origin of the word family comes from the Latin word ‘familia’ that means household servants. Family can be define as: In the last few decades, American families have changed significantly. New combinations of family households are more common than ever before, with the increase in divorce and remarriage, adoption … In short, a family is any group of people who live together, share with one another, work together