This symbolism of a link shows that the jazz music and the beat is derived directly from the drum beat of the African people, this link in music shows that there is also a link in the people and that Africa is the home and identity of the black Africa-American. ... These films hold relevance because in the movie Ali it shows the life of Ali and also the hardships he has to endure by the persecutors who claim he has no identity or culture. ... Leon Gast conveys the social commentary or issue of freedom in his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... An example of this from using the techniqu...

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There were many boys who did not survive decreasing the population even more. ... Although marriage in Sparta began and happened like any other Greek marriage, adultery was not legally recognized and there was no punishment for such an act. ... Many men snuck out at night to sleep with women, because it was dark there was also no way of them knowing that they were sleeping with their wife or the wife of another man. ... There was no form of contraception back in the Spartan days, so this would mean that many women were impregnated before marriage. If there was no marriage in place, the child ...

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Each family of workers was then transported to a spot on the river bank accessible to the launch of the owner, and there deposited and left to build a rude shelter for a home. ... There could be no supervision of the tapping methods and no care of the trees to insure their continued productivity. ... Debt peonage is a great name for it and the workers of rubber were no stranger to this situation. ... They will then leave the service and descend the river to Manaus, where they live as "gentlemen of leisure."" ... There were rich rubber forests beyond the limits of navigation along the so...

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In comprehensive terms, relativism appeals to the idea that there is no absolute ethical standard independent of cultural context to act as a criterion of right and wrong, by which we may judge moral action. ... And if morality for any given person is contingent upon their beliefs, then is it possible to be mistaken? ... Similarly, the cultural relativist may appeal to single- state relativism which asserts that we have no right to condemn the conduct of those who came before us, in ages with different moral standards because, as it is commonly put, "things were different then- Perhaps e...

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Unlike Descartes, Locke claimed that innate ideas were practically non-existent. ... "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." ... Through this process these ideas then become experiences, which are thereafter available to us as memories, which the brain can then consult and use to aid learning and contribute to knowledge. ... In a similar approach, Locke argued that we have no innate moral or practical principles, for there is no universal agreement about such principles. ... Locke advanced this theory that knowledge extends no further than our ideas, and expressed that k...

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" The participants in this study were 15 high-level male athletes who were all between 20 and 40 years old. ... This could then affect their testosterone levels, heart rate, blood pressure and other measurements and therefore throw off their true results. ... The athletes were asked if they felt a decrease in ability 12 hours and then also 30 minutes after sexual intercourse and how they felt 12 hours and then also 30 minutes after sexual intercourse. For the two ability questions, the athletes were instructed to mark yes or no for if they felt a decrease in ability in the anaerobic load ...

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The ardent question then became, what to do with the poor and how to deal with the new immigrants that were mostly seen as less civilized then western Europeans. ... How did social Darwinism then become synonymous with science? ... So then what was a social Darwinist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? ... Huxley in the readings can be rather disappointing, there seems to be no trace of Darwin's bulldog just an educated man who cannot seem to nail down his views on social problems. ... Sumner even said that he regretted that he "had no education in natural science, es...

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If indeed Iraq had the weapons of mass destruction that George Bush and Tony Blair claim he did, then other countries would have no choice but to get involved for another main reason. ... Iraqi militia then attempted to assassinate George Bush Snr. in 1993. In 1997, he expelled weapons inspectors, and then rejected a proposal in 2000 to send the inspectors back in. ... With a record like Saddam's, it is no wonder Britain and America were willing to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iraq in order to rid the country of any weapons, and at the same time, rid the country of a regime that...

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Some say that marijuana can not be used as a medicine and that there is no evidence of its medicinal purpose; But on the other hand, there are those who think differently and pose marijuana as a potential use in today's modern world. ... During the American Revolution when imports were no longer given to the colonies, the hemp fiber became an essential material in their production of clothing (Richardson 41). ... There is no evidence of the people of the colonies eating or smoking the plant due to the fact that those cool climates lessened the psycho-active material (Stwertka 16). ... Alt...

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Upon the influx of these new British settlers proceeded a new lawlessness within New Zealand, and during the same time period there became signs of the French planning to annex New Zealand however the British Government were still tentative about acting to adjoin New Zealand as a colony. ... Missionary Henry Williams and his son Edward then translated the treaty into Maori on the 4th of February 1840. ... During the time of the Treaty Wakefield was settled in New Zealand and had strong opinions against the treaty, "Having not even the name of Governor or Government in their language, it m...

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These children are then tutored for two and a half hours per week throughout the school year. When the child reaches the reading level of his or her classmates, the child is then discontinued from the Reading Recovery Program. ... The teachers are then put through a special in-service program for over a year. ... The teacher then launches the student on an individually tailored program through a series of books that are graded for difficulty. ... Is it feasible to say that when no instructional support exists, there appears to be an over referral and inappropriate placement of children who...

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However, Durkheim rejected this theory for two reasons; one, there is no concrete proof to show the existence of monomania, second, mental functions are completely dependent on one another, and insanity is present in one area, then it should also be present in another as well, that is if insanity affects one function it should affect at the other functions as well. ... It was found that those nations that were least influenced by the Germans were the ones were suicide was most prominent although Germans (according to the study of race) were believed to be the ones who commit most number of sui...

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Often there is no one leader, and depending upon the stage of development within the group there could be one or more leaders. ... Keeping in mind that during stage one all of the members of the group were polite, they were also cautious not to offend their peers because of the fear of no acceptance within the group. ... Our conformity to the guidelines was always respected and adhered which was interesting to me because there were a few strong personalities within the group (Dina, Ebony, Donna and myself) who were assertive but not aggressive and mindful to compromise when necessary. We we...

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Since long ago, there are some efforts to differ them. ... Social background, linguistic, ideology, and other conditional circumstances, then, had no means. ... If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ... This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotle's theories on nature and reality were widely different, as were their ideas on the mechanism of imitation. ... There are other factors, too, which com...

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If very little or no happiness would come from this then the rule should be followed. ... It would bring unhappiness to a lot of people so it is a definite no. ... (Kant) "Don't kill" is a definite no in Kant's beliefs. ... Then he explains to us what "good" is. ... If this supposition were true, the charge could not be gainsaid, but would then be no longer an imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the rule of life which is good enough for the one would be good enough for the other... ...

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(Summers, 45) During this incredibly botched autopsy there remains much confusion over where the wounds actually were, and which wounds were exit wounds and which were entry wounds. ... Acoustics Studies of the Zapruder Film, as well as the testimonies of over fifty witnesses have shown that there were four or more shots fired at the president, with at least one or more coming from the grassy knoll. ... Governor Connally turns around to his right, clearly not wounded, when he is then visibly hit with the second shot, and his body goes stiff. ... There is the same problem with the third and f...

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But he was gone, and when I turned in terror to see where he was, and where the others were, they weren't there. No one. ... He becomes paranoid and irrational hopping overboard onto a small raft into a vast sea, "when I was on the raft there was nobody there but me." (32) Now knowledgeable of the hurt, this pain is suffered many times through out the story. ... After is friends were taken he got off the ship and onto a small raft that landed on an island. "There was no feeling of hostility towards the intruder in this place I (Sinbad) felt welcome there, it was if this was a countr...

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The surgeons were plastics registrar and led by consultant. ... The feelings of concern were obvious to myself and others. The smoke evacuation unit would not have been used were there not some recommendation that showed it aided welfare of patient and staff. ... That there was no risk assessment was also another key indicator that with no real legislation and only guidelines where the system offered choice there was such ambiguity. ... However, there are currently no legal requirements to intervene on the part of the employer. ...

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It is older then the Roman Empire, and has changed much since it's first use. ... There is no question that the up front costs of the death penalty are significantly higher than for equivalent life without parole cases. ... And, there is, in fact, no proof that those 11 executed were innocent. ... Not only were they at least 50% in error with their 23 "innocents executed" claim, but 60% of those cases, were not sentenced to death. ... There is, in fact, no proof that an innocent has been executed since 1900. ...

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Therefore this shows that there is nothing like teaching an old dog, new tricks and human beings always act wild like animals in a state of nature where no general rules apply. ... This then shows the nature of his argument and position on the subject of democracy as he sees no good thing about it. ... He goes to rate tyranny as the firth, and argues that democracy naturally degenerates into tyranny and society becomes a total chaos in which there's no rule, no priorities and no laws. ... Nobody is able to remove a tyrant man from the power, as there's no law to be obeyed. ... He mad...

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There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. ... He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... For in his mind, there was no question of his primacy: he was to be first, period; there was ...

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If He has someone equal in Authority, that is the second God, then both gods will no longer be unique and would not have the ultimate power. Hence, this cannot be associated with God, and there is simple logic in believing that there exists only one God. Arguing on Corporeity of God and that if God exists, then He should have a body and visibility, Tertullian briefs that, God do have a body but unlike that of humans. ... During this time, there were other groups opposing his concepts and considered Christ to be a human with no divine power. ... Marcoin's argument was based on the exoteri...

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Then they asked the students to tell them how often they had played video games. ... Although there were other things going on at the time with the two troubled youths, the constant playing and "training" on Doom may not have been enough of an outlet to keep the students from killing their classmates, but otherwise a way to prepare for the real thing. ... The study showed some variance as to what age the parents felt their children should be allowed to play these video games, but the majority showed that it should be no earlier then thirteen.... There has been a concern for video games for ...

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Key Words: - Likert Scale: A commonly used psychometric scale that measures variations of qualitative data that can then be converted into quantitative data for statistical analysis... Careers begin at a much younger age and at a more advanced level then they did years ago and a college degree can sometimes be a hindrance to those who are of the entrepruenal ( E.G. ... There are new possibilities on the horizon. ... In one study, teachers from both institutions were provided a staffing survey. ... There is no significant effect of resource allocation among school districts containing both cha...

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There are 4 different kinds of conductors. ... In the past, there was no economic incentive to replace ordinary conductors with superconductors because the cooling costs for superconductors were so high. ... A new coolant was then used. ... However, the temperatures needed to cause superconductivity in 1957 were a lot lower than the critical temperatures today, so the BCS theory seems to no longer explain why superconductivity occurs in these new materials. ... There are two main types of commercially available super...

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