His triumphant success was due in part to his ability to shock his listeners with his politically incorrect lyrics; but more importantly the manner in which these lyrics later came to be recognized as honesty at its best when so many young lives were affected by Eminem's music because it spoke to them like a diary. ... Critics concentrated heavily on the offensive aspects of Eminem's lyrics and in effect, some of the underlying themes in his songs like: poverty, abuse, and teen struggles, were overlooked. ... "But then these critics crucify you, journalists try to burn you,...

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This is reflected in his prose essays and music dramas.... they ride intellectual hobby horses of varying colors and breeds, and some of the most ambitious artistic works, like the Ring tetralogy, ride several horses at the same time'#. ... Some of his writings are anti-Semitic, in his famous essay, Judaism in Music, he spoke of a "natural abhorrence- of Germans for Jews, of a "repulsive otherness in the Jewish character,"" and seemed at one point to propose something like physical self-annihilation as the Jews' only redemption from their "curse-'#. ... Like Wagner he was in...

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Furthermore, his soldiers were taught the golden rule- to behave to others the way you want them to behave to you, which is the basic law of life. ... When Shi Huangdi received news that scholars were using records of the past to criticize the emperor's policies and undermine popular support, Shi Huangdi ordered the burning of all writings that were not on useful topics like agriculture, medicine, and divination. ... Asoka believed in the ideal of do onto others as you would want done onto to you whereas Huangdi ...

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Chestny is adamant that "you remain who you are" eluding to her grandfather's plantation and two-hundred slaves and she laments that the desegregation of the blacks has put "the bottom rail on the top." ... "His eyes were narrowed and through the indignation he had generated, he saw his mother across the aisle, purple-faced, shrunken to the dwarf-like proportions of her moral nature, sitting like a mummy beneath the ridiculous banner of her hat." ... He takes refuge in dreaming of his grandfather's magnificent old plantation house because "all the neighborhoods they had lived in ha...

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I would like to explore how Fassbinder effectively employs the concepts of contradiction, contrast and exploitation in this film, i.e. concepts which are fundamental to an understanding of his work and world and which serve to provoke and unsettle the spectator. ... And so he, like many of his contemporaries, was searching for something new. ... If you take Emmi's announcement of her engagement as an example, the camera focuses and freezes on each of her children's faces in turn, forcing us to observe the hatred and disgust in their faces. ... This is further emphasized in the sce...

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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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Probably, the weary or slightly sarcastic jeer was experienced like the father's slap. ... I "found myself" being like parents who at some appropriate time say, "What you just did was okay when you were little. ... Often, the drive concepts get smuggled back into their theories of the ego and its objects -- like epicycles. ...

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Living in Two Worlds: An Analysis on Culture and Education Have you ever though what does the word "culture" means? ... They tried to make it clear to the boy that you should not learn anything else besides the Chinese culture; everything else to them was abnormal. ... However, he is not held back by his environment like his unsuccessful brother who "has to cope with potential unemployment and prejudice", but instead "it inspires within [him] a sense of tenacity and accomplishment that [he hopes] every college graduate will someday possess." ...

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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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"Imagine, my dear friend, if you can," Tocqueville wrote back to France, "a society formed of all the nations of the world people having different languages, beliefs, opinions: in a word, a society without roots, without memories, without prejudices, without routines, without common ideas, without a national character, yet a hundred times happier than our own." ...

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BIOGRAPHY According to Life Magazine and several other sources, Thomas Edison was "the most influential figure of the millennium." Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Thomas Edison was not born into poverty in a backwoods mid-western village. He was born, on Feb. 11, 1847, to middle-class parents in the bustling port of Milan, Ohio: a community that, next to Odessa, Russia, was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. In 1854, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, which was also an up and coming shipping center. Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest...

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