What you see is what you get has taken on an all too terrifying reality. ... Turn on the television during prime time and right away a throng of gruesome programs amasses you from Professional Wrestling to CNN news. ... Like sponges, they absorb but don't distinguish. ... Could it be that the artificial death spectacles and mass slaughter of insignificant characters desensitizes us to the finality and reality of what death is actually like? Or could it be that the ultimate human demise in the movies is now more like a choreographed dance number with intricate moves and creative turns tha...

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Imagine if you can: it's noon; the sky is dark; fire and brimstone rain from the heavens. ... You see, it is May in the year 2017 and the British public made the horrendous mistake of electing UKIP and their inherently fascist policies, two short years ago. ... Of course for some, this may sound like the perfect idea - maybe we should all vote UKIP in the next election. ... Even if you are in the unfortunate mindset of agreeing with Mr Farage and his conjuration of utter nonsense, then it seems likely, you have been fooled by his persuasion of Britain being "better" off. I since...

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The customer now can choose at what time they would like the delivery and can pay with a large range of different formats. ... The advantage of internet shopping is that you can quickly buy anything through your computer without having to go anywhere and the disadvantage is that someone may steal your money when you are paying through the internet. ...

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The Digital Revolution may plow through national boundaries like a tornado, but wherever it touches down it rapidly develops indigenous characteristics and local (i.e., national) competitive power. ... Mobile telephony is growing rapidly in Europe and parts of Asia, for example, making hardware market leaders out of companies like Nokia and Mitsubishi. ... China, while soaking up new technology like a sponge, is also attempting to control the flow of content over the Internet (having already experienced the world's first "revolution by fax" with the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, in...

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Role of Individualism in Europe from 1700 to 1950 "The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. ... This view came about because of innovative thinkers like Locke and Smith, proving that if you have a big enough lever you can move the world. ...

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The extremist views in question were "Do you believe Muslims who convert to another religion should receive the death penalty?". ... But do you see Catholic pedophiles or rapists or school shooters being funded with billions from across the globe and cheered on by millions? ... There is plenty of introspection that is virtually mandated in Western discourse when something like that happens. When there's an Islamist attack, the conversation is always about how not all Muslims are like that and you're a racist "Islamophobe" if you think there's a religious and cultural component t...

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Since World War 2 the Nations of Switzerland and the United Kingdom have undergone many changes when it comes to security (foreign policy) and reforms of political institutions like civil rights and liberties in their Constitutions. Like many nations how they went about this and to what conclusions they came to on policy have many similarities and differences. ... I came to the conclusion that it must have been because it was the price of victory - the illusion that you could maintain what you had, without change." ... Like the British Switzerland sees little benefit in the struggling European...

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Reed's Essay "America: The Multinational Society" In this essay, Reed explains how American culture is portrayed as if it consists of a civilization created by the people of Europe. Where, in fact, it is made out of multinational influences. He mentioned some examples of countries that are not Eur...

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For me, I like how this book was well written and how easy it is to read and short enough to understand. ... One of these was the economic expansion, thru this started the Industrial revolution, with so many people the foodstuffs couldn't keep up with the growing population and the there was more importing than exporting going on so backcountry trading centers all over such as Staunton, Virginia, and Salisbury, North Carolina growing tobacco and port cities like Baltimore, Norfolk, and Alexandria grew up almost overnight to handle this much traffic. Even though the book is very good and...

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Concepts like reincarnation were frowned upon heavily by the European missionaries seeking to change the religious beliefs of Africans and since most aspects of life were based on religion at the time, changing one's religious beliefs meant changing one's political, social and economic beliefs as well. ... There is no doubt that the poem emphasizes cultural and spiritual notions, especially through the child, however, the poem's use of words like "Mothers " (line 26) paints a human picture in the minds of the readers. ... Clark takes his readers into the immediate environment of...

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"If your own father came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb at him- (Page 78). ... Coupled with the physical ruin was the destruction of the spirit of an entire generation of soldiers; totally drained of emotions, they became self-centered and thoughtless, almost animal-like. ... Friends are dying in his arms from wounds that could only be seen first-hand to be believed, and the youth of his country are dropping like flies in a world they know nothing about. ... He captures their frustrations completely in the following passage, in which one soldier is responding to anot...

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Many people believe that the marriage is the thing of the past and it is not important anymore whether you live with someone inside or outside the marriage. ... But money on its own do not buy you everything. Would you like to live longer? ...

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I, like others, in the same boat, feel the exigency of this orchestration, as I encounter the problems of differences in opinions between my students and me both inside and outside the classroom. ... The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key themes, issues and problems To develop a broad historical understanding prose production at this time To develop literary critical skills of contextualization, close analysis, and argumentation To further develop your research skills and to prepare you for the research paper B...

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On the other side were the democratic, capitalist, Western countries, like The United Kingdom, France, and later the United States of America, who entered into the war after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. ... Once the piece settles back down, and returns to the original key, it sounds much like the beginning, as if everything has returned to normal. ... Everything seems like normal, but there is one subtle difference that makes everything feel different, and more somber. ... After World War II, it seems for a moment like everything is going to return to normal, but then we realize that ...

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The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... , the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way to please parents, friends and girls was to join up and head towards the fighting. ... However, the usage of female workers, due to necessity, not equality, together with the recruitment figures already mentioned above, help to prove more or less that source D, whatever its providence, (which is not at all clear) generally recruitment posters were fairly effective, the most famous being left out, Kitchner's fing...

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Some forms of Christianity taught children that by following simple rules of faith, death would result in rejoining of loved ones in Heaven; however, if you did not follow the rules you were cast into hell to burn for eternity. ... Since many peasants could hardly keep from interacting with others due to small kennel-like homes, and dirty cesspools littering the cities and towns during this time, they passed on their natural resistances to their offspring. ...

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Australia's history with Europe has been much like the way a child will learn and emulate her mother's ability to care for herself, manage her money and keep food on the table. ... The Great Depression following World War one caused European people to live in poverty, and enforced the despair of this time, leading to original ways of thinking like existentialism. ... The League of Nations was proven useless, so to ensure collective security in Europe and through out the world, organisations like the Brussels Pact was established to contain communist aggressors. ... The industriali...

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How can you say that it is not the universities responsibility to teach citizenship and democracy? ... They act like anything that personally does not affect their personal lives doesn't concern them. ...

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For a moment I would like you to close your eyes and think of something . Now every single person present here is going to be imagining different things. Someone will think of his Rugby tournament, someone might be concerned with her art project , other person might be thinking about how to get to...

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Usually, in order to present their "inferiority," the cartoon characters" facial feature were exaggerated, deformed and become animal-like; their actions were none but undermining the social order of Germany. ... Thousands of Gypsies women were sterilized in order to prevent the defected offspring from be born, thousands more were send to concentration camp who would never return Like Hitler himself said, "If you repeat a lie load enough and often enough, people will believe it." ...

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. ...

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His comments held greater weight because he became the most vocal and was more scientifically educated than most scientists because of his more extensive research on evolution theories like Darwin's. ... By the time the issue of accommodations with Darwinism and the politics of education became tied together, the question amongst the Protestants in Ireland was, "Would you allow the teaching of Darwinism in Catholic Universities? ...

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Diamond refers to history as a science, in which historians, like scientists, develop theories and try to provide evidence that supports their theories. ... Diamond provides quantitative charts on food production, language expansion, types of societies, dates of animal domestication, distribution of seeds, types of crops, domestication in specific geographic areas, you name it, he's got a chart. ...

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What do you consider to be the most significant factors that have shaped Britain's approach to the European Union (EU) since its inception in the early 1950's? ... Victory in the aforementioned war meant that Britain was never occupied or defeated like the other six founding countries members. ...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with the dilemma of how to deal with the vanquished Axis military and political regime which had committed horrific crimes in its pursuit of world dominance. The United States, taking the dominant role, set forth in the Moscow Declaration of 1943 methods to deal with the punishment of Germany. Thus the N...

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