Santos also had to confirm the validity and the accuracy of the prisoners account by note taking and reading verbatim what was said back to the prisoner he was taking notes from and interviewing at that time. ... Throughout Santos' novel, he had his observations and notes that, as mentioned, were comprised via the viewpoints and takes of other inmates. ... Through various accounts in the book, he details that via symbols and the dialect he recorded in his interviews with the prisoners. ... This is again noted especially well throughout Santos book towards the beginning and middle chapters...

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In his book, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine,"" Robert Kaufman discusses how the founders of the United States embraced an isolationist strategy in the years 1776-1830. ... As Kaufman notes, "if the United States became embroiled in the French Revolution, the young nation would become perilously vulnerable to France's British and Spanish enemies sitting athwart its vital flanks " (Kaufman 8). ... In his book, Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black summarizes the thinking of Washington and the United States when he writes, "in the sage beginning of what would become a vastly successful policy ...

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In my personal reflection on Jerry Coyne's book 'Why Evolution Is True', I will highlight the importance of the adaptation process. ... Why Evolution Is True is a powerful book, Intellectuals looking for answers pertaining to evolution should read Jerry Coyne's book. It provides factual analysis on creationist; furthermore the book is comprehensive and clear. ... I think Coyne's book deceives as when he says that Darwinism and evolution are entirely different things. ... Chapter five of the book Why Evolution Is True presents the main challenges of evolutionary proc...

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Variations of pricing often stem from fetishism of the commodity, which is Marx's next major point in this book. ... However, Marx notes that humans are fallible, and will often place way too much worth or attention, or fetishize, certain commodities for rather arbitrary reasons. Marx notes that the main thing that gets fetishized in a capitalist economy is money, and that when people place too much importance on this, there becomes an imbalance in both the economy and the society as a whole (Marx, 1965). ... Published in 1848, this book features various theories that have been concluded ...

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The chief went as far to burn his notes at the order of a General (JFK), and by 1966 almost all pictures, sketches and notes had disappeared. ... The three previous shots came from behind the limousine, sending both Kennedy and Connolly forward; this indicates that the shots came from the Book depository. ...

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Joyce uses subtle sarcasm in noting this observation of fortune to be the culmination of his experiences, and one gets the logical impression that his life has been a largely unexamined one. ... As Gallaher begins to go into the details of naming the places he has been to (at the same time noting that he names the locations more than he gives any sort of personal reaction to them, an observation which says something about Gallaher as a sheep blindly attracted by reputation, and thus expecting others to know of the same reputation), such as the Moulin Rouge and "all the bohemian cafes,"" Chandl...

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Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? -Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterpa...

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For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, had made the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize; but that did not impress Greer, who grimaced and said: "I hate this book. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ... If she wanted to make the case that she ...

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For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, had made the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize; but that did not impress Greer, who grimaced and said: "I hate this book. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ... If she wanted to make the case that she ...

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*NOTE: General widely accepted definitions will be used due to the controversial nature of the two topics amongst Political Scientist agreeing to just one permanent definition for each. ... Section IV: Empirical Research, data collected from interviews, books, journals, websites, and class-notes, will be compiled to answer the questions presented in the introduction. ... *NOTE: The preceding paragraph was based off of Prof. ...

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However, in 1978, Edward Said drastically revolutionized the meaning of The Orient with the publishing of his book, Orientalism. ... Said, a Palestinian-American, knows full well of these repercussions and made many ground-breaking claims about just how powerful Western influence has been on these areas in his book. ... In the end of the book Loti stated, ˜Rest then, dark Moghreb, many years yet, immured, impenetrable to the things that are new. ...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely could not like such 'cultivated' books" (Eco, 1983). ...

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Until 1983, the only things that evoked its existence were a note in Cole's list of topics, an entry in the Cole memorial exhibition catalogue and the existence of a small draft and a few drawings. ...

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After taking careful field notes for multiple weeks, and taking stock and mining that data, I have noticed that Individuals are HYPE is a space, where individuals possess the abilities to learn and thrive from one another and have the potential to learn about each other while being in the space. ... The following quote is extracted from my personal field notes from HYPE on March 12th, 2015. ... Another very similar principal coined by Vygotsky can be discerned through chapter 2 of the book, Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context, which describes the idea of the Zone of Proxim...

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Mills and Chaisson note that there are two significant types of parents, "some parents argue with children, while others purchase advertised toys to keep children from experiencing distress from not having what they want" (122). ... As Baigi and McKie state, when quoting Stephen Fox in his book, The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and its Creators, The ubiquity of advertising is, of course, just another effect of our uninhibited efforts to use all of the media to get all sorts of information to everybody everywhere. ...

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Part 1 – Summary The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is Sigmund Freud's sixteenth work published, and the title is quite fitting for the context of the book. ... " Often times, as Freud notes, I would attribute myself remembering incorrect names, instead of the correct ones, to a subconscious attempt to trigger the name in my memory, fishing it out of the cobwebs. ...

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Within Livy's text, the passage in Book 2 of Ab Urbe Condita relating the first proposed agrarian law in the Republic dives into the conflict. ... Livy says that he wishes his readers to note how men lived, and how eventually the state was ruined when discipline broke down bit by bit (Preface), and this is a great example of that. ... A note must be made here, as this instance is particularly important because it is in conflict with a source of the late Republic. ...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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Newton claimed Leibniz stole ideas from his unpublished notes, which Newton had shared with a few members of the Royal Society. ... In his first book "On the Sphere and Cylinder" Archimedes shows that the surface of a sphere is four times that of a great circle, he finds the area of any segment of a sphere, he shows that the volume of a sphere is two-third the volume of the circumscribed cylinder, and that the surface of a sphere is two-third the surfaces of a circumscribed cylinder including its bases. In the second book of this work Archimedes' most important result is to sho...

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Jameson's initial intervention in the postmodern debate, in a 1982 essay `The Politics of Theory', 2 was primarily an attempt to map the ideological landscape of postmodernism, however, the article concluded on a characteristic Jamesonian note, insisting on `the need to grasp the present as history'. ...

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However, one of the problems that our research confronted is that a single book or story offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. ...

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Marlow and his crew come across a hut with stacked firewood, together with a note saying that the wood is for them but that they should approach cautiously. ... At the very least, the incidental scenery of the book offers a harsh picture of colonial enterprise. ...

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Second, literature ought to be the great-book namely "notable for literary form or expression". ... It was a must to note that language is a human creation contained cultural heritages of linguistic group. ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. ... Imitation proper appears in the Republic in Book III, where Plato begins to consider the more complicated case of poetry concerning men. ... In Book II he claims that "a young man must not be allowed to hear that he does nothing strange when he commits the most ...

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He notes that the oft-stated idea that Americans' attitudes relied mainly on certain "Whiggish- notions of the "rights of Englishmen- is only partially correct, for one must acknowledge Montesquieu's influence. ...

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While researching this subject I stumbled over a book published in 1999, A Short and Remarkable History of New York City written by Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan, which shed light on who the first settlers were. ...

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