In The Bridge over the Racial Divide, William Julius Wilson offers us a blueprint to follow in an effort to bridge the divisions which currently exist among America's culturally, ethnically and racially diverse " have-nots." ... Wilson views the problems of the fragmented, disadvantaged classes primarily through the prism of adverse economic factors and governmental policies which affect each fragment of the group similarly. ... As neither group is likely to compromise on this issue and as black Americans generally view affirmative action as indispensable to the ultimate goal of racial ...

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While literary theory may seem divorced from reality, I believe it can illuminate our tangible struggles with identity. ... Since my Viva Voce, my focus has changed completely from the exploration of the Fallen Man in John Milton's "Paradise Lost" to the current investigation of postmodern identity. ... The shifting emphasis from objective reality to subjective experience in the modernist period demonstrated in Mrs Dalloway will be mirrored through a third person limited narration of the experience of a young university student. ... Articles such as Lubomir Dolezel's "Poststructurali...

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Yet this overlap is far from a holistic conflation of the two movements, so radically different were their aims. ... According to McConachie, "spectators do not wait to deploy empathy, but engage it unconsciously right from the start of every performance"7. In this way, empathy bridges the subject/object gap between the stage and the audience, rendering it difficult to categorise, (by nature of the empathetic cognitive links between spectator and performer) as a separate artistic realm, detached from life. ... From this, McConachie ultimately makes the overarching contention that "the differe...

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During a time of increasing mobility and migration across countries and continents, there is a high chance that immigrants from Non-Western cultures may seek psychotherapeutic help for themselves or for their children (Maiello, 1999). "Psychotherapy can be defined broadly as a special practice involving a designated healer (or therapist) and an identified client (or patient), with the particular purpose of solving a problem from which the client is suffering or promoting the health of the client's mind. ... Worldviews, cultural views and family beliefs influence the manner in which...

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