These movies, known as film noir, looked at the darker side of human nature and were marked by a distrustful, fatalistic view of the world. ... America, in short, had lost whatever delusions of innocence it had ever had. ... Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male protagonist who encountered a beautiful and seductive, but immoral, femme fatale. ... Neff provides the viewer with the film's story in the form of a confessional. ... Film noir also possesses a "hypnotic allure that comes from an unflinching exploration of the darker...

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Kanellis 3 We, as humans, are capable of controlling nature to some sort of degree, unlike any other animal on earth. ... Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. ... It eventually gets into the grass and corn and then into the bones of human beings and animals only to linger there until death" ("Contaminating the Environment"). ... In the short story "Devil Deer," by Rudolfo Anaya, Cruz comes across a deformed "devil deer" near a top-secret weapons laboratory at Los Alamos. ...

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Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ... But as the number of refugees and the nature of conflicts that triggers mass refugee movements continued to change in manner and in intensity, the challenges faced by the High Commissioner correspondingly became compound...

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