Is it because we want to escape from our chaotic and complicated surroundings? Or is because we have simply been trained to choose play over work "happy-go-lucky over anxiety? ... The Astrology of the Hippy Movement "The deeper, more subtle, changes that the Hippy Movement generated are still being integrated into our social and political structures as well as our collective psyche. ... In small towns they often stand out like a Peter Max poster in a funeral home. ... Once they discover other hippies their age that they can talk to, they find the courage to face the intolerance of t...

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The characters in this drama all play curious roles in this depressing time in our country's history. ... This insight wrecks much of the tension of the play. ... The depiction of the hangings provides insight into the feelings of the town. ... The theatrical version has no mention of the way the town reacted. ... There is no mention of the everyday activities of the town except to say that animals ran wild and land was up for grabs. ...

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We were travelling to a Hotel in a small town outside of Munich. ... When we entered the town it took no more than 2 minutes to reach the Hotel, which was the town centre, making it very small. ... As we came near our destination we drove through the town of San Vito. 5 minutes later and a little further up the mountain side and we were at our hotel. ... That night we spent talking and playing cards. ... One of the others had brought down his laptop computer, which could play movies. ...

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What commonality are these writers describing about our western civilization that is so typically unbalanced. ... Johnson became the dark truth and the well kept secret of his town because of his ugliness. ... The town felt a deep sense of sorrow for not appreciating Johnson more while he was alive. ... Trescott who quickly loses business in town because of Henry's exploits. ... He asks them to find his mystery "benefactor" that resided in the town. ...

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It's common to all and, in a sense, it takes us beyond all our ideologies. ... Water Pollution As if all this were not enough, we pollute our water in various other ways. ... Side by side with this, we use huge quantities of chemical fertilizers in our agriculture. ... We are polluting our waters with chemicals, with oil and with untreated sewage. ... The harmful chemicals which are deposited in one way or another into our rivers, our seas, our lakes and our oceans get into...

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The theme of community in this story also plays off of the sense of motion. ... The towns are filled with hostility. In one town, there are feuding families trying to kill each other off. In another, the town drunk is unnecessarily bumped off without reason. ... Nature plays an opposite role in the concept that it has actually befriended Huck. ...

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CLEAN-India programme, an initiative of Development Alternatives was launched in 1996 with a vision of developing cleaner environment for our towns and cities through a network of schools and NGOs linked with Government, business, academic and other institutions. This nation-wide programme on environmental Assessment, Awareness, Action and Advocacy (4'A's) aims to mobilise community responsibility for environmental assessment and improvement in all major towns and cities of India, spearheaded by school students (our future citizens) at the fore. ... Unfortunately, as a result of st...

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We get our first sense of a city quickly going to hell. ... The only two women who play a large role are portrayed with more male features. ... Based on this information, it can be assumed that women play a minimal role in the manly city of Gotham. ... Batman can no longer sit by while his town is destroyed by these wild men. ... We can see this example within the small town of Tombstone, Arizona. ...

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Pudd'nhead Wilson, originally called David Wilson, is a young lawyer who comes into the small town named Dawson's Landing. As he isn't recognised as a lawyer in this town, he spends most of his time in scientific hobbies like fingerprinting. ... They are very popular in this small town because of their extravagant appearance and because of being the only foreigners in town. ... Further on Mark Twain says "All the negroes were friends of ours and with those of our own age we were comrades, and yet not comrades; color and condition interposed a subtle line which both parti...

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Group1 1 OUR FOOD SYSTEM After a long hard day of work you sit down in your comfortable recliner and open up your favorite snack. ... Just recently, there was a great example of how great our government is, even with the many shortcomings. ...

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The townsman explains that the woman arrived two years ago in the town and was to wait for her husband, a learned Englishman, to join her. Her husband, however, never reached the town in time, and the town's consensus is that he has been lost at sea. ... After this conversation, the magistrates, along with the reverends of the town, call Hester to look at them. ... Unable to get a hint out of her, the magistrates call on the Reverend Dimmesdale, the most popular minister of the town, to decide Hester's fate. ... The new stranger in town, the deformed man, enters the cell and opts to ...

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Kevin has two younger brothers and is a real rural, like Homer-but unlike Lee who lived in town above his parents" restaurant. ... These people have invaded our land, locked up our families. ... Like Ellie she is an only child, and like Lee she can play the piano. ... Then the game would end and she would be back to her normal self, shaking every ones" hands and saying "Well played" quite strange really." ... "Our parents would say that the most important thing to them is our safety, but we have to make our own decisions." ...

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They way the whole scene plays out is much the same way as when a man asks for a woman's hand in marriage. ... It could be that they were not like any other towns back in those days. After all, they were much more accepting of and caring towards the blacks in the town; which was also unheard of in that time. ... She plays cards like a man, drinks like a man, and even dresses like a man. ... Coping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Human Nature, it's our instinct, our reaction, our thoughts, and our ability to make decisions. ...

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This is because her partner in crime is the town's beloved minister. ... Hester, who is the town's criminal and enemy, is, in reality, perhaps the most innocent and righteous person in the town. ... A deserted wife, with no one to love, who probably thought she was in good hands when she became involved with a preacher, is the victim of society's harsh feelings and treatments and is perhaps the only decent Puritan in the town because she gives everyone a chance and looks down on no one. ... So, by portraying Hester Prynne as the victim in the novel, and not a town enemy, Haw...

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No matter how the play is interpreted, however, the themes of the play remain intact. ... Luhrmann sets Romeo and Juliet in a mythical Florida town called Verona Beach. This town is completely created artistically by the filmmakers, you can't visit it. ... It is played 3 times over. ... At the start of the scene in the Luhrman version we see the first of our families, the Montagues. ...

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Once the shootings became rampant around our country so did the blame. ... The town which he lived in Pearl, Mississipp,i had only 20,000 residents but a small satanic cult called "Kroth," but this group seemed not to be the main reasoning of the shooting. "If you talk to town officials, they'll tell you it might be a little Satanism, a little bit of reading into Hitler, a little bit of boy-girl romance problems, of anger at parents and at classmates," said police chief William Slade (Morgan 2). ... Then the blame was put on video games because Klebold and Harris played a lot of the game ...

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Weighbourne, Windfield, Effie and Amy stayed at home in our new house. ... Our older brother Weighbourn was our boss, besides Mama. ... Think he'd go to town and stay all day or to visit his married children. ... The next day he went to town, he lived about 9 miles out in the country from town, and ran into my mother and told her he's seen me go by carrying a suitcase and my coat. She hired one of her nephews, who lived in town, to drive her out to my brother's house to see if it was so. ...

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It's hard to believe, but this little old lady has such a big influence on our culture. ... The biggest part of our culture is food, and everyone loved being at grandma's house for Sunday's or holidays. ... We had to speak with proper English and no cursing, we also had to have our clothes ironed before we could leave the house, as well as our shirts tucked in. ... We do not know how to live our lives without depending on society. ...

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He was born in this country town in 1564. His father was a successful businessman who held a number of positions in the town government. ... His experience with acting led him to write his plays, therefore lending to the reason the date of the plays being written is vague. ... This scene brings into the play the idea of fate and the role with which it has in the play. ... Macbeth is simultaneously aware of the duplicity and imbalance of the proposed murder (he is Duncan's relative, subject,and host, yet he is to be his killer) and of the equality and balance of earthly and heavenly law:...

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Tolkien is set in a fantasy world that has differences, as well as similarities, to our own world. ... His attack on Lonely Mountain displaced an entire people and several towns. ... In this tale he always plays the part of a gracious host. ... Master of the town: He is the leader of Esgaroth. ... When the dragon has destroyed the town, he tries to shift the blame onto the dwarves. ...

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He returns a shattered man, unable to accept the complexities of the world; he lives on the outskirts of town, attempting to create order in his life. ... The town is at first wary of him and his ritual, then, over time, unthinkingly accepts him. ... Nel, who becomes the embodiment of the town's moral code, she gets married and is "one of them" (Morrison, 120), meaning a member of the prevailing/mainstream society. Instantly, her views become aligned with those of the town and she "belonged to the town and all of its ways" (Morrison, 120). ... Nel's outrage at Sula's actions i...

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As in India, family also plays a large role in Vietnamese culture. ... We will do this in tangible ways, by offering quality products to consumers, financial opportunities to our independent sales force, and fulfilling career to our employees. ... We will carry out our mission in a spirit of caring, living the positive values on which our company was built.- taken from www.marykay.com Mary Kay, being one of the leading cosmetic industries aims to give women not only a quality product, but to make them become active in the company. ... We value employees from varied backgrounds as they...

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"His early experiences with small-town life and genteel poverty sensitized him to the problems that he subsequently dramatized in a number of his plays." ... Into the remotest nooks and corners reaches his voice, with its thundering indictment of our moral cancers, our social poisons, our hideous crimes against unborn and born victims." ... People expecting another problem play were confused by this play but few admirers found Hedda Gabbler as one of Ibsen's finest plays which created one of the most interesting and intriguing woman protagonist. ... George ...

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Due to this, we decided to carry our raincoats when we were packing our bags. ... Once we got our visa's, we bought our tickets to the places we wanted to visit in Europe and planned our trip in more detail. Our first destination was Rome (Italy). ... This was the currency we were going to be using for our entire trip in Europe. ... After we checked into the Hotel Ambasciatori Palace, we took our own small little tour. ...

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This is in my grandmother's town in Portugal. There is a natural spring where everyone in the town goes for their drinking water. Now this is not a poverty stricken town, it is a town of farmers, most have of them have cars and live to be over 90 years old. Why would this town of people have the luxury of free drinking water, yet many underdeveloped countries have their people drink sewer water or that is running down a dirt road? ... You and I, who ought to know better, must adjust our wants, and even undergo voluntary starvation in order that they may be nursed, fed, and clothed." ...

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