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 idea of a fantasy world is shown through Tolkien's attention to the diversity of the characters reflected in their different patterns of diction and tone. ... The opening scene involves the dragon Smaug attacking Lake Town and its defenseless town people. ... Hand to hand combat is not our idea of warfare in modern society so the image of the good and evil armies in contrastin...

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Carrington writes of Stockton as being working class and economical and socially unstable she describes it from the beginning as "a small-town of rumour and innuendo" pg xvi, which immediately position us to distrust the evidence given by the people in the town through out the book. ... Pg 89, later on Carrington backs up our views which she has construct by using emotional language and sad tone and stating "That no one has been punished for this or indeed any of the sexual violence that occurred that night is a travesty of justice that words fail to describe."... Carrington emphasis that nobo...

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Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

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On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and signed by fifty-six men, to whom they agreed to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"; these men represented the thirteen North American colonies that were proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, founding the United States of America. ... They consisted of six acts, among them were, the Boston Port Act, "to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, a...

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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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The use of irony often takes the form of a narration that has the tone of as a "tolerantly patronizing man of the world" (Berthoud: p5) For example, on Mr Verloc's hat after his murder: "It seemed an extraordinary thing, an ominous object, a sign. Black and rim upward, it lay on the floor before the couch as if prepared to receive the contributions of pence from people who would come presently to behold Mr Verloc in the fullness of his domestic ease" (Conrad: p13) As Tillyard points out the use of irony in this case creates a humorous tone by the comparison of incongruous objects, n...

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The end of the war established a new lifestyle for Americans which initiated an era in which materialism set the tone of the society. ... 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. ... 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 women that we get from reading The Grea...

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Three caucasians was killed inside the Lafayette Bar and Grill and a black tavern owner on the other side of town. ... In his work, Rubin Hurricane Carter and the American Justice System, published by Rutgers University Press, Paul Wice effectively sets the tone of America and Patterson in 1966. ... The two trials and appeals of the Rubin Carter and John Artis case, forces one to take a candid look at our judicial system. ...

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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 language is formal, with the use of poetic language and verse emphasising his power, "Meanwhile we shall express our darker purpose-. ... Often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars - Edmond's eventual demise at the close of the play symbolises the triumph of good over evil. ...

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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. There is a general loss of muscle tone during REM sleep, and the eye muscles appear to be the only ones that are physically involved in acting out dream events. ... Similarly, a retrospective appeal in the British press for dreams connected with the tragedy at Aberfan, a coalmining town in Wales where an a...

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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 pentatonicism and whole-tone scales, used in the Andean music exhibited in Paris, caught their attention right away. Debussy even wrote to a friend, "Do you not remember the Peruvian music able to express every nuance of meaning, even unmentionable shades, and which makes our tonic and dominant seem like empty phantoms for the use of unwise infants?...

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Their legitimate claim is "we have been Ethiopians since creation and no force would rob us of our inalienable rights to remain Ethiopians forever." ... And another one pulled in the Indo-Pakistani case, and the logic flows in the same tone. ... To sum up our point, when the government troops who were sent on a combat mission to wipe out ARDUF rebels in mid November, and in the stead staged a mock battle, and retreated to Maichew (Tigrai region), than returning to Woldia or Dessie (B'aden-controlled Amhara region), it was an act of mutiny against the regime of Meles Zenawi. The clear ...

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The minstrels then keep their upbeat melody and tone but change their lyrics to reflect an anti-hero of sorts singing, "Packing it in and packing it up, and sneaking away and buggering up, and chickening out" It becomes evident that the symbol of a chicken on Sir Robin's shield is of no coincidence. ... In an excerpt from Prose Merlin, the Devil Cat is an evil creature that kills its master and terrorizes a town. ... Blood was shed and once the cat was vanquished King Arthur remarks, "Blessed be our Lord, for I have slain this devil that has done great harm in this countr...

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