The social commentaries found in Leon Gast's When We Were Kings are identity, freedom, growth, religion and individuality. ... Identity is one of the most predominant social commentaries or issues that is conveyed by Leon Gast in his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... Leon Gast conveys the social commentary or issue of freedom in his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... Gast has also successfully conveyed the social commentary of growth within his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... Another example would be the usage of the montage of shots when the song "When We W...

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Also, we the humans are in control of our own lives, we are superior beings after all. ... Even before the sci fi genre even really existed, Nostradamus was predicting a gloomy demise. ... So if computers were to get smarter than us in every way, what is there to stop them taking over. ... We are no match. ... Ironically, though the Matrix is the prison for humanity, it is also the only possible weakness, which the rebels, freed from the Matrix, wish to use against the robots. ...

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The words that we were given to use were as follows: sexy, love, death, and porno. ... We started off easy with the word sexy. ... On to the next word we went. ... I responded okay, she is free to feel however she wants and I laughed. ... Back to the best friends we go. ...

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If we were never introduced to the idea, can there ever be? ... If it were cold, we would not have the idea to put on clothes, and next to a wardrobe full of clothes we then could freeze. ... We have a mind to be free, I think. ... We also are free because we are naked, free from superfluous ballast on our bodies. ... That also was the question Plato asked himself about 400 years before Christ. ...

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One can see many of these profound truths mirrored in Till We Have Face. ... I wanted her to be a slave so that I could set her free and make her rich "(Till We Have Faces 23). ... I am a wife " (Till We Have Faces 125). ... This was forbidden because mortals were not allowed to look upon the faces of the gods. ... We'd rather they were ours dead than yours and made immortal the girl was mine I was my own and Psyche was mine and no one else hand any right to her What should I care for some horrible new happiness which I hadn't given her and which separated her from me?......

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They believe that people were indefinable at first; "he first appears, then defines himself." ... They feel that the decisions we make are only up to us. Man is free to make his own choices and man is condemned in the fact that he is free. ... The Honor Code is " We will not lie, steal, cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does," and the Core Values are "Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do." ... The next two values of service before self and excellence in all we do are more difficult and can be easily denied. ...

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Before any side should be taken with confidence, the shared dogmas must be stated to keep a firm foundation. ... Thirdly, just because verses speak of such things as "falling from grace" or "being in a worse state then prior" this does not mean we can assume they were truly saved. 1 John 2:9 speaks of it like this, if anyone were to abandon Christ, it is proof that they were never actually with Christ. ... Many see this view as undermining free will and choice. ... This does not compromise the free will aspect of an Arminian. ... If we enter a relationship with God by fre...

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Before I proceed an important clarification is deemed necessary with regard to the connotations of apparel and textile industry being used in this paper. ... Before the agreement took effect, quotas controlled a large portion of trade in the sector. ... As one manufacturer warns, "We are in the ripe tomato business. ... If you wanted a half a pound, they went in with a knife and cut it out, and we all paid for the butter and the labor. ... With NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in effect, US manufacturers, in hoards, have shifted their sewing plants to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala...

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So we will start at the beginning, which was long before the war began to see if the exact cause can be defined. ... Two of which were that the people of the country were poor and hungry. ... They also agreed that the National Government should be stronger than before. ... The South was eventually allowed the Three Fifths Compromise in which they were allowed to count five slaves as three free men. "[ ] slavery, though never specifically mentioned, was well protected within the body of the constitution (qtd in Ferris 9)". ... We had fought the Revolutionary War to be free of the English,...

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He believed that once we had knowledge of what was good, we would not be free to do evil. ... We know Socrates through his student Plato's writings. ... In Rome, the Stoics, founded by Zeno, about 300 [BCE] (and made famous by Epictecus), sought autonomy and autarchy (freedom) for the people under the premise of natural (equality before the) law. As such, they thought, "we are all God's children."" ... He said that the pre-industrial state of nature was a reasonable and moral place where men were "born free as we are born rational," with reason and morality. ...

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Most liberals are enthusiastic about the economics of the free market. In the international realm, such thinking is most obvious in liberal views concerning free trade (though many liberals would take a slightly more ambiguous view than the neoliberal one set out here). ... Allowing free trade sends price signals that encourage people to work at what they are best at, a strategy that benefits everyone over the long term. ... When workers in Europe or the US ask for higher wages employers can easily threaten to move production somewhere cheaper, arguing that growing competition produced by fre...

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Then, she returned to the Sacred Heart Academy, the Catholic boarding school, where the nuns were known for their intelligence. ... Kate and Oscar were very happy together and soon they were a part of the high society. ... Mallard's excitement about being free when she said, "free, free, free,"" (Chopin 262), was ironic because in the end, maybe she would be free eternally, but not in the way that the author intended for us to believe. ... Before an assumption can be made about Mrs. ... She would now have a different perspective on life and a quite prosperous one of that as she utters th...

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In Where Nests the Water Hen, the government does exactly this when Luzina receives a letter from the government saying, "It had decreed compulsory schooling before there were enough schools for all the children or roads for them to reach what schools were there."... Due to the importance of education, the government should provide education for free. ... This is why a government should provide it for free. If education was not free, then only the people who could afford an education could go. ... This service should be provided to everyone for free and should be easily accessible as seen in...

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Mc Carthy alleged that the United States government departments were infiltrated by the communists and this made him start a campaign against them. ... Miller himself was accused of this and was called before the Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1956 to testify and when he had refused to apologise, he was sent for trial. ... If we had a society where everyone's free will is taken away then it would end up being a society full of robots. ... Just as Danforth, O"Brien listens to the others part before showing his power. ... In the Crucible we can clearly see the power stru...

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She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. ... - She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life... Oxymoron She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. ... They were the main voice in the family, they got the best education, they were the only politicians, and they had great control over women. ... Sitting down on her chair and gazing imaginatively at the scene before her through her window, Mrs. ...

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They were persons who were born free or slaves who became free. ... How Could a Slave Become Free? A slave may become free by purchase. ... If he is not captured he becomes free. ... She waited for other presents before she woul...

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His father died before he was born and was raised by his mother. ... Smith was also a proponent of free trade; he thought that only through free trade could the advantages inherent in different lands be harnessed to increase the wealth of nations. ... Smith also speaks of the concept of free trade; he states the main concept of this is "I will give you this for that (Kilcullen 8)." ... Secondly, the wealth acquired by the inhabitants of cities was frequently employed in purchasing such lands as were to be sold, of which great part would frequently be uncultivated. ... The Wealth of Nations emb...

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However, Descartes points out that we often make mistakes about precisely these kinds of things when we dream. ... We are unable to distinguish waking exp-erience from experiences of the sort we appear to have in dreams until after we wake up, a notion Morpheus affirms as he asks: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? ... Of course he framed his question in a way that made it impossible to give the only reasonable answer, which we in the science studies have slowly rediscovered three centuries later: that we are relat...

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Through Elie Wiesel's gritty depiction of the treatment towards Jews in his homeland of Hungary we learn that much of the oppression inflicted by the Nazis began before the transportation to concentration camps. ... Towards the end of their stay, we learn that Elie has moved on to loading heavy stones onto railway wagons (p. 70). ... Elie remembers feeling "free at last" after learning of his father's death (p. 106). ... The son had left his father behind in the hopes of freeing "himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances for survival." ... Through Elie Wie...

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Before proceeding, it is important to mention that there are Muslims within the Ummah who do not doubt the fact that the Khilafah is the only destiny for the Muslims but at the same time find it difficult to envisage how the Khilafah can fit into the contemporary world which boosts a complex global economy. ... It is this very understanding of globalisation that we read about and hear about. ... These policies were promoted as seeds of globalisation leading ultimately to development and economic growth, however over twenty years of experience have indicated otherwise. ... Therefore, according ...

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They hopefully have not seen something like this before and it's making them laugh. ... We both laughed and said we were not. ... This time we were not really embarrassed as much because we have already done this before, but we were still a little bit on edge about this one, what were people going to think this time? ... We were giggling ourselves. ... We had a few people ask why we were eating the way we were eating. ...

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Before going any further, let's view the conceptual definitions to the key elements of this paper. ... For a state to be deemed socialist, it must offer numerous social services to its people, free of charge. ... The first indicator for education is the amount of years of free education that are offered by the state. ... (A totally socialist state would also offer free post-secondary education.) ... It can therefore be said that the USA offers more years of free education than Canada does. ...

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Before Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, God provided everything. ... The only thing Adam and Eve continued to receive for free, was God" grace or forgiveness. ... In the book of Nehemiah we are told that the city of Jerusalem and the temple were rebuilt, "because the people had a mind to work". ... They were surprised and angered to find that everyone was receiving the same wages. ... There were a vast number of slaves in the first century. ...

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We often debase those whom we do not understand, especially if they are different from us in a highly recognizable way. ... Most adults would not find it appropriate for a man of his age to be playing in his food as if he were a child. ... In order for us to not feel bad when we are judged, we judge ourselves before the other person can in order to be able to accept ourselves for who we are. ... If the violins were about maintaining control over his life, Krespel would have had a much harder time letting the hobby go after Antonia's funeral. ... Because we do not understand them, we do n...

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We often debase those whom we do not understand, especially if they are different from us in a highly recognizable way. ... Most adults would not find it appropriate for a man of his age to be playing in his food as if he were a child. ... In order for us to not feel bad when we are judged, we judge ourselves before the other person can in order to be able to accept ourselves for who we are. ... If the violins were about maintaining control over his life, Krespel would have had a much harder time letting the hobby go after Antonia's funeral. ... Because we do not understand them, we do n...

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