Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. ... As time passed people from all societies questioned and criticized Joseph Smith's claims and his construction of this new practice, yet he was naive and constantly reminded of the vast amounts of acclaim he received from adults, as he was a young teenager. ... Aside from Marty's references to Joseph Smith's revelations, he tells Smith's story as he challenges the facts. ... Soon the Church of England banned Whitefield, and denied any ties to him or his work (M...

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"Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. I mention about new people because, as we will see, the crossing of the ocean is the opportunity to transform in something different, something "new". ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John ...

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Introduction The idea of `wicked problems' (Rittel and Webber, 1973) is by no means new in terms of social issues in the UK, indeed it has long been recognised that there are a series of problems/issues which, like the poor, and despite the `best efforts' of government, always seem to be with us and appear to be almost impossible to resolve. ... In this paper we seek to describe and analyse the approach to the `problems of the city' as pursued by New Labour with particular reference to three policy areas of unemployment, crime and safety and urban policy. ... What perhaps distin...

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