Characters Prior to the introduction of the Modern Western, Classic Westerns consisted of two types of characters, the obviously good and the obviously bad. ... The character of Shane arrives on screen while a boy is hunting. ... Frank even kills a man's son when he overhears Franks name, to prevent the child from hunting him down one day. ... Thankfully the new directors mentioned earlier were more than aware of this lopsided view on the topic of Indians and created films such as: Little Big Man, and the somewhat recent Dances with Wolves, that show the Native Americans as not one big ma...

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The death of the main female character's German lover, merged with feelings of angst and resentment towards her family for not accepting her choice, led her to suffer from an identity crisis because it was difficult for her to define herself as a woman without the presence of her lover. ... Because France was at war with Germany, and she, a French native, was in love with a German soldier, it was socially unacceptable to be in love with the enemy, just as it was socially unacceptable for her to be in love with a Japanese man after the bombing of Hiroshima. ... The main character, Oskar,...

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Term Paper "The Effects of Residential Schooling (Industrializing) on the Aboriginal People's rooting from the aspect of colonization and western religion at its helm. The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact...

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It is therefore under the influence of these values that the characters within Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, are constructed. ... One man who influenced the creation of the characters within Frankenstein was the philosopher and social critic, Jean Jaques Rousseau. ... Shelley's disgust at the philosopher's cold-hearted abandonment of his five illegitimate children by Therese le Vasseur, an illiterate working class girl, had a significant impact on the construction of the novel's main character, Frankenstein. ... Frankenstein, and all male characters in the novel, inhabit t...

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The North America Continent was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. ... As a political protest opposing to the Townshend Act, which placed new duties on various imports, members of a Patriotic organization named "Sons of Liberty" disguised as American Indians and destroyed a total of 42,009.9 kilograms of tea on December 16, 1773.viii Patriots clearly demonstrated their dissatisfaction toward the British government. ...

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In other words, the NWA would sign a Texas born native like Jack Adkisson and make his wrestling character into a Nazi heel named Fritz Von Erich or even create a Russian villain named Boris Malenko who was actually a Jewish man from New Jersey named Larry Simon, all for the reaction of the crowd and to create controversy on television which would result in a higher number of viewers.... The main purpose for Sgt. Slaughter's character change is to create controversy which in part will get more fans to tune in or buy a ticket in order to express how much hatred the...

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The main them of Vatican II was that the Church wanted to emphasise its humanity. ... Following Vatican II, the language of the liturgy was changed to that of the native tongue of the country that the Mass was taking place in. ... The early Church has always opposed the idea of mixed marriages as it was said to degrade the holy character of matrimony. ...

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Sumo Exposed: The Invention of Tradition in Japan's National Sport I: Introduction and Theoretical Remarks "Even today in Japan's highly industrialized and modern society, sumo is generally perceived as a quintessentially Japanese sport, in which history, tradition and even religion are intermingled to form a unique sport of pageantry and splendor perhaps matched by no other country's national sport" (Sandoz 1992:8). One hardly needs to emphasize the popularity and status sumo enjoys as Japan's kokugi, or national sport. Three years ago, I lent my copy of Aerosmi...

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As the son of Emperor Taisho and Crown Prince, Hirohito found comforts in the studies of science, mathematics, ethics, geography, and literature often studying in his native Japanese as well as Chinese. ... Reports surfaced that his son, Chang Hsueh-Liang, had attempted to arise anti-Japanese sentiment throughout Manchuria and Japanese military forces saw an opportunity. ...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. England's army was the strongest professional fighting force in the world, supremely confident, and led by experienced, gifted commanders with a long and storied h...

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