Certainly, this statement is relevant when discussing the cultural cringe ocker films of the 70`s, the subsequent smattering of self-concious art house films, the wholesome period films of the AFC genre' and the glossy, "tourist trap- films of the 80`s supported by the IOBA tax shelter scheme for film makers. Yet the most recent offerings from Australian film makers Strictly Ballroom' (1992), Muriel`s Wedding' (1994) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' (1994) refelct a feeling of acceptance of Australia`s place on the world stage through it`s films, wh...

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The Year 1000: Life at the Turn of the First Millennium The Year 1000, a book by Robert Lacey and Danziger, explores how people lived in the year 1000, at the turn of the millennium. ... Each money maker had his own die or coin stamp so that he could give the coins his own personal detail. ... These towns also had a hosier, a shoemaker, and a soap maker to sell gifts to visitors. ...

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A durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC) is a statute passed by state legislatures that authorizes people to appoint a surrogate decision maker to make health care decisions for them if they become unable to do so. ... A persistent vegetative state is a loss of self-aware cognition in which wake and sleep cycles and other autonomic functions remain intact, lasting at least a month.2"This condition can occur after severe cerebral damage or develop gradually as the result of progressive dementia.8 Awakening from a vegetative state caused by a nontraumatic injury is rare after three mo...

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Thomas Hobbes in his book The Leviathan talks about the great Leviathan which is synonymous with that of a common-wealth or state. ... John Locke in his book called The Second Treatise on Civil Government describes the government, or common-wealth as being a compilation of what its people have given up to the government. ... That is "being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions; for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinite wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign Master, sent into this world by His order a...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. Indeed, spirituality is a common thread woven through many of her characters. Morrison has a sharp insight into people as they relate to their Maker and each ...

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The theme of religion and community is not foreign to Toni Morrison. In several of her novels, she has treated themes of God and humanity. Indeed, spirituality is a common thread woven through many of her characters. Morrison has a sharp insight into people as they relate to their Maker and each ...

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As one of seventeen children of a Boston soap and candle maker, with little formal schooling and no inherited wealth, Franklin went on to become one of the wealthiest and most influential people of his generation. ...

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Smith moved to London in 1776, and then published his famous book entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Two years after this book was published, he won an appointment as commissioner of customs in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... This book covers many different concepts such as the role of self-interest, the division of labour, the function of markets, and the implications of a laissez-faire economy. The essential message of the book was that man's self-interest would promote the economic well being of all. ... He praises the genius of investors and makers of m...

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By 1908, customers were invited to write in and ask for a copy the "Book of Modern Homes," which featured house plans and building materials. ... A 75-page, leather-bound instruction book told homeowners how to assemble those 30,000 pieces. The book offered this somber (and probably wise) warning: "Do not take anyone's advice as to how this building should be assembled." ... The Modern Homes department was never a big money maker for Sears however, and by 1932, its financial health was sliding downhill. ...

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Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. It is a keepsake that revolves upon the premise and ideas that the majority will always be in power and that it is a...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

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This is taken from the book - "I made the breakfast, took her to work, did the hoovering, washed the floor downstairs, and changed the furniture round. ... The book then goes on to say there is a considerable loosening of gender stereotypes in the family and both of them have joint responsibilities for the money. ...

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King James 1st was also very interested in witches and witchcraft and he even wrote a book about it. ... His fascination in witchcraft lead him to write a book about it called, "Daemonologie," explaining how witches can cause death by burning a person's picture, and can raise storms at sea or on land. ...

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The primary source of my research has been Internet, books, periodicals and articles from industry experts, policy makers and academia. ... As Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, Inc, the largest Home Improvement chain in the world aptly puts in his book Built from Scratch, " Sixty years ago, grocery stores, cut butter out of a tub. ...

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Like Paul (2012) mentioned that being driven by the market by the 1980s, the object-based art shifted in the exhibition-makers' role from curator-as-mediator to curator-as-author. ... In this article, the curator: she is an art exhibition maker and this lady is in charge of organizing most of art-related exhibitions. ... This type of art includes the creation of furniture and accessory furnishings, rugs and carpets, tapestry, embroidery, book illustration, floral decorations, ceramic pottery, basketry, goldsmithing, enamelwork, silverware, and jewellery art and mosaic art, as well as stai...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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Nine years later Howard Schultz, vice president and general manager of U.S. operations for Hammarplast "a Swedish maker of stylish kitchen equipment and house wares "noticed that Starbucks was placing larger orders than Macy's for a certain type of drip coffeemaker. ... He also noted that the makers of supermarket blends prefer lighter roasts because they allow higher yields since the longer a coffee is roasted, the more weight it loses. ...

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In Field's book, she quotes a social worker who asserts that "Surrogate agreements should not be enforced by the courts These arrangements will cause grave psychological and social damage to the surrogate mother," leading to consequences such depression, destruction of self-identity, and difficulty in forming close interpersonal relationships. ...

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(Weisen, 1992) In 1926 she made headlines again when she participated in a mass picket demonstration of three hundred women workers supporting striking paper box makers. ... (ER qtd. in Weisen, 1992) In her first book, It's Up To the Women, published in 1933, ER writes, "I"m not interested in the abstract idea of equality with men. ...

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Immoral actions often arise in people respected by society. In A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley innate evil becomes evident in certain characters that has been held in their bodies for many years. Many of these characters dislike fighting and wan t to keep peace within the family, while others have c...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National S...

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He wanted the band to represent the "doors between the known and the unknown," a belief he derived from the Aldous Huxley book about drugs, called The Doors of Perception, which had taken its title from William Blake, who once said, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite... He wanted to be known for more, to be recognized as a writer, a poet, a film-maker - an intellectual. ...

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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

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As Rosemary Evans comments in the book Women: Changing Canada: "Emily Murphy [was] the woman at the centre of the Persons Case."" ... Macphail was also a pacifist, she was against war, she opposed armies, gun makers and military parades she said that it was "stupid to make little boys dress up in military uniforms and strut with guns and swords it was foolish- (Brown video). ...

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