Blues music originated from African Americans, used as a way of oral history chronicling their horrendous treatment at the hands of white men as they endured slavery and their subsequent mistreatment after the abolishment of slavery with poor economic and social status and opportunities. By adopting Blues music, Alexie is also acknowledging the shared history of African Americans and Native Americans at the hands of white men. ... Certainly for women search for companionship and love was bleak as Chess explains "When Indian women begin the search for an Indian man, they carry a huge list ...

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The pilot episode ran for 45-minutes focused on introducing the audience members to the shows main characters. ... Charlie introduces each character by sharing a brief summary of each of their lives before entering the hospital. ... Charlie does this by switching between introducing each character and narrating the events of the current day. ... This message is portrayed clearly through two of the main characters; Nurse Jackson and Kara Sounders. ... During this emotional scene, Kara cries quietly to herself as she overhears the nurse explain to her parents just how is sick she tru...

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This comment raises issues of both security and choice, as the 'wants' of women are ignored in favour of men. ... By turning down both men, Lizzie suggests that happiness is more valuable than stability, and more importantly asserts that marriage is not just a man's choice, but a woman's, too. ... "8 In doing so, she highlights the idea that women and men are essentially just humans, rather than 'female' and 'male,' and are thus fundamentally equal. The right to choose is inherent to human existence, and therefore both women and men should have t...

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Chandler's inability to be the personification of men like Gallaher, an ideal archetype that Chandler has a need to feel in close and personal interaction with, becomes manifested in various forms that become evident to the reader through the story. ... This is symbolic of Chandlers detachment from an outside, inspirational world, that holds lines of poetry by men that could touch life and feel passion. ... They are the creations of respected, and worthy men, holding an order of importance in life that Chandler will never have. ... It is the reader that realizes Chandler's true rea...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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Commenting on the 90s, Wilson said: ''men of sturdy stocks of the north of Europe had made up the main strain of foreign blood Which was added every year to the vital working force of the country.... but now there came multitudes of men from the lowest class from the south of Italy and men of the meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland''. ... Gezea Kende told Wilson that many Hungarians considered him an enemy, referring to passages from A history of an American People, what Wilson said,'' I believe in the responsible restrictions of immigration, but not in any res...

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In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... It may be argued however, that recruitment posters really weren't needed, that men would join up anyway, from a variety of reasons from boredom, hope that conditions in the army were better than their current situation et cetera. ... It is impossible to prove a fact until we are 100% certain and in the...

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The Hudson River artists were men, who believed in the glory of nature, which they thought was an evidence of God's power. ... 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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This industry offers people (usually men) to engage in sex with vulnerable people (usually women), which fuels the demand for sex trafficking and child sex tourism. ... As the sex tourism industry is predominately male dominated, it is hard to imagine the number of men that take place in sex tourism each year. ... Sex trafficking is a form of slavery used for the exploitation of men, women, or children, within national or across international borders, for purposes of forced sex work. ...

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Glanville Williams, for instance, has voiced the concern of many by focusing on the very foundations of the system: the calibre of individual jurors: "persons whose ordinary occupations are of a humble character rarely qualify to be regarded as first rate intellectual machines. ... One advantage of trial by judge as against trial by jury is that it results in a reasoned judgement.15 Yet there is a right to have trial by jury only in the following civil cases: libel, slander, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and allegations of fraud.16 The right to trial by jury in the categories...

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Saletan expresses his confusion as the WADA specifies that gene is on the prohibited list of banned substances, which infers that is violating a code of conducting within sport but carbo-loading does not. ...

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Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

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Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

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The diction evokes the murderers' desire and is also used as a tool to reflect the other characters' perspectives upon the monstrous side of each protagonist. ... " Character Development Perfume by Patrick Suskind is a story about Jean Grenouille, a scentless murderer who carries super olfactory abilities. ... However, the way that other characters portray the protagonist contrasts through the use of diction by the authors. ... Jean's transformation of character creates a sense of fear within the readers as well as compassion towards him at the same time. ... The metaphor...

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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. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech o...

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Lijphart highlights ten differences between consensus and majoritarian democracies, five of which identify with the executives-parties dimension and the other five with the federal-unitary dimension. The differences on the executives-parties dimension are given below with the majoritarian characteri...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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The human characters wore contemporary clothing, and the fairies were outfitted in outlandish garments that conveyed an otherworldly feeling through the prism of contemporary sexuality. ... The costumes were designed by an up and coming fashion designer who specialized in sexually provocative, yet upscale, clothing for both men and women. ... To further this cause, I changed the character of Lysander from male to female, thus making the marriage between Lysander and Hermia illegal on the grounds of same-sex marriage rather than the misgivings of an overbearing father. ... All of the above text...

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Religious parties in Israel The religious parties aim to establish a Jewish State governed by the Jewish religious code, the Halacha. Some parties do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and are thereby making a concession towards their ideology by participating to the democratic electoral proceeding. They explain it by the necessity to access to political power to create a religious State. All of them consider the pursuit of the Jewish colonization on the territory of Great Israel as legitimate ( «  Eretz Israel   ») and are opposed to the creation of a ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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