In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity to which that community is able to create a new civil religion around. ... Stating this, the author shows us that while American religion creates groups within itself, Japanese religion is universal. ... In the article, Jane Naomi Iwamura goes into great detail about the struggle of Japanese Americans and the emergence of a new Japanese American civil religion, but in the middle of the article she goes into great detail about the Japanese Americ...

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The author's sensitivity about the definition of terms regarding transgenders entails her meaning precision and phraseological consistency. ... As a qualitative researcher, the author is cognizant of the lack of racial diversity in her study, as this would rather depict a more contrasting outcome about transgender experiences. ... The author discreetly analyzed and interpreted the literature behind her use of terms, appropriately describing the historical usage and semantic application of the word "transgender." As discussed, the author was also mindful of setting boundaries in determi...

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The service end of business includes book reviews, book recommendations, one-click purchasing, a smooth purchasing interface, great selection, etc. while the product end of the business is purely the pricing of the product since books are commodity with no product differentiation. ... Due to the information-rich nature of books, the information provided about these products has a great value to the majority of customers. The current ability of online booksellers to provide published reviews, reviews of fellow readers, bestseller lists, author recommendations, customized recommendation, etc. ma...

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In England in the 17th century, during the Great Rebellion, Englishmen in the New Model Army of Parliament began to debate liberal ideas concerning extension of the suffrage, parliamentary rule, the responsibilities of government, and freedom of conscience. ... In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notably by the author and philosopher Voltaire. ... On the one hand, some democrats such as the French philosopher and author Jean Jacques Rousseau were not liberals. ...

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Gloria Anzaldua, author of "How to Tame a Wild Tongue,"" would argue that imposing mandatory requirements to learn this new way of thinking called "academic discourse- are both oppressive and objectionable. ... Richard Rodriguez, author of "Aria,"" however would argue that the requirement to learn "academic discourse- is valuable and empowering. ... The two authors, Anzaldua and Rodriguez, would have profoundly differing feelings on the subject of academic discourse, because of their very different feelings concerning assimilation. ... He realizes that although he is giving up his more in...

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During the classical era, the Romans had placed great emphasis on the values of wisdom and virtue, a concept which they referred to as humanitas. ... Likewise, Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat and author, instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the humanities, classical poetry, and in writing verse and prose. ... In the view of the author of this letter, studying literature is appropriate for only a small percentage of men because farmers, soldiers, merchants, and laborers have no need to learn th...

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Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he dealt largely with history and public affairs, and he corresponded with Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. ... The developing "powers" jostled one another throughout the world; but for a time it seemed that they might jostle one another indefinitely without any great catastrophe to mankind. The great geographical discoveries of the s...

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We discover our world through our senses, however when authors and poets are distinctively visual in their writing, we gain access to their own sensory and personal experiences. ... Instead, Henley accepts the inevitability of death, made obvious by his current ordeal, and invites the 'great seeker' to "find, and shall find" Henley "unafraid" - once again a testament to his conviction, that which trumps the metaphysical and even Death. ...

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The first of these terms, "active euthanasia,"" refers to any action that directly contributes to the death of someone who is terminally ill or in great pain. "Passive euthanasia,"" on the other hand, refers to a decision not to treat a life threatening condition on the grounds that no extraordinary measures should be taken to save the life of someone who is either terminally ill or in great pain. ... The authors of these two articles disagree sharply about both the moral acceptability and the desirable legal status of active euthanasia. ...

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Graham Greene, the author of the novel 'Brighton Rock' uses a variety of methods to create narrative interest in what can be described as 'bleak', 'depressing' or 'hopeless' material. ... In addition Greene makes a clear contrast at the very start of the novel, using Hale as an example to show the very dark, hopeless and unknown side of Brighton shown in the quote ''Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him'' this quote shows the dark side of Brighton as it shows Hale only being in Bright...

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Herodotus wrote the Histories so "...that human achievements may not become forgotten in time, and great and marvelous deeds- some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians-may not be without glory" (¶ 1.1). ... The similarities between his work and the previously dominant medium for understanding the past can be assured through linguistic features, such as the use of rhetorical questions, quasi-Homeric discourse, similarities in phraseology [aklea vs. klea andron (¶1.1) or the use of grand terms such as 'the cities of mortals'], and the presence of tangential sto...

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Article Reviews As editor of the book, "Exploring Post-Development," Aram Ziai provides an introductory look at the discussions of post-development theory, taking a cursory look at the various arguments for, or against, post-development. Ziai expertly delivers an overview of the post-development movement, having arisen in the 1980s as a response to the dissatisfaction with the concept and practice of "development" already in place. Ziai more or less defines this movement as placing an emphasis on alternatives to development via grassroots, local and regional movements. Alongside su...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he ...

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.'6 It seems then, that democracy, in its official, parliamentary form, faced a colossus of constitutional opposition, perhaps originating from the fact that the authors of the Meiji Constitution had laid down the foundations of a modern state which 'was inevitably absolutist, counter-revolutionary, and imperialistic'.7 This was not, however, where the political shortcomings of the Diet ended. ...

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