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    Vyse Gypsies Dancing The Vyse’s earthenware figure group, Gypsies Dancing is a another composition that owes its inspiration to the Barnet Fair, and as previously noted, the Vyse’s were annual visitors. Regrettably, this was to be Vyse’s last in the successful line of horse-fair personalities. His final ceramic depiction of his beloved gypsy type. One may postulate that the Vyses had first introduced this gypsy couple to the public in 1924, and now over decade later, they are revisited when in joyfully

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    One of my learning moments was during our very first day of class. We created a “Gypsy Wagon Book” which is very interesting and unique to me because, this book can be used in a variety of ways for all ages. One way to use this book is that you could have your own students create their own story book, maybe of what they did over the summer, vacations they went on, birthday parties or just different activities that they did with friends and family. This book can be used for sequence of a story that

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    Liviu Tipurita’s 2011film, Gypsy Child Traffickers, is a disturbing documentary about the exploitation of children who are forced to work as beggars on the streets of London for the benefit of businessmen in their home country of Romania. The film exposes the harsh conditions in which the Roma gypsy children are living, the corruption behind the child trafficking, and contemplates the stigma that the Roma gypsies have faced for decades. The film producer, John Sweeney, follows women and children

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    The Gypsy Community Introduction The Gypsy communities originated in India and gradually migrated to Western Europe (Acton, 1997). They travelled in family groups. They associated themselves with various professions including hawking and peddling, tinkers, street performers and fortune-tellers (Great Britain, 2004). During the early 19th century, the Gypsy communities became more identifiable and established. During this term, the communities developed in terms of classic technology which made

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    My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

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    My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding 1. The main gender roles that are described include the males job is to being the bread winner, which means he provides the financial support and the females’ job is to stay home to look after the kids and do the house work. The male is the dominant one in a family, if a female is not just married her father is dominant but when she gets married the dominance is transferred to her husband. When the father gives his daughter away at the wedding, which means he’s giving up

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    The Musical Gyspy

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    Gypsy “Gypsy” is a musical that captured the attention of the audience with incredible music and a rollercoaster of a storyline. “Gypsy” was loosely based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, a famous striptease artist at the time that the show was written. The character of Louise is based on Gypsy Rose Lee and the character of June based on her sister, June Havoc. “Gypsy” is about a mother who tries to have her two daughter perform onstage and make it in show business. In the end you find out that

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    Yale, stated “empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes.” The author of “The Harvest Gypsies,” Steinbeck, expresses a similar idea. In the excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath and “Tuesday Siesta,” both authors convey empathy efficiently. Nevertheless, the author of “The Harvest Gypsies” best evokes empathy in the reader by utilizing appeals to logos, auditory and visual imagery, and a grim metaphor. One cannot argue that “Tuesday Siesta”

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    Sinclair’s fiction writing “The Jungle” and the non-fiction writing “The Harvest Gypsies” by John Steinbeck inform the reader of the difficulties faced by immigrants and migrant workers. However while the author of “The Jungle”, Upton Sinclair, uses descriptive details that show the plight of the immigrants, it is the deeper understanding of the difficulties faced from the families in John Steinbeck's “The Harvest Gypsies” that are more efficacious in evoking compassion and inspiring change. In 1906

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    could not make their lives better because he was treated unfairly due to his skin color and was segregated from the others that slept in the bunkhouse. Another story that was written by John Steinback that supports my thesis is named, The Harvest Gypsies, and it is about the real things that John Steinback saw during the Great Depression. A part of the story that supports my thesis is when it states, “And this father will not be able to make a maximum of four hundred dollars a year any more because

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    that seemed to be built around nature and was in perfect harmony with itself. Gypsies came into Macondo every month. Melquiades is also introduced in this chapter as a “heavy Gypsie” that begins to announce his discovery as the eighth wonder of the world. He introduces magnets! Jose Arcadio Buendia wanted to use the magnets to uncover gold. Here his wife Ursula is introduced into the plot. Jose’s plan failed. The gypsies returned in the month of March and this time displayed a different scientific

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