We all seem to get along just fine here and all of our children play and interact well with each other, except one of the neighbors that have recently moved down the street. ... Their children are not even allowed to play with any of the Hispanic children in my neighborhood. ... My children also play football for our neighborhood team, and within the team are different members of each ethnic group with the majority being Hispanic, and we all get along great. Our football club has recently joined a new football league in our area. ... This only made me realize that not everyone in our communit...

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The plan to relocate Government well Aborigines expresses the racism in official ranks as the town wants to be devoid of all things Aboriginal (In its ploy to sway coming elections). ... Whole town knows why we"re going. Cos wetjalas in this town don't want us ere, don't want our kids at the school with their kids, and old Jimmy Mitchells tight cos they reckon they Bert Aukes gunna give him a hiding in the election" This relates to the whole Aboriginal community showing the publicity of racism practised by the dominant society, and the strength arguments such as Jimmys contain, ye...

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Orlando Bloom plays Legolas successfully because of his handsome face and high cheek bones because the elves are referred to as a beautiful race. ... They may have human features but the dwarves are shorter than the town's people, or the humans, in the film and they are considerable larger which fits in with their occupation as miners and warriors. ... The opening scene involves the dragon Smaug attacking Lake Town and its defenseless town people. ... She continues to explain that Smaug plays a classic role in The Hobbit being the traditional dragon whose destruction will bring a happy en...

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The N2 roadway connects Cape Town International airport to the center of Cape Town, thus making this strip of roadway and its dwellers visible to visiting World Cup fans and the world at large. ... The N2 gateway project in Cape Town was designed to provide adequate housing in a city known for its lack of housing. ... However, what actually occurred was the displacement of Langa residents to the outskirts of town in what the city called temporary relocation areas. ... Though that isn't to say that in some locations, there are people living in dilapidated houses, half-naked children cov...

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Examples of this technique in contemporary theatre can be seen in plays such as Woza Albert. ... No physical presence of inmates leads to the audience in the theatre "becoming" the inmates to whom Winston delivers his speech; creating a play-within-a-play situation. ... However, many Brechtian inspired alienation techniques can be seen in his play Equus (1973). ... Gianakaris ) Brecht's influence of using the actor to destroy conventional illusions can be seen in plays such as Thorton Wilders Our Town (1938). ... Contemporary theatre is largely centred around mirroring our present day ...

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Structures of power are intrinsic to the play King Lear and its function as a seventeenth century power play. ... Imre Csiszar's 1981 interpretation of King Lear is one of several attempts to adapt the play to its specific audience and context, with his interpretation emphasising the economic issues of the play and centring on Marxist ideology. ... By playing the production in a large industrial town in Northern Hungary, Csiszar's vision was received with familiarity by the audience who could relate to the play and its reflective qualities. ... In this scene, Lear's tone and lan...

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The media and mainstream social science research play major roles in characterizing the Black family. ... African-Americans have a strong work ethic within our families. ... Within our families and community, there are more flexible roles, meaning that our parents do not necessarily have to be there all day everyday for us. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and sometimes cousins take on the role of mother and father while our real parents are working, out of town, or if for some reason our biological parents are no longer around. ... We sing, dance, shout, and cry during our service. ...

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There have been countless studies to find out if our destiny is written in our genes or determined by circumstance. ... The media reports numerous acts of violence every day, for example, in 1998, a 15-year-old boy in a small Oregon town took a gun to school one day and randomly opened fire on a crowded cafeteria. ... Based on the research I have done on the nature vs. nurture issue, I am still convinced that both factors must come in to play to shape our uniqueness. ... Genetics may play a role in determining alcoholism, but that does not explain the individuals who develop the disorder, but ...

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Interestingly, Kubler-Ross calls attention to American society's increasingly depersonalized approach to the aging and dying, and notices that our reliance on technology and machines is "our desperate attempt to deny the impending death which is so frightening and discomforting to us- to ultimately avoid "[reminding] us once more of our lack of omnipotence, our own limits and failures, and our own mortality- (Kubler-Ross 23). This only intensifies this deep-set fear of losing control of our lives to nature. ... Common illnesses such as malaria and typhoid fever (now obsolete with advanc...

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Family has always played a big role in the lives and development of an individual and developing from a collectivist state is what is considered traditional to many. ... But with the modern change in gender roles in society, our current views allow us to "switch camera angels" and just focus on the talent. ... He works in the mines like most of the men in his town and has aspirations for Billy to join him working in the mines or become a boxer like the other boys in the town. ... Billy's father is the instigator of all major family decision in his household, he is the provider i...

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Imagine living in a town of thirteen thousand people and being a part of an event so historic and so dangerous from the 1980's that is still being felt until today, that displaced more than one hundred and fifteen thousand people were displaced from their homes and never allowed back to the places that they've could have lived in for multiple generations. ... Even though they knew of the danger the Communist Government refused to evacuate cities and towns; this angered many people in the Soviet Union. ... Little wonders that there are so many sick children in our district, especially...

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In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... The symbolism of colors relates the novel to our society as our world is a colourful place, and by reinforcing the symbol throughout the novel Zusak has continually expressed humanity on a colour spectrum of life and death and how that is relative to mortality. ... Hans plays the accordion to try and ease Liesel from her past, to lighten the mood and escape from her new reality cause...

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We hold it therefore our dutie and safetie whilst we are about the further establishing of this government to collect and expresse all such freedomes as for present we foresee may concerne us, and our posteritie after us, And to ratify them with our sollmne consent. We doe therefore this day religiously and unanimously decree and confirme these following Rites, liberties and priveledges concerning our churches, and Civill state to be respectively impartialle and inviolably enjoyed and observed throughout our jurisdiction for ever. ... Any such offenses were punishable before the town peop...

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Furthermore, history promotes new, inventive ideas and styles through the borrowing of designs, thus making our predecessors particularly influential figures. ... In the general science of all that is living, progress is sought-after, and thus we must stand on the shoulders of our predecessors. ... In contemporary design, materials play just as an important role in form as structure does, hence the study of historical materials is vital in the successful develop of Architecture. ... (Gary, 1996) So it is our predecessors, whom play a significant role in contemporary architecture, that are to t...

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The political role Pompeii played in Rome and Roman distributed port system enabled them to greatly reduce their losses, when disaster was happened. ... For instance, the receipt told us that "he sub-rented a farm worth 100,000 sesterces owned by the town", and there were dozens of similar cases about land rental, but among all the transactions, none of them was about land purchase (Cooley 279). So, we learned that most of the lands Pompeian used were rented from the town, and at least land private ownership was not prevalent in Pompeii, even for the aristocrats like him (Frank 256)....

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Most of our major female characters in the three novels are hurt to different degrees by their men, but all of them are fortunate to have control over their own destinies regardless of the decisions that they make. ... The fact that she plays golf professionally which is a sport that women were not allowed to play before, is a key point to understand that she is autonomous and successful. ... In In Our Time when Krebs returns home, he tells us how the girls in his town have become women, how they all form a pattern, and they all seem to be living complicated lives. ... The several images of wo...

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Not unlike the consumer changes and differences, our retail marketplace has also evolved. Long gone are the five and dime stores, general hardware stores, corner pharmacies or even small town candy stores. ... Costco's Primary Business Strategies Strategy is about making choices and leading with decisions about where to play and how to win (Martin, 2014). Costco operates with five strategic principles in mind – each governing where to play and how to win. ... It plays on member's psychological buying patterns. ...

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(Appiah 97) Since early in our evolution, humans, like many other animals, have had the natural desire to form communities to fulfill our needs. ... Survival is the central role of any type of community, and in general they play positive, beneficial roles. ... This distinction is an essential part of survival and the fulfillment of our needs, and is often a positive aspect of human social structures. Purely in terms of function, our "imagined communities" are similar in fundamental ways. ... To say that these things "don't really matter" is to ignore our responsibility to work towa...

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In my opinion, although the public housing policy in Singapore is not perfect and requires further modification, it has still played a significant and irreplaceable role in enhancing social integration and effectively satisfying Singaporeans' basic housing need. ... Our policy has played a significant role in achieving this objective. Decades ago, the colonial administration had a racial segregation policy of town planning. ... Beginning in the 1970s, the HDB allocated new flats in a manner that would give a 'good distribution of races' to different new towns. ...

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All through history we have sought to fathom the meanings of our dreams and every culture has it's theories about dreams. ... Yet however real such sensory experiences appear to be to the brain, something prevents us from performing in full the actions and emotions that fill our dreams. ... Similarly, a retrospective appeal in the British press for dreams connected with the tragedy at Aberfan, a coalmining town in Wales where an avalanche of coal waste buried 140 people alive, produced impressive results that led to the establishment in 1967 of both the British Premonitions Bureau and the...

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Everyday billions upon billions of dollars worth of illicit drugs are smuggled into the country to take over our street corners, turn our neighborhoods into war zones, and turn children into puppets. ... Freedom to choose what to eat and drink, how to raise our children, what religion to belong to- if any- and how we choose to live our lives. ... Police issue seizures and searches based on racial profiling, the environment of their surroundings, and whether or not a person is in the wrong part of town. ... Along with a lower monthly income, about 10,000 rural residents may be displaced beca...

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Since the 1970s, a "pan-Andean- musical style has emerged, which has diffused from southern Peru and Bolivia into many of the cities and towns in the central Andes, largely because of tourism. ... The Andean panpipes are generally played either with one player playing two rows of pipes, or they may also be played by two players, each with a separate row, in "dialogando-. Each player plays alternating notes of the scale. Some panpipes have a third row added which allows chromatic scales to be played, thus allowing songs in any diatonic key to be played. ... Debussy even wrote to a friend, "Do ...

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However the great bridges of our nation were not built today. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal of the great depression put millions of people back to work and built our nations infrastructure, as we know it today. ... With the affluence of the roaring '20's, and then the post war '50's, American cultural values of work hard - play hard seem to have been lost. ... Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts. ... Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create cen...

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CTS provides relocation services to various companies throughout the country, but highly concentrated in its home town of Chicago. ... Social Context in Negotiation In the case of Capital Mortgage Insurance Corporation, social context plays a hefty role in negotiations. ... "Perception, cognition, and emotion are the basic building blocks of all social encounters, including negotiation, in the sense that our social actions are guided by how we perceive and analyze the other party, the situation, and our own interests and positions. ... Personal Relationship between Stakeholders Personal relati...

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In fact this event still plays a significant role in our lives today. The transformation that occurred transformed the way we live our lives in all aspects such as what wear and eat how we live and work and our social interaction as some main examples. ... This essay validates how so many new establishments and foundations created in one nation played such a crucial part in world history reaching a truly global level. ... By the 18th century the feudal system was no longer in play. ... The iron industry played a dominant role in the industrial revolution. ...

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