There is still a notable absence of any music or sounds. ... Then follows a series of low angle to long and full shots of the Amish and Book working on the barn with no dialogue; loud and euphoric music starts playing during the aforementioned montage of shots symbolising the Amish working in unison and a series of mid shots featuring Book and Daniel sharing a drink and working together as Daniel slowly accepts Book shows Book's acceptance into the Amish community. The interjecting mid shots and the boisterously euphoric music accompanying the montage with no dialogue at all during the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Harvey argues that a sound structure must be put in place by governmental forces to maximize the collective influence. ... In her introduction to her book, Appiah mentions that these international disputes have arisen typically when governments assume the responsibility to act for their citizens, "And the possibilities of good and of ill are multiplied beyond all measure when it comes to policies carried out by governments in our name" (Appiah, xii-xiii). ... In the introduction to his book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," Harvey examines the process in which markets suc...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kingston spends much of the book analyzing the role of women in Chinese society. The book opens with an oral history, given by the author's mother (Brave Orchid), of a nameless aunt in Old China who committed adultery. ... It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears, not beautiful like Japanese sayonara words as regular as Italian. ...

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We can make computers that are almost human; they can book our flights, beat most of us at computer games, work the stock market, even write poetry and compose music. ... We use it from the time we wake up to the sound of our alarm clock radio to the time we turn on the news before we go to bed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. ... Alice writes and communicates in her book the way her culture engaged and wrote when using their own literacy, thus, helping her keep her cultural literacy meaningful. ... They take literacy from their culture and reinvent it to fit soundly into other cultures, where the message taker can interpret the meanings and thoughts from their own cultural background (connecting with the African-American literacy styles). ... When reading from the book T...

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In this book we say a group of indigenous people struggle with tourism. ... I know that sounds pretty trivial since my view on indigenous people has been changing over the semester, but I saw the Huaorani as smooth and almost charismatic people who seemed to not worry so much about things. ...

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"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... John De Crevecoeur takes on an interesting outlook on the American Identity Crisis in his book The Language of Literature: American Literature; "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. ...

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I don't need to elaborate on this... if you don't know about the direct effect war had on the music of the 1960s (ergo, the music of today), go read a book. ... Cookie Monster-sounding Death Metal bands aside, there are a whole lot of goofy boneheads out there making artwork out of their displeasure at having to mow the lawn of their parents' houses. ...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are caught between two ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate