1) Marx argues that under capitalism, workers become alienated from their labor through the process of production. Workers are treated as commodities whose sole purpose is to increase the profits of their employers. 2) This estrangement manifests itself in several ways. Workers are alienated from the products they create, from the process of production itself, and from their own human capacities and essence as creative beings. 3) When labor is alienated, it separates humans from their species-being and ability to freely express themselves. It also causes estrangement between workers by making private property and profits for others the primary purpose of their work.

1. Rewrite the paragraphs with corrections and punctuation fixes.
1)The founder of (V.O.W) is a domestic violence and child
abuse survivor she’s a writer and entrepreneur, who holds a BS
Degree in Human Resources management and advanced training
in Business Administration, currently pursuing a Master’s
degree to become a mental health Councilor. The author of
Blueblack tears of a father&child, Shades of Blue and the
upcoming book Freed. I donates to the house of Ruth, The men
mission for the homeless, Volunteers at Bea Gaddy’s family
center and is currently a mentor for cadettes girl scouts.
2)The inspiration for vow is my mother. She is a Domestic
Violence and abuse survivor .I was born into what appeared to
be a normal family. However, beneath the surface, was an ugly
and painful reality that would have an impact on my family’s
life. Abuse is not love! It is a sickness; Make no mistake; abuse
plagues many homes and lives. Although it’s painful for me to
recount and relive the pain that happen in our lives, my hope is
that VOW can help women to improve their quality of life.
Counseling and therapy deals with the symptoms, but only time
and prayer can heal the wounds.
3)The mission of Voices of Women is to help woman to
overcome their domestic violence and or abuse issues by
providing tools, resources and support for today, as we create
hope for their tomorrow.
4)Should woman need help with services such as:
PLEASE GIVE A DESCRITION OF EACH BULLET POINT
· Counseling
· Life Coach
· Housing
· Child care
· Women’s Health

2. · Defense Classes
· Job search
· Continuing Education
· Finances
· Credit Repair
Rewrite the
paragraphs
with corrections and
punctuation
fixes.
1)
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(
V.O.W
) is
a domestic
violence
and child abuse
survivor
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s
a writer and
entrepreneur,

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Resources
management
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Administration, currently
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’
s
degree to become
a mental health Councilor
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author of
Blueblack tears of a
father
&
child
,
Shades
of
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4. lue and the upcoming book
Freed. I
donates to
the house of
Ruth, The
men mission for the homeless,
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at
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addy
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s
family center
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d is
currently a mentor for cadet
tes girl scouts.
2)
The inspiration for
vow is my mother
. She
is a Domestic
Violence
and abuse
survivor
.

5. I
was
born into what appeared to be a normal family.
However, beneath the surface, was an ugly and
painful reality that would
have
an
impact on my
family
’
s
life.
Abuse
is not love!
It is a
sickness;
Make
no
mistake;
abus
e plagues many homes and lives.
Although

6. it
’s
painful for me to recount
and relive the pain th
at happen in our
lives,
my
hope
is that VOW can help
women
to
improve
the
ir
quality
of life.
Counseling and therapy deals with the symptoms, but only time
and prayer
can heal the wounds.
3)
The mission of Voices
of
Wome
n

7. is to help woman to overcome their domestic violence and or
abuse
issues by providing tools,
reso
urces
and support for
today,
as
we
create hope for their
tomorrow
.
4)
Should woman need help with services such as:
PLEASE GIVE A DESCRITION OF EACH BULLET POINT
·
Counseling
·
Life Coach
·
Housing

8. ·
Child care
·
Women
’s Health
·
Defense Classes
·
Job search
·
Continuing
Education
·
Finances
·
Credit Repair

9. Rewrite the paragraphs with corrections and punctuation fixes.
1)The founder of (V.O.W) is a domestic violence and child
abuse survivor she’s a writer and
entrepreneur, who holds a BS Degree in Human Resources
management and advanced training in
Business Administration, currently pursuing a Master’s degree
to become a mental health Councilor. The
author of Blueblack tears of a father&child, Shades of Blue and
the upcoming book Freed. I donates to
the house of Ruth, The men mission for the homeless,
Volunteers at Bea Gaddy’s family center and is
currently a mentor for cadettes girl scouts.
2)The inspiration for vow is my mother. She is a Domestic
Violence and abuse survivor .I was
born into what appeared to be a normal family. However,
beneath the surface, was an ugly and
painful reality that would have an impact on my family’s life.
Abuse is not love! It is a sickness;
Make no mistake; abuse plagues many homes and lives.
Although it’s painful for me to recount
and relive the pain that happen in our lives, my hope is that
VOW can help women to improve
their quality of life. Counseling and therapy deals with the
symptoms, but only time and prayer
can heal the wounds.
3)The mission of Voices of Women is to help woman to
overcome their domestic violence and or abuse
issues by providing tools, resources and support for today, as
we create hope for their tomorrow.
4)Should woman need help with services such as:
PLEASE GIVE A DESCRITION OF EACH BULLET POINT

10. This quarter, you will write four précis (pronounced “pray-see”
in both its singular and
plural forms). The goal of a précis is to faithfully reproduce the
arguments of an original
document while reducing its length to about 1/6 the length of
the original. For each
assignment, you’ll be producing précis of about two pages
(approximately 450-600 words).
Prepare to write your précis:
1. Read the selection carefully.
2. While reading, note the main argument and any supporting
material you come across. It
can be helpful to underline or highlight important points, or to
make notes in a separate
notebook.
3. You will need to read the selection multiple times. Try to see
new things in every
reading.

11. Write the précis:
1. Begin to work through the text, condensing the material you
have read without leaving
out any part of the argument. A helpful approach is to start by
organizing and underlining
the topic sentences in each paragraph throughout the document.
Depending on the
theorist, it can also be helpful to check the introduction and
conclusion to each section or
each long paragraph. These will often provide most of your
précis’s skeleton.
2. If there are any key terms used by the author of the text,
make sure that they are
mentioned and indirectly defined within your précis.
3. Write as if you were the author. Do not write, “In this piece,
Marx says ____.” In a
précis, you actually trying to be Marx, except that you are
translating him in such a way
that even your non-Sociology friends can understand the text.
A précis, strictly speaking, does not include your own opinions
about the work. Instead, it
succinctly encapsulates (a) the theoretical content of the work,
(b) the research that went into the
work (if applicable), (c) the conclusions of the work, and (d)
what about the work is important.
Remember:
• This is not a reflection paper or book report – it's an exact
replica of the original,
but shorter, and in different words. Think of it as a translation
from “more

12. complicated” to “more basic.”
• Try not to quote the text, and limit paraphrasing unless
absolutely necessary (that
is, unless there's no other way to say it).
• Don’t add any opinion or new examples.
• Don’t use expressions like, “This passage says…” You don't
want to “stand
apart” from the document, but rather, to reproduce its intent,
tone, style and
mood in different words.
• DO NOT move past the sentence you are working with until
you fully
understand it, no matter how much background research you
have to do in order
to understand it.
• Don’t be attached to a sentence once you have written it.
Going back to change,
re-edit, adjust, add, remove, etc. is part of writing a good
précis.
• Practice to simply ignoring/tossing out any text that doesn’t
add to your point.
• All work must be edited for grammar, punctuation, spelling,
etc., just as you
would a formal paper.
SAMPLE PRÉCIS – Marx (in Calhoun)

13. Start point: middle of pg. 147 (“The worker become all the
poorer…)
End point: top of pg. 154 (“…various hitherto unsolved
conflicts)
The value of a worker is inversely proportional to the value of
the goods that he
produces. The worker makes commodities, and is himself a
commodity. When a worker’s
labor is used to make something, the labor becomes an object
that is alienated from the
worker. Estranged labor decreases the worker’s value while
increasing his dependence on
capital. The worker is alienated from the product of his labor,
and the product of the
worker’s labor diminishes him.
Nature provides the worker with both his means of
subsistence and the raw
materials he needs to turn his labor into a product. When the
worker uses materials from
the external world, he objectifies it and compromises his own
subsistence. The worker
cannot physically sustain himself without the money he
earns through work; these
earnings further ensure that he will continue to exist physically
as a worker. The value of

14. a worker is inversely proportional to the value of the goods that
he produces.
Political economy hides the estranged relationship between
the worker and
production. Labor creates useful goods for those who can
consume them while harming
those who make them. The most important relationship for us to
consider is that of the
worker to production. The worker is not only alienated from the
product of his labor, but
from the process of production. While he is working, the worker
must constantly deny his
physical and mental preferences. We can tell that labor is
coerced because the worker
does not participate in it unless he has to in order to satisfy a
need. When a worker labors
for someone else, he belongs to that person rather than to
himself. The worker then feels
free only in performing animal functions such as eating,
sleeping, and procreating. If
estrangement from the object of the worker’s labor is
estrangement from a thing, then the

15. worker’s estrangement from the process of laboring is
estrangement from himself.
A third form of estrangement is alienation from species-being.
Man is a species-
being because he understands himself to be a member of a
species. Physically, man lives
on the products of nature. Estranged labor separates the life of
the species from man’s
individual life. The activities at which man labors to maintain
his physical existence are
not estranged. The life-maintaining activities of man and the
life-maintaining activities of
animal are distinct because man is conscious of these activities
as separate from himself.
Estranged labor causes alienation by turning this conscious
activity into a mere means for
existence. Animals produce only to meet an immediate
physical need; man produces
beyond immediate need. Man is conscious of the existence of
species beyond his own.
Man can also create objects of beauty. When man is
deprived of the object of his
production, he is also deprived of his species-life. If nature is
taken away from him, he

16. has no advantage over animals: his spontaneous free activity
becomes merely a means for
survival.
When men are estranged from their own species-nature, they are
also estranged
from other men. The products and the labor from which men are
alienated must belong to
other men. Like the product of labor and the process of
laboring, these other men are also
alien and hostile to the worker. It seems like private property
creates alienated labor, but
it is actually alienated labor that creates private property
through the estrangement of man
from other men.