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    what I expected space wise, but it was descent enough. Although my mother was quick to say “Wow this room is not big as nothing, you hardly have any room to move around,” but I had in my mind I would make the best of it. The first thing I started unpacking was my personal items, which included my clothes, shoes, jewelry, and sheets. I folded all my jeans and shirts up and placed them in the drawers on my dresser. My dressy clothes were hung in the closet, and my shoes were placed neatly in the closet

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    I looked back at my house, the green peeling paint on the door, the ripped screen door, the huge window at the top of the house, from which you could see into my room, and I only had one thought, this is no longer my home. I tore my gaze away from the house and entered the car. The floor had so much of our boxes and suitcases, I was forced to lift my feet so I could fit. My neighbors weren’t home yet, so I wasn’t able to say goodbye to them. I wished they were there. I’d always been really close

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    There were intriguing flowers neighboring the dorms and little kids fishing with their parents in the beautiful pond. This was a great environment for my sister, and I felt she would be capable of accomplishing her goals here. “Do you need help unpacking your cars?” asked young gentlemen positioned outside the dormitories. “Yes thank you, and where could we find check-in?” my mother replied. The men answered, “Freshman dorms and apartments will be the small building on the left.” The next part was

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    Leaving My Life Behind

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    I will never forget the day I discovered that I was leaving my life behind. New house, new school, new friends; it all seemed unreal. The place I grew up with all my friends was about to disappear, soon only to be a memory. I didn’t even get to say goodbye, was the only thought that travelled through my head. I left all my best friends behind with no notice. The final summer I spent in my house was one of the toughest summers of my life. All I wanted was to pause my life and go back to when life

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    Unpacking

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    How to Unpack and Organize Your New Home If you followed our packing strategies, unpacking your home room by room shouldn’t be too difficult. Being able to take your labelled boxes to their appropriate rooms instead of stacking everything in the living room will already put you a step ahead. But going from there takes some planning. Start With Essentials The first thing you should locate and unpack in your new home are living essentials such as: • Hygiene items like toothbrush, shampoo, toothpaste

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    rationalizations and in responding to the interests of different stakeholders. 8 points. There are several kind of levers that Jeff can use to make a best attempt to try for change amongst his team. The most important lever he can use is “Recognizing and unpacking ‘false dichotomies’”, this one is effective because all the unethical practices that his salespeople are using are still rumors. This lever will allow Jeff to find the best solution, he should know what is true and what is false. Another lever that

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    Using the metaphor “unpacking an invisible knapsack” (1989), such debate includes the definition of unearned areas of privilege, and the contrasts between earned strength and unearned power. To reflect on the reading, an art response depicting the invisible knapsack is explored along with a summary that discusses its impact on certain groups. Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack In McIntosh’s autobiographical summary (1989), she described the term “unpacking the invisible knapsack”

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    Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh's "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack" addresses the issue of acknowledging whites' unaware privileges, thus weakening the systems of advantage to reconstruct power systems in the society from 1989 to the present. For instance, men are unconscious about their privileges in a patriarchal society while women are oppressed in the society. White people are unaware of the privileges which they take for granted while non-white communities

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    Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” addresses the issue of acknowledging whites’ unaware privileges, thus weakening the systems of advantage to reconstruct power systems in the society from 1989 to the present. For instance, men are unconscious about their privileges in a patriarchal society while women are oppressed in the society. White people are unaware of the privileges which they take for granted while non-white communities

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    In “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh we discuss the concept of white privilege, and white male privilege and its existence in modern day society. McIntosh goes on to speak of how unacknowledged white male privilege is a phenomenon that is constantly being denied and protected. Mcintosh compares white privilege to an “invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks.”(175) Much of male oppressiveness is unconcious

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