While Leon represents the patriarch in the family often leaving for jobs and going overseas, abandoning Mah. Through this family orientation Leila is conflicted in her ideal pursuit of Americanization as she is seemingly always drawn back by her mother's and Leon's personal needs. ... He refuses to let go his "Chineseness", which results in the closing of his family laundry, constant shipping out overseas, and numerous unmanageable jobs, proving his failure to attain the "dream". ... " Essentially Leila establishes that the estrangement and inability to assim...

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The first is that sublimity can arise when one goes through pain in order to exacerbate beauty into the overwhelming emotion that he or she has been striving for, and the second comes in the form of positive pain, which is a thought process in which the individual enjoys thinking about the pain that was suffered but is not being suffered currently because pain is a more powerful emotion than pleasure, so one can find pleasure in not having pain. ... When he does lose it, he is willing to travel to the other end of Middle Earth to attempt to get the feeling back and is even willing to die try...

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The historical background are an effort from the author to show the reader that this famous case which has been made to look like a positive thing did not do to much to actually help the African American people as much as the popular belief thought it did, showing that this case had many downfalls and that the struggle for the segregation of school was still one that had to be fought for many of years to come. ... This issue that came about sixty years ago is one that is around today not to the extent as before but there is still a stigma when it comes to race. ... We see that there is a c...

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Simon Reynolds attempts to bridge the gap with "Generation Ecstasy," an exhaustive compendium of almost every rave-associated sound and idea, both half-baked and momentous, that traces the digital Diaspora back and forth across Europe and America. ... Setting these timeless traits in the context of the up-to-the-minute technology that made rave emblematic of its era-the fragmentary, fast-forward aesthetic, the flexible production and distribution network, the avoidance of personality and narrative in favor of sensation-he comes up with a portrait of hi-tech millennium that resonates well b...

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Employee communication has become one of the most important providers when it comes to organizational effectiveness (Grunig, 1992) by creating a link between the organization and the employees through numerous communication media outlets such as interpersonal and small group communication, traditional print communication, electronic communication and online communication. ... Instead of spending an entire day e-mailing back and forth, you can hash out all of the details of a project in one go. ...

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Past is the unique principle of present, how come are we going to act well in present if we have no idea of what has brought to the situation actually occurring? ... Isn't it going back rather than forth? ...

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The topic of prevailing representation of people and politics at a given time is a function of power rather than truth is successfully shown through the film "Wag the Dog" directed by Barry Levinson, was a political satire which focused on how the Presidential campaigns are focused on superficial and manipulative techniques to make the candidates look upstanding and patriotic and a newspaper article named "Truth overboard-the story that won't go away" by The Sydney Morning Herald which reviewed the Tampa crisis also known as the Children Overboard during 2001. ... Duri...

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If they are not careful, and they yield to these temptations, a lot of things could go wrong. ... There are a lot of drugs and alcohol that students would come across in college like Hallucinogens, Opium, LSD, Cocaine, Weed, Ecstasy, Heroine, Beer, Ale, Lager etc. ... I had a classmate in college who died from Coronary Heart Disease, she needed a heart transplant but the doctors found out that her heart was full of Heroin and Cocaine; so she could not find any other Hospitals willing to produce a heart for her because they all thought that she would go back to her usual ways of doing drugs. .....

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The word stratification comes from strata or layers, as in the way different rock are piled on top of one another to form rock strata. ... However, Marx goes further than explaining the concept of class by ownership and non-ownership, using the term "class" for both analytical and historical concepts (Crompton, 1998). ... Women make up a reserve army of labour, hired when the economy is booming, then freely made redundant later with the ideology suggesting that they have gone back to their "proper jobs", i.e. homemakers. ...

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Although consisting of numbered essays (both verbal as well as entirely pictorial) Berger explicitly advises the reader (the text begins in a whimsical and refreshing way already on the book's jacket) to go through them in whatever order he pleases, his principal aim merely being "to raise questions". ... In a field in which increasingly more specialized books (on books on pictures) abound this is the ever noteworthy appeal to come back to our senses. ...

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In the article, Jane Naomi Iwamura goes into great detail about the struggle of Japanese Americans and the emergence of a new Japanese American civil religion, but in the middle of the article she goes into great detail about the Japanese American National Museum. ... Then, after this, the author goes back into the importance of the preservation of memory and the experience that has come to form a civil religion for the Japanese American people. ... She then goes on to state that the larger goal of the museum is to: "promote understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultura...

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In response to all of which, "the British security establishment has its eyes firmly shut as they 'sleepwalk' into collision with the enemy it should be fighting" (back of book by Melanie Philips). ... They believed that "Muslims became politicized and hitched their faith to a violent star" and this thus causes the "pattern that has come to characterize the Muslim attitude to conflict worldwide" (Phillips, 12). ... The media has misconstrued the religion of Islam revealing only half of the truth, the side people want to listen to, showing that people ...

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In the case of business management there are many advantages and disadvantages when it comes to a centralized or decentralized system of authority for any organization. ... With accountability on a select number of leaders it is easier to trace effective, and not so effective, decisions back to who is responsible for them and reducing the time it takes to come to important decisions. ... According to Kristin Clarke in "Inside the Informal Organization", informal organization is emotional; it's what goes on in the hallways and behind closed doors including elements such as worker...

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Wherever we go, we always leave a trace of noticeable human activity or an "ecological footprint". ... In conclusion, any negative aspects brought forth on the environment or any of the four component spheres, will eventually come back to haunt us and affect us and the future generations in the years to come. ...

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This visual imagery is strengthened through the use of lighting: when Chihiro first enters the spirit world and there is no bridge, the light changes to a dark background, however when she leaves the spirit world to go back home over the bridge that now exists, the lighting is at its brightest, reflecting the shift in moods undergone from discovering acceptance. ... He establishes a sense of dislocation with the Australian people through the short, serrated visual imagery of "a crew cut, grey haired, department store clerk," however contrasts this with the serene imagery and soft rh...

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How most of ordinary people in various nations and from every stratum of society come to act in a concrete situation such as the Milgram experiment, -which its first series was done by Stanley Milgram in 1961-are quite similar to each other. ... In concrete situations where followers are only meant to carry out only the given tasks, the privilege of looking back and re-thinking about the command is somewhat automatically taken from the person, and what can be seen is a range between thoroughly being possessed by the authority (obedience) and behaving with defiance. ... Nevertheless, the overa...

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