The novel 'Wild Cat Falling' deals with journey because throughout the novel the first person or narrator experiences and deals many issues in his life, which is the journey. ... One issue that clearly stands out from this novel is that the laws for aborigines are different from the laws for white Australians. ... These rules are more likely to be experienced as foreign and difficult to understand by someone coming from a different background or cultural tradition, than for someone who is apart of the dominant culture by whom the rules are made for. ... "Wild Cat Falling" shows us ...

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We are especially concerned with one family group, the young peasant mother tenderly holding her small child, the weary grandmother lost in her own thoughts, and the young boy fast asleep. ... The colour used is warm and almost monochromatic (with warm browns, ochres and blacks being the main colours), with soft light falling on the faces of the mother and the old woman. ... The impact of the figures (the mother, grandmother and small boy) is amplified by the absense of detail in the background figures. ... Important figures such as the priests are painted in brighter colours (in the case of t...

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For example, in the Tournament of Flowers, Princess Sendan becomes forced to marry Ri Toten because her brother, the emperor, rigs it so that more of the plum blossoms fall off and he can choose whom she marries. Furthermore, Watonai controls the relationship with Komutsu, because he plays mind games with her to find out if she will stay loyal; although part of his plan, he simply leaves her without explaining things. ... The Battles of Coxinga reveals that Asian culture has some background and belief in occult ideas as well as in the gods, and Chikamatsu makes many references to it in his p...

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On June 21, 1850, two renowned dancers, Cesare Cecchetti and Serafina Casagli, gave birth to a boy who would become one of the greatest legends of classical ballet: Enrico Cecchetti. ... Cecchetti was offered citizenship, but turned down the offer because he found it insulting since he had only completed fifteen years out of the twenty five required to be honored citizenship by the royal court (Carpenter). ... Cecchetti's previous training and professional experience all contributed to the background information fundamental for the creation of Cecchetti's ingenious teaching method, ...

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He invented the phonograph, a machine the catches the lightest of whispers of conversation and stores it up, so that any future time it can be brought out, to the confusion of the speaker. ... In the fall of 1878, Edison put his ingenuity to work embarking upon the problem of electrification. ... A "Horatio Alger" success story of a boy from an unassuming background makes it big and gets rich. ...

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The children have already been led astray by their parent's depravity, as one boy tickles the old woman with a straw whilst the other turns away an old beggar at the door, this harking back to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, in which the more fortunate figures eventually go to hell6. ... Furthermore, the basket, which hangs above the figure's head, threatening to fall at any moment (much like the family's fate), contains an assortment of object, all offering some potential meanings. ... The sword, along with the boy at the door's clothing, may foretell of his ent...

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Both these events have caused a massive stir throughout the country millions of Americans nationwide are protesting these heinous event where one teenage African American boy was killed and the other where one African American man was choked to death by a New York police officer even after the man was making a plea to the officer that he couldn't breathe. ... The main purpose of this latest proposal according to President Obama "is to bring more undocumented immigrants out of the shadows so they can play by the rules, pay their full share of taxes, pass a criminal background check, a...

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As assets and responsibilities mounted, the merchants, who had come out as supplicants bearing gifts to local princes for an inside track on trade, gradually became soldiers, and then became local rulers themselves. ... Against this turbulent background, the British were free to ply their trade as they wished, selling silver and devices like clocks and firearms in return for cotton, spices, silk, indigo, jewels and opium. ... In anticipation of becoming factors or merchants, however, they took out loans and basked in affluence inconceivable at home (p. 48). ... The Afghans, too, made interm...

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