This type of rationale promotes a very selfish and egocentric attitude towards the world we inhabit. ... It is true that an overwhelming majority of this world is selfish and would place the well being of themself and their family way before the welfare of others, but it is not true for all the people of the world. ... Insects when they are quite young are dispersed throughout the world. ... Take for example the story of the heroic New York City fire fighters, who valiantly ran into the burning World Trade Centres on the infamous September eleventh in an effort to help and save the victims tra...

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He warned the new king Charles II that his usage owas for the most part destructive to his citizens at home and with his characteristic outspoken manner, frequently spoke up for the freedoms and rights of the lower classes. ... He is the reason that America is the land of the free, and the home of the brave, he himself the brave. ... Through the finely educated and refined oratories of Thomas Jefferson, the colonists, whether educated or grass rooted, were able to recognize the inherent battle facing the New World. ... His framework led to the beginning of war, and a new nation, which...

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Furthermore, these hematopoietic stem cells found in adult bone marrow have been proven to create new neurons in the brain, a process that was once thought to be impossible (Kurtzberg). ... While bone marrow transplantation is undoubtedly the most common clinical application of stem cells, there are myriad stem cell treatments that are currently being developed and have begun to revolutionize the medical world. ...

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In 1948, when the National Party won the general election in South Africa, a system known as apartheid took place in the country. The National Party is a South African political party that was founded in 1914. The members of the mentioned party are usually known as nationalists or Natz. Among its po...

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The horrors of World War 1 created an immense market allowing British authors, both professionals and amateurs, the leeway to express what they witnessed in the frontline (Das 9). ... Among those: Ivor Gurney, whose development of poems of originality, broken poetic form, urgency for change in attitude and disruptiveness call of the war, has made him one of the great World War I poets. ... This traumatic combat led to Gurney's change of thinking and transformation of language, evoking a new broken stream of expression and consciousness, attributes of modernism (10). ... His writing, much ...

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King Henry seems to be a perfect leader - brave, modest, and fiercely determined, but with a sense of humour. ... Thus runs the bill" and Ely replies "This would drink deep" we learn of exactly how much the Church is standing to lose if the new law passes. ... According to traditional thinking, King Henry is the brave and majestic hero of the play. ...

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If we seek a brave new world for these brave new children we also need to provide help and support for the trials and tribulations of their lives. ... Freud (1917) pioneered the study of the response to bereavement viewing grief as an isolated process whereby the bereft individual had to withdraw from the world in order to detach from the deceased. ... Freud considered that grief is part of a reconstruction process – a view supported by Parkes (1988) who introduced the concept of an 'Assumptive World'. This incorporates the perception that we live in a world where we assume th...

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Drake throughout the book portrays Galileo as a mechanical genius, a spiritual man with an incessant drive to explain the world through science. ... Introduction In 1572 a new star appeared in the heavens and was proved by Tycho Brahe a Danish astronomer to be a fixed star in the heavens. ... This new star today known as a "Nova" occurred once again in 1604 during the time Galileo was writing about falling objects to Sarpi. ... Throughout the book Drake attempts to portray Galileo as a man striving for a new philosophy that would displace verbal exercise of Aristotle but unlike them did not s...

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In the world we live in, vast impersonal forces are making for the centralization of power and a regimented society" (Huxley, Education for Freedom, para. 2). ... Unfortunately, many sources like these go unquestioned by the general public, which leads to a misinformed world. ... Therefore, society must take the responsibility in confirming the authenticity of everything that is distributed through the news in order to prevent the centralization of power and ultimately a misinformed world. ... Hitler's statement is similar to how the media has depicted a war on terrorism since the ...

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The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... Gerber in "Pudd'nhead Wilson as Fabulation,"" Mark Twain was not really a novelist - he was more of a "new journalist,"" who spun yarns that reflected American life as well or better than any "realistic- novel or overt political propaganda. ... In the public discourse this meant "coon- songs and show...

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It was a way to differentiate between classic American Westerns and this new Modern Western (Fridlund, 2006, p.4). ... This may be the most notable difference with modern Westerns is that new directors with no attachments to classic Westerns were starting to toy with history. ... Aging outlaws whose manner of supporting themselves (bank/train robbery) is becoming too difficult; the world they know is dying, and they seem hell bent on dying with it. ... They were the great evil that stood in the way of the white man's progress in creating a habitable world. ... Another example of a revisio...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Charter on Transport, Environment and Health (London, 1999), the Joint WHO-UNECE Transport, Health and Environmental Pan-European Program (Geneva, 2002) promote cycling as a mode of transport which leads to health and environmental benefits. ... Some reasons for this new approach were linked to increasing environmental awareness that lead to policy makers and academics questioning the idea of building more roads to meet increasing car demand (Godwin et al., 1991). ... The Conservative government began this progressive new era with the construction of the Nat...

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The world of 1984 also reflects various aspects of the social and political life of both the United Kingdom and the United States of America at the time of creation. ... In George Orwell's 1984 there exists a very interesting dynamic where all the answers are essentially provided to the masses, a good example would be how history is tailored to fit the narrative being pushed by Big Brother, but the world they live in is very chaotic. ...

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Businesses in labor-intensive industries charged that the Industrial Workers of the World and socialist organizations were undermining the economy. ... That this consensus view as generally correct is supported by the facts that first the most important demands of labor and social activists made during the strike have been recognized and passed into law by the government, and second the political successor, the New Democratic Party, to the forces behind the Winnipeg General Strike has emerged as a political force in Canada. In the aftermath of WWI, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Border (Tor...

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The issue of new money being pumped into the economy by rising foreign trade and investments resulted in the raise in awareness of the problem. ... The whole system was fuelled and lubricated with the new money being used in the economy by the rising foreign trade and investments. ... Without the chance for the numerous amounts of brave Mexican women to join and fight in Zapata's army, the revolution would have been a different battle. ...

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Beneath the familiarity of middle-class life, in the opening and closing scenes, and the culture of children's play evident in the adventures in Never Land is the anxiety aroused by the shifts in masculine identity in relation to modern life, including the new technologies of the workplace and the demise of Empire. ...

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For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... He wanted to establish a new society, a new kind of country. ... Yet it represents another world where it is impossible to tell who is who, and what their castes and religious beliefs are for them. ... Into the transformative sphere of the tide country, where life is lived on the margins of greater events, venture two individuals from the outside world. They are Piyali Roy (Piya), a Bengali-American cytologists from Seattle who cannot even speak ...

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As Virginia Isaad points out "a new study from the UNICEF says that 5 out of 10 children in Mexico live in poverty" (Isaad). ... CBS broadcaster Edward R Murrow, however, knew where these fruits and vegetables were coming from as well as the inhumane conditions the workers responsible for the distribution of this food were subjected to, and Murrow and his team of investigators took it upon themselves to make sure the world witnessed the ugly truth. ... Murrow was labeled a "crusader" by the public who saw his hard-hitting journalistic style as something new, but something needed. ......

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In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... Across the country, strolling visitors marveled a few years ago at all the silken saris and bright turbans of the Festival of India (SMITHSONIAN, June 1985) and, even more, at the exotic world they evoke: the bejeweled splendor of the Mogul courts; dusty, teeming streets; and all the dilemmas confronting the imperial British as they sought to bring Western ideas of order to one of the wildest and mos...

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The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mas...

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He has affirmed his Mexican heritage and now brings pride to the Mexican peasants, whom were previously deemed as cowards by their children, through his dying observation that they are defending themselves, and that they are brave. ... However, although the film makes a bold attempt to adopt a new identification for Mexicans within the North American Western film genre, it fails to completely eradicate the division of North and South and how they remain to be displayed. ...

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Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. ... During a new era of forming a labor market, discrimination tendencies still concern women and thus their competitiveness falls (Boshman 1998: 45). ... Children, from the time of coming to this world, absorb all the information, situations and all around them quickly and therefore, being an adult they are very conceptual about their behavior and roles (Ibraeva 2003:11). ... Many large cities arose in the middle of ...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ... Despite the fact the since 1968 Americans have elected the every presidential candidate that pledged to support a smaller government, the "federal budget has risen from $178 billion to 1.6 trillion." (6:191) Much of the government we see today began nearly seventy years as blac...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...

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