After trying to decide which cultural norm to experiment with, I came to the conclusion to invade someone else's space. ... Having never performed this action before, I had no idea what to expect or how the person was going to act. ... After noticing this I decided to move even closer to the person. ... After the person stepped back, I took a step towards them once again. The person repeated the same movement they did before. ...

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I will also try to point out when a new culture develops and borrows any concepts or ideas from a culture before them. ... Since there is no real culture before them to compare with, a few contributions from these people set the framework for cultures that would follow after them. ... These people, unlike the Mesopotamians before them, believed that their life after death was like heaven, and they were much more optimistic people. ... They were a very proud people, and unlike the Persians before them, they disliked most cultures and people except their own. ... After many effective King...

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Three highly intellectual human beings called Pre-Cogs, are able to see when a murder happens before it happens. ... The department was taken down after this, and regular enforcement was put back into place. ... He roles a ball across a flat surface and before it hits the ground, Witworth catches it. ... They see the action before the person if thinks about. ... He tells John that he will give him five minutes before he hits the alarm. ...

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This aspiration is also shared by Eliza, for even before contemplating the idea to visit Professor Higgins for elocution lessons to become a flower-girl, she returns home to her squalid lodgings, "dreaming and planning" what to do with her "new riches" to better her life. ... Both men see Eliza and Vivian respectively as tools for their personal utility with no thought to what is to become of them after their usefulness has expired. The financial exchange for their services seems to justify this notion that this is a business affiliation, as Higgins says after Eliza runs away, "I paid five p...

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Just like how they continued to wonder and be nosey about what Miss Emily is up to through her daily life, they also were interested in what was in the house she lived in that no one had visited and toured through before. ... Even though her social status continued to fall, people still didn't treat her much different than they before yet they let her get away with whatever she wanted. ... This was in a way similar to how once before she had held onto her father's body after he had passed away for three days, until authorities persuaded her to let him go. ... When the people of the ...

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As a result, he is unable to see that much of the technology that supposedly led to Europe's rise to power can be found in other parts of the world long before it shows up in Europe. In Blaut's analysis of White's work, he clearly sites evidence of the technological advances White suggests as European that can be found in other areas of the world long before they reach Europe (p. 34). ... For example, the dramatic population increase in Europe after the Dark Ages is more directly related to the population rebuilding itself through birth rates and increased settlement as a resu...

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Albert Camus' character Meursault is put through a prejudiced trial after he commits the murder of an Arab man. ... The narrator continues, "They surrendered to their church a few minutes after the crime they laid the knives, with clean blades, on Father Amador's desk. ... The priest responded, " Perhaps before God'- (Garcia Marquez 56), and Pablo responded, " Before God and before men it was a matter of honor'- (Garcia Marquez 56). ... After Meursault receiving the telegram informing him that his mother had passed away, "Maman died today, Or yesterday maybe, I don...

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Since the day a baby is born in America whether it be a boy or a girl, one of the first words they learn to say is ball, and after a few months they add the word foot in front of the word ball, and by the time you know it your baby boy is playing football, and your little girl is cheering "Go Cowboys go!" ... The next day and the day after that, people are still talking about it and the events that took place before, during, and after. ...

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The Iroquois culture and the corresponding timeline can be crudely divided into two periods: life before contact with European settlers, and life after contact. ... This division is also made because life for the Iroquois changed drastically after European contact. ... The individual used to replace the loved one would inherit that loved one's identity; they would cease to be who they were before. ...

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The wife approached me after several minutes of staring at "Juelz" and asked me three questions. The first was "Is that a boy or a girl" after I replied that she is girl her response was is she a Lesbian I immediately replied no to that question. Finally she asked me "well why does she dress like that" before I could answer "Juelz" replied "because I want to besides you worked to hard to look that bad today." After several minutes of laughing we went on our way and continued receiving glares and stares from people throughout the day. ...

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Inside, while the house stands erect like a top hat while all the other houses around it has collapsed after the bombing, its like a symbol of high society and beautiful, Trevor knows if not for the war, he could be living a rich life, instead, he has to join gangs and his father have to work as a clerk, giving him a hatred for higher class society. ... Because before the bombing and the war London was such a beautiful place, even though the children dont know what its like before the war, they probably have an idea of what life was like before the war. ...

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We already get used to the way we live now but maybe some people will have such doubts: what kind of society that is before the modern society and how did the ancient people live? ... In addition, with the increasing trend of social differentiation, the role that the family plays in society is not as much important as before, the family is no longer the only group you can rely on, and it has been relegated to one of many social institutions like school, trade unions, political parties and so on, each organization play special role in modern society, you can join in any group with your interest...

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After the crime is committed, his conflict becomes whether or not he should confess and return to society. ... The cross that Sonia gives Raskolnikov before he goes to the police station to confess is another symbol. ...

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It has been said that each person plays his or her own role in society. Many decades ago, the role of the man was that of the caretaker; he was responsible for financial matters and status of the family. The role of the woman was as the homemaker; she was responsible for affairs of the home and th...

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Before the rise of amusement parks, America was only exposed to projects that stood for social culture. ... Both the New York Central Park and the Columbian Exposition symbolized what American culture stood for before the "turn of the century.... Not too long after, American society saw a shift in its social structure. ... After the war, investors grasped as many opportunities as possible. ... People came for the excitement of something different, to experience something that they hadn't before. ...

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In Othello, the main character after whom the play is named is presented as an honest, kind and respected black man, in service to the Venetian state, who recently married Desdemona, the Venetian senator Brabantio's daughter. ... On her deathbed, moments before Othello kills her, she pleads him to "Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight but half an hour-(V,ii). ... When Emelia is tending to Desdemona shortly after the banquet in act IV, scene iii, she says: Let husbands know/ their wives have sense like them. ... She is married to and murdered by a man who tries to suppress her throug...

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In it, partners would once more have segregated conjugal roles, with the male becoming more work centred because work would be more interesting, and the female looking after the children. ... Because of this the females are not at home as much to look after children and do all the housework and so it has had to be shared. ... According to Bott, partners have different social networks before they are married. Some networks are close-knit, meaning that partners meet regularly and know each other and their families before they get together. ... She found a variety of patterns within couples, ran...

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We are now living in an age of increased life expectancy, better access to health care, social services, technology, mobility, and far more human rights and freedoms than ever before. ... They were expected to obey their own families before marriage and their husband's families after marriage, at the expense of the former. ... In the past, the concept of dating was considered unacceptable and most brides and grooms had little to no opportunity to meet and interact with their spouses before marriage. ... It has been shown that this illness may cause veterans affected by it too often behave...

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I think that the overall breadth of anthropology is meaningful to me because I think that the more a person knows about a topic the less they are to prejudge someone or something before getting to know about it. ... Before the presentation I looked at the veil as unfashionable attire worn by Middle Eastern women. After the presentation I realized that the veil represents the culture and magnifies the women who wear them. The American culture today does not really emphasize being pure in body before marriage and thus is the major reason why over 50% of marriages end in divorce after one year. ....

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The lottery enforces an unfair distinction in class status between men and women. Women are subordinate in the social power structure of the village, as shown when Mrs. Hutchinson's family is chosen in the first round. Objecting that her daughter and son-in-law "didn't take their chance," (562) Mr. ...

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After reading this news, most Americans thought that Sadat was rude and arrogant. ... Some of them probably will impair the image of a nation, as the story mentioned before, or cause the unnecessary political tightness among nations. ...

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After time, some men wanted to stay in the hospital voluntarily as they didn't feel that they had anything outside the hospital. ... Before McMurphy entered the mental ward, the patience were cowardly and depressed by the castrating Nurse Ratched. ...

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In the novel The Awakening, the author Kate Chopin explains the social norms of the women in Victorian society. Edna Pontellier is the main in The Awakening. She advances the theme of the corruption of the Victorian society in the scene where she learns how to swim at the Grand Isle by herself. Afte...

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To him, the individual was the most important element of society, even coming before government. ... Before Smith, the mercantilist view was dominant. ... After WWII, the dictator form of government lost much of its former popularity and democracy began to spread into Italy and Germany. ...

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After the creation of the monster, Frankenstein has a nightmare in which he embraces and kisses Elizabeth before he realises that he is holding the body of his mother. ... The relationship between Frankenstein and his mother was obviously a strong one, and Frankenstein was deeply affected after her death. ... An example of language used to convey this idea of Frankenstein as a male-mother is visible after the creation of the monster, when Frankenstein's health deteriorates. ...

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