Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters: Raising consciousness, not money As one of the most powerful African American women in American politics today, Maxine Waters yields respect from both her allies and adversaries. (Dowd 8/22/83) As a member of the House of Representatives, who holds great command, Ms. Waters has a obligation, one might say a calling, to truly serve her constituency, to fight their struggles, to raise consciousness regarding the state of American society today, and to lend her constituency hope.

Rep. Maxine Waters has long claimed that millennials love her, but a recent campaign event she held proves the complete opposite, according to The American Mirror, The California Democrat, who is 79 years old and dons the nickname "Auntie Maxine," held a Meet & Greet Tweet-A-Thon on Sunday. It's unclear what her campaign had hoped for, but it undoubtedly under-performed. A live video that was taken during the event shows that no more than 10 millennials actually attended the event. “Come join top

In 1992 “Maxine Waters explain the causes of Urban Crises to Congress”. Maxine Waters were born in Saint Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1938. Once she earned her degree, she started her career as a teacher where she started volunteering and working with the Head Start organization. She also got involved in inner city issues in Los Angeles and represented people in the “U.S congress” and the “California State Assembly”. On March 3, 1991, an African American Rodney King, led the police on a High Speed

protest around the world. Maxine Waters is doing her best to find us a new president that will be for all the people. Women have a crucial place in traditional Bougainville society, determining kinship ties and land inheritance, and also have played an important role in the search for peace. Women’s groups on both sides of the conflict divide helped create and sustain pressure for peace through marches, vigils, petitions and mass meetings and conferences. However, women’s participation in the formal

Representative Maxine Waters, D-California The fall of 2008 brought forth a three-year Congressional Ethics investigation in to Rep Maxine Waters, Democrat for California. Representative Waters was charged by the House Ethics Committee with unspecified violations. The advisory group said the board discovered "generous reason" to trust that Waters may have damaged House administers in the wake of surveying a report arranged by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). The charges originated from

Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin?s, Woodchucks provides an interesting and creative perspective into the mind state of those influenced by nazi warfare. What begins as a seemingly humorous cat and mouse hunt, reminiscent of such movie classics as Caddyshack, soon develops into an insatiable lust for blood. Kumin?s descriptive language provides the reader with the insight necessary to understand to the speaker?s psychology as they are driven beyond the boundaries of pacifism. The

In the novel The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston uses ghosts to represent a battle between American and Chinese cultures. The two cultures have different views of what a ghost is. The Chinese believe the ghost spirits may be of people dead or alive. Chinese culture recognizes foreigners and unfamiliar people as ghosts because, like American ghosts, they are mysterious creatures of the unknown. Americans view ghosts as spirits of the dead that either help or haunt people. American ghosts may

Anne Sexton: Poetry as Therapy Many great literary and artistic geniuses have been troubled with deep depression and mental illness. Anne Sexton is an example of a poet with such problems who used her personal despair to inspire her poetic works. Not all of Sexton's work is based solely on her mental health; but a good portion of her work is influenced by her constant bouts with depression. As she struggled to deal with her own marital infidelity and the problems associated with being a female

1. Introduction Since life writing has become a major trend, a new light has been shed on confessional artists. The impact which their personal experience had on their work has been more carefully examined and evaluated, as a literary recording of self became their token of recognition. Anne Sexton, one of the leading poets of the confessional trend, is not an exception, her literary heritage and inclusion at to the mode being, however, equivocal. Sexton’s texts require from their readers a deep

The memoir, The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, is about Maxine’s childhood in America after her mother moved to America from China. The author, Maxine Hong Kingston, talks about Brave Orchid, Maxine’s mother, to show that extrinsic factors influenced Maxine’s ability to become a woman warrior. The first extrinsic factor that is significant is American and Chinese culture. This impacts Maxine Hong Kingston’s ability to be a warrior because the cultures are very different and can change